Fourth Grade Newsletter
October 16th
Headphones and Earbuds
Parents,
Students are on their Chromebooks each day as we have textbooks on our Chromebooks now. Students are required to use earbuds so as not to disrupt their peers. Earbuds can be found at the dollar store. We recommend buying more than one pair because they are used so frequently they can break.
Thank you!
Personalized Learning
Parents, we are looking to to improve our personalized learning spaces in the classroom. A part of our goal is flexible seating! Please visit our grade level website listed below to find out what we are looking for. Several student are already choosing to sit on a yoga ball EVERY day and we love it!!
WHITE T-SHIRT PAINTING THIS WEDNESDAY-
STUDENTS NEED A WHITE T-SHIRT BY TODAY-if not today then before WEDNESDAY AS WE PAINT THIS WEDNESDAY
October 24th is our Battle of Guilford County Courthouse Battle
Students are all required to have a WHITE T-SHIRT that could fit over warmer clothes in case it is cold
UPCOMING DATES
10/17-10/24- Boo Grams on sale
10/17- Chick Fil A-Eagles Night Out- Stonecrest Chick Fil A
10/18- Early Release Day
10/20- Picture Day
10/24- Balloon Battle
10/26- In Class Fall Treats
10/30- Teacher Work Day *Parent Teacher Conferences* - be on the lookout for more details!
11/3- First Quarter Recognition Ceremony
Boxtops
Parents-
It's Box Tops Submission Time! Our school will be sending our first Box Tops Submission for the school year by Monday October 16 to meet the Box Tops mail-in deadline of November 1. If you have been collecting box tops for our school, here is how you can turn them in:
-Place your box tops that you have collected in a plastic bag.
-Label the bag with your child's name, homeroom teacher and the amount of box tops in the bag.
-Send the bag to school with your child and have your child turn them in to your home room teacher..
Our Box Tops Leaderboard will be posted on the bulletin board at school very soon. This year instead of rewarding the winning class, we are going to reward the wining grade!
Our second Box Tops submission will be February 15, 2018 to meet the mail-in deadline of March 1, 2018. So please continue to collect!
Thank you for helping raise money for our school! This is just one of the easy ways you can help.
If you have any questions about Box Tops or other Easy Money programs that help our school please feel free to contact me!
Thank you,
Kara Guy
Easy Money Coordinator
Transportation
Good evening parents, this is Principal Modine with important information about afternoon dismissal.
Beginning Monday, October 9th, we will be enforcing our procedures about carpool dismissal and front door walkers.
Parents are not permitted to walk up and take children from the carpool area for any reason.
If you are walking up to the building to pick up your child, your student is considered a front door walker and will be picked up at the door near the art room and the media center.
Again, parents are not permitted to walk up and take children from the carpool area for any reason.
Parents of front door walkers must be ready to show their pickup tag to pick up their children from the door near the art room and media center. We appreciate your support in keeping our students safe. Thank you and have a great evening.
Standards
RL 4.1Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
RL 4.2Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
RL 4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
Math:
4.OA.3 Solve multistep word problems posed with whole numbers and having whole-number answers using the four operations, including problems in which remainders must be interpreted. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding. 4.NBT.5 Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number, and multiply two two-digit numbers, using strategies based on place value and the properties of operations. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models. Social Studies 4.H.1.4 Analyze North Carolina’s role in major conflicts and wars from the Pre-colonial period through Reconstruction.
BALLOON BATTLE HELP
Parents! If you haven’t already seen the signup genius on classdojo, please take a look at it here. We need a lot of help to make the battle a success. We especially need help filling balloons on the 23rd. Looks like only one person has signed up for that! We will be in the courtyard at school and this can be time consuming without enough help. Please, please if you can, sign up!
Sign up genius for Balloon Battle~http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b48a4aa2ca75-balloon4
This week on Wednesday we will be painting the shirts for the battle, make sure your shirts are into school by Monday(tomorrow). Plain white oversized t-shirt! The time is still TBD on the signup
Thanks!
Kim Zusi