April 30, 2019

Parents,

We are still doing review for the DoDEA Math Summative Assessment to be started this Thursday. They are to complete math pg. 63 - 64 in their PARCC book (Utter's Homeroom). This is more geometry review. Have a good night.

April 29, 2019

Parents,

We completed review in preparation for the DoDEA Math Summative Assessment starting this Thursday. We are reviewing protractor practice, multiplication and division, and fractions. The homework is on pg. 61-62 in their PARCC book (Utter's Homeroom). You will find the content to be covered for the week, important dates, and reminders below.

Math:

Students are completing PARCC review today, tomorrow and Wednesday. They will be testing on Thursday, Friday, next Monday, and Tuesday.

Science/ Social Studies:

They are continuing science with soil. They will be learning about what soil is, what is found in it, what causes big rocks to break down into smaller rocks, and understand how rocks are affected by acid rain.

Language Arts:

Students are learning new skills in unit 7. They will be working on: read to integrate information from two texts, use my understanding of two texts to make a comparison; group related information to plan for my news report; use the relative pronouns: who, whose, whom, which, and that; share information I have learned about how and why communities evolve; share information about identifying chronological text structure and using graphic features; read to identify and annotate key details; use key details to determine the main idea; identify and demonstrate understanding of words by relating them to their synonyms; revise sentences to vary sentence length and structure; revise my news report to maintain a formal voice; explain what happened and why based on specific information in the text; determine the meanings of homophones; and use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

Important Dates

May 1st
Parent Open Forum with the Principal 8:30
Normal Early Dismissal

May 2nd
DoDEA Math Summative Assessment

May 3rd
DoDEA Math Summative Assessment

New:
Sign the Nature Walk permission slip and send it in. DoDEA Math Summative Assessments will be this Thursday, Friday, next Monday and Tuesday. Send in money if you are purchasing student or class pictures. Please sign and return the signature page in the orange envelope saying that you received your child's report card for the third quarter. If your child has completed their reading log for the month, they will earn free pizza via the Book It! program.

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:
• charles.utter@am.dodea.edu; kali.hamill@am.dodea.edu and judith.ward@am.dodea.edu.
• 
  

• 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.

April 25, 2019

Parents,

We covered lesson 11.3 on using a protractor to measure an angle and and drawing an angle with a given measure. They are to complete math homework on pg.617-618. Click on the tutorial below, if needed. Have a good night.

11.3 Video

April 24, 2019

Parents,

The students covered lines of symmetry today on lesson 10.6. The homework is pg. 585-586. A tutorial is below, if needed. Have a good night.

April 23, 2019

Parents,

The homework tonight is on a lesson that we did on the Friday before Spring Break. We didn't assign it for homework so we are giving it today. It is on classifying quadrilaterals which is a concept that is a little abstract so they need to practice it. They are to complete pg. 571-572. There is a tutorial below, if needed. Have a good night.

April 22, 2019

Parents,

We completed lesson 10.5 on symmetry today. They will need to complete homework pg. 579-580. A tutorial is below, if needed. You will also find this week's content area to be covered, important dates, reminders, etc.

Math:

Students completed lesson 10.5 on symmetry today, will do PARCC review tomorrow, lesson l0.6 on lines of symmetry on Wednesday, protractor practice with lesson 11.3 and review on Thursday and Friday.

Science/ Social Studies:

They are continuing science with soil. They will be learning about what soil is, what is found in it, what causes big rocks to break down into smaller rocks, and understand how rocks are affected by acid rain.

Language Arts:

Students are learning new skills in unit 6. They will be working on: read to integrate information from two texts; use my understanding of two texts to make a comparison; connect independent clauses correctly; write compound sentences; reflect on and share my knowledge about how communities evolve; explain why readers analyze text structure, pay attention to graphic features, and identify author's evidence; read to identify and annotate key details; use key details to determine a main idea; read and analyze a news report writing prompt; describe the structure of a text that compares and contrasts; gather facts and details from my sources; use a graphic organizer to record my notes; read to find evidence to support an inference; write a paragraph supporting an inference; explain the meanings of the prefixes trans-, pro-, sub-, super-, and inter-; understand how these prefixes affect the meanings of words; use my notes to organize a news report; and explain how historic photographs, maps, and time lines support or extend information in a text.

Important Dates

April 24th
Normal Early Dismissal

New:
Send in money if you are purchasing student or class pictures. Please sign and return the signature page in the orange envelope saying that you received your child's report card for the third quarter. If your child has completed their reading log for the month, they will earn free pizza via the Book It! program.

