Happy birthday, Mrs. Ralph! |
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Celebrating Beulah Ralph's Birthday!
Today was a super, fun day! We started the day making hats for Mrs. Beulah Ralph's 90th birthday celebration. It was so fun to watch the kids wear their hats all day, but I must admit it was difficult to take them seriously with these huge, silly hats on:). We explored waves in science today- here are a few pictures of the kids making different kinds of waves. Have a great night!
Friday, January 27, 2017
Weekly Newsletter
What a busy, busy week! Thank you to all of the parents who shared your careers with us- we loved getting to learn about what you do!
Writing
Writing
We
are finally done taking notes on our cities in Missouri. This week we learned about thesis statements
and topic sentences. Students have been
given a graphic organizer to help them organize their researched
information. This week we started
planning our final piece and next week we will plan on writing, editing and
publishing our pieces.
Social Studies
This week we discussed the purpose of our
government. We talked about what types
of departments a government has and how they are all connected.
Next week we will be starting our new
Science unit on waves. We will learn
what waves are, where we see them, what the amplitude of waves is and what
effect frequency has on wavelength.
Math
I
am beyond impressed with the effort your kids put into learning division. They asked for practice, worked at school and
home to understand it. I am blown
away! There are many students that need
to keep practicing those flash cards each night!
Next week we will be reviewing and testing
over our unit on division. Be watching
for that review guide to come home on Monday night. We will test Tuesday and spend the remainder
of the week practicing division facts and going over the test before starting
our new unit on fractions!!
Daily 5
This week we have continued with our read
aloud book, The Mighty Miss Malone.
I am very impressed with the conversations and questions they are having
about the Great Depression. We have
begun discussing what a good summary is and the purpose of a summary. Next week students will get a graphic
organizer that will help them organize information about what we are reading so
we can easily write a summary.
Important Dates
·
January 31st- Beulah
Ralph’s 90th Birthday!
·
February 3rd- Neon &
Bright Day
·
February 6th- NO SCHOOL (teacher
work day)
February 10th- Yearbook
Orders & Six Flag Reading Minutes Due
·
February 13th- Parent Teacher
Conferences
·
February 14th- Spring Class Party
·
February 16th- Parent Teacher
Conferences
·
February 17th- NO SCHOOL
·
February 20th- NO SCHOOL
(President’s Day)
·
March 7th- Early Out
·
March 14th- Beulah Math
Night (more info to come)
·
March 22nd- Jefferson
City Field trip
·
March 27th - 31st
- SPRING BREAK
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Career Week!
We have been so excited to hear from so many fourth grade parents about different careers! We've heard from anesthesiologists, managers, journalists, philosophers, graphic designers, and more! And we even have more parents to hear from tomorrow. Thank you for volunteering your time to help teach our kiddos! Remember that tomorrow is dress like your future career day!
Here are a few fun pictures from our visitors!
Here are a few fun pictures from our visitors!
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Weekly Newsletter
We had a super week this week! It was nice to get back into the swing of things after break. Since we don't have school tomorrow, consider this your Friday Newsletter:).
Social Studies
We have begun our study of civics. This week we talked about rules and culture. We have also discussed the the purpose of laws and how Missouri laws and school rules are both similar and different. We have noticed a lot of commonalities in school/state laws as to purposes of each. Next week we will begin talking about government and its purpose.
Writing
Students have been busy reading and researching important cities in Missouri's history! They are researching either Jefferson City, St. Louis, Kansas City, Hannibal, St. Joseph, St. Genevieve, or Joplin. They are really learning a lot and I am impressed at how focused they've been. We are focusing specifically on the foundation, development, and how it has changed over the years. Be sure to ask your child about their city.
Math
We have begun our new math unit, Dividing by One Digit Divisors. This week we talked about how to divide multiples of ten and how to estimate quotients.
Next week we will learn about remainders and dig deeper into division and actually learn the process. It is going to be very beneficial to your child if they practice division flash cards every night (and multiplication for that matter)!
