Weekly News 

Specials is  Art  this week P.E is Monday and Thursday                

     This week is a four day week with Professional Development on Friday for teachers. We will have a Library on Monday and a small celebration for Valentine’s Day on Thursday. I sent home a list of all students in class. The Student Council is also doing a “Friendship Store” all week, and Valentine cards for a local nursing home. I attached copies of the list and items at the student store as well. As a school, we raised $1000 to make a Wish Week! 

Our SEL (Social Emotional Learning)  program this week is about supporting and trusting each other. 

In READING we continue Unit 7 week 3, which focuses on "Our Communities".  This week focuses on non-fiction text on immigration and cultural influences. We will practice inferring the setting of a scene, and its influences on character actions. Additional skills include synonyms of complex vocab words, morphing suffixes, and summarizing chapters. Small groups will be independent this week, because I am working on budget books in small groups. WIN” (What I Need) Groups are as follows … 

Mr. Nezbeda - Fluency and Written Response 

Ms. Tidwell - Main Idea and Theme 

Mrs. Smith - P1 - P3 Stages of SRSD

Mrs. Nikki - Vocabulary 

Mrs. Whitaker - Compare and Contrast 

In WRITING this week students will finish their persuasive essay. We will also complete reversing “Backwards plan” for a finished informative essay. We also continue cursive and keyboarding skills, altertaning each day during reading rotations. 

In Math this week we focus on Unit 4, which is Fractions. This week is adding and subtracting common like fractions. I have a feeling this will go quickly based on the pre-assesment data, so we may get to mixed numbers as well. When it comes to fractions at this grade level, borrowing or regrouping fractions is the largest bump in the road. Depending on progress, I will also introduce simplifying fractions (although not a Fourth Grade mastery skill, it gives students a jump start on Fifth Grade math). 

WIN Math groups are as follows. 

Mr. Nezbeda - Place Value and Number Representations  

Ms. Tidwell - Area and Perimeter 

Mrs. Smith - Place Value and Number Representations  

Mrs. Nikki - Rounding, Regrouping, Rewriting Numbers up to Hundred Thousands 

Mrs. Patricia - Rounding, Regrouping, Rewriting Numbers up to Hundred Thousands 

Our IB (International Baccalaureate) section continues with their personal budget books. We will fill out a job application, get through credit card bills and interest, and pay for unexpected bills. Students will see this week how their hospital or dentist bills are impacted by their choice of insurance plans. 

Any thoughts, questions, comments, or concerns, don’t hesitate to reach out! 

jfnezbeda@dcsdk12.org