4th Grade Week of February 22
Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Still, and Ms. Franks
CFES 4th Grade Updates
Dear CFES 4th Grade Families,
Our greatest hope is that you are all warm and safe after the unprecedented weather and many challenges that have resulted from the freezing temperatures. Your family's wellness continues to be our priority. If your family is in need of anything, please reach out.
We continue to monitor updates from the district, but as of now, we're planning on a regular instructional day for Tuesday.
Interim testing for math and reading has been rescheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. We encourage students to get an especially good night's rest on Tuesday and Wednesday night to prepare to be at their best. We will take our math interim first thing Wednesday morning and reading interim first thing Thursday morning. This will be a similar format to their STAAR testing in May and it provides us with pertinent data for instructional purposes.
Interim assessments measure student understanding of a broader span of student expectations to monitor progress, measure skill performance, and identify student needs and overall areas of strength.
Please be sure your student remembers to bring his/her water bottle and headphones or earbuds to school every day to refill at the filtered water stations.
Our CFES Great Expectations focus this week will be:
Life Principle: forgiveness - the act of excusing a mistake or offense
Quote: "To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."--Confucius
Creekside Forest Creed
I am proud to be a Creekside Forest Cougar.
I come to school each day respecting my teachers,
my classmates, and myself.
I am responsible for my choices and their results.
I care for others with all my heart.
Never quitting is my #1 tool;
I am a leader at the #1 school.
Go CREEKSIDE!
Please be encouraged to discuss with your child what the CFES Creed and weekly quote and life principle means to them and help make life connections to reinforce.
Information:
Please click HERE for the updated Specials Schedule for the 3rd grading period.
Updated February Lunch Calendar
Have a great week!
Love,
Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Still, & Ms. Franks
Weekly Homework
Homework
There will be no assigned homework this week. Students may practice using other available resources, if they choose to do so.
DONATIONS TO THE TOMBALL ABANDONED ANIMAL RESCUE
We are celebrating reading Fenway and Hattie by bringing a donation for a local animal shelter. Between February 16th and February 26th, Ms. Hock will have a box available outside the school and inside the Library for items to benefit our furry friends at AAR. Please check the list of things they use, because their rescues eat particular brands of food and treats, but they also need supplies such as paper towels and trash bags. Thank you! AAR donation list
Math & Science Updates
Math and Science Resources:
Students have access to a variety of resources through Clever including Education Galaxy, IXL, Flocabulary, and their online math/science textbooks. These are great resources for practicing all fourth grade skills! Practice basic multiplication/division fact fluency regularly.
Math:
We are beginning our measurement unit in math. Students will learn to use a measurement reference chart to compare and convert units of measure.
Students will:
- order units with the customary measurement system from smallest to largest unit or largest to smallest
- select appropriate units to measure length, weight, and liquid volume
- use information in a table to convert measures from smaller to larger units or from larger to smaller units
- use patterns to extend or complete tables showing measurement conversions
Ways to help at home:
Collect containers that are labeled in metric units. Ask your child to convert the metric units to another unit. As an alternative, you might ask questions such as, “Does the bottle hold more than or less than 1 liter?”
Measure rooms in your house to the nearest meter. Make a list of the measures by room. Then show the measures, in centimeters, to your child. Ask your child to match the centimeter measure to the rooms measured to the nearest meter.
Gather a variety of plastic containers labeled with units of customary capacity (milk or juice containers, ice cream, yogurt, sour cream cartons). Discuss the capacity relationship between the containers. Verify by pouring water from one container to another.
Have your child estimate how many cups of milk your family needs for one week and convert the amount to quarts and/or gallons. Let your child determine how much milk to buy at the grocery store.
Science:
We are studying Earth's patterns of change, including seasons, shadows, and the observable appearance of the Moon. We will begin with learning about how the Earth moves (rotation and revolution) and how that creates patterns of day/night, seasons, and shadows.
Vocabulary: Sun, Earth, Moon, axis, orbit, moon phases, new moon, first quarter, third quarter, full moon, waxing, waning, last quarter, crescent, gibbous, increasing, decreasing, revolution, rotation, tilt, direct sunlight, indirect sunlight, shadow, gravity, sundial, angle
Language Arts & Social Studies Updates
Reading: We will be beginning our unit on paired selections. We will compare and contrast two texts through questioning, venn diagrams, and discussion. This is a HUGE skill in fourth grade and upcoming years. You can begin supporting your child from home by comparing and contrasting television shows, sports teams, news stations, radio stations, songs, and anything else you can think of to start building critical thinking skills.
Writing: We will jump back in to expository writing, thinking of rich details using How and Why Cafe and six W's. In grammar, we will be learning all about homophones and applying them to our writing. Lastly, we are hitting the ground running with revise/editing. The kids are rocking this skill, and we will continue to practice, practice, practice to find those mistakes and improve writing.
Vocabulary:
Unit 9 test- HAS BEEN MOVED AGAIN to Thursday, February 25th. Please encourage your child to do additional study practices at home as we work towards familiarity and mastery of these difficult words. Vocabulary Book Online.
Handwriting:
Assignments will be found online and students will work in their blue cursive books. We'll work on a few skills per week.
Students may practice at home as well. Cursive is a beautiful skill to learn and become proficient in. It also assists students in READING cursive writing as well.
Social Studies: Unit 6: Texas is now in a lot of debt and is struggling to be a Republic... We look to the United States to be annexed. The next few weeks we study becoming a part of the United States and how that cause the Mexican-American War.
Upcoming Events
February:
**Further dates will be determined and updated soon.**
24: TEA Math Interim Assessment
25: TEA Reading Interim Assessment
26: Unit 9 Vocabulary Test
26: Donations for AAR collection deadline
March 4th: Writing Test (review comes from weekly Fast Focus homework)
Teachers
Mrs. Brown is THANKFUL for this year's adventure!
Miss Franks is ready to BLAZE the road in 4th Grade!
Mrs. Still LOVES the S'more-side of the FOURest
Teacher Contact Information
Mrs. Jennifer Brown
(281)357-4526 (Ext. 3841)
Mrs. Candice Still
(281)357-4526 (Ext. 3842)
Ms. Abbey Franks
(281)357-4526 (Ext.3843)
Conference Time: 9:45-10:35
Lunch 12:30-1:00