The Stoffle Gazette
August 23, 2019
News from this week
Dear Parents,
We had a busy week with several daily grades. Overall the students did well and are really getting into the tempo of 4th grade. I will be putting grades into the grade book as they come in, so you should be able to start checking the portal to keep up to date with how your child is doing in class. Fourth grade is a big jump from 3rd so please make sure to check your child's Friday Folder every week for all the things coming home, and review any papers where they seemed to have difficulty.
We will be having our math test on Place Value and Rounding on Tuesday. Please have your child practice this weekend if they had difficulty on the study guide. Our next unit will be Multiplication, so please be sure to have your child practice the multiplication facts. There are many online practice games for multiplication. You can find links on my e-class page. It is essential that they know these well in order to do well in this next unit.
I have also scheduled our Social Studies test on the Road to the Revolution for Thursday. Your child should bring home their Social Studies notebook each night in order to study nightly. We move through Social Studies quickly in 4th grade and it is a lot of content. I also have lots of materials on my eClass, including the presentations I do in class. If your child can review nightly, they should do well on the tests.
Open House for 4th and 5th grade will be held next week on Thursday, August 29th from 6:30-7:30 pm. I look forward to seeing you there!
Our reading program has started and reading logs are due every Monday. Please make sure to sign your child's reading log every week or else it will not be counted. Also, if you decide to submit the reading log online, please send me an email by Monday morning. I do not get a list of online submissions, so I need to get the confirmation of submission from the parents.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Stoffle
Coming up next week
Reading: We will continue our unit on Greek Mythology.
Writing: We will continue drafting a narrative piece.
ELA: We will have a daily grade covering basic parts of speech, progressive tense and complete sentences next Friday. We will review a little each day.
Math: We will start our unit on multiplication after our Unit 1 Test on Tuesday.
Science: We will start our unit on Ecosystems after we finish our Road to Revolution Unit.
Social Studies: We will have our Road to Revolution Unit test on Thursday.
Other Important Information
Gwin Oaks Elementary invites you to attend
Curriculum Night
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Monday, August 26 – 1st
Tuesday, August 27 – 2nd & 3rd
Thursday, August 29 – 4th & 5th
Spelling Words and Root of the Week
Most weeks students will learn a new Greek/Latin Root.
Every week students will receive a list of sight words for review. Once these words have been introduced, students are responsible for spelling them correctly in their writing.
Spelling Words of the Week:
young
among
strong
girl
gone
longer
begin
glass
language
bring
anything
morning
gold
Important Dates
8/26 Sight Word Daily Grade
8/27 Math Unit 1 Test
8/29 Social Studies Unit 1 Test
8/29 4th Grade Curriculum Night 6:30
8/30 Mentor Sentence Daily Grade
9/02 Labor Day - No School
9/12 Sparkles Skate Night
9/17 Culver's Spirit Night
Reminders
* Please study Math Multiplication facts every night
* Students have HW every night (Mon-Thurs.).* Ice cream is sold on Fridays for $1.00
Birthdays
August
7 Ms. Stoffle
16 Angeltina
20 Christien
24 Siah