Reading
Our new read aloud, The Mighty Miss Malone, already has students hooked! Before we began, we talked a lot about the time period this historical fiction book takes place. Students were fascinated with the Great Depression. We have also talked a lot about author's purpose and why author's include certain information or make characters do certain things. Next week, we will focus on fact vs. opinion and how that impacts a historical fiction text.
Important Dates:
Social Studies
We have begun our study of civics. This week we talked about rules and culture. We have also discussed the the purpose of laws and how Missouri laws and school rules are both similar and different. We have noticed a lot of commonalities in school/state laws as to purposes of each. Next week we will begin talking about government and its purpose.
Writing
Students have been busy reading and researching important cities in Missouri's history! They are researching either Jefferson City, St. Louis, Kansas City, Hannibal, St. Joseph, St. Genevieve, or Joplin. They are really learning a lot and I am impressed at how focused they've been. We are focusing specifically on the foundation, development, and how it has changed over the years. Be sure to ask your child about their city.
Math
We have begun our new math unit, Dividing by One Digit Divisors. This week we talked about how to divide multiples of ten and how to estimate quotients.
Next week we will learn about remainders and dig deeper into division and actually learn the process. It is going to be very beneficial to your child if they practice division flash cards every night (and multiplication for that matter)!
Reading
Our new read aloud, The Mighty Miss Malone, already has students hooked! Before we began, we talked a lot about the time period this historical fiction book takes place. Students were fascinated with the Great Depression. We have also talked a lot about author's purpose and why author's include certain information or make characters do certain things. Next week, we will focus on fact vs. opinion and how that impacts a historical fiction text.
Some friends chose to research together |
Practicing some Mindfulness with Ms. Harris |
Researching cities! |
-January 16- NO SCHOOL (MLK Jr. Day)
-January 20- School Wide-Spelling Bee
-January 20- Hat Day!
-February 6- NO SCHOOL (teacher work day)
-February 10- Yearbook Orders Due
-February 10- Six Flags Reading Logs Due
-February 13- Parent Teacher Conferences
-February 14- Spring Class Party
-February 16- Parent Teacher Conferences
-February 17- NO SCHOOL
-February 20- NO SCHOOL
Have a great weekend and stay safe in this weather!
Allie
Friday, January 6, 2017
What a fabulous first week of 2017 we've had! I know it's tough getting back into the swing of things, but I couldn't be happier to see all of my sweet 4th graders!
Writing/Social Studies
We started our new writing/social studies project this week. This unit will be all about cities in Missouri. On Thursday, kids read a paper about a city and scored it using the rubric I will be using to score them on. On Friday, the kids preferenced their top 3 cities they wanted to study and then were assigned one. We will begin working on this research project on Monday.
Math
We started our next division unit this week. Our lessons centered around how division relates to repeated subtraction and used fact families to help us solve problems. On Friday, we took our timed operation assessments. I'll share those results at conferences in February.
Daily 5
We got back into the swing of things with Daily 5 this week. On Wednesday, we revisited our stamina the whole class participated in focused reading for over 30 minutes! We also started learning about the Great Depression by reading some books to build background knowledge for our next read aloud, The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis.
Important Upcoming Dates:
Writing/Social Studies
We started our new writing/social studies project this week. This unit will be all about cities in Missouri. On Thursday, kids read a paper about a city and scored it using the rubric I will be using to score them on. On Friday, the kids preferenced their top 3 cities they wanted to study and then were assigned one. We will begin working on this research project on Monday.
Math
We started our next division unit this week. Our lessons centered around how division relates to repeated subtraction and used fact families to help us solve problems. On Friday, we took our timed operation assessments. I'll share those results at conferences in February.
Daily 5
We got back into the swing of things with Daily 5 this week. On Wednesday, we revisited our stamina the whole class participated in focused reading for over 30 minutes! We also started learning about the Great Depression by reading some books to build background knowledge for our next read aloud, The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis.
Important Upcoming Dates:
- January 16- MLK Jr. Day (NO SCHOOL)
- January 20- 3-5 Spelling Bee
- January 27- Citizen of the Month Assembly
- February 6- NO SCHOOL
- February 13- Parent/Teacher Conferences
- February 14- Spring Party Day
- February 16- Parent/Teacher Conferences
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