Ms. Hewitt’s Fourth Grade Class Newsletter
Sunday, November 1st, 2015
Good Evening Guardians and Students,
Age of Sail Update! Crews were established on Friday and students are fired up to begin training. I will be contacting parents who volunteered to help teach knot tying and make our class song books. This is such a fun and exciting time of year!
We are looking for parents to donate “Age of Sail Galley Gear.” We need 40 clean tin cans to drink out of, 40 metal fork and spoons, and 40 metal pie tins (not disposable). We had these donated years ago and need to replace them this year. Thank you so much for your contribution.
Lastly, The PayPal link for our Age of Sail class hoodies is on our school website! Click Here to order your sweatshirts. Be sure to include your child’s name when you order. These sweatshirts are important for the trip because they help us be able to spot each other in a crowd, they keep us warm on the chilly Balcutha, and further builds our community. They are also a fourth grade “right of passage” that everyone looks forward to, including me!
Our class started the Olympic Triathlon with a bang! This week we earned the honor of winning the Olympic torch! Our students were so proud. Thank you to the families who donated this week. If every student brings in 5$ next week we have a chance of earning a class party. Our specialty classes are such an important component to our school. Thanks again for doing all you can to raise money for our amazing school!
This Wednesday, November 4th is Family Explorit Science Night! This is going to be an amazing, hands-on, K-8 night of Science Exploration CLICK HERE for more information!
KCRA Kids Can Food Drive: We are collecting non-perishable food items for the KCRA Kids Can Food Drive from October 26th-November 6th. We will be donating all of our food items to Joey’s Food Locker, which goes directly to families who reside in the Natomas Unified School District. Donate one thing from your pantries this week.
Assessments are going to be given this week to show what students have learned the first trimester of fourth grade. I am so excited to share in your child’s growth during student-led conferences November 18th-20th.
Thank you Jason, William, and Lindsay for purchasing books for our classroom library from the Book Fair. Your contribution has the students super jazzed to read exciting new books! Also thank you Alicia for a surprise Amazon Gift Card for me to use towards our classroom. So thoughtful!
Monday, November 2nd is the final collection date for the Walktober tracking Sheets. Friday November 6th there will be a finalized winner for the class with the MOST COMPLETED tracking sheets and the student with the most walking TRIPS. The Classroom prize will be a catered ice cream party from Big Spoon and the top two teachers with the most tracking sheets turned in (not trips, but sheets), will be given a $20 dollar gift card to Corner Bakery. In addition to the normal prizes given out there will also be a chance for the top 80 participants to receive a free Kids Breakfast at the Corner Bakery.
Language Arts-
- Spelling City List #14 Superlatives- words include: cleaner, cleanest, bigger, biggest, etc. Students will complete assigned activities at home and will take the test in class Friday on their Chromebooks.
- Vocabulary: Continue to review life science plant vocabulary week 1 and 2 to prepare for life science test. Use Google Slides Presentations on Google Classroom and notes for additional resources.
- Grammar: We will learn about subject and predicates.
- Writing- We write our second five paragraph essay on Water Conservation.
- Traditional Literature: We will begin our Greek Mythology unit! We will be studying allusions, good vs. evil, and plot elements. This is going to be a lot of fun!
- AR point goals are due November 13th.
- Fluency assessments will be given this week. End of year goal is to reach 152 WPM.
- Our class Scholastics code is J2RYM
Math-
IXL Strands- Complete IXL strands 30 minutes a week is the minimum requirement.
Chapter 5: Multiply with Two-Digit Numbers - D.13, D.14, D.15, D.17, D.18, D.21, D.22, D.19
Monday- Lesson 6- Problem Solving: Make a Table- D.29, D.30
Tuesday- Review
Wednesday- Chapter 5 test- Chapter 6 pre-test
Thursday- Chapter 6 Lesson 1: Divide Multiplies 10, 100, 1,000: E.17, E.18, E.19
Friday- Lesson 2: Estimate Quotients- E.14
Math Fact Test will be given this Thursday: 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 on Front Row. Please encourage them to continue to use this adaptive, valuable resource!
Social Studies/ Science-
- Our life science unit on plant parts and plant reproduction is complete. We have been working on completing and review our study guide and notes in class. We will continue our review baseball game on Monday and students will take their science test on Tuesday, November 2nd.
Reminders/Mark Your Calendars-
- Olympic Triathlon starts this week! Goal for each student is to bring in $180 total, which equals one dollar per each school day. Some ideas are to have a yard sale, hold a lemonade stand, have a bake sale, ask dear family members, in order to support your child’s school.
- November 4th Science Exploration at PW campus. See you there!
- No School, November 11th for Veteran’s Day and my birthday. :)
- November 13th Last Day of 1st Trimester.
- Student-Led Conferences- November 18th- 20th
- No School for November Break: Monday 23rd- Monday 30th.
- No School for Winter Break: Friday 18th- Friday, January 1st.
- Age of Sail Field Lesson Tuesday, January 5th- Wednesday, 6th
- Morning Study Hall has been a great success! If you want to come please remember to sign up by CLICKING HERE
