A Note from your Teachers

Hello parents and guardians!

Just a kind reminder that picture day is next Tuesday, September 16th! Picture order forms have already gone home. If you have any questions, or need help with your order, please contact our front office. We can't wait to see everyone dressed in their best!

Boy's Night Out blue forms at coming home in our take home folders this week. If you are interested, please turn your forms and money into Mrs. Haney. They are only accepting cash or check for this event. Girl's night out will be back again next year!

We have officially wrapped up our first math unit. We will be sending home the learn workbook from this unit, so feel free to use blank pages for extra practice at home. We are starting Unit 2: Conversions and Problem Solving with Metric Measurement, next week. Here is a parent letter that explains the key concepts in this unit.

Thank you for your partnership,

Your 4th Grade Teachers

What did we learn this week?

📚 Reading and Writing

This week during our Amplify lessons, students continued to study characters while reading our mentor text. Students got practice writing multiple Short Constructed Responses using a R.A.C.E. response: Restate the Question, Answer the Question, Cite Evidence, Explain your reasoning. As a class, students drafted their first Extended Constructed Response while comparing and contrasting two characters.

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 plural and singular nouns. Students studied spelling patterns of irregular and regular nouns, spelt words with doubling patterns, wrote sentences with subjects and predicates, and corrects sentences with editing and revising errors. 

🧮 Math

This week in math, students wrapped up their learning of multi-step word problems. Students expressed their answers with strip diagrams. Our Unit 1 Part B Assessment was on Friday and tested the students on single and multi-step addition and subtraction word problems.

Attached is a parent letter from our Unit 1 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 studied density as a property of matter. Students performed a lab to test different items and their densities. After the lab, students wrote about a claim and backed it up with evidence.

🌍 Social Studies

This week in social studies, started studying the varying and unique Native Texas Tribes including: the Caddo, Karankawa, Comanche, Lipan Apache, Jumano. Students started this unit with a discussion about how Native American Tribes arrived on the North and South American Continent. Students then broke up into groups to study aspects of a particular Native Texas Tribe.