11.12.21

Ask Your Child About

• Community Building
• Our new audiobook, Holes, by Louis Sachar
• Fun Run character videos on curiosity, confidence, practice, humility, and endurance
• Conflict Resolution Blueprint
• Literacy
• 4th spelling check-in
• Studying paragraph structure
• Identifying informational text structures
• Structuring reading notes to reflect the text structure
• Using free writing as a strategy to develop a thesis statement
• Math
• Practicing telling time on an analog clock
• Identifying a.m. vs. p.m.
• Elapsed time story problems
• Solidifying using the area model to multiply larger numbers
• Science
• Continuing our study of rock formations
• Root and Ice wedging
• Campus search for examples
• Erosion activity - thanks so much for the Tupperware donations! 

Important Information

• Show and Tell Monday Nov. 15th 
• As one of our Fun Run class prizes, each student may bring in one item to share with their peers
• Please help your student bring a thoughtful and appropriate item to share
• Here are some examples
• Picture of a pet, location, or person
• Award from a competition
• Artwork or something student created
• Musical instrument
• FUN RUN Tuesday Nov. 16th 
• Make sure your child is registered and trying their best to gather donations
• Steel Pans Zoom Concert
• Thursday Nov. 18th @ 9:00am
• Be on the lookout for a Zoom link
• Students need to wear black bottoms and a red or white top
• 4th Grade Class Spelling Bee Thursday Nov. 18th
• A word packet went home earlier in the week - studying is optional
• The top two spellers will participate in the GHCDS Spelling Bee on Monday Dec. 6th 
• The runner up will be an alternate
• Food Drive for The Collective Collaboration 
• Thanks for the donations so far - the last day to donate is next Friday, Nov. 19
• 4th Grade is in charge of bringing in donations of tomato paste/sauce
• You may donate other things as well if you wish ($, foil, utensils, salt/pepper, etc.)
• Thanksgiving Break
• Half Day Friday Nov. 19th for Students - 12:30pm dismissal marks the start of Thanksgiving break
• Bring a hearty snack on this day since there is no lunch period
• School Resumes on Monday Nov. 29th