4C News October 9th - 12th

Hello 4th Grade Families,
I hope that you all had a wonderful weekend! I wanted to say thank you for taking the
time out of your busy schedules to chat with me about your awesome kiddo. These fourth
grades are a unique, fun-loving, and kind. Each day, I feel lucky to work with such a
wonderful group. Thank you for raising such great little people and for sharing them with
me. Here is what's happening in our classroom this week:

 11: All Read - 3:25 pm
 12: Family Fun Night at Sports Fusion, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
 17: Visit your Elementary School
 18: Vision Screening
       Flu Shots for Students and Staff
22-26: Red Ribbon Week
 24: Halloween Safety Assembly, Grades K-2
 25: Pumpkin Run, Grades 3-5
       PSO Meeting, 7:00 pm in the Library
 26: Trunk or Treat, 6:00 pm
 31: Late Start, School begins at 11:05 am
       Halloween Parade & Parties - 2:15 pm

Reading:

We have finished our first unit of reading on interpreting characters. It was a fun unit. We celebrated by doing a little whittling like Rob does to wood in Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo. We will be starting our new reading unit this week. Our next unit is nonfiction and it is called Reading the Weather Reading the World. We will be taking a pre-test for this unit on Tuesday.

Writing:

We will continue working on our opinion writing. We are currently in the stage of writing to learn. This consist of several pre-writing activities to gather thoughts about our chosen subject to write about.

Math:

Students should be practicing their multiplication fact every night for 10 minutes. It is very important that they are memorized. We are going to continue learning to multiply multi-digit numbers using the area model.

Science:

We have finished our first science unit and will be taking the test on Friday. Students should be working on their study guide for homework this week. I will advise them to bring home their science binder to study from also.

Social Studies:

We will be spending this week learning more about Lewis and Clark's expedition. Our books only touch a little bit on it so we will be reading a book, reviewing several articles and researching the internet.