2.25.22

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• Community Building
• Black History Month 
• This week's biography studies - Muhammad Ali, John Lewis, Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Breedlove, Duke Ellington, Jacob Lawrence, and Faith Ringgold
• "TWOSday" 2.22.22 Celebrations
• Wearing Tutus and more!
• Friday Gathering
• 1st Grade Presentation
• Giving out donation to the SCAWC from the Cupcake Competition
• Literacy
• Reading
• Setting goals for note-taking 
• Primary vs. secondary sources
• Analyzed primary sources from Colonial America
• Writing
• Students continued writing their informational book on the events leading up to the Revolutionary War
• Learning how to paraphrase
• Creating a plan for historical narratives
• Word Study
• Started spelling list #9
• Open sort, closed sort, & crossword puzzle
• Math
• Number Corner
• Decomposing, adding, and subtracting fractions
• Exploring quadrilaterals
• Started Unit 4
• Reviewed the "Great Wall of Base Ten"
• Locating numbers in the thousands on the "Mat-Mat"
• Comparing and rounding those numbers
• Creating a MILLIONS grid
• Social Studies
• U.S. Geography
• Regions of the US continued
• Mapping St. Croix
• Wellness
• Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
• We took a quiz to see where our strengths lie!

Important Information

• UPCOMING FIELD TRIP (Frederiksted Walking Tour)
• This Coming Wednesday March 2nd 
• We are departing campus at 8:30am so please be on time/early
• Please send your child to school with a picnic style snack & lunch
• Remember sun protection (hats, sunscreen, etc.)
• Have your child wear good walking shoes
• We return to campus at 1pm - dismissal will be as usual
• Spring Break
• No school for students Friday March 11th through Sunday March 20th
• School resumes Monday, March 21st (start of Trimester 3)

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2s Day - 2.22.22

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2.17.22

  Ask Your Child About

• Community Building
• Valentine's Day
• Cupcake Competition 
• Congrats to all competitors!
• Special shout outs
• Izzy - 4th grade best decorated
• Hudson - Overall best tasting
• Centers and the card/treat exchange
• Black History Month 
• This week's biography studies - Booker T. Washington, Serena Williams, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, Rita Dove, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, & Langston Hughes
  
• Gala Auditions
• Congrats to the girls who's cheer routine will be included the gala performances!
• Reading & Writing
• The American Revolution
• The Dos & Don'ts of Note-Taking
• Students began writing chapter 1 (introduction) of their informational books
• Tiger Rising movie and book comparison 
• Word Study
• Took our 8th Spelling Check-In
• Math
• Number Corner
• More Solving Multi-Step Problems
• Played Spin and Compare as a class
• we compared different decimals and fractions with >, <, and = signs
• Sketched angles and compared them with their actual measure using a protractor
• Decimals & Fractions
• New Work Station Game - Decimal Four Spins to Win
• Unit 3 Assessment
• Social Studies
• U.S. Geography
• Regions of the US
• Wellness
• Finished our identity poems
• Mr. Addison presented on growth mindset

Important Information

• UPCOMING FIELD TRIP (Frederiksted Walking Tour)
• Wednesday March 2nd 
• Permission slip in HW folders - return by next Friday 2/25 with the $6 fee
• Four Day Weekend
• No School For Students TOMORROW 2/18
• Faculty Workshop Day
• No School Monday 2/21
• President's Day
• Afterschool activities
• Starting next week
• Please make sure to pay in the office

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2.11.22

    Ask Your Child About

• Community Building
• Black History Month 
• This week's biography studies - Kamala Harris, Simone Biles, Prince, Kobe Bryant, Katherine Johnson, Sojourner Truth, Jesse Owens, Shirley Chisolm, Maya Angelou, and Frederick Douglas 
  
