Ms. Hewitt’s Fourth Grade Class Newsletter
Saturday, February 27th, 2016
Good Evening Guardians and Students,
Parent-Teacher Conferences
Conference week is coming up fast during the week of March 14-17th. I ended up creating 7 conferences on Monday and Tuesday, 12 on Wednesday, and 2 on Thursday. If none of those work for you please contact me and we could perhaps meet before school. Please click here to schedule your student led parent-teacher conference. The portal is open, beginning Monday, Feb. 29. I look forward to sharing your child's progress with you! 4th Grade Award Assembly is on Friday, March 18th 8:30-9:00 a.m. I will let you know at the conferences whether or not your son or daughter will be receiving an award. Students completed their NWEA tests and continue to show growth! We will be tracking their growth in their growth trackers next week to show at our upcoming conferences.
Digital Book Clubs
Book clubs have been amazing! This week we had two tech leads come and observe our class run digital book clubs. Nate, Manal and Ava McDonald also signed up to share with them step by step how we set them up. They were so impressed with their tech skills and their professionalism.March 4th is when student will take their next book club quiz on AR. I have really enjoyed watching students create group norms, schedule and pace out their book selections, give feedback about their groups on google forms, choose vocabulary from their books giving them voice and choice, and so much more!
Parents Go to School Night
Please join us for "Parents Go to School Night" on the Del Paso campus on Thursday, March 3rd from 5:45-8:00 p.m. to learn more about supporting your child's learning at WCS! You don't want to miss out on our keynote speaker, Kristen Baisden, school psychologist for the Roseville City School District and facilitator for Becoming a Love and Logic Parent®. This will be followed by fantastic staff-led sessions about topics of interest to all of our families. Our teachers will be presenting ideas for encouraging all WCS students from our littlest explorers to our middle school students! I'll be leading a session titled, "Fostering a Growth Mindset." Come check it out! BASE will be open for the evening.
Language Arts
- Book Clubs round 2 started this week! Students will meet with their groups on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Students will come prepared with 3 questions written down on a post it with the page number. They will take notes digitally and have their vocabulary and page numbers on their group doc. Friday, March 4th students will take an AR test on their book. Round 3 of book clubs will continue the following weeks.
- AR point goals are due Friday, March 4th.
- This week- Spelling City List #17 and then #18- Complete all activities before Friday to be prepared for the test on Friday in class.
- Vocabulary: Students will be introduced to five new Greek & Latin Roots during Unit 7 this week. Then Unit 8 the following week. Practice Packets will be due on Friday. They will be tested on both Unit 7 and 8 on Friday.
- Writing: Will have their final assessment opinion writing piece this week and next.
- My assessment day will be on Tuesday, March 1st next week. This is when I will be able to conduct running records for students current fluency reading,
Math
IXL Strands- Complete IXL strands 30 minutes a week is the minimum requirement.
4th Grade: U.1-U.10 5th Grade: G.1-G.10
Monday-Lesson 6- Place Value and Models to Add
Tuesday- Lesson 7- Compare and Order Decimals
March 2nd- Wednesday- Lesson 8- Problem Solving (All four Math Timed Tests Today!)
Thursday- Study Guide
March 4th- Friday- Chapter 10 Test
Monday-Lesson 1- Customary Units of length
Tuesday- Lesson 2- Convert Units of length
Wednesday- Lesson 3- Units of Capacity
Thursday- Lesson 4- Convert Units of Capacity
Friday- Quiz from lessons 1-4
Encourage your children to utilize our many math resources XtraMath, Mangahigh our school ID is 67993, McGraw Hill, Front Row, and Prodigy!
Science
We continue investigating how natural processes shape the surface of the earth and the ensuing effect on humans. Some of the essential questions that will be explored next week include: How can we see evidence of changes in the earth over time? What story of the earth can rocks and fossils tell us? What slow and fast processes change the earth's surface? How are humans affected by these processes? We also started learning about earthquakes and next week will be on volcanoes!
P.E.
I'm uploading 4th grade's fitness tests, and some scores are lower than desired. Classes have been informed two ways they can make up points.
#1: They can redo the 2 bonus questions and redo question 15
Bonus Q#1: What is your Target Heart Rate and Max beats per minute?
Bonus Q#2: How many minutes are kids supposed to be active every day?
Question #15: Write about your experience so far in the Fitness Unit: what have been your favorite activities? How do you think this new information will help you be a person who makes sure to be active in your lifetime? (10 sentences)
#2 : They can do a Tabata, Yoga, or Step Aerobic workout, write a paragraph, and have a parent sign for up to 5 points.
Can always send other questions Sabra’s way.
Art
Check out Ms. Jackson's website to see what's currently happening in art. Tons of neat pictures of students work!
Reminders/Mark Your Calendars-
- March 3 from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. on Del Paso Campus: Parents Go to School Night
- March 4: End of Trimester Accelerated Reader Goal Due
- March 11: End of 2nd Trimester
- March 16-18: Parent Teacher Conferences (Early dismissal)
- March 21-April 1: Spring Break
- Update on Morning Hall: From now on morning hall will not begin until 7:50. If you have any questions about this please let me know. Morning Hall
