Happy Thursday!!! Well, winter is definitely here! It gave us a nice teaser then BOOM it's back. It started as a big storm and now it is down to minor snow amounts but bitter cold. I am looking forward to a blanket, coffee, finishing a puzzle then moving on to finishing a book and starting another! Yesterday I had to go to Des Moines for an appointment for Molly and I got us both book journals. We are going to start keeping track of the books we read this year. We went to Barnes and Noble and I found a book but she did not. I spent a gift card I received at Christmas which was fun!! Thank you!
Language Arts- This week is week 15 for stories. The story this week was called Ecology for Kids. This is a pretty dry story. It is all informational text. The kids are not overly excited about this one. It does talk about things we can do to save the Earth or to be better to the Earth. In grammar we talked about irregular verbs, the "be" verb, and helping verbs. The vocabulary strategy was on context clues and focused on multiple meaning words. We also talked about 3 syllable words and how to decode them or break them apart into syllables. Students should study their yellow packets of vocab words tonight and spelling words. Next week will be a Unit Test. This is a benchmark test so there are several stories to read but same amount of questions. I will visit with the students about taking their time and finding the answers and highlighting them. This will force them to look back into the stories. I will also look at questions and see if there are any that I can remove because they don't really fit with what we have learned. We will have a lot of reading to ourselves time next week. We will also do a lot of handwriting practice and hopefully some journal writing.
Math - We have learned 2 strategies to multiply double-digits. We will do a Mid Chapter Check point today and check it tomorrow. This just makes sure they are understanding all the concepts in the first half of the lesson before we move on. Next week we will focus on the regrouping strategy which is the standard algorithm that you learned as a kid. We will spend as much time needed on this strategy. We will be finishing this chapter up in the next couple of weeks.
Social Studies - We took a test this week on Chapter 5 and are no beginning chapter 6 The Southeast. We will be learning some of the same things about this region as we did the last. Products that come from there, natural resources found there, Native Americans that lived there, what the land is like and climate of that area. We will put the states in Interactive Notebooks, have map tests over states and capitals and continue our map skills activities. It will be a very busy Unit. They seem to really be enjoying learning about the country they live in. They say it is fun.
Biz Town - In our child's folder is a letter about attending BizTown. This will be the Field Trip for the 4th and 5th graders this year. Please read the letter. The work for this day will begin soon in the classrooms. It is a great way for them to learn financial literacy skills and then put them into use.
Spirit Day - Remember tomorrow is a spirit day! What a great snowy day to wear sweatpants for $1. This money goes to our Pay it Forward fund. We use this fun to buy food when a teacher loses a grandparent or parent, and also we send snack baskets to other schools in the event of a tragedy. It is a great cause please join in and help raise money.
I hope all of you have a warm and safe weekend!
God Bless,
Mrs. Sickels
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