Thank you for coming to our fourth grade Curriculum Night! For those of you who were unable to make it, I have attached a digital file of the Curriculum Night packet to the blog here. In this packet, you can find information about procedures, homework policies, and curriculum scope for the school year. You can also find the complete list of Spalding words with rules and markings, and Spalding instructions for you to practice reviewing phonograms and dictating words to your student.
Monday is Labor Day and we will have no school. This will be an R&R (Rest and Relaxation) weekend for our students. Students will have the opportunity to spend this 3-day Labor Day weekend with loved ones free from homework, so they can come back to school refreshed on Tuesday!
Grade Reports will be sent this weekend. If you have any concerns with your child’s current grade, feel free to reach out with any specific questions.
Our classroom is in need of tissues! With cold season rearing its head, we have been going through tissues very quickly in our classroom and have run completely out of our supply. If your family is willing and able to donate some tissues to our classroom, it would be greatly appreciated! Sending your student to school with a reusable whiteboard eraser (such as an old sock) will also help cut down on how often tissues are being used.
There are still clubs with spots available after school! Clubs with Spots Available:
- Monday: 1-5 Math Club, 2-5 Sports Club, 2-5 Band, K-1 Art Club
- Tuesday: 2-3 Art Club, 3-5 Dance Fitness Club, 4-5 Choir
- Thursday: 3-5 Science Club
Visit archwayarete.configio.com if you are interested in more information regarding after school clubs.
Math: We will continue learning Order of Operations this week. This week students will begin nightly reviews for math that will be graded for accuracy in addition to workbook pages and test practice. We will be taking our Order of Operations test on Friday. We will also be beginning the Khan Academy this week, an online math program that will take place of our Wednesday math groups. If you are interested in being one of our Wednesday math tutors, please send me an email expressing your interest. You must have a fingerprint card on file with the front office in order to volunteer.
Science: As we continue making our way through our unit on electricity, we will be spending this week learning about electrical circuits. We will conduct lab experiments where students have the opportunity to build their own circuits. At the end of the week, students will begin filling in their study guides to prepare for the Unit test next week. Students will also take regular quizzes on vocabulary and concepts to help prepare them for next week’s test.
History: In our study of the Middle Ages, we have also been reviewing the countries of Europe on a map as a class. Students will be tested on the Europe Map next Thursday. On Friday, we will review the second part of Unit 2 on the Byzantine Empire as a class to prepare students for the Unit 2: Byzantine Empire test they will take on Monday, September 10.
Spalding: This week, we will continue dictating our next 30 words. For homework, students should be writing the words two times (once with rules, markings, and syllables; and one time how the word is read). The exception for this is the night they write all 30 words; for all 30 words, the word only needs to be written once. These words should be dictated to them by a family member in the order they are presented in class. If students misspell a word on their homework, they should write the correct spelling three times next to the misspelled word. On Thursday of this week, our Spalding lesson will be observed by Mrs. Clause, our Great Hearts Spalding coach!
Grammar: Students will continue practicing classifying and diagramming simple sentences as we add new parts of speech into simple sentences. By the end of this week, students can recognize nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, article adjectives, prepositions, object of the preposition,
Literature: As we continue our journey through The Princess and the Goblin, students will be taking a closer look at indirect and direct characterization as well as narrative perspective. Reading logs are due at the end of each month. Since the last day of September falls on a weekend, September reading logs will be due Monday, October 1.
Roots: On Wednesday, students will be quizzed on the first 12 Greek and Latin roots they have learned, and they will learn the next three roots. Students should expect to have a roots quiz every Wednesday.
I hope that your families are all able to enjoy a restful and relaxing holiday weekend!
--Mrs. Conforti
