The math homework tonight is on perimeter with lesson 13.1. The homework is pg. 721-722. The tutorial below will assist you, if needed. You will also find this week's learning objectives, important dates, and reminders listed below.
Math:
Students will work on chapter 13 on perimeter and area today and tomorrow. Tomorrow they will go over 13.2 on area. We are doing different math practice on Wednesday and Thursday. When we return from the break, we will finish the last three lessons in chapter 13 and have the unit test that will cover chapters 12 and 13.
Science/ Social Studies:
Students are finishing a science unit on energy, specifically on electricity. They have studied series and parallel circuits.
Language Arts:
Students have started unit 4 on different points of view. They are referring to specific details in a text when drawing inferences; describing a character's thoughts and feelings based on specific details in a text; telling the difference between a narrator's observations and a narrator's interpretations; gathering relevant information from sources; taking notes and categorizing information; reading to identify and annotate key events; using key events to summarize the text; explaining the meaning of compound words; identifying three types of compound words; identifying third person point of view; and explaining the effect of third person point of view on a narrative. Due to the planning stages in the engineer design process of the gingerbread house, there will not be as many language arts lessons this week. The students will be completing the ask, imagine, and planning stages on Wednesday and then create and improve stages on Thursday.
Important Dates
Dec. 18th Parent Open Forum with the Principal 8:30 - 9:30 Normal Wednesday Early Dismissal Dec. 19th All library books should be returned No after school clubs or tutorials Dec. 20th Winter Break Begins - Happy Holidays
New: Below this message is the letter we sent home last week. We are still in need of the following items below in order to build our gingerbread houses for the STEAM project next week. We also need some parent volunteers to help us make icing. The recipe is below. Thank you so much! During the week of December 17th, there are a few special activities that fourth grade would like to do.
Gift Exchange: This is an activity that is meant to be silly and fun, so gifts don’t need to be special or valuable. Your child can just wrap a toy or item that they already own and that they don’t use or play with anymore. Please don’t feel like you need to go out and buy a gift! (If you really can’t think of anything and plan on buying something, please don’t spend more than $5.) We will do the gift exchange on Thursday, December 20th, which is the last day before the break. Please bring the wrapped gift anytime that week.
Gingerbread House STEM Project: We will also be doing a STEM project that involves building a gingerbread house. We begin the planning for our structure on Wednesday December 19th, and we will be building it Thursday December 20th from 8:45 to 10:45.
For this project, we need:
**Volunteers! Our student groups always benefit from having an adult assistant while we build. You are welcome to help them on that Friday morning.
**Supplies! In order to construct the houses, we need a lot of materials. We are asking you to bring in one (or some!) of the following items.
Graham crackers
Marshmallows
Pretzel sticks
Lifesavers
Twizzlers
Candy canes (small)
Gumdrops
Jelly beans
M & M’s
Skittles
Plastic bowls
**Frosting makers--We are also asking for a few brave parents to put together some icing. The stiff icing recipe is listed below. We will need about 18 bags. Please let us know if you’re willing to help out with this.
Royal Icing Recipe #1
1 pound of confectioners sugar
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
3 egg whites
Beat slowly until stiff peaks form. Put icing in a gallon sized plastic bag.
Thank you so much for your support and for making these activities successful and fun for the students. If you have questions, please let us know.
The G Force
Grading:
This year your child will have letter grades on their report cards. It is important for you to review the papers that come home with your child on a regular basis. If your child has a C or below on an assignment, please help reinforce the concepts and have your child redo the assignment. Sometimes you may also see a 1-4 score on your child’s paper. This type of score reflects a rubric score for the assignment. See the grade equivalents below:
4-A, 3-B, 2-C, 1-D or Below
Interims will keep you informed of your child’s current grades. The first interim, however, will be very general since only a few grades will be given by that date.
Homework:
Please check your child’s homework notebook for daily homework assignments. The basic nightly routine will be 20 minutes of reading AND a math assignment. The math will be the homework pages in the math workbook that correlate with the daily lesson OR a Think Central assignment. Your child should have the pages written down in their notebooks. Mr. Utter will also post daily assignments with how to videos on the G-Force blog.
Snack:
Fourth grade students have a very early lunch this year, so we will not have a snack time. Our time is limited in the afternoon due to recess and specials. Please make sure your child eats a sufficient amount of lunch to get them through the school day.
FYI...
Looking for extra math practice? Please go to the following site to assist you in parent math newsletters, extra practice for the math units we are working on, games, and many other useful resources to help your child with math concepts. (https://sites.google.com/view/midatlanticmathresource This site is found on the Crossroads homepage.
