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- 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
- 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
This Week In Photos (TWIP)
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