Mrs. Paul’s 4 th Grade Class

October 17, 2016 4th Grade Vol.1 Issue 8 Reminders Parenting Day – Math Games 10:15-10:45 Monday, October 17th Kona Ice Thursday, October 20th Movie and Popcorn (winning from coin drive) Friday, October 21st Boo Grams October 24th – 28th Character Education Assembly Thursday, October 27th Book Fair Shopping (11 – 11:45) Friday, October 28th Conquest Assembly – drug free Friday, October 28th Freedom Friday (1:05-1:45) Friday, October 28th

All Star Student  Braden October 27 – 21  Taylor October 24 - 28

Dear Parents, Wow! What an amazing week with “Bring your Own Device”, no homework night, long recess, and Popsicle party due to the Coin Drive. We appreciate our wonderful Room Mom, Shannon Gifford, who brought the delicious popsicles for the students. The kids brought in amazing items for Market Day! What treasures we all left with. Friday’s OMHS parade was a blast too. The kids enjoyed dancing to music, seeing the floats, and seeing the different groups walk through. We are looking forward to seeing many