Week 4: 9/2 - 9/5

A Note from your Teachers

Hello parents and guardians!

Another week in the books! We hope that you are enjoying listening to you child talk about all of the wonderful things that they are learning this week. If you haven't already, make sure to set up a time and place that your child can read each night. They could read to a sibling, read in a tree fort, or even read to a pet! We know how busy things can get with sports and extra activities, but even just 20 minutes can help improve your child's standardized test scores and boost their overall reading confidence.

You can check your child's library schedule on the side.

Don't forget to send your child with all of their library books on their library date.

A Weeks will be odd weeks. (Example week 5)

B Weeks will be even weeks. (Example week 4)

iReady at Home

Here is a note about iReady! - This will show you how to look up your child's scores

Now that our iReady diagnostic assessment is fished for the beginning of the year, we are encouraging all students to work on their iReady lessons at home. Students are expected to pass two reading and two math iReady lessons each week. Students are given class time to complete these lessons, but sometimes it is not enough time. Teachers have their own incentives at school to help motivate students to complete their lessons. We are asking for your help to complete these lessons at home as well as at school. You can access iReady by logging in through your student's classlink. They know how to log in. Click the iReady link to the right to access classlink.

Amplify Unit 1 Activity Book

We have completed our ELAR Unit 1 about Personal Narratives! All students have taken their activity book from this unit home. There are some great assessments or workbook pages that we did not do that would make great extra practice at home! These pages are found in the back of the book. Happy learning!

Thank you for your partnership,

Your 4th Grade Teachers

Library Schedule

All Times are from 8:30 to 9:00

Ms. Cruz - A Week - Wednesday

Ms. Arzola - B Week - Friday

Ms. Temple - B Week - Wednesday

Mrs. Garza - A Week - Tuesday

Ms. Greene - B Week - Tuesday

Mrs. Wilhelm - B Week - Thursday

Ms. Doud - A Week - Thursday

Important Dates Coming Up

September 2nd - Boosterthon Kick Off! (Check your email for more information from your student's teacher.)
September 16th - Fall Picture Day
September 22nd and 23rd - Student Holidays
September 26th - Boosterthon Fun Run
October 10th - End of the First Nine Weeks
October 13th - Student Holiday
October 14th - Start of the Second Nine Weeks
October 17th - Boys' Night Out
October 20th - Student Holiday
October 23rd and 24th - Scholastic Book Fair

What did we learn this week?

📚 Reading and Writing

This week during our Amplify lessons, students wrapped up their reading from the Personal Narrative, Small Steps. Students completed plot line activities and talked about the structure of a narrative. We then jumped right into our Unit 3, Contemporary Fiction. Students started this unit by reading from our mentor text and studying the main character and their relationships with the other characters. At the end of the week, students started to pick out themes from this mentor text and other works of fiction.

Attached is a parent letter from our Amplify Curriculum. It goes over the major points of this Contemporary Fiction Unit and conversation starters to use at home. CLICK HERE

✍️ Grammar

This week during our writing block, students identified common and proper nouns. To show their skills, students wrote sentences with common and proper nouns, spelt different nouns, and focused on writing sentences with subjects.

🧮 Math

This week in math, students got to practice addition and subtraction with the standard algorithium and strip diagrams. Students talked about how to use place value to add or subtract. As a class, we discussed one step word problems with addition and subtraction in them.

Attached is a parent letter from our Bluebonnet Curriculum. It goes over the key concepts covered in this unit as well as additional ways to help support your student at home. CLICK HERE

🧪 Science

In science this week, students got to engage in a lab about how to classify matter. Students focused their learning on classifying matter based on mass. Students sorted objects based on mass while using a pan balance and triple beam balance. They also practice their notetaking skills by recording their data.

🌍 Social Studies

This week in social studies, students got ready for our first Assessment: Thinking Like a Geographer. Students play various review games and completed notes to help prepare for their assessment.

LHE eNews

The Hawks Logo to the right has a link to the LHE eNews! Thank you for reading!

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