10.29.21

 Ask Your Child About 

• Community Building
• Halloween Riddles
• Writing a story from the perspective of a piece of candy on Halloween
• Halloween Door Decorating
• Ghost Walk & Trick-or-Treating on Campus
• Math
• Reflecting on their returned math assessments
• Comparing fractions (which is larger?)
• Completing our October calendar pattern and collection
• Metric units of linear & area measurement
• Using Base Ten Area & Linear pieces
• Literacy
• Reading
• Using different strategies to identifying themes in their books
• Collecting important events
• Listing real life problems
• Symbolism
• Writing
• Continuing to work on 2nd realistic fiction story
• Blurb, character trait chart, story arc, page planning, & scene writing
• Wellness Wednesday
• Meta Moment
• Science
• Halloween Spider Science

Important Information

• Thanks to all who donated to our classroom for Halloween! 
• No School Monday, Nov. 1st for Students
• Parent/Teacher Conference Day
• Check your email for the Zoom information
• Food Drive for The Collective Collaboration Starts Nov. 2nd
• 4th Grade is in charge of bringing in donations of tomato paste cans
• You may donate other things as well if you wish
• No School Thursday, Nov. 11th for Students or Faculty
• Veteran\"s Day
• FUN RUN Nov. 16th
• Stay tuned for more information about this Parent Association\"s annual school fundraiser
• Pep rally on Nov. 4th during school to kick it off
• Thanksgiving Break
• Half Day Friday Nov. 19th for Students - 12:30pm dismissal marks the start of Thanksgiving break
• School Resumes on Monday Nov. 29th

10.22.21

 Ask Your Child About

• Morning Meeting
• Hispanic Inventors
• Earthquake Safety
• Friday Gathering led by the 6th graders
• Math
• Unit 1 Assessment
• Rounding
• Literacy
• New Read Aloud Novel, The Breadwinner, by Deborah Ellis
• Tiger Rising movie trailers
• Posted on the blog - ENJOY!
• Starting their second realistic fiction stories
• See photo below from their publishing party celebration last week
• Science
• Starting our new unit: Earth\"s Features & Processes
• Volcanoes
• Viewing Earth\"s maps from different perspectives
• Social Studies
• Ms. Bird and Mr. Addison\"s monthly visit
• Different feelings and how they physically manifest in your body
• Completed Vejigante Masks
• Video of their mini parade is posted earlier in the week on the bog

Announcements 

• Parent Conferences are on Nov. 1st
• You should have received a conference request from your child\"s homeroom teacher - please confirm the time by Monday, October 25th
• Halloween will be celebrated on the half day next Friday, October 29th
• Students should arrive in costume if they want to participate in the ghost walk
• Please donate candy to Ms. Crisler before the event
• We are in need of some classroom supplies - if you are willing to, please send in the following supplies
• Glue sticks
• Individual Scotch tape
• Some students still don\"t have a sock to use as a whiteboard eraser - please ask your child if they need one!
• No School Thursday, November 11th - Veteran’s Day

Publishing Party Celebration:

Outdoor Fun Friday Reading:

Tiger Rising Movie Trailers

Our first read aloud of the year was Tiger Rising, by Kate DiCamillo. 

After finishing the novel, students worked in groups to plan, film, & edit a movie trailer that summarizes the key events.

Group 1: Atlas, Naisha, & Ridley

 Group 2: Harper, Drew, & Dylan

Group 3: Ava, Kenny, & Christina

Group 4: Isabelle, Hudson, & Caspian

Group 5: Aliya, Wajeeh, & Liam

Group 6: Mira, Carmen, & Moayed

Group 7: Jacob, Jasem, Mackenzie, & Miles

Vejigante Parade

 

History of the Vejigante Mask

The origins of the tradition go back to 12th century medieval Spain. The vejigante represented the evil Moors who were defeated by St. James. People dressed as demons (vejigantes) in a procession thrown to honor St. James.

In the 17th century the vejigantes began to more generally represent good v. evil. In Puerto Rico, the Taino culture is also a part of the festival, and the vejigantes are heavily influenced by music, more specifically bomba and plena.

Watch the parade of the GHCDS 4th Graders below, wearing their Vejigante masks. They worked so hard and it shows!

10.15.21

 Ask your child about

• Morning Meeting
• Hispanic Authors
• Social Studies
• Finishing our Vejigante Masks
• Math
• Race to 1 Million Number Corner Activity
• Taking Their Multiplication and Division Checkpoint
• Decimal Place Values
• Multiples and Multiplicative Comparisons
• Literacy
• Our First Publishing Party - You can listen to your child’s story on Seesaw. Please have your child log in and show you how to navigate to the Seesaw blog section. They should know how to log in using the same email and password they use during computer class.
• New audiobook, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, by Judy Blume
• Creating a Movie Trailer for the Book, Tiger Rising, by Kate DiCamillo
• New Spelling Word Sort List
• Identifying Opinions and Debating with Reading Partners

Announcements 

• Parent Conferences are on Nov. 1st
• You will receive a conference request on the 21st - please respond promptly
• Halloween will be celebrated on the half day on Friday, October 29th
• Students should arrive in costume if they want to participate in the ghost walk
• Please donate candy to Ms. Crisler before the event
• Have your child bring in a sock to use as a white board eraser

10.7.21

Ask Your Child About: 

• Picture Day
• Tiger Rising ending
• Hispanic Activists
• Literacy
• Synonym word wall
• Using a dictionary
• Using commas and revising writing
• Their story ending
• Finishing up work with their second word sort lists
• VI/PR Friendship Day
• Celebrating PR culture
• Vejigante mask making
• Math
• New Work Station Games
• Multiplication Fact Rules and Hidden Arrays
• Adding to our Math Handbook

Important Reminders: 

• No School Tomorrow, Friday, October 8th - Faculty Workshop Day
• No School Monday, October 11th - VI/PR Friendship Day
• Upcoming Parent Conferences 
• Monday, November 1st
• More Details to Come
• If your child has not brought in a sock to use as an eraser, please do so next week!
• Remind your child to bring their Library books - mini schedules are in their homework folders.

Picture Day 2021

Grade 4 picture day is TOMORROW, October 5th, first thing in the morning. Please make sure your child is dressed and already at drop off with their PE clothes to change into in their book bags! 

10.1.21

Happy October! We can't believe it! 

 Ask your child about:

• Read aloud, Pecan Pie Baby
• How to identify character traits
• Hidden arrays (breaking them apart to write the multiplication equations in different ways)
• How to write a strong lead for your story
• Best Self - Portraits and Traits
• Ancient Civilizations of Latin America
• Learning about how the iris adapts to light changes
• Two new word sorts - blind sorts and word hunts
• Completed September Calendar Pattern
• How many inches and feet are in a yard

Important Reminders: 

• Please have your child bring in a sock on Monday to keep at school to use as their individual whiteboard erasers - it can be an old mismatched one!
• Picture Day is this coming Tuesday, October 5th, first thing in the morning. Please have your child dressed and ready for the photo and have their PE clothes packed for them to change into afterwards. 
• Online Scholastic book orders are due Thursday, October 7th! 
• Upcoming 4 Day Weekend
• No School Friday, October 8th - Faculty Workshop Day
• No School Monday, October 11th - VI/PR Friendship Day
• Make sure your child comes prepared for their specials each day. We had students add a mini schedule in their HW folders to reference as a tool to help them remember.
• Thanks to everyone who volunteered to help via the survey we sent out. Our room parents will be Laurie Bohlke (Izzy's mom) and Anna-Lisa Johanson (Mira's mom) but other parents who volunteered will be contacted as needs arise. The more help the merrier!