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:
• charles.utter@am.dodea.edu; kali.hamill@am.dodea.edu and judith.ward@am.dodea.edu.
• 
  

• 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.

April 11, 2019

Parents,

The students learned about parallel, intersecting, and perpendicular lines in lesson 10.3 today. The homework is pg. 565-566 in their math book. There is a tutorial below, if needed. Have a good night.

April 9, 2019

Parents,

The homework tonight is on math lesson 10.2 on classifying triangles. They have to complete pg.559-560. There is a tutorial below, if needed. Have a good night.

April 8, 2019

Parents,

We started unit 7, chapter 10, today with lesson 10.1 in geometry on lines, line segments, rays, etc. They will need to complete homework pg. 553-554. A tutorial is below, if needed. You will also find this week's content area to be covered, important dates, reminders, etc.

Math:

Students completed lesson 10.1 on lines, rays, and angles, 10.2 on Tuesday on classifying triangles, Summative Assessment review on Wednesday, 10.3 on Thursday on parallel and perpendicular lines, and 10.4 on Friday on classifying quadrilaterals.

Science/ Social Studies:

They are continuing the science unit on building an electromagnet, testing its strength, and reinventing the telegraph before we move into soil when we come back from Spring break.

Language Arts:

Students are learning new skills in unit 6. They will be working on: share my ideas about the Essential Question; read to identify and annotate key details; distinguish between important and unimportant details; use key details to determine the main idea; read and analyze a writing prompt; read and analyze a news report; identify and understand a chronological structure; describe events in a chronological order; explain how information in a timeline supports and extends information in a text; use a graphic organizer to organize a news report; decode unfamiliar, multisyllabic words with /oi/ and /ou/; understand how writers incorporate information from multiple sources; explain the meaning of similes and metaphors; explain how a writer uses quotes to support a point in a text; and explain how a writer uses historical photographs to support a point in a text.

Important Dates

Month of the Military Child Week
April 9th
Wear Red, White and Blue
April 10th
Wear your camouflage
April 11th
Purple Up
April 12th
Wear Stars, Stripes, and Sparkles

April 10th
Normal Early Dismissal

April 12th
Report Cards Go Home


New:
Please make sure your child has all past due assignments handed in. If your child has completed their reading log for the month, they will earn free pizza via the Book It! program.

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:
• charles.utter@am.dodea.edu; kali.hamill@am.dodea.edu and judith.ward@am.dodea.edu.
• 
  

• 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.

April 1, 2019

Parents,

We did a review packet during math for unit 6 (chapters 8 and 9) in preparation for the test tomorrow. Some students did not finish it and should complete it tonight for homework. Those students who did finish it, should still review it at home with you. The test will be very similar to the review.

Math:

Students completed review for unit 6 (chapters 8 and 9) today, will test tomorrow, and will do some PARCC practice on Wednesday.

Science/ Social Studies:

They are continuing the science unit on building an electromagnet, testing its strength, and reinventing the telegraph.

Language Arts:

Students are learning new skills in unit 6. They will be working on: reread a text to find text evidence and draw an inference from the evidence; explain the meaning and spelling of adjective suffixes -ful, -ous, -ible, -able, and -some; collaborate to list and define -ful, -ous, ible, -able, and -some; revise my journal entries by adding detail; add to my writing with adjectives and adverb prepositional phrases; edit a text to correct adjective order in sentences; read to gather evidence to compare texts from different cultures with similar themes; write a comparison of two texts with similar themes; evaluate my writing using a rubric; and evaluate others' writing using a rubric

Important Dates

April 2nd
Math Test on Unit 6 (Chapters 8 and 9)

April 3rd
Parent Open Forum With the Principal
Normal Early Dismissal

April 4th
Field Trip to the Rappahannock River
Please make sure you packed a bag lunch if you did not request one from the cafeteria, where appropriate shoes since the area may be a little muddy, and bring a jacket since it might be cool in the morning. We will NOT be getting wet on this trip.

April 5th
No School For Students, Teacher Workday

New: If you were selected to chaperone the field trip this Thursday, please make sure you filled out the requirement forms in the office to volunteer at Crossroads.

Please make sure your child has all past due assignments handed in. If your child has completed their reading log for the month, they will earn free pizza via the Book It! program.

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:
• charles.utter@am.dodea.edu; kali.hamill@am.dodea.edu and judith.ward@am.dodea.edu.
• 
  

• 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.