4th Grade Newsletter
Monday, February 17, 2019
Stay connected with the 4th Grade Team
Student Holiday/Teacher Professional Development Day
Monday, Feb 17, 2020, 07:30 AM
O C Taylor Elementary School, Pool Road, Colleyville, TX, USA
Student Led Conferences
Wednesday, Feb 19, 2020, 04:00 PM
O C Taylor Elementary School, Pool Road, Colleyville, TX, USA
Choir
Thursday, Feb 20, 2020, 03:00 PM
O C Taylor Elementary School, Pool Road, Colleyville, TX, USA
Interim Math Testing
Monday, Feb 24, 2020, 08:00 AM
O C Taylor Elementary School, Pool Road, Colleyville, TX, USA
Interim Reading Test
Tuesday, Feb 25, 2020, 08:00 AM
O C Taylor Elementary School, Pool Road, Colleyville, TX, USA
Sky Ranch Meeting
Thursday, Mar 5, 2020, 05:00 PM
O C Taylor Elementary School, Pool Road, Colleyville, TX, USA
Portrait of a Graduate
Thursday, Mar 5, 2020, 06:30 PM
O C Taylor Elementary School, Pool Road, Colleyville, TX, USA
Curriculum
Humanities
READING
Poetry
The students are learning about figurative language while reading Poetry. The students will also use inferencing to identify the Main Idea of the poem. Lastly, the students will write their own poems about a topic of their choice.
WRITING
Expository
The students will review how to write compound and complex sentences to improve their writing. They will also continue writing an expository about one type of hard work you do. Tell about your work and explain why it is so hard to do.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Texas History
The students will finish their Timeline of Texas' Independence. They will pick one event during Texas' Independence and create a product telling us more about that event.
Science/Math
SCIENCE
Weather
The students will learn how to measure, record, and predict changes in weather. The students will learn how to explain the tool to use to measure weather.
MATH
Measurement
The students will practice using and converting Customary and Metric measurements for length, weight/mass, capacity/liquid volume, and intervals of time (elapsed time). The students will also practice finding perimeter of all shapes and area of a square and rectangle.
*Have your child practice his/her multiplication facts or the IXL app each night for at least ten minutes.
Announcements & Reminders
iPads Charged
Recorders For Music
Dear 4th Grade students and parents,
Hooray!!!! Our recorders are finally here and will go home with students this week. Beginning Tuesday, Nov. 12, you will be responsible for bringing your recorder and your recorder book to music EVERY DAY!!!! You might also want to put together a recorder folder (binder or pocket folder) to keep any loose recorder worksheets/song sheets. Your Music conduct grade will be lowered if you forget your instrument/book more than 3 times in a 9 week grading period. Keep your recorder and book in your backpack so it’s always ready on Music days.
Students may leave their recorder/book in the music room the week they have music, but all students are expected to take their instrument home on Fridays so they can clean their instrument and practice their music. Your instrument comes with a cleaning rod, but I STRONGLY recommend throwing this cleaning rod in the trash can!!! If you use the rod to push Kleenex or paper towel into the barrel of the instrument and it gets stuck it is VERY hard to get it out. You can clean your instrument by swishing it around in a sink full of warm, slightly soapy water.
Please let me know if you have any questions. You are going to LOVE learning to play the recorder!!
Mrs. Vencill
Music Teacher, O.C. Taylor Elem.
Sky Ranch Volunteer Background Check for Chaperones
Important Information to Note
Interim Testing Math/Reading
Save the Date- Sky Ranch Informational Meeting
Telescoping Information
The window to register to test for math telescoping is February 14-March 2, 2020.
The spring telescoping test will take place on Saturday, April 18, 2020.
There is a second registration window in May for a late June testing opportunity.