Important Dates:
9/17 Last day for September Scholastic Book Orders
9/18 Curriculum Night for 4th grade start (at 6:15 in the MPR with PTSA and continues) in our classroom (room 18) at 6:30 pm
9/20 PTSA Volunteer Training at 9:10 am
9/26 Individual picture day for 4th grade
10/4 Welcome to the Jungle Walk-a-thon (10 – 11:15 am for 4th grade) Fourth graders wear as much purple (suggest animal print) as possible! Any creative parents have some ideas for our class????
Take Home Folders / Return to School every Tuesday:
Review and Keep at Home: Math practice pages, scavenger hunt, book order
Sign and Return: weekly tracker, reading log
Goal for the Week: follow directions right away for quick, quiet transitions.
Coming up this week in class:
Continuing math Topic 1: Multiplication and Division Meanings and Facts, learning classroom expectations, continuing our first reading book - Porpoises in Peril, writing informational paragraphs about sea creatures, continuing our study of plant and animal structures in science, and practicing repoussé techniques in our Museo art lessons!
Homework: This year, your child will be keeping track of assignments and homework in a weekly tracker. At home, please check the weekly tracker (located in the front of the binder) to support your child’s homework habits. It is also posted on our classroom blog daily. (http://cves4.weebly.com/ms-larson )
Scholastic Reading Club Order: The mystery word is structure. Our first reading club flier will go home in today's Monday 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 Monday, September 17th. If you have any questions, please let me know.
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.
Math: At Curriculum Night, you will receive a letter explaining the online resources and your student’s log in information for our EnVisions Math curriculum. It may be a new experience to have the electronic textbook, quizzes, and games available from a home computer. We are working through Topic 1: Multiplication and Division; meanings and facts.
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. (Our September reading logs start today.)
Reading: Our reading lessons focus on:
- Using details and examples from the text as evidence to support comprehension
- Describing characters and setting
- Determining the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text
- Engaging in collaborative discussions
Writing: Students will be starting research and informational writing focused on stating a main idea (using a topic sentence) and providing supporting details.
Social Studies (coming soon): 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: Our first "Scope" (unit) is Plant and Animal Parts. Students will be practicing supporting their ideas with information and observations, learning how plants and animals' structures function to help them survive, and using models to understand systems.
Volunteer Opportunities: Thanks, again, for all you do to support children, teachers and learning! Special thanks for your patience and help this week as I get all the volunteer times entered into Signup.com.
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