If you need to contact any of us, the quickest way is through email. (NOT through Class Dojo).Our emails are as follows:
If your child will be absent from school, please let the office know with a call, email, or note. You can email the school at CESattendance@am.dodea.edu
New DODEA rules prohibit food for birthdays so please do not send in cupcakes or other food for your child.
The homework tonight is on solving problems involving mixed measures on lesson 12.10. Students have to convert at times different measurements. There is a tutorial below that will assist you, if needed. Have a good night.
There is no math homework tonight. We decided the students needed more practice with elapsed time and completed some review on it today. We will be moving onto lesson 12.10 tomorrow with the regularly assigned homework. The students are still expected to read at least 20 minutes or more every night.
The math homework tonight is on elapsed time with lesson 12.9. The homework is pg. 695-696. The tutorial below will assist you, if needed. You will also find this week's learning objectives, important dates, and reminders.
Math:
Students will finish chapter 12 on measurement this week on reviewing elapsed time, 12.10, and 12.11. Tomorrow they will review elapsed time, Thursday they will convert mixed measures, and Friday they will complete patterns in measurement units using algebra.
Science/ Social Studies:
Students are continuing a science unit on energy, specifically on electricity. They will study parallel circuits this week.
Language Arts:
Students will finish unit 3 on nature and then start a new unit later in the week. Students are making connections between poems and pictures; identifying vowel-r syllable patterns; ordering adjectives to add detail; determine the theme of a poem; read and understand the meaning of words, phrases, and figurative language in a poem; edit a text to correct inappropriate fragments; compare and contrast the language of poetry and prose; integrate information from two texts; read to annotate key events and summarize; read and analyze a writing prompt; tell the difference between a narrator's observations and a narrator's interpretations; refer to specific details in a text when drawing inferences; and gather relevant information from sources.
Important Dates
Dec. 12th Normal Wednesday Early Dismissal
New: Below this message is the letter we sent home last week. We are still in need of the following items below in order to build our gingerbread houses for the STEAM project next week. We also need some parent volunteers to help us make icing. The recipe is below. Thank you so much! During the week of December 17th, there are a few special activities that fourth grade would like to do.
Gift Exchange: This is an activity that is meant to be silly and fun, so gifts don’t need to be special or valuable. Your child can just wrap a toy or item that they already own and that they don’t use or play with anymore. Please don’t feel like you need to go out and buy a gift! (If you really can’t think of anything and plan on buying something, please don’t spend more than $5.) We will do the gift exchange on Thursday, December 20th, which is the last day before the break. Please bring the wrapped gift anytime that week.
Gingerbread House STEM Project: We will also be doing a STEM project that involves building a gingerbread house. We begin the planning for our structure on Wednesday December 19th, and we will be building it Thursday December 20th from 8:45 to 10:45.
For this project, we need:
**Volunteers! Our student groups always benefit from having an adult assistant while we build. You are welcome to help them on that Friday morning.
**Supplies! In order to construct the houses, we need a lot of materials. We are asking you to bring in one (or some!) of the following items.
Graham crackers
Marshmallows
Pretzel sticks
Lifesavers
Twizzlers
Candy canes (small)
Gumdrops
Jelly beans
M & M’s
Skittles
Plastic bowls
**Frosting makers--We are also asking for a few brave parents to put together some icing. The stiff icing recipe is listed below. We will need about 18 bags. Please let us know if you’re willing to help out with this.
Royal Icing Recipe #1
1 pound of confectioners sugar
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
3 egg whites
Beat slowly until stiff peaks form. Put icing in a gallon sized plastic bag.
Thank you so much for your support and for making these activities successful and fun for the students. If you have questions, please let us know.
The G Force
Grading:
This year your child will have letter grades on their report cards. It is important for you to review the papers that come home with your child on a regular basis. If your child has a C or below on an assignment, please help reinforce the concepts and have your child redo the assignment. Sometimes you may also see a 1-4 score on your child’s paper. This type of score reflects a rubric score for the assignment. See the grade equivalents below:
4-A, 3-B, 2-C, 1-D or Below
Interims will keep you informed of your child’s current grades. The first interim, however, will be very general since only a few grades will be given by that date.
Homework:
Please check your child’s homework notebook for daily homework assignments. The basic nightly routine will be 20 minutes of reading AND a math assignment. The math will be the homework pages in the math workbook that correlate with the daily lesson OR a Think Central assignment. Your child should have the pages written down in their notebooks. Mr. Utter will also post daily assignments with how to videos on the G-Force blog.
Snack:
Fourth grade students have a very early lunch this year, so we will not have a snack time. Our time is limited in the afternoon due to recess and specials. Please make sure your child eats a sufficient amount of lunch to get them through the school day.
FYI...
Looking for extra math practice? Please go to the following site to assist you in parent math newsletters, extra practice for the math units we are working on, games, and many other useful resources to help your child with math concepts. (https://sites.google.com/view/midatlanticmathresource This site is found on the Crossroads homepage.
If you need to contact any of us, the quickest way is through email. (NOT through Class Dojo).Our emails are as follows:
If your child will be absent from school, please let the office know with a call, email, or note. You can email the school at CESattendance@am.dodea.edu
New DODEA rules prohibit food for birthdays so please do not send in cupcakes or other food for your child.
Tonight's homework is lesson 12.7 on metric units of mass and liquid volume. The homework is on pg.683-684. They are basically converting mL to L and g to kg. Lessons 12.5 and 12.6 were skipped for now and will be taught at a different time. There is a tutorial below to help your child, if needed. We have been handing back papers throughout the year. If you notice your child with a failing grade on an assignment, you may make corrections on it and hand it back in. We will regrade it and bump the grade up if the resubmitted assignment is correct. Thank you and have a good night.
The homework tonight is 12.4 on customary units of liquid volume. It is on pg.663 - 664. The tutorial below will help you, if needed. There is no school tomorrow.
The math homework tonight is on using models to compare customary units of weight, lesson 12.3. The homework is pg. 657-658. The tutorial below will assist you, if needed. You will also find this week's learning objectives, important dates, and reminders.
Math:
Students will work on measurement lessons 12.4, 12.7, and 12.8. Tomorrow they will work on customary units of liquid volume, Thursday they will learn metric units of mass and liquid volume, and Friday they will learn units of time.
Science/ Social Studies:
Students are continuing a science unit on energy, specifically on electricity. They will study series and parallel circuits this week.
Language Arts:
Students will continue unit 3 on nature on being able to read to identify, annotate, and interpret idioms; divide words into syllables identifying and pronouncing vowel team syllables in words; plan ideas for writing an informational report; read to identify key details in a selection; integrate information from two texts; recognize inappropriate sentence fragments; explain how personification is used in a text; ask and answer questions about a poem; identify the theme of a poem; use information from my sources to write an informational report; make connections between a poem and a visual presentation of it; identify vowel-r syllable patterns in words; and order adjectives to add detail.
Important Dates
December 5th No School - National Day of Mourning
New: We are sending information tomorrow on a silly gift exchange and a gingerbread house STEM project. We need volunteers and supplies (Graham Crackers, marshmallows, pretzel sticks, Lifesavers, Twizzlers, candy canes (small), Gumdrops, Jelly beans, M & M's, Skittles, and plastic bowls.) We also need volunteers to make and send in frosting.
Grading:
This year your child will have letter grades on their report cards. It is important for you to review the papers that come home with your child on a regular basis. If your child has a C or below on an assignment, please help reinforce the concepts and have your child redo the assignment. Sometimes you may also see a 1-4 score on your child’s paper. This type of score reflects a rubric score for the assignment. See the grade equivalents below:
4-A, 3-B, 2-C, 1-D or Below
Interims will keep you informed of your child’s current grades. The first interim, however, will be very general since only a few grades will be given by that date.
Homework:
Please check your child’s homework notebook for daily homework assignments. The basic nightly routine will be 20 minutes of reading AND a math assignment. The math will be the homework pages in the math workbook that correlate with the daily lesson OR a Think Central assignment. Your child should have the pages written down in their notebooks. Mr. Utter will also post daily assignments with how to videos on the G-Force blog.
Snack:
Fourth grade students have a very early lunch this year, so we will not have a snack time. Our time is limited in the afternoon due to recess and specials. Please make sure your child eats a sufficient amount of lunch to get them through the school day.
FYI...
Looking for extra math practice? Please go to the following site to assist you in parent math newsletters, extra practice for the math units we are working on, games, and many other useful resources to help your child with math concepts. (https://sites.google.com/view/midatlanticmathresource This site is found on the Crossroads homepage.
If you need to contact any of us, the quickest way is through email. (NOT through Class Dojo).Our emails are as follows:
If your child will be absent from school, please let the office know with a call, email, or note. You can email the school at CESattendance@am.dodea.edu
New DODEA rules prohibit food for birthdays so please do not send in cupcakes or other food for your child.
