Thank you to everyone who attended conferences! I enjoyed  meeting with each family and discussing your child's progress/growth so far in 4th grade! Please continue to monitor Rediker on a regular basis. As always, feel free to reach out to the specific content area teacher if additional questions came to mind following your conference! The end of the First Trimester is November 11.

IMPORTANT DATES

Oct. 11 PTO Meeting 

Oct. 15 Trivia Night

Trivia night is quickly creeping up. Join the Ascension PTO for Fright Night: A Halloween Trivia Event. The event is Saturday, October 15th in the gym. Grab your table of 8 and purchase your tickets today on Eventbrite! Sponsorships for rounds are still available! If you want to get your company name out to our community as a whole, email Adrian Bates at Adrian.Bates@gmail.com for more information. The winning trivia team will win $500 and the best-decorated table will win $100!!

Oct 25 Open House

Oct. 28 Trunk or Treat

Please join us for a night of fun for Ascension’s Trunk or Treat starting at 6:30 on October 28th, including an All Saints Day activity. 8th grade will also be serving dinner to raise money for their Grand Canyon trip. Hope to see you there! Get creative and decorate your trunk for a chance to win a $50 gift card for best trunk and $25 for each boy and girl costume! If you will be decorating a trunk and handing out candy, please click the following link:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E044EAAA82AA0FF2-trunk 

Nov. 7-11-8th Grade  Grand Canyon Fundraiser, free dress for $1 per day

Jan.23-27-8th Grade  Grand Canyon Fundraiser, free dress for $1 per day

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING

LA MRS. SCHMITT

• This week students will continue to focus on the essential question: "How do characters and their interactions teach us lessons?" Students will continue to practice retelling strategies to demonstrate their understanding of a text, while beginning to focus on characterization. Students will also be introduced to and practice strategies that support their thinking of characters, character reactions, character interactions and the overall impact characters have on the plot, theme, and central message of a text. Students have been working closely on character development and will shift into theme based strategies over the next two weeks.

• These strategies will be modeled with the whole class, then students will work independently to complete the strategies using various 4th grade level texts.  We will be reading Wonder as our main read aloud/mentor text, as well as a few fiction picture books.

• Students will be assessed over character development and summarizing this Thursday. 

• Students are learning about singular and possessive nouns, as well as reflexive pronouns.

We are analyzing well crafted mentor sentences as a class. Students are also practicing these skills on IXL, Khan Academy, and Freckle Apps.

• Homework:

Weekly Reading Log for week of 10/3-10/14. Due to Fall Break, this Reading Log covers TWO weeks. Please read each night and complete on Thursday 10/13. Due by Friday 10/14. The form is posted on their Language Arts Google Classroom.

Vocabulary Test on Thursday, October 13. Vocabulary Unit 3 words were reviewed in class today and have been posted on Google Classroom, as well as on the Google Site Resource page titled Vocabulary.  An example vocabulary test has also been posted on Google Classroom. 

MATH: MRS. BENNETT

This week we are starting our next Module on Interpret and Solve Problem Situations. Students will use their knowledge of all 4 operations to help them determine which operation is needed to solve a problem. We will start out by distinguishing the difference between addition and multiplication scenarios. 

Homework:

10/11 SS #29 & ONE HMH dashboard assignment due Friday 10/14!

10/12 SS #30

10/13 SS #31

10/14 SS #32 will be done at school & SS Quiz 

SOCIAL STUDIES: MRS. CRUSH

We will continue our unit of Geography of the United States. Students will understand that the United States has a diverse geography and various maps can be used to represent and examine the geography.  They will identify and map major physical features, including mountains, rivers, lakes, and large bodies of water. They will also examine climate and vegetation maps to explore the relationship between physical features and vegetation/climate. We will continue our studies about the Northeast Region. Students will be assessed on the state capitals + states and they will also be researching and presenting a landmark on the Northeast Region. They have been working on their Northeast Region Landmark Projects and will be presenting in a couple of weeks. 

Northeast Region State + Capital Test: *POSTPONED* to Friday, October 14 (*Students will be given a blank map of the Northeast Region and they will have to identify the capital city + state and where it is located on the map.)

IXL Practice: 4th Social Studies~ H-10, H-11, H-12, I-7, I-8

RELIGION: MRS CRUSH

We will begin Ch. 2, "Praise and Thanksgiving, " in our Blest Are We workbooks. We will be able to name special gifts that God has given us, understand that at Mass we give thanks and praise to God, especially for the gift of Jesus, learn the Scripture account of the Last Supper, and learn about the life of Pope Pius X. 

*1st Trimester Service Hours due Friday, November 4 (May turn in on Google Classroom or fill out paper copy)

SCIENCE: MRS JACKEL 

https://sites.google.com/ascension-parish.com/k-5science/4