Our Weekly Update
From Fourth Grade
Week of May 7th
Make sure to mark your calendars with all of the exciting upcoming events in May! We are all looking forward to our field trip, book fair, class parties, and field day, and we hope that you can join us for some of these events.
Your child will attend the Book Fair this week. We would love to see you there! Consider Volunteering for 10% off!
As we are quickly approaching the end of the school year, please keep in mind that the instruction taking place each and every day is very important. We thank you for the continuous support in getting your child ready for 5th grade.
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ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDENS FIELD TRIP: MAY 9th
If you have not done so already, please send in $20, the permission form, and lunch form! We will arrive at the Botanical Gardens around 10 am if you would like to meet us down there! Please email your child's homeroom teacher for more information.
- On the day of the field trip, please send your child to school in their GLO for it shirt, or any CCES shirt to help us distinguish our students from others.
- If you chose to send your child a sack lunch, make sure you send one in that day.
- Feed your child a good breakfast and send in a filling, nutritious snack. We will not be eating lunch until we return that afternoon.
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Looking for ways to keep your student engaged with reading all summer? Then, attend one of our Parent Coffee’s on May 21st at 9am or May 22nd at 10am. Jessica Jackson (media specialist) and Sarah Jones (literacy coach) will host, as well as a librarian from the Milton Library. We will meet in the media center. Hope to see many of you there!
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Dates to remember!
5/4-5/11 Book Fair
5/7-5/11 Teacher Appreciation Week
5/9 Field Trip to Atlanta Botanical Gardens
5/10 Chorus and Orff Concert
5/11 PTO Meeting, 9:30 am
5/17 Field Day
5/18 Walk to School Day
5/23 4th Grade End of Year Party 12:00-1:00
5/24 Last Day of School
5/25 Teacher Work Day
5/28 Memorial Day
5/29-30 Teacher Make-up Days
What we are learning:
MATHEMATICS:
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4.1 Math: ON- Zupancic, O'Connor, Russell/Pappas
In Unit 7, we will be focusing on the topics listed below:
- Units of measurement in metric and customary
- converting between units of measurement
- mesure weight, length, capacity, elapsed time, and angles,
- area and perimeter of regular and irregular shapes
- plot data on a number line
Unit 6:
- Lines (intersecting, parallel, perpendicular)
- Symmetry
- Geometric shapes
- Types of angles
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4.2 Math: ADV Zupancic
We have covered all of 5th grade content for this year. We will work on projects that enrich the content that we have covered this year, as well as spend some time looking forward to what they will cover in the beginning of their 5th grade year.
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5.1 Math: ACC-Russell
In Unit 6, we will be focusing on the topics below:
* metric and customary measurement
* line plots
* volume/cubic volume
*coordinate planes
Log on to IXL 5th Grade for extra practice:
Any Z section
Also, EE.11,12,13
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SCIENCE: In our Ecosystems unit, we will learn about the roles of organisms in their environment and the flow of energy. We will also discuss organism behaviors, external features, and adaptations.
Field Trip: May 9th
Test Date: TBD
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READING WORKSHOP & WRITING WORKSHOP
We are starting our final unit of the year in Reader’s and Writer’s workshop. Students will be working in Historical Fiction book clubs. Each group will study a different time period in history. As a class, we will read the novel, Number the Stars. Ask your child what time period they will be studying in their book clubs!
Lunch times:
Russell & O'Connor
10:50- 11:20
Hanney & Kroll
10:52- 11:22
Zupancic
10:54-11:24
Nut free classrooms:
Conduct Cards
Our conduct cards are used to ensure we're preparing our students to grow, and become independent and responsible. With that being said, conduct cards go home everyday. We need these signed weekly every Wednesday.
Students will get the opportunity to cash in for a coupon after two weeks. In order to cash in for a coupon, the students must have three or less marks, as well as the card being signed on each side.
Fourth grade is something to tweet about!
@MsKrollCCES
@CCES_RUSSELL
@Mspappas_CCES
@MrsHanney_CCES
@Hey_MsZ
@a_oconnor10