4th Grade News 5/4/15
Mrs. Curtright & Mrs. Foster
Note from Mrs. Foster
Important Information
Reminders:
4H-May 12th We will be sending home more information soon about 4H
Fitness Frenzy-Week of May 18-22. 4th grade will have our Fitness Frenzy (Track & Field) event on Friday, May 22nd.
Mark your calendars! 4th Grade Graduation will be on Thursday, June 4th! More details will come later.
Math, Science, and Social Studies
Math
Decimals- We will complete our final lesson in the decimal module on Monday. We will continue on with our Geometry module and begin our final module on exploring measurement with multiplication.
Geometry-This week we will use the addition of adjacent angle measures to solve problems using a symbol for the unknown angle measure. We will also work on identifying lines of symmetry in two-dimensional figures. There will be homework this week. It will come home on Wednesday and will be due on Friday.
Science- We will complete the lesson on comparing parallel and series batteries and work on placing a switch within our series and test insulators and conductors of electricity.
Reading, Writing and Word Study
Reading: Author Fair was a HUGE success! Check out the photos at the bottom of the newsletter. This week we will be wrapping up a few Author things, and we will finish our read aloud. We will also work on elements of fiction.
There IS fluency homework coming home for this week!
Writing: we will begin a writing project on our future stories this week. We will draft, revise, and prepare to publish this week. Next week, students will publish in the computer lab.