Welcome to March Robles Families!

We have been having a great time with all of our students! We have made it past the 100th day of school and are moving towards the end of the 3rd Quarter. As we continue through the school year please remember the importance of completing homework with your students. Our students need to be reading every night to increase their reading fluency. As mentioned in the February letter each grade level has math skills that they need to work on at home. Working on these skills at home not only helps them increase their skills but reminds students that we are all a team working together for their success.  

This time of year it tends to be very cold outside. Please remind our students to wear a jacket to school. Putting your student’s name on the tag will help us return it to them if it becomes lost. Parents and students are welcome to check the lost and found for student missing items. It is located in the cafeteria. We hope to have all lost items claimed. 

We are reminding students that Bobcat ROAR with pride. We talk about this with students everyday at Robles. You can remind your children that ROAR, means students are Responsible, Open-Minded, Accountable, and Respectful even when they are at home because being a Bobcat doesn’t stop when they go home. Any time we can work together with our families to support students will enhance the learning experience. 

Parent-Teacher Conferences will be happening on Math 9th and 10th. Please reach out to your student’s teacher to book your conference. Below I have provided the list of activities that you can do at home with your students to help them prepare for the upcoming assessments. 

Nightly Reading Time Math Fact Fluency

-KINDERGARTEN: 10 minutes -KINDERGARTEN: Counting to 40

-1st GRADE: 15 minutes -1st GRADE: Addition

-2nd GRADE: 20 minutes -2nd GRADE: Subtraction                          

-3rd GRADE: 25 minutes -3rd GRADE: Multiplication

-4th GRADE: 30 minutes -4th GRADE: Division

-5th GRADE: 35 minutes -5th GRADE: Mixed Facts

Sincerely,

Dustie Gunn-Ader

Dustie Gunn-Ader

Robles Principal

Fabulous Fourth Grade

Our fabulous fourth graders at Robles are working hard this school year, and we are seeing growth all the time. In fourth grade, our focus for English Language Arts has shifted from learning how to read into reading comprehension skills. Our students have taken on the challenge this year, learning to analyze point of view, identify main ideas, and understand text and graphic features in an informational text, among many other important skills. Students have also been learning about how to pick books at their reading level, how to write more complex sentences with colorful language, and how to plan a paragraph. They are putting all of the reading and writing skills they’ve learned to the test through reading comprehension and writing.

In math, students have learned a wide variety of topics. Early in the year, we learned about measurements, area, and perimeter. We also worked with multi-digit mathematical operations, including addition, subtraction, and multiplication. Students were introduced to long division, and then came back to geometry, where we learned to measure angles, identify lines, and classify triangles. We are now deep into fractions, learning about finding equivalents, comparing the size of fractions, and performing mathematical operations with them. 

In addition to Math and ELA, we are learning about lots of exciting topics in Science and Social Studies. For Science, we have learned about animal adaptations, energy and magnets, Earth’s systems, natural disasters, the water cycle, and more. Students love science time because they participate in exciting hands-on experiments and lab activities. In Social Studies, we have learned about American history starting in prehistoric times. Students learned theories of how the earliest people reached the Americas, studied Native tribes, and learned about the Age of Exploration. We even had a small field trip to Old Tucson for Ted Walker Day! We will finish the year out with the colonies, and leave the students prepared to learn about the American Revolutionary War and the founding of the United States in 5th grade.

This school year has flown by, and we are having a great time in fourth grade! We are excited to continue learning new skills and topics, and reviewing those that students have already learned as we near the end of our third quarter.