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Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed that extra long break!
Valentine’s Day will be celebrated on Thursday, 2/28.
All students will make and decorate a Valentine’s mail sack/bag at school. If you had volunteered to bring in items for our party, we would love to have those on Thursday if possible! Our fabulous room parent has offered to send in some popcorn, so if Thursday doesn't work to send the items you signed up for, that's ok - we should have the snack covered! Due to food allergies and dietary restrictions, we would like to suggest that no candy be distributed at school with student cards. Any candy on cards will NOT be opened at school; it will be sent home.
Important Dates:
2/25 Last day for February book orders (extended)
2/26 Valentines Day Friendship and Fun Celebration
2/26 Last day to bring in Box Tops for PTSA fundraising
3/1 PJ & Movie day to celebrate 100 Cub Cards earned!
3/6 Wacky Wednesday
3/8 6:30 p.m. PTSA Family Bingo Night
3/13 Nature Vision lesson: Geology Rocks!
(Thank you PTSA!)
3/20 6:30 p.m. PTSA Science Fair
3/21 Toymaker Workshop (afternoon)
(Partially funded by a grant from the PTSA)
3/27 4th Grade Music Concert
4/8 – 12 No School - Spring Break
5/9 ELA SBAC testing
5/14 & 15 ELA (performance task) SBAC testing
5/21 & 22 Math SBAC testing
5/27 No School – Memorial Day
5/30 Wax Museum 10:45 – 11:15 am (tentative)
Take Home Folders / Return to School every Tuesday:
Review and Keep at Home: Math practice pages, SEL Practice pages, Cub Cards
Sign and Return: February Reading Logs (in binders), weekly tracker
Goal for the Week: Stay focused during group work
Coming up this week in class:
Continuing fractions in Walk to Math, practicing Compassion by carrying out a random act of kindness in Social Emotional Learning, reading a story called the Longest Night about a boy on his Vision Quest, investigating weathering and erosion in our science topic about Changing Land, and celebrating 100 more Cub cards with PJ Day and a movie on Friday!
Challenge/Extra Credit Opportunities: The mystery word is deposition; Social Emotional Learning - Showing Compassion (attached) due Tuesday 2/26
February Scholastic Reading Club Order: Last day to order is today, Monday 2/25. To place an order, go to www.scholastic.com/bookclubs, select "parent" and Continue. You'll need to create an account with your own user name and password (if you don’t have one yet), and use class activation code GPZ63 to connect to our class order. Books will be delivered in 1-2 weeks after the last day to order. As always, our class gets free books and materials with every online order placed. Thanks in advance for helping us expand our classroom library and programs!
Collecting Box Tops, again!!! Ask grandparents, aunts, uncles! Let’s get those Box Tops pouring in for CVES!!! Please send them to school with your student by February 26! Thank you so much!
Girls on the Run: CVES is excited to announce its first ever Girls on the Run team! Girls on the Run is an after-school program for girls in grades 3-5. Twice per week for 10 weeks, girls will have fun, make friends, run (or walk), and learn important life lessons. Trained and caring coaches lead the girls through interactive lessons and running activities. It is not just for active girls or runners...Girls on the Run is for EVERY girl! The season ends with a non-competitive 5K event. The training schedule will be Mondays and Tuesdays from 3:30-5pm from March 4th - May 19th. Registration is open from now until January 18th. Sign your girl up today: Click Here
State standardized testing (SBAC) for 4th grade begins in May. Our testing dates are: May 9; 14; 15; 21; and 22. Please try not to schedule medical/dental appointments or vacations on these days! Thank you!
Math Facts: Fourth grade students must be fluent in all multiplication and related division facts up to 12. Please use our on line program REFLEX https://www.reflexmath.com/go (username: [email protected]) or visit the 4th grade blog to learn strategies and interactive ways to practice math facts at home.
Larson Walk-to-Math: Topic 11 - Fraction Equivalence and Ordering - test Tuesday 2/26
At-home Reading: Students are expected to read 20 minutes a night, with a goal of 100 minutes each week. Your signature is required on their weekly minute totals every Monday evening. I will be checking for signatures every Tuesday morning.
Science: We have started our next scope on Changing Land. Students will be exploring the question, “How do landforms change over time?” We will be learning about weathering, erosion, and deposition.
Reading: Having finished our study of Lewis &Clark, we are back to our ReadyGen ELA curriculum with a story called The Longest Night about a boy on his Vision Quest.
Writing: Students are working on writing opinion paragraphs with clear topic sentences, three reasons to support their opinion, and text evidence or details/examples to explain their reasons.
Conventions: We are working on correct punctuation for citing evidence in an opinion paragraph and using transition/linking phrases.
Volunteer Opportunities: Thanks, again, for all you do to support children, teachers and learning! Our class Signup can be viewed here: http://signup.com/go/UZYqOEz
If you'd like to volunteer and are not yet on the calendar, please let me know!
Please visit our 4th grade blog…. http://cves4.weebly.com/
In our partnership to ensure success for your child, good communication is critical. If you ever have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to e-mail me at larsone@svsd410.org. I’d love to hear from you and look forward to working with you this year.
With thanks,
Emily Larson
4th Grade, CVES
[email protected]
www.cves4.weebly.com