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News for the Week of September 7-11
General School Information
Class Friendship List:
Every year I create a class friendship list so that families can connect with one another. This helps when it comes to arranging play dates, birthday invites, carpooling, etc. Please complete the Class Friendship List Form to designate what information I can list for your child on our class friendship list.
Reflections Program:
The Reflections Program is a wonderful opportunity for students to showcase their artistic talents across a wide range of the arts. This year’s theme is “What My Culture Means to Me.” Our PTA will host some lunchtime Reflections workshops in the multipurpose room at lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Entries are due Friday, October 9. The showcase will be held on October 27th from 6-7 pm in our multipurpose room.
Scholastic Book Orders Due Tuesday, September 8:
Shop our class page:https://orders.scholastic.com/DZKR2
Shop the flyers: https://clubs.scholastic.com/all-flyers/
House Sorting and House Leaders:
New students and 2nd grade students will be sorted into their houses on Thursday morning. I will then talk with our class about the characteristics of a strong House Leader and hand out applications to any student wishing to apply. Applications are due by Friday, September 18. I will select our 4 House Leaders that afternoon.
Save the Date:
Tuesday, September 8 Book Orders Due by midnight
Thursday, September 10 House Sorting Day
Monday, September 21 No School/Yom Kippur
Friday, October 2 Family Movie Night
Mon. Oct. 5- Fri. Oct. 9 Noon Dismissal/Parent Teacher Conferences
Friday, October 9 Reflections Entries are Due
Wednesday, October 21 Picture Day
Shared Lesson(s)
Language Arts:
This week we begin our Narrative Writing Unit with Mystery Science. Students will first review what makes a narrative. They will then plan and draft a narrative about a hamster that has gone missing. I will be emphasizing entertaining beginnings that hook the reader, description of characters and settings, vivid action, transitions to move the story forward, and reflective endings.
4th Grade Specific Curriculum News
Language Arts:
This week students will have a Scholastic News magazine in place of the Benchmark articles. This further reinforces our reading skills practice with nonfiction text as well as shares some current events with them. Specific skills include identifying main idea and key details, summarizing, referring back to the text to answer text based questions, and using context clues to determine the meaning of words. They will have a graded assignment to go with some of the articles. On Friday, September 11th, students will take a quiz on the articles in the magazine.
Our spelling will focus on words with the short e and long e vowel sounds. The grammar will work on correctly capitalizing and punctuating dialogue as well as correctly capitalizing proper nouns. Look for the grammar/spelling packet to come home on Monday. It is due on Friday.
Math:
This week students will continue working in Module 1. In topic C, students name multi-digit numbers in unit form in different ways by using smaller units (e.g., 245,000 as 24 ten thousands 5 thousands or 245 thousands), and they find 1 more or 1 less of a given unit in preparation for rounding on a vertical number line. Students round four-digit, five-digit, and six-digit numbers to the nearest thousand, ten thousand, and hundred thousand. They determine an appropriate rounding strategy to make useful estimates for a given context. Students will not take the Topic C Quiz until the week of September 14th.
History/Social Studies:
We continue our Studies Weekly curriculum this week with Week 8: Regions of the United States. Students learn what a region is and the typical characteristics of the regions of our country. We will take the Week 8 Test on Friday, September 11. This is an open book test.
5th Grade Specific Curriculum News
Language Arts:
The students will continue our first unit of Benchmark Advance this week by reading more about corn! This week the 5th graders will continue to practice finding main idea and key details, work with cause and effect, as well as using context clues to help with comprehension. There will be a reading test on Friday, September 11th.
For homework, students will have a Scholastic News magazine and worksheet. This further reinforces our reading skills practice with nonfiction text as well as shares some current events with them. The back side of the magazine and both sides of the worksheet are due on Friday.
Grammar will focus on using temporal words and shifts in verb tenses.. Spelling will cover words with vowel team syllables.
Math:
This week the 5th graders will continue building their math understanding by practicing multidigit multiplication using both the standard algorithm and the area model. They will multiply larger digit numbers by single digit, double digit, and triple digit numbers.
History:
This week we begin our study of the early explorers and colonization of North America. Students will have the Studies Weekly Week 9 magazine containing articles about Europe before westward expansion, tools of discovery, exploration, trade, taxes, and scarcity of goods. We will test this week’s content on Friday, September 11th. This is an open book test.
School Supplies
Wondering what supplies your child might need this school year? Check out our PTA website with links to our suggested supply lists for each grade level.
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