Fourth Grade News:
Updated on 5/22/2008 for the week of May 27, 2008
Elementary Parent Handbook: Please review at your convenience.
Elementary Curriculum : Click here for a curriculum guide to fourth grade.
| Writing: We will begin to write Memoirs this week. Our focus will be on reflecting on different events in our lives that evoke strong memories. This unit will last approximately 5-6 weeks. This past week we focused on adding feelings to our Memoirs. Students should have a collection of memoirs that they have written in class. This week we will look at how authors have ended their memoirs and we will rewrite endings to the memoirs we have completed in our writer's notebooks. The timelines have been very helpful in providing the children with special memories to write about. Thanks for your help in completing them. |
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Math: We will be reviewing topics in math from the year year this week. Please continue to practice multiplication facts for speed and accuracy! |
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Events: The
children had a wonderful time on the field trip to Fort William Henry. Thank
you to
Mr. Gardner, Mr. Potter, Mrs. Kuhl (Grandma
:), Mr. Munger, and Mr. Finck. for taking the time to help out.
Our next field trip is June 3 to the Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown. http://www.farmersmuseum.org/ Our chaperones for that trip are: Mrs. Greenberg, Mr. Lavin, Mrs. Lavin, Mr. Gardner, Mrs. Munger, Mr. Munger, Mr. Schultz and Mr. Iavarone. More information will be coming home soon. Thanks! if you are interested in joining us for this trip, please let me know!! There is no limit on the number of chaperones. Last year the cost was ~$10 for adults. Carpooling is recommended as there will be no space on the buses. We need to take charter buses and need to fit all five classes onto two buses. Field Day is June 11th. Please fill out the form if you can help out and return it to the coaches. The concert is May 28th at 7PM. |
| Book It: Book it is now over for the year. |
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Book Club Orders:
(Ordering is now available online!)
Orders are due: __________________ To order online, go to the Web address below and enter our class’s personalized user name and password. Click on the link below and use the Class user name: missnelson216 and Password: grade4arongen |
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Spelling: All
words should be written in cursive 3x each for homework on Tuesday night. We
are studying words that are spelled with al or le this week
(Theme 5, Week 2). The spelling test will be given on Friday. (click on link above to view spelling lists by theme) |
| Social Studies: We are studying Chapter 7 and have learned about the Erie Canal, the changing frontier of New York, and new ways to travel and communicate in New York State. This week we will complete the district DBQ on the Erie Canal. Students will complete this DBQ independently. Next week we will learn about the Industrial Revolution, Slavery and the Civil War. The test on Chapter 7 will be sometime during the week of June 9th. |
| Science: We will be learning about Simple Machines. It is our last unit this year! |
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