Week of September 20th-24th

Good evening,

We had a mar-vel-ous Monday! Tomorrow is picture day. Students come with your best smile for the yearbook. Parents please make sure to sign the blue sheet that came home today about our school being a title school where every student has an equal opportunity to get help from our title reading and math teachers if they need it.

We just started the first story in Unit 2 of Reading Street, What Jo Did. Remember parents, we will always spend five days on each reading selection. Your child should be bringing home one page each from their Reading Practice and Spelling Practice workbooks which covers our new spelling words for this story, vocabulary words, and the skill that we are covering this week, cause and effect. I introduced common and proper nouns today. They had a worksheet with common and proper nouns to get started on tonight. I will go over it more thoroughly tomorrow. Today was day one of the story. Every day four, I will give the spelling and language test. Day five will always be our reading test. Students should be studying their math facts and spelling words each night, along with keeping a reading log of 15 minutes each night. The reading log will count as 10% of their reading grade, as well as, completed station work of 10%, which leaves 80% for the weekly selection tests.
I will give a multiplication test on Friday just on multiples of three.

Science sound projects will be due September 30. Please don't send them in earlier. I want to keep the element of surprise. This project is worth 100 points. If your child turns in their project late, I will take off 10 points for each additional day the project is late. Your child received a study guide for AL History chapter one today. It's imperative that they learn how to study their study guides and vocabulary definitions! The tests come from their study guides. If you help your child study their study guide and sign it, your child gets 5 additional bonus points added to their test grade. That goes for both science and social studies.

We started working with probability today. Tomorrow we will be working with M&Ms. Math is fun!

Mrs. Nelson is organizing a parent's night, "A Day in the Life of a Fourth Grader". We found that showing parents a typical day of a fourth grader has really proved beneficial to our parents; seeing is believing. Look for this to happen in October. You'll actually walk in the shoes of your children.