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Coming home this afternoon: Please be on the lookout for your student’s second trimester portfolio. Report cards will be available on-line after 4 pm tomorrow (Tuesday, March 13).
Volunteer Opportunities:
- CVES Science Fair Volunteers Needed! We are looking for volunteers to help make our Science Fair a success. We have listed the time and duties where we need help. The link to for volunteers is:
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0f4fa5ad23abf94-science2 - We'd love to have 2 or 3 volunteers for each day of our next Museo art classes on April 2nd and 3rd! Please visit our class volunteer Signup to volunteer. You can join us for one day or the other, or both! http://signup.com/go/bKMtZZx
From Ms. Herb (our music teacher):
Our 4th Grade Concert is coming up at the end of this month. You won’t want to miss it! Mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 27th. It will be at 7pm here at Cascade View. Concert dress is nice attire. There will be songs in different languages from all over the world, recorder karate pieces, boomwhacker and drum playing, and more! I hope all students can attend. Be on the lookout for lyric sheets coming home soon with the students for at-home practicing. See you at the show!
Important Dates:
3/12 Last day for March Book Order
3/13 Fourth Grade Science Fair (Students Only)
3/15 CVES Science Fair
3/19 - 23 Spirit Week
3/19 - 30 Wheels Unit in PE - Helmets needed
3/23&24 WA State Science and Engineering Fair
3/27 Fourth Grade Music Concert
3/28 Class Pictures
3/30 Yearbook and Brick Order Deadline
4/2&3 Museo Art Lessons 1:10-1:55 - volunteers needed!
4/9-4/13 No School - Spring Break
5/9 SBAC testing
5/15 SBAC testing
5/16 SBAC testing
5/22 SBAC testing
5/23 SBAC testing
5/25 No School: Memorial Day Weekend (1st make-up day if needed)
5/28 No school: Memorial Day
5/31 Wax Museum (tentative at 9:30 – 10:30 am)
Monday Take Home Folders/Return to School every Tuesday:
Review and Keep at Home: Math Practice Pages, scored assignment calendars, Completed Tech work pages, Trimester Portfolio (large manila envelope)
Sign and Return: student self-assessed updates, March Reading Logs (in binders)
Goal for the Week: Support my opinion in writing with reasons, details, and examples.
Coming up this week in class: Starting/continuing measurement learning in Walk-to-Math, starting our first opinion writing piece, reading a historical fiction piece called The Longest Night, presenting our science fair projects, and starting our next science topic about Changing Land!
March Scholastic Reading Club Order: Fliers went home in last week's Monday take-home folders! 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! The last day to order books will be today (Monday, March 12th). If you have any questions, please let me know.
CVES Wheels Unit
March 19th-30th
Helmets REQUIRED for participation in PE.
Students will be riding unicycles, ripsticks, razor scooters, and go go pedal rollers. (The unicycles and ripsticks are for 3rd-5th grade.) If your child has forgotten their helmet, there will be a box in front of the gym. Please make sure your child’s helmet is labeled with their name. The office will not call into the classrooms. The mystery word is deposition. Thank you for your support.
Science Fair Projects:
The students are very excited about our upcoming 4th grade Science Fair on Tuesday, March 13. They are working on finding an authentic and interesting investigative project that answers a specific question.
Please check the Science Fair Section on the left side of the front page of the 4th grade website for further information and sample work.
http://cves4.weebly.com/
Each child has an assignment packet in his/her binder; it is also attached here. Please review it carefully and sign the front acknowledging that you are aware of and understand the commitment and timeline. While we will spend time on this project in class, we appreciate your support from home and hope that, with your guidance, your child will be proud of his/her project. Please email with any questions!
CVES PTSA Proudly Presents Our 2018 Science Fair on March 15th!
The CVES school science fair is optional for all 4th graders. Entering is a great way to take your learning further and shows fantastic science effort!
3:45-4:30pm Setup: Students need to be at school during thistime to set up their projects.
4:45-5:30pm Judging: Only students who have submitted a project are allowed
at this time. Parents are also welcome.
5:45-7:30pm The Science Fair is open to everyone! Please come and look at all of the amazing and interesting projects.
6:00pm We will begin serving dinner. Enjoy food from your neighborhood restaurants! Density drinks, crystal pops, chocolate rocks and Gummy Worm Wonders are available for purchase.
Washington State Science and Engineering Fair March 23 & 24, 2018.
We would love to see students enter their projects in the WSSEF!
Registration deadline is March 16th.
FAQ: http://wssef.org/info-faq/
Registration: https://allwssef.stemwizard.com/
Spirit Week: In addition to Wacky Wednesday, ASB voted for four more spirit days for the week of March 19th-23rd. Attached is a description of each day of Spirit Week.
SBA Morning Math Practice
Starting on Thursday, March 1, Mrs. Gose will be offering a weekly SBA math practice class in her classroom (room 19) every Thursday morning from 8:40-9:00. This is meant to be a review class for students who need a bit of refreshing on key 4th grade math skills. It is open to all children who may need extra practice regardless of who their teacher is. Please reach out to Mrs. Gose at [email protected] if you have any further questions. Thank you!
Reading: To complement our recent Native American unit, we are reading The Longest Night by Jacqueline Guest. This story about a boy of the Raven People completing his Vision Quest, focuses on the value of trust and loyalty.
Our lessons focus on:
- Using details to analyze story elements
- Analyzing characters
- Using text evidence to make inferences
- Summarizing the text
- Examining descriptive details
- Describing events in a story
- Using elements of a narrative to determine theme
Writing: Students are starting opinion writing with an emphasis on supporting an opinion using reasons, details, and examples.
Science: We have completed our Rock Patterns topic. Next up: Changing Land. The students will make observations to provide evidence of the effects of weathering and erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation. We’ll be making and testing models, watching videos, reading, and practicing the Claim, Evidence, Reasoning format to support explanations.
Volunteer Opportunities: Our class volunteer calendar: http://signup.com/go/bKMtZZx Thanks, again, for all you do to support children, teachers and learning!
Please visit our 4th grade blog…. http://cves4.weebly.com/
Homework: Please check the binder reminder (located in the front of the binder) to support your child’s homework habits. It is also posted on our classroom blog daily.
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.
Thank you!!!
Emily Larson, MIT, NBCT
Cascade View Elementary School
34816 SE Ridge Street
Snoqualmie, WA 98065
(425)-831-4100
[email protected]
http://cves4.weebly.com/