4th Grade Newsletter
March 1, 2019
Important Dates
March 6 - Spirit Day
March 11 - Teacher Workday - No school for students
March 22 - Permission slips and field trip money due
March 26 - End of third quarter
March 29 - Early Release
Reminders
A permission slip went home last month regarding our upcoming field trip to Raleigh on April 9. Money and permission slips are due back by March 22 (no exceptions).This is the day we must send the food venue a final count. If you have any questions, ask your child first and then ask their homeroom teacher. Thank you.
Math
We will be revisiting this and adding on to what we have learned. Our next cluster of study will be on decimal notation to represent fractions. Students will learn to express, model and explain the equivalence between fractions with denominators of 10 and 100, use equivalent
fractions to add two fractions with denominators of 10 or 100, represent tenths and hundredths with models, making connections between fractions and decimals. We will also compare two decimals to hundredths by reasoning about their size using area and length models, and recording the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, <, Plus students will be able to recognize that comparisons are valid only when the two decimals refer to the same whole.
I am also continuing to use 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
This month, we will review skills introduced this year using informational texts. This can be quite difficult for students as they will need to apply these skills from fiction to nonfiction. We will also complete an in depth student of figurative language and poetry. This is a favorite of many students as they will have an opportunity to showcase their writing skills in a format that is comfortable to them as well as be a little silly. We will, hopefully, complete both of these units before Spring Break. After then, we will review everything learned this year as we prepare for our upcoming state tests.
In writing, we will continue to focus on writing multi-paragraph pieces in the expository domain as well as cursive writing. We will also work to refine our writing when responding to open ended questions. As stated previously, we will also write different forms of poetry using figurative language.
Science
As we begin to wrap up our Study of Minerals, Rocks and Soil along with Fossils, we will soon begin our next cluster of study on Animal Adaptations. This new study will begin in a couple of weeks. As we study various animals and their adaptations we will focus on the following 4 subtopics in this cluster of study:
- We will be able to give examples of changes in an organism’s environment that are beneficial to it and some that are harmful.
-Know how to explain how animals meet their needs by using behaviors in response to information received from the environment.
- Understand and explain how humans can adapt their behavior to live in changing habitats (e.g., recycling wastes, establishing rain gardens, planting trees and shrubs to prevent flooding and erosion).
- Be able to share the differences among animals of the same population sometimes give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing in changing habitats
Social Studies
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Mrs. Koontz
Mrs. Waldrop
Sandhills Farm Life Elementary School
Our address is:
2201 Farm Life School Road
Carthage, NC 28327