Weekly Update: Nov. 19-23

Weekly Update

Important Reminders:

• This week for Helping Hands we are collecting cleaning products.  Thanks for your continued help!
• Since the students collected over 100 items in the first week, they voted on Electronics time as their reward.  Electronics Time will be tomorrow.
• PLEASE practice multiplication facts!  The students need to really know them quickly, and without having to use strategies to solve them.  We will be starting multi-digit multiplication and long division soon, and having those multiplication facts memorized will be a HUGE help!  On Google Classroom (just log in with your child's username and password, then save that to your computer, and you will then have access whenever) I put some multiplication websites and game directions under the "classwork" tab and then under the "Websites" topic.  Thanks for your help with practicing these facts!

• Please remember to check, and initial, your child's planner every night.  Homework and important notes are written in the planner daily.  Thanks for your help with this!
• Please send a snack with your child that is NUT FREE every day, as we do not eat lunch until 12:10.  Thanks!

Important Dates to Remember:

• Nov. 20th - Wacky Day
• Nov. 21-23 - Thanksgiving Break
• Nov. 26-30 = Leader of the Week - Riza
• Nov. 27 - Picture Retake Day
• Nov. 28-Dec. 1 - Scholastic Book Fair
• Nov. 30 - Mystery Reader

Check Out What We Are Learning This Week:

Writing:  
We are celebrating our Opinion Essays tomorrow.   

Reading:  

We are continuing Unit 2: Reading Informational Books.  We will be learning how to synthesize while reading two texts about the same topic.  ***I uploaded pictures of the text features anchor chart and the text structures anchor chart to our Google Classroom on the "Reading" topic.*** 

Read Aloud:

I will continue reading the book Out of My Mind to the class.  This is an amazing book about an extraordinary eleven year old girl who is the smartest kid in her school, but no one knows it because she is stuck inside her head.  This book allows for some very heart warming conversations about acceptance and inclusion.  I LOVE this book!  

Math:  

We began Ch. 6: Divide by a One-Digit Number last week.  We will continue working on Long Division, interpreting the remainder, placing the first digit, and using the Distributive Property and partial quotients. Long Division is a hard concept, with many steps.  We will continue to spend time in small groups practicing this concept.   Our test is currently scheduled for Friday, Nov. 30.  

***Knowing your multiplication facts is extremely important as we move forward in math, so keep practicing those facts! 

***In order for students to show mastery with a standard, they will be doing "Check-ins" throughout the year to show that they didn't just memorize the skills for the test, but that they retained the skills, thus showing mastery.  My goal with the check-ins is to make sure that the 4th grade Math Standards are mastered by all students by the end of the year! ***

Spelling:  

There will not be a sight word test this week.  We will continue to work on the patterns in the sort we are currently on.  

Science:

We will be learning about fossils and erosion this week, as we finish up this unit.

Have a GREAT Week!