Dear 4B Families,
I hope you all had a great weekend. The talent show last Friday was great fun. Such talented and creative students—especially all of our 4B participants!—-and supportive audience members!
We will be wrapping up our MAP testing this week with our final test, Language Arts. Any make-ups needed will be taken care of by the end of next week.
Field day is this FRIDAY May 23 Because Hiawatha is still under construction we will be having our field day on campus again this year. 4B’s colors on Friday will be BLUE. Please send a water bottle with your child. Goldfish will be provided as a snack. If your child cannot eat goldfish, please send an appropriate healthy snack. REMEMBER that Friday is also a NOON dismissal day. Enjoy your Memorial Day Weekend!
Religion: We will be continuing to work on our Beatitude Booklets by adding illustrations and bibles chapter/verse to each section. Students challenge themselves to name all eight beatitudes.
Math: We are continuing to work on chapter 10 which covers fractions and decimals. Focusing mainly on place value, modeling decimals and fractions, and comparing decimals. Look for math homework Monday, Wednesday and Thursday this week.
Reading: Students read chapter 9 in The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Our target comprehension skills are: inferring and predicting, determining importance. Students respond to what they’ve read through oral discussions and journal writing. Students practice these skills by choosing and defending what they think is the most important sentence in each of these chapters.
Flat Stanley Project: All Flat Stanley Journals need to be turned in by Monday the 19th with at least 3 at home entries complete. I am looking forward to seeing the creative writing the students have produced. In class this week we will begin working through the final entry which will also serve as a “writing assessment” using the skills we have worked on all year—topic sentences, supporting details, figurative language, conventions, and strong conclusions. The final entry will be self-edited only. They will write rough drafts, then edit/revise their work before writing the final entry in their journals.
Spelling: There will not be a spelling test this Friday, but will be pushed to the following Wednesday, May 28th. Students will have the lists in their filers on Monday the 19th. Here is the list.
Science: In the third lesson, students explore how a city’s electricity is derived from natural resources such as coal, sunlight, wind, and water. They investigate how using these different energy sources affects the environment. In the activity, Power this Town, students obtain and combine information about different types of renewable energy, and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of each energy source.
Social Studies: The––Washington State Features takes place Thursday, May 29th. This test also has an online practice site students can use to review as well. The students will have a word bank for the test.
Enjoy the Memorial Day Holiday on Monday.