Week of September 14, 2026
Week of September 14, 2026
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… TOMORROW! Order forms went home last week.
Scholastic BOOK ORDERS will go home tomorrow. I will place the order this Friday, September 18.
Last week, we agreed on how we want to feel when we come into the classroom every day. We all agreed that we want to feel welcomed, safe, included, respected and comfortable. We brainstormed and voted on actions that will help everyone feel those things when we are in our room.
Please REGISTER for the annual AES Walkathon Fundraiser using this LINK. This link is where you will register for your student’s T-shirt size. There is also a SHARE button at the top of the page if you would like to promote the fundraiser to friends and family. This is the only fundraiser Alward does each year, and the community support has been incredible 🙂.
Thank you, thank you…for the amazing support with at-home reading minutes! To stay on track, students should have 200+ minutes documented by the end of the week. Everyone is doing awesome with this! This is required grade 4 homework. We have library tomorrow or students can borrow books from our classroom library.
If you are interested, check out the FREE NATIONAL PARK PASS and the Michigan FREE SKI PASS available to 4th graders!
This week:
Math: Prime and composite numbers. Home Connections pages 9-14 reinforce the learning we will do at school this week.
Students are working hard to memorize multiplication facts. They can access their Xtramath account to practice virtually. Timestables.com is another great practice site. Memorizing these facts builds foundational math skills for years to come. Thank you for your support!
Reading: We have library tomorrow! This week we will focus on checking for understanding as we read.
Writing: Drafting a personal narrative story
Spelling/Grammar: Using the suffix -er, ending punctuation
Science: Built For Survival
Dates to Remember:
September 30 - Tarry Hall Skating Party
October 2 - Walkathon
October 3 - PTC Fall Fest
October 13 & 15 - Conferences
October 16 - No School
Week of September 7, 2026
Week of September 7, 2026
Last week, our class started brainstorming how to be a good 4th-grade student and different ways we want classmates to feel and act when we are in our room. This week, we will agree, sign, and post these expectations on our wall as a class charter.
This week:
Math: Multiplication and division strategies. Home Connections pages 1- 8 correlate with skills that we have already done or will do (this week) at school.
*Home Connections is optional math homework. Students will leave the book at school and rip out correlating pages at the beginning of each week. Students will earn 1 dojo point for each Home Connections sheet they complete and turn in by the end of the week.
Reading: Details about our first reading unit went home (a pink sheet) last week. Our first unit focuses on realistic fiction and identity, and how our experiences form who we are. We learned some pretty big vocabulary words…ask your student if they remember any of them!
Writing: Developing a personal narrative using the writing process.
Spelling/Grammar: Each week we will focus on different patterns/skills. This week we will work on suffixes -y, -ly, and -er and discuss different types of sentences.
Homework this week: Reading 15+ minutes/day at home, recording the minutes, and having a parent/guardian sign or initial. The goal is 400+ at-home minutes read by September 30.
Week of August 31, 2026
Week of August 31, 2026
Our first 3 (½ days) went awesome! Thank you to whoever donated items from our class wishlist. I appreciate you!
Agendas went home last Friday, along with a paper explaining the use and purpose. Any student who returns the signed paper on tomorrow will get a small treat. Thank you for your support!
This week will continue to build our classroom culture by brainstorming ideas for our class Charter (rules/norms), playing games, and reviewing procedures and expectations.
This week:
Math - Students will take a STAR Math assessment. THIS letter details our first math unit. We will begin Unit 1 Math: Multiplicative Thinking.
ELA - Students will take a STAR Reading assessment. A letter (pink) detailing our first reading unit will go home tomorrow. Students should start reading 15-20 minutes each school night and record the minutes in their planner. The goal is to read and record about 100 at-home reading minutes/week. The grade 4 requirement is that students read 400 minutes every month. Some students will need to work up to this. It really helps if you establish the expectation right away during the first week of school.
Homework this week:
Read 100 minutes throughout the week; record minutes in agenda/planner, and get that signed/initialed.
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