The students have homework in lesson 7.1 on adding and subtracting parts of a whole. It is on pg.389 - 390. We started a new chapter on adding and subtracting fractions. There is a tutorial below to assist you, if needed.
This week's curriculum objectives, important dates, and reminders can be found below.
Math:
Students completed 7.1 today on adding and subtracting parts of a whole. They will learn 7.2 on comparing and ordering fractions on Thursday. Due to Infrastructure Practice Testing on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, the students will only learn two lessons this week. The Infrastructure Practice Testing is practice on the computer in preparation for the testing in April that all students will take that is similar to last year's PARCC.
Science/ Social Studies:
Students are finishing up their artifacts for Native American art and architecture. They will start a new "theme" on story telling where they will be responsible for reporting an important event that happened in the past in their region. This will also be presented later on in the "museum."
Language Arts:
Students are finishing new skills in the last part of unit 4 and will be learning new skills starting unit 5. They will be working on: reading to identify text evidence; making a judgment based on text evidence; sharing my prior knowledge about the Essential Question; reading to identify key details and the main idea; summarizing the text; brainstorming an essay topic in the area of science and technology; determining the meaning of domain-specific vocabulary; describing the overall structure of events in a text; reading to identify and annotate key events; identifying words containing the hard and soft c and g sounds; sorting words by their c and g sounds; spelling words with the hard and soft c and g sounds; recognizing credible online sources; gathering relevant information from sources; taking notes from sources; describing the overall structure of an opinion text; identifying the features of an opinion text, including the author's opinion and supporting reasons; pronouncing words with the hard and soft c and g sounds; sorting and spelling words with the hard and soft c and g sounds; and organizing my essay.
Important Dates
Feb.4th
Report Cards Sent Home
Report Cards Sent Home
Feb. 6th
Open Forum 8:30 - 9:30 in Upstairs Common Area
Feb. 8th
PEA Sponsored Family Dance
New: Please sign the sheet that says you received your child's report card and send it back to school in the provided envelope.
Infrastructure Practice Testing is practice problems that students are completing over the next two weeks to prepare for the Assessment in April.
Infrastructure Practice Testing is practice problems that students are completing over the next two weeks to prepare for the Assessment in April.
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.
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