• Reading
• Started Unit 3: The American Revolution 
• Gathered a variety of sources 
• Researched to understand the causes of the war 
• Practiced our note taking skills by focusing on "who, where, and when"
• Writing
•  Wrote Letters to our Pen Pals in Germany
• Started Unit 3: Bringing History to Life 
• Studied student sample to set goals 
• Chose a subtopic of the American Revolution 
• Created an outline for a history book by combining multiple writing genres 
• Word Study
• Started our 8th Spelling List
• Ask your child what his/her spelling rule or phonics pattern is!
• Math
• Number Corner
• New February Calendar Markers - rays, angles, and line segments that create shapes
• Explored triangles and their angles
• Solved 2-step story problems
• Studied decimals on a number line
• Decimals & Fractions
• Learned how to play Fraction Pictionary
• Urge your child to play again at home with their HW materials!
• Used Base 10 pieces to introduce decimals
• Used money to help think about decimals
• Compared fractions and decimals
• Adding 10ths and 100ths
• Fraction & Decimal Checkpoint (Individual Assessment)
• Two new work places games
• 3B Racing Fractions
• 3C Decimal Four Spins to Win
• Social Studies
• U.S. Geography
• Analyzed Special Purpose Maps of the U.S. (precipitation, population density, average max temperature, elevation, climate)
• Wellness
• Started our next unit on DEI/Anti-Racism
• This week's focus was on identity
• Studied and wrote bio poems 

Important Information

• Valentine's Day
• Celebrating THIS MONDAY the 14th
• Cupcake competition
• If your child is participating in the Best Tasting and/or Best Decorated competition, their entry must be on campus by 8:15AM on Monday
• Ingredient list is also required in case of allergies
• All students are able to purchase cupcakes on Monday for $0.50 each
• Send child with a Tupperware container to store their purchases please!
• If your child wants to participate in card/treat giving (separate from the competition), they must bring in something FOR EVERYONE
• There are 24 students in the 4th grade - CLASS LIST WAS SENT HOME IN HOMEWORK FOLDER (if you need another copy, let us know!)
• Gala Student Performance Auditions
• Tuesday & Wednesday @ 3:30pm in the Pavillion
• Parents are welcome to go support their child during the audition
• Snr. Velez has created a Bitmoji classroom to help with communication to you about the happenings in Spanish class
• It will always be accessible on the bottom of our 4th grade blog page
• Here is the link as well if you would like to save it
• SRA. VELEZ' SPANISH BITMOJI CLASSROOM LINK
• 4 Day Weekend Ahead
• No School For Students Friday 2/18
• Faculty Workshop Day
• No School Monday 2/21
• President's Day
• Afterschool activities
• Starting the week of Feb. 21st

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2.4.22

   Ask Your Child About

• Community Building
• Lunar New Year
• Origami Tigers
• Lunch using Chopsticks
• Black History Month 
• This week's biography studies - Amanda Gorman, Thurgood Marshall, George Washington Carver, and Jackie Robinson
• Reading
• STAR Reading Assessment
• Completed Unit 2 
• Finished Article Summaries
• Finalized their 2nd Extreme Weather research project
• Writing
•  Grammar Review
• Fragments vs. Run-ons
• Using Coordinating Conjunctions 
• Word Study
• Finished 7th Spelling Lists
• Math
• Number Corner
• New February Collection - using a protractor and identifying different types of angles
• STAR Math Assessment
• Adding fractions using egg cartons
• Adding 3/4ths on a number line and ratio table
• Social Studies
• U.S. Geography
• Physical and Human Characteristics
• Landforms, Landmarks, Highway System
• Nutrition
• Guest Speaker - Ms. Larissa, P.A. 

Important Information

• Swimming has resumed! Please make sure your child is prepared on THURSDAYS!
• Valentine's Day
• Celebrating on Monday the 14th
• If your child wants to participate, they must bring in a card and/or treat FOR EVERYONE
• There are 24 students in the 4th grade - CLASS LIST IN HOMEWORK FOLDER
• 4 Day Weekend Ahead
• No School For Students Friday 2/18
• Faculty Workshop Day
• No School Monday 2/21
• President's Day
• Afterschool activities
• 6 week programs
• Be on the look out for a sign up form
• Starting the week of Feb. 21st

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