Just a short little newsletter today because of our short little week!
The spelling words in the spelling tab will be for next Friday, March 3rd. We will not be doing a social studies quiz/kahoot next week to give us time to get back on track after this couple of odd weeks. Announcements:
Our Valentine's party was a ton of fun! The kids made some great boxes, and we all had a blast playing card and board games together. March is reading month, as always, and we will have an awesome calendar of activities to do all month long! It will be coming home next Friday, so be on the lookout for that. Our quiz on adding and subtracting mixed numbers was awesome! I keep telling the class how impressed I am with them, and you should know too. They're legitimately the best class I have ever had in terms of understanding fractions and how to add them. You will see the quiz in the Friday Folder. Reading: A key reading skill, especially today, is being able to read someone's opinion and determine what their reasons are, and what evidence they have. We spent this week reading kids' opinions on various questions and looking for their reasons and evidence. We will continue next week as well. Writing: We are still working on using vivid, interesting adjectives and adverbs this week. The kids wrote an advertisement for an animal shelter using some cool describing words today, be on the lookout for those! Math: Most of this week was working on adding and subtracting fractions, but we are now on to multiplying them! It's a big step, but we can do it! Social Studies: People are always moving, and for many different reasons. This week we took a close look at how and why people move around our country, and how we keep track of them! Science: A lot of pollution is made in the process of making food, but it's not like we can stop feeding ourselves! We are learning about the process of growing, transporting, and packaging food in order to try and think of inventions that might make the process easier, cleaner, or faster. Announcements:
As part of our Valentine's Day party, the kids can bring in games to play together. No electronics, and nothing with too many little pieces. You'd be surprised how easily those things can get lost! Reading: Books are more than just text, they are full of charts, graphs, pictures, and diagrams. We worked on deciphering those this week. Writing: Kids tend to get stuck in the habit of using boring old words that make writing seem bland, so this week we focused on using vivid, interesting words to make things more fun. Math: Adding and subtracting mixed numbers? No problem for this class! Whether they're using number lines, fraction bars, or just plain numbers, the whole class can do it! We'll be having a short quiz on that specific skill next week, look out for a study guide early next week. Social Studies: Michigan is a beautiful place, but there are problems we need to address to keep it that way. This week we looked at threats to our natural resources and what we can do to protect them. Science: The kids started inventing this week, ask your student what he or she invented! I have decided that our social studies class is too online, and makes it hard for parents to be involved. I'm changing it to be a little more paper and pencil so that the kids can get help practicing at home. Here's how the class will run:
Monday: The kids will get a study guide for a short quiz on this week's question. They will work on filling it out during the week. You will be able to find the study guide in the new Social Studies tab above. Thursday: I will send a Kahoot home that the kids can take to prepare for the quiz. Friday: We'll take the quiz, which comes entirely from the study guide and Kahoot. Tests will be on paper from now on so that you can see how they're doing. Hopefully this will let you be more involved with social studies and the kids will do even better than they have been. Announcements:
NWEA is finally over! It took so long because I don't like to do more than about 45 minutes per day, it's just too much otherwise. The good news is that the class has been really working hard, and they got to see that reflected in their scores. Even though all the nonsense that's been going on, they've kept their good attitudes and hard working spirits and they've kept on trucking. I'm proud of all of them! We will be having a Valentine's Day party on the 14th, there is more information in the Friday Folder. Reading: We're still working on finding and deciphering vocabulary words in science and social studies books, and they're getting pretty good at it! Writing: We've been working on organizing writing for a little while, and this week we put them all together and do sort of a review. We're getting ready to start another big writing project soon, so be on the lookout for that. Math: One of the big three pillars of fourth grade math is adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers, and we're off to a fantastic start. We're going slow and steady so that we can master the skills we need, and I'm really happy with how everyone is doing. Social Studies: We live in a big world, and we have to be able to change it so that we can live in it! Sometimes though, we are the ones who have to change. Interaction with the environment was our focus this week. Science: We are just about ready to start a really cool science unit with the MISD called Little Inventors, where the kids will get to learn how to be inventors. It's going to be great! |
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