Flamenco Dance!

9.24.21

Ask your child about: 

• STAR Assessments in Reading and Math
• Brain tests and experiments in Science
• Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
• Flamenco Dancing for Friday Gathering
• Morning meeting activities
• Read Aloud: Frida Kahlo and her Animalitos
• Story arcs and drafting for their realistic fiction narrative
• Analyzing their reading reflections using a 3rd vs. 4th grade rubric
• Math Work Station: Cover Up Game
• Factor Posters
• Prime vs. Composite Numbers
• Best Self Reflections and Portraits

Important Reminders:

• Picture Day is Tuesday, October 5th first thing in the morning. 
• Please have your child arrive on time, dressed and ready!
• Have them pack their PE shirt and sneakers to change into afterwards.
• Students are expected to wear their PE shirt to school on Tuesdays, unless otherwise told. 
• Upcoming 4 Day Weekend
• No School Friday, October 8th (Faculty Workshop)
• No School Monday, October 11th (VI/PR Friendship Day)

Photos: 

9.17.21

 Please ask your child about: 

• Having our first MONDAY of the school year!
• Learning about the human eye AND the experiment we did with our cornea and retina "replicas"
• Using ratio tables, number lines, rectangular arrays/area models to solve multiplication and division problems
• Doubling / halving one factor in a multiplication expression
• Book recommendations and commenting on Seesaw
• International Dot Day
• Progress on their realistic fiction stories (i.e. character traits)
• Speed Sorts & Rainbow Writing with our spelling word sorts
• Ms. Alea Bird and Mr. Addison's first monthly visit to our classroom 

Announcements:

• Starting next week, we are introducing CURSIVE into the homework routine. You will notice one cursive HW sheet, front and back, going home on Monday. Please make sure your child completes it by Friday. 
• 4th graders are growing machines. We have noticed that some students are eating all of their food at our morning snack time and don't have any food left for lunch. Please have a conversation with your child to see if they need more food to sustain their energy throughout the day. 
• If you have not sent your child in with a composition notebook for STEEL PANS, please do so by Monday. 
• Picture Day is in October. More details to follow. 

9.10.21

Ask Your Child About: 

• Our new realistic fiction writing unit
• Our new read alouds
• Tiger Rising
• The One and Only Bob
• Word Study sorts
• International Literacy Video
• Our new Science unit on the Human Machine, specifically creating a model of a human finger
• Calendar Pattern change once we got to the 10th day
• Playing the math game Splat!
• Number Lines Problem String
• Ratio Table Problem String
• What it means to be a community of learners in math
• Mood Meter

Important Announcements: 

• Mr. Belgraves is asking students to bring in a composition notebook for Steel Pans
• Early Dismissal next Friday, Sept. 17th @ 12:30pm for a teacher workshop
• Please pack a good snack as there is no lunchtime on half days
• Color Days continued
• Monday 9/13 - Green
• Tuesday 9/14 - Purple
• Wednesday 9/15 - Brown
• Thursday 9/16 - Black & White
• Friday 9/17 - Rainbow

International Literacy Day

9.3.21

Happy first week of school! We have been posting lots on our class Instagram throughout the week. Please make sure you follow us @ghcds4th_2021. 

Ask your child about:

• Our read alouds, We Don't Eat Our Classmates and Each Kindness
• First chapter Friday
• Teacher Who’s Who guessing game
• Classroom Scavenger Hunt
• Community building activities with 5th grade
• Math Autobiographies (including using our class Chromebooks)
• Starting Number Corner
• Reading and Writing survey
• Letter to self
• Marshmallow STEM challenge
• First week of Steel Pans
• New art teacher
• Class charter
• Summer reading project

Important Reminders:

• 4th graders need to wear their PE shirts during PE class on Tuesdays (wear or bring)
• No school on 9/6 - Happy Labor Day! 
• Homework will start next week
• School pictures are rescheduled for the week of Oct. 4th. More specific details will be provided later
• Our ELC kiddos are starting color days next week. Please have your child show their support by participating as well! Days/colors: