Ms. Hewitt’s Fourth Grade Class Newsletter
Saturday, October 17th, 2015
Good Morning Guardians and Students,
Week one of NWEA testing, with our own class Chromebooks, has been a huge success. Seeing students grow from their last year spring results has been a joy to watch. I can not wait to share their growth with you at parent-student-teacher conferences November 18th-20th. Our math NWEA test will be given Tuesday, October 20th from 8:30-9:50. It is important for students to come to school on time, alert with a good night sleep and nutritious breakfast.
On Thursday your child went home with a motivational bracelet reminding you all to donate your time or a gift for our 5th annual Fall Festival. Thank you all for bringing in books, money donations, bookmarks, book lights, and more. We really appreciate your donations. The last collection for donations will be on Monday, Oct 16th. To earn volunteer hours on the day of the event, please click the VolunteerSpot link to sign up for one or several time slots to help make the event possible. Sign up here for both opportunities: http://vols.pt/t4rwve Thank you! Contact Alicia at msaliciaanne@yahoo.com if you have questions.
Language Arts-
- Spelling City List #27 Easily Confused Words -words include: quiet, quite, angle, angel, already, all ready, etc. Students will complete assigned activities at home and will take the test in class Friday on their Chromebooks.
- Vocabulary: Life Science Vocabulary Part 2- words include: xylem, phloem, conifers, spores, seed dispersal, etc. Students will complete assigned activities both at home and in class. Students will take the test in class Friday on their Chromebooks.
- Grammar: We will finish our unit on verb tenses.
- Writing- Take our expository writing through the writing process.
- Traditional Literature: Folktales- theme, point of view, refer to details, compare and contrast, are some common core standards we will discuss through folktales.
- Our class Scholastics code is J2RYM
Math-
IXL Strands- Complete IXL strands 30 minutes a week is the minimum requirement. These strands should be completed from chapter 4 already: D.1-D.12
Chapter 4: Multiply with One-Digit Numbers -
Students did very well on this pre-test. We will be able to complete two lessons a day since students know this concept rather well.
Monday- Review and Quiz- finish ixl strands from last week
Tuesday- Lesson 10 and 11- finish ixl strands from last week
Wednesday- Study Guide online through McGrawHill
Thursday- Chapter 4 Test and chapter 5 pre-test (Multiply with two-digit numbers)
Friday- Chapter 5 Lesson 1- D.24
Go on XtraMath daily to become fluent in their math facts. Utilize Mangahigh to practice math facts using the game titled, Sundae Times. Our school ID is 67993.
Students have also been working on Base Ten and Counting and Operations no Front Row. Please encourage them to continue to use this adaptive, valuable resource!
Social Studies/ Science-
- We have launched our life science unit this week. Thank you Jason, Lindsay, and Rocco for bringing in plants and resources for us to examine.
Reminders/Mark Your Calendars-
- Olympic Triathlon Student Kick-Off, “Watch It Wednesday Video” starts this week!
- High School Info Night on October 20th from 6:00PM to 8:00PM on our Pebblewood campus. Representatives from local high schools will be there to present their program and answer parent questions.
- After hearing from a lot of families Alicia Teater has help create a classroom directory!
- Our 5th annual WCS Fall Festival is on Sat. October. 24th from 2:00-6:00 pm. Can't wait to see you all there!
- November 4th-Science Exploration Night- more info coming your way.
- Morning Study Hall has been a great success! If you want to come please remember to sign up by CLICKING HERE
