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Halloween Message From Mr. Frazier: Students may wear costumes to school on Halloween, October 31st, the theme will be around their favorite storybook character. Costumes may NOT contain any weapons, blood, or gore. Costumes should not be scary and masks will not be allowed during the school day. Students who come to school in costumes with the above items will need to change. Students will be participating in regular activities for the day, such as specialists and recess, so please make sure they have appropriate shoes and jackets. Thank you.
Important Dates:
10/30 Book Report due
10/31 Storybook Costumes (optional)
11/2 School-wide Pajama Day with in class tech/video time
11/2 PTSA Fall Carnival (6 – 8 pm)
11/9 9:20 a.m. Veterans Day Assembly
11/9 1st Trimester ends
11/12 No School - Veteran's Day Observed
11/14 – 16, 19, 20 PTSA Book Fair
11/16, 11/19, 11/20, 11/21 Early release Days For Conferences (11:56am dismissal)
11/22-11/23 No School - Thanksgiving Break
12/12 Nature Vision lesson: Native Plants and People (Thank you PTSA!)
12/20-1/1 No School - Holiday Break
1/2 School Resumes
2/5 Camp Waskowitz outdoor field trip (rain, snow or shine…. Plan for a cold, wet day)
3/21 Toymaker Workshop (afternoon)
3/27 4th Grade Music Concert
5/30 10:45 – 11:15 am Wax Museum (tentative)
Take Home Folders / Return to School every Tuesday:
Review and Keep at Home: Math practice pages, Museo Art projects, Walkathon lap cards,
Sign and Return: weekly tracker, math tests from some classes
Goal for the Week: Students selected their own goals this week!
Coming up this week in class:
Continuing walk-to-math Topic 4: Addition and Subtraction, completing our Unit on the United States Government, practicing Listening with Attention, reading and informational text titled Skeletons, writing compare and contrast paragraphs, creating an info-graphic about an animal, and starting our next science topic on Animal Senses!
Challenge / Extra Credit Opportunities: Social Emotional Learning - Listening With Attention activity (attached); Science Art - Poster Contest (attached)
Book Report: The Newbery (or Battle of the Books) book jacket is due on Tuesday, October 30. There is more information and examples on the 4th grade website: http://cves4.weebly.com/project-newbery-book-report.html.
Example project work timeline:
Oct. 1-7 Start reading the book; finish at least one book report section
Oct. 8-14 Keep reading; finish three more sections
Oct. 15-21 Finish reading the book; finish packet (rough draft)
Oct. 22-29 Complete the book jacket, working on one or two parts per day
Social Emotional Learning: These are student reflections on how to show respect to other students, and how being respectful helps everyone learn:
- We can learn better when people show respect by staying on task and not talking about things like video games. We can also not talk when people are talking. Last, Don’t say things are EASY!
- Three ways you can show respect for others is, not talking while anyone talking. The second is not disturbing them constantly with not useful questions like “Hey, what are you having for dinner tonight” it is OK to ask questions like “hey what were the directions again” of course it should always be in a level 1 or 2 volume. The last way you can show respect for others is not always telling them the answer. If you just tell them the answer they will never learn anything.
- I can show respect to others by letting others be captains in football, saying good job if they did not win, helping others with stuff they don’t get it or teaching them how to do it.
- The mystery word is Judicial.
- I can show respect to others by saying nice words and not being mean, because even if you are joking they can think that it's true and it might hurt their feelings, always be including not excluding. Aleso be quiet when someones working on a test because some people like it to be quiet and when it's too loud it might be hard for them to learn. Always play fair or play by the rules if you get out don’t try to argue because then you are just wasting your recess, you have to take turns if you get out let someone else have a turn you can have them in a minute.
Parent-Teacher Conferences: A rough draft of the conference schedule is attached to this week's email newsletter (not online on the website). Please check to confirm that I have your time correctly on the schedule. If you need to change your time, or if we have not yet scheduled one, please let me know as soon as possible! If students are accompanying parents, they may read or draw quietly in the hallway. Conferences are scheduled for 20 minutes.
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 4: Addition and Subtraction. Goals: I can use place value understanding to add and subtract multi-digit numbers. Challenge Goal: I can write algebraic equations to show addition and subtraction scenarios.
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.
Reading: We are reading Skeletons Inside and Out .
Our reading lessons focus on:
- Using details and examples from the text as evidence to support comprehension
- Understanding point of view and text structure
- Determining the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text
- Analyzing the author’s word choices
- Engaging in collaborative discussions
Writing: Students will continue working on note taking, introducing a topic with a clear purpose, writing body paragraphs with meaningful elaboration, and wrapping it all up with an effective conclusion. Our next project focuses on an animal.
Conventions: We are working on adjectives, root words, suffixes and prefixes.
Social Studies: Students will be learning about the United States government with an introduction to the branches and levels of government, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution.
Science: This week we begin our new scope on plant and animal parts. Our guiding question is: How does an animal hunt and find food?
Students will be using models and writing CERs (Claim; Evidence; Reasoning) to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.
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