4th Grade Newsletter
January 23, 2015
Important Dates
- Tuesday, January 27: Science Vocab Quiz #10
- Wednesday, January 28: ELA Spelling Quiz #3
- Friday, January 30: Science Fair Written Report Due (Check Portal for Guidelines)
- Friday, January 30: Dress Down Day: Wacky Tacky Day
- Friday, January 30: Reading Quiz
Student Council Fundraiser, Pennies For Change: collect money until Thursday, February 5th. The class that raises the most money wins a pizza party, the 2nd place class wins an ice cream party, and 3rd place wins a popcorn party!
Please help out this great charity by encouraging your students to bring in money! We accept more than just pennies and can accept checks too. Thanks for your support!!
NWEA Learning Pathways: lessons in Study Island are linked to your child's MAP score; if all students in homeroom complete at least 15 questions in each section (and pass with a blue ribbon!) the class will get a pizza party.
Students will need their recorders for music class. If they have not purchased a recorder you may contact mrocca@fsaelementary.org for more information.
Reading
Accelerated: This week students have begun working in depth with Tuck Everlasting. Students will work with Tuck Everlasting and their inactive notebooks for the remainder of the quarter. To supplement classroom discussion, interactive notebooks will help students with comprehension, abstract, vocabulary, and writing skills Notebooks will be checked weekly for a grade. Friday, January 30 will be a quiz day over Tuck Everlasting material covered in class and the previous mythology unit.
In order to build strong reading comprehension and fluency skills, students should read a non-curriculum book of their choosing for at least 20 minutes every day. Reading logs for all classes are due Monday, January 26.
ELA
Spelling Quiz #3 and spelling homework packets are due 1/28/15.
Word list: toil, faucet, boyhood, choice, dawn, awful, foist, daughter, flaw, annoyed, royal, allow, destroy, blew, spoon, shampoo, brown, renew, wooden, auction.
Accelerated: Students will continue and complete their personal narratives this week. Each student will describe a personal story about trying something new. They will focus on bringing their characters to life, creating a sequence of events that make logical sense, and writing beginnings that utilize the media strategy, "what's trending now" or action leads. Essays will be turned in at the end of class on 1/30/15.
Spelling Quiz #3 and spelling homework packets are due 1/28/15.
Word list: counter, fraud, oyster, appoint, drawn, awning, laundry, feud, shawl, jewel, royalty, powder, annoying, cashew, scoop, bamboo, browse, ointment, rooster, rescue.
Math
Accelerated: Next week in math, we are starting Unit 6: 2D Figures. Students will begin looking at different angles and polygons and their attributes.
All Classes: The next Facts Quiz will be on Friday, February 6.
Science
Next week the students will need to build their 3D model of a piece of space technology. They are allowed to build anything but some ideas are: a telescope, the Hubble Telescope, the James Webb Telescope, a Mars Rover, the ISS or a Space Shuttle. On Tuesday we will have Vocab Quiz #10 and we will complete a brief study of Meteors, Meteoroids and Meteorites. We will finish the week with our initial discussions of the rotation and revolution of Earth.
Helpful Links:
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Dwa_Ceres
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/DawnClassrooms/dwarf_planet/
http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/index.htm
http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/
http://www.slideshare.net/KatParker1724/heliocentric-vs-geocentric-models
http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/lipperhey.html
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/faculty/shildreth/astronomy/geoanswers.html
http://www.solarsystemscope.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnTaAoWs-Mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd_EIdZrvaU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGSNQfxEGds
http://www.space.com/54-earth-history-composition-and-atmosphere.html
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/menu/play/
https://www.brainpop.com/science/space/
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/kids/
http://neave.com/planetarium/app/
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/#.VLAXhCvF_kU
http://www.kidsastronomy.com/stars.htm
Social Studies
This upcoming we will study all about the Declaration of Independence, including who wrote it, how it was written, why it was necessary and how it was a response to the abuse of power by the British. After that , we will explain the major battles of the war in the north, how Europe affected the war and ultimately we will learn about the results of the Revolutionary War and how the Americans won the war.
Our American Revolution Test will be on Monday Feb.9th.
Road to Revolution Game:
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/road.html
Liberty's Kids:
http://www.libertyskids.com/pt_aboutshow.html
All episodes are available on Youtube.
Fulton Sunshine Academy
Email: info@fsaelementary.org
Website: http://fultonsunshine.org/
Location: 1335 Northmeadow Parkway, Suite 100, Roswell, GA, United States
Phone: (770) 410-1500
Facebook: facebook.com/FultonSunshineAcademyElementarySchool
Twitter: @FSAElementary
Mrs. Dempsey
Email: ndempsey@fsaelementary.org