FOURTH GRADE NEWS
August 24, 2017
Welcome to Fourth Grade
We have been getting to know each other and building positive community this week. We hope your student shares some of these great experiences with you. Check out what we have been doing on Twitter @Skaggs4th and @Skaggselem
Technology
If your child is bringing a tablet or smart phone to school we recommend that you download the following apps: Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Drive, Google Classroom, Istation (Imagination Station), Discovery Education, and a QR Code Reader
Language Arts/Social Studies
In writing the students will be able to differentiate between narrative and expository writing. Students will learn the structure of a complete sentence including a subject (who or what the sentence is about), verb (action), and expresses a complete thought.
Students will learn to identify story elements such as characters, setting, problem/solution, and plot in order to comprehend a text. Students will also be learning to identify the genre characteristics for realistic fiction and be able to give examples of realistic fiction texts.
Math
Unit Targets: *Name and represent numbers to the billions place
*Understand decimal place value: tenths and hundredths
*Write fractions as decimals and decimals as fractions
Unit vocabulary: decimals, tenths, hundredths, millions, ten millions, hundred millions, billions
The Unit 1 test is scheduled for Friday, September 15.
Science
Students use scientific processes, methods, and tools to answer scientific questions, and to differentiate between different types of energy. They will learn to use safe practices during any type of experimentation with the Student Safety Contract and use appropriate technology to answer their questions.
Content Vocabulary- claim, evidence, investigation, inference, measure, data, model, prediction, observation, hypothesis, variable
From the Teachers
- Teachers monitor the temperature and ozone before going outside to recess. If it is above 95 degrees (temperature or with the heat index), we stay inside. If it is a Red or Orange ozone alert we stay inside.
- Our building can be cool inside, so your child may need a sweater for the air conditioning.You are welcome to send one with your child's name inside it and leave it in your child's backpack or locker.
- We enjoyed seeing many of you at Parent Information night! We realize that some of you were not able to attend. Please see the link below to see the slideshow presented Tuesday night.
- Linked you will also find: Bring Your Own Device form, yearly scope and sequence, and the fourth grade schedule.
- Students may return library books any day of the week. Each class will have a library lesson with Mrs. Geiler on their assigned library day.
Important Dates
- Monday, August 28: Student Council Forms Due
- August 28- September 1: Howdy Week- See attached flyer for details
- August 28- September 1: 4th & 5th Grade Honor Choir Auditions during music class- for more information https://sites.google.com/a/pisd.edu/picklesmusic/5th-grade-honor-choir
- August 28- September 8: MAP testing (Reading, Math, and Science) for students new to PISD
- Wednesday, August 30: Introductory Speaker Forms due to office
- September 5-8 Language Usage MAP testing for all 4th Grade Students
- September 15: Unit 1 Math Test