September 15-19

Have you signed up for you fall conferences?  We sent out a Sign Up Genius on Friday, September 5th.  If you did not recieve that email and need to sign up for a conference time, please let us know!  Conferences will be October 23rd and 24th.

This week the fourth grade: 

• Read Stone Fox to model and practice the journal process for Book Clubs
• Reviewed Topic 3 and took the unit test
• Finished Unit 3 in social studies
• Began a new social studies unit: The Southeast
• Published our first writing project: A School Story
• Identified compound subjects and predicates
• Corrected fragments and run on sentences to make compound sentences
• Differentiated between different ecosystems and discuss the organisms that live in those areas
• Discussed the difference between habitats, communities, and populations in an ecosystem

Next week we will:

• Begin Topic 4 in Math, addition and subtraction review
• Experiment with characteristics of an ecosystem to see how changes in the environment affect the organisms that live there
• Identify adaptations animals have to help them survive in their environments
• Review sentence structure, subjects and predicates
• Begin reading Book Club assignments and writing daily journals
• Continue publishing our school stories using the Macbooks
• Identify geographical features of the Southeast region
• Create a book highlighting important information about the Southeast region
• Meet our preschool buddies!

Upcoming dates:

• Wednesday, 9/24:  Noon dismissal for faculty professional development
• Friday, 9/26:  Book Clubs, 12:30-1:00
• Friday, 10/3:  Book Clubs, 12:30-1:00, The Buddy Run!
• Friday, 10/10:  Book Clubs, 12:30-1:00
• Monday, 10/13:  NO SCHOOL, Professional Development
• Wednesday 10/15:  Symphony Field Trip to the Kauffman Center, more information to follow later
• Friday, 10/17:  End of Quarter 1
• Thursday 10/23:  Conferences, 12:00 pm-8:00 pm
• Friday, 1024:  Conferences, 8:00 am-12:00 pm

 You can order books for your child through Scholastic Book Clubs!   

Shop Online: scholastic.com/readingclub
One-Time Class Activation Code: HFWTD 
Every online order earns three free books for our classrooms!  We use these free books for classroom libraries and as a punch card reward.

Here's to a great week in the fourth grade!

Mrs. Stephenson and Mrs. Van Maren