Ms. Hewitt’s Fourth Grade Class Newsletter
Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
Good Morning Guardians and Students,
What a wonderful week! I am so proud of over half of the class clipping up on the AR goal chart because they earned 8 points from passing the Westing Game novel! The class was so ecstatic and proud of each other! It was a perfect way to end a unit before Fall Break. New grades have already been entered in Infinite Campus and will be updated throughout the week. Students will have their social studies test passed back on Monday. Everything else has been entered in Infinite campus (spelling, vocabulary, Westing Game test, and Chapter 3 math test).
Break time is a great time to relax, get comfortable, and read. Please encourage your son or daughter to read daily. Also utilize Xtramath, Scootpad (grammar and reading support), IXL, FrontRow, for extra support. We will be starting our first science unit when we return so please collect leaves, pinecone, acorns, seeds, any interesting plants for our first science investigation project.
NWEA tests will be given as soon as we get back from break. Our dates are scheduled for Tuesday, October 13th from 8:30-9:50, Thursday, October 15th from 10:50-11:55, and 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.
The start of our school Book Fair will be at the Fall Festival Oct 24 and run through the next Friday.
Thank You Alicia for your hard work in organizing our Fall Festival Basket for our class! The Fall Festival basket this year is "For the Love of Reading!" This is a great way to share favorite books and benefit our class. We will collect all donations by Oct 16th so that we can put the basket together by the deadline. We also get the opportunity to earn volunteer hours on the day of the event. Please click the Volunteer Spot 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 #26 Homophones -words include: lived, living, rattled, rattling, studied, studying, etc. Students will complete assigned activities at home and will take the test in class Friday on their Chromebooks.
- Vocabulary: Life Science Vocabulary- words include: petal, pistil, stamen, sepal,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 begin our unit on verb tenses.
- Writing- Take our expository writing through the writing process.
- Traditional Literature: Folktales- theme, point of view, refer to details 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 3 already: D.1, D.2, D.3, D.4, D.8, D.9.
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- Lessons 1 & 2: Multiples of 10, 100, and 1,000/ Round to Estimate Products - D.8, D.12
Tuesday- Lesson 3 & 4: Hands on with place value and models to multiply- D.5
Wednesday- Lesson 5- Multiply by a two-digit number: Quiz lessons 1-4.
Thursday- Lesson 6 & 7: Regrouping and distributive property, D.10, D.11.
Friday- Lesson 8 & 9: Regrouping and Multiply with a Multi-Digit Number- D.6, D.7
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-
- Collect leaves, pinecone, acorns, seeds, any interesting plant to help students kick off our first science unit on life science.
Reminders/Mark Your Calendars-
- October Break- No School- October 5th-9th
- Westlake is hosting a 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.
- Sat. October. 24th from 2:00-6:00 pm for the 5th annual WCS Fall Festival
- Morning Study Hall has been a great success! If you want to come please remember to sign up by CLICKING HERE
