4th Grade Newsletter
February 4, 2019
Important Dates
February 5 - Spirit Day
February 14 - Valentine's Day Party
February 21- Interims go home
February 22 - Early Release
Reminders
A permission slip went home last week regarding our upcoming field trip to Raleigh on April 9. Money and permission slips are due back by March 22. If you have any questions, ask your child first and then ask their homeroom teacher. Thank you.
Math
We are also using a spiral review to accompany and supplement us in our continued math studies. This review allows us to continue to keep past lessons and clusters taught, fresh in our brain. We use this review daily M-Tr as a quick 15-20 minute daily review.
English/Language Arts
We just completed our in depth study of myths. We will now turn our attention to reading nonfiction and informational texts. Our focus will be using text features to help us better understand informational text. We will also learn to read and evaluate primary and secondary sources. We are very fortunate to have been given the opportunity to borrow a box of artifacts from the North Carolina Museum of History to help us with this skill.
In writing, we will continue to focus on writing multi-paragraph pieces in both the narrative and expository domain as well as cursive writing. We will also work to refine our writing when responding to open ended questions.
Science
In our new cluster of study: Minerals, Rocks and Soil, we are discovering and learning about the rock cycle, different categories of rocks and rocks that fall within each of those categories, learning about minerals, soil, erosion and so much more. This is a really fun hand on unit with a lot of interactive experiences. We will also extend our learning to include fossils within this unit as well. Most of our Science work is completed within our Science notebooks, but as always students are always welcome to take notebooks back and forth as they please (to and from school), they just need them in class daily.
Social Studies
Contact Us!
Mrs. Koontz
Mrs. Waldrop
Sandhills Farm Life Elementary School
Our address is:
2201 Farm Life School Road
Carthage, NC 28327