Families of 4C,
I hope all of your weekends are off to a lovely start after putting in hard work this week!
Class Announcements:
Thank you to those of you who have donated tissues to our classroom; we now have quite the ready supply approaching cold and allergy season!
Parents, please be advised that there was an error to the answer key on question #1(f) on Math Test 1.5A. This question will be removed from the scoring making the test out of 13 points, so no student will have this question marked against them.
Weekly Grade Reports will be sent to all families this weekend to serve as a snapshot of your child's grade. If you have any questions or concerns with their current grade, please first direct them to the student to promote self-responsibility in academics.
Upcoming Events: You can find more information about all upcoming events on the Archway Arete Newsletter. Here are this week’s events:
The Mother and Son Event is Saturday, September 15 from 5:30 to 8:30 at the school. We hope to see our young men there with their moms!
Picture Day will be this Thursday, September 20. Students should bring their best smile to school on this day!
Grandparents Day will be this Thursday, September 21. All scholars are welcome to invite their grandparents to spend part of the day with them at school and get a feel for what happens in the student’s school day!
This Week:
Grammar: Students will continue practicing classifying and diagramming simple sentences. This week, students will learn about helping verbs and verb phrases, the “not” adverb, predicate nominative, and predicate adjective.
Math: On Monday, students will be taking their cumulative review assessment on the last 6 chapters. This test will cover negative numbers, order of operations, multiples, factors, rounding, approximation, and place value. Students will use the Cumulative Test B worksheet for review. As the week progresses, we will dive into addition and subtraction using bar models. On Wednesday, students will continue working through practice in the Khan Academy.
Spalding: This week, students will be studying their next 31 words, Perhaps----- Courage. We will typically study 30 words every week; however, this is subject to change by a word or two from week to week depending on word groupings. A family member should dictate the words to the student each night for homework. Students will review words on Thursday and take the final test on Friday.
Science: As we are delving into the Life Sciences unit, students will be learning about the needs of living things and classification and ordering of species. Students will be doing a special foldable this week while taking notes on Classification Taxonomy. Students will continue to have regular weekly quizzes in science.
History: Hear ye, hear ye! This week is Chivalry Week in fourth grade! During Chivalry week, students will be making rules for our classroom to follow for the week that reflect attitudes of courage, honesty, helpfulness, honor, justice, and other virtues upheld by the knights of the Middle Ages. This is not a romantic activity, but rather an exercise to display the Code of Chivalry and why it was valued by the knights. For the knights, the Code of Chivalry was not only about honor and feats of war, but was also used to uphold respect and manners to everyone in society, not just the knights. For this reason, we will be tailoring our class laws to resemble respect for self and others and showing good manners. Throughout the week, students will continue learning and reading about life in the Middle Ages, and will take the Unit test on chapters 5-10 on Friday. Students will also have their European Country projects introduced this week.
Greek and Latin Roots: On Wednesday, students will be learning the next three roots and taking their weekly quiz. The weekly quiz will cover two previously taught roots from last week, and one previously taught root from the weeks before.
Poetry: Poetry Recitations will be this Monday, September 17. Students should be ready to recite “Afternoon of a Hill” by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Literature: Students will continue to study characterization as we continue reading “The Princess and the Goblin.” All students should bring in a copy of the book to use every day for literature.
I wish everyone an enjoyable weekend!
-- Mrs. Conforti
