Mrs. Grimes' Fourth Grade
September 22-25
Dates to Remember:
Tuesday, Sept 22- Interims go home
Tuesday, Sept 23- Fall Open House
Friday, Sept 26- Parent Conferences, No School for Students
Friday, Oct. 10- Fall Festival
Curriculum this week:
(CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NBT.B.4 Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.)
Reading- All students now have a mClass reading level. Students will need to make sure they are reading a book that is on or above their reading level depending on the purpose of their reading. In class, we will continue the Daily 5 stations of Read to Self, Read to Someone, and Write about Reading. This week we will introduce Listen to Reading and Word Work.
Writing- In Writing we will continue to focus on sentence structure, capital letters, and punctuation. As for content, students will be working on realistic fiction stories with a focus on creating strong characters. In class we will discuss that all main character should have a dream and a struggle.
Science- We will continue working with animal adaptations this week. Students will work independently on an animal interactive learning activity. This week we will be integrating our science into our Reading block.
Social Studies- This will be that last week that students will focus on North Carolina symbols. This week we will integrate social studies into our reading block.
Parent Teacher Conferences
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Open House
Flexible Math Grouping starts this week!
Homework Changes
Chromebooks!
Last week, we used the chromebook to checkout google classroom and to use kahoot for our place value review in math. Please ask your child about both google classroom and kahoot. All of the students were very excited to use kahoot (a game based site) to review what we have learned!
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International Peace Day
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