The Bissinger Beacon
October 21, 2016
Science
Reader's Workshop
4B listened to fluent reading in order to understand new vocabulary. Thinkers made inferences about story characters to predict how they might change. After laughing over a quick "The Grinch" movie clip, students identified character traits the Grinch possessed. We identified four ways a character is revealed: appearance, actions, words, and how other characters react to him/her.
Reader’s can use cause and effect to track plot events. 4B loved listening to "Camp Grenada" and highlighting all the crazy cause and effect moments! We used context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and identified the four types of sentences used in writing and speaking. Book clubs are having a blast identifying theme, studying author’s craft and evaluating character motives. Ask your child to summarize their book club novel!
Writer's Workshop
Math
S.S.
Cedar Run
As part of our “Organisms and Environments” science unit, the fourth grades will be visiting Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge Center on Friday, November 18, 2016. We will depart from Tatem around 9:00 AM and return by 2:00pm.
We are going paperless! There is no need for you to send back a paper permission form as all signatures will be electronic. Permission forms must be signed electronically by November 4th. Please have your child bring in $13.75 cash in a clearly marked envelope for the trip. I have attached a letter about the field trip with more information for you to read.
Just follow the steps below:
· Login into the Genesis Parent Portal
· Select your 4th grader from the drop-down menu (this applies only if you have more than 1 child in the school district)
· Click on the Documents tab at the top of the screen.
· Click on and read the Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge Center
· Click on the back button (arrow) and click the green bar that reads, “I have read the field trip form and grant my child permission to attend.”
Once you have clicked this green button, the form is complete.
I would love to have 5 parent volunteers join us! If you are available to join us on November 18th from 8:45-2:00 PM, please email me. I will randomly draw names and will let you know either way. The cost will be $9.00 per adult.