Weekly Update

This has been a week to remember with Monday's storm. The girls handled the situation so well and stayed calm throughout the sheltering and I am proud of them. They earned quite a few class compliments from me as well as individual stickers. In fact, we have reached our first class goal of 25 class compliments. On Monday, we will celebrate with extra play time on the playground with just our class and we will have a treat! Bravo to the girls!!!

Math: We continued to practice rounding this week and discussed factors and multiples. We used rainbows to help us factor various numbers. The girls really like Musical Moments so we completed another one on the song Happy by Pharrell. We also watched two short video clips on showing kindness to others and then solved quick problems to jump start our lessons. Here is one of the single EdPuzzles. Next week, we will work towards the end of unit one and focus on order of operations, computation practice of all four operations, and word problems.


Language Arts: We started our next class read aloud and we are reading Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. So far, we all love learning about the intriguing character of Ally. She does not like school and struggles with her learning and we look forward to seeing what is next in her story. The girls have just about finished their Buncee presentations on Because of Winn-Dixie. The finished presentations are here and will also be posted under Clever Classwork. Yesterday, the girls took their first Wordly Wise vocabulary quiz independently and I sent it home in today's folder. They took one part on Quia and the other was a handwritten fill in the blank activity. They did a nice job. We completed our first writing lab and they are on display on the bulletin board outside the classroom. They look great!

Reminders:

• Scholastic book order is due by Monday, September 24
• Our class will be leading chapel on Friday, September 28 
• Science Atom Project due: Friday, Oct. 12th (projects guidelines were distributed in science class on Friday)
• Our class will have our swimming unit in PE from October 2 - 12 on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday of each of those weeks. More information to come.
• * We have decided to cancel our Parent Technology Night since attendance was going to be sparse. We want to keep everyone in the loop regarding our instructional technology practices in fourth grade. So be on the look out for weekly "How To" videos. 
• Blessing of the Animals- 10/1 @ 8:15 on The Green
• Information about volunteering in the community garden
• Scavenger Hunt!