ZavTop News
2-2-17
Thank you!!
2 weeks ago, we only had 8% of our students that were checking and doing the work. This week we now have 87%! Yay! That is a great accomplishment! Lets keep that percentage growing!
Persuasive Pancake Party
Parent Teacher Conference Info:
For the next round of conferences, Mrs. Kentop & Mrs. Zavernik will be combining schedules so that we can as a team, discuss your child’s progress in 4th grade!
Please note that when signing up in TEESO, you will be selecting the classroom teacher “ZavTop” and then from there will select a 10 minute conference with us. Please keep in mind that all other Forest Glen teachers’ conferences will run 15 minutes in length.
Because we pride ourselves with our home communication with you through our Remind text messages, weekly newsletters, emails and other conversations, we believe the 10 minute slot will be adequate. If however we need more time to discuss your child’s progress, we certainly will arrange additional time.
Thank you for your support and we look forward to seeing you at conferences!
IMPORTANT DATES:
- TEESO goes live Friday (2/4/17) to schedule our last round of Parent/Teacher Conferences! MAKE SURE YOU SEE CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT ABOVE!
- Please complete the parent -pre-conference survey below by Friday February 10th.
- February 7th is Timbertail Day.
- Feb. 8th JRFH
- Feb. 10th Persuasive Pancake Party Writing Celebration from 8:50-9:20.
- February 10th is Change Your Name Day.
- Conferences are Thursday February 16 and Tuesday February 21.
- No school Friday February 17.
This week in 4th grade...
Writers Workshop, we are working on collecting evidence to persuade our readers to agree with our writing piece. This evidence needs to be STRONG and convince our readers to agree with us!
Reading: This week we continue to focus on reading like a writer and paying close attention to how writers write to learn from them and mimic techniques in our own writing! We focused on looking at different persuasive pieces and how they use strong transition words to make their writing better. This is helpful to us as we continue to work on persuasive pieces in writing too.
S.S. We researched our explorer and are now working with a partner to create a Chatterpix to show our knowledge about our explorer. This has proven to be a fun activity!