From the Classrooms of 23B and 24B
For the Week of Sept 28
In this Issue...
From Mrs. Younce
From Mrs. Johnson
Homework Clarification
Vacations
T-shirts
Prize Donations
From Mrs. Younce
- A family letter was sent home yesterday.
- We did lesson 1.11 today.
- We will complete 1.12 and 1.13 this week.
- I am teaching Mathematical Practices lessons on Fridays. (This is when we practice word problem strategies.)
- We are wrapping up our seed investigations and starting to focus on Washington Forests.
From Mrs. Johnson
This week in reading we are continuing to work out of our first StoryWorks magazine. We are finishing the realistic fiction story we began last week and will next explore a non-fiction article. Our focus while working through this article will be summarizing and answering questions using information from the text to support our thinking.
In writing, students have been drafting scenes out of their story timeline focusing on “showing” the story instead of “telling” it. Another way to say this is that we are writing scenes instead of summaries. We do this by focusing on small actions, using dialogue, and creating drama in our writing. Students are working scene-by-scene and will eventually put all of the scenes together in a published piece.
Homework Clarifications
As a reminder the Unit math packets are supplemental to our math learning. They are not expected to be completed in a week's time. This is one way that students can reach their math minutes and it supports our learning in class. Students have been told that they can bring in the completed packets for dojo points, but that is not required. It will be noted in the weekly newsletters what lessons will covered that week.
Finally, we are trying to be green and so the copies that you received today contain an inadvertent shaded space. We instructed the kids that they could solve this problem by writing on the back or using other creative solutions.
Fourth Grade T-shirts and Apparel
Prize Donations
Upcoming Events
October 2nd - T-Shirts Orders Due
October 7th - Individual Picture Day
October 10th - Missoula Children's Theater Performance
October 17th - LW Color RunOctober 24th - Lifting Literacy Event
Contact Us
Mrs. Younce - mmorlock@tahomasd.us