This Week in Fourth Grade

February 11, 2018

Things continue to roll in fourth grade!  Please don't forget that Wednesday is Valentine's Day.  The list of names was shared earlier this month here on the blog and a paper version was made available to everyone.  Please let us know if you have any questions.


We have been trying to hold students accountable for completing their homework on time.  Each Monday it is your child's responsibility to glue in a homework slip and take the pages that they need for homework that week.  It is also your child's responsibility to have a teacher check their homework planner on Monday.  Many children are not taking that responsibility on themselves and in turn many children are not turning in homework on the day that it is due.  We will continue to work on this at school, but would also appreciate any help and/or reminders you can give your child at home.

If your child is absent (especially on a Monday), it is his/her responsibility to remember to ask/get the homework slip and homework for the week.

The great thing about the way that we have our homework set up is that very rarely is a paper due the very next day.  This allows the students a chance to plan out when he/she would like to complete the work.  The paragraph writing is set up specifically so that it will not overwhelm the students.

Thank you in advance for helping your child plan out his/her homework for the week on Monday when it comes home.

The Margin Project

This week in reader's workshop we have really focused on building our love of reading and our stamina.  One way to do this was by introducing the Margin Project.  A number of books in our classroom were marked with a special sticker indicating that students were allowed to highlight and write the thoughts they had in the margins of the book.  This book, along with its comments could then be read by other students, beginning a small discussion within the margins of the book as others added to the comments.  These particular books flew off the shelves this week as everyone clamored to read them!  I will continue to add more books to this basket over the next several weeks.  Below are pictures of students participating in the Margin Project.

Book Orders

Book orders are due on Wednesday of this week.  Our class code is H3M9C.  A lot of students have started falling in love with series that may not be offered in this month's catalog.  The good news is that you can also search for other titles that may be in other order forms that aren't sent home.  If there is a particular book you are looking for, let me know!  The scholastic book order is the only way I am able to order new books for our classroom, so the more orders that come in, the more books we are able to put into the hands of students here in the classroom!

Math Workshop
We will be finishing up our Geometry unit this week.  Last week we spent a lot of time finding smaller angles within larger angles.  We were able to make connections to what we learned back in September when we were using a tape diagram and thinking about parts and wholes.  The kids will be taking the assessment later this week.

Have a great week!

Jen and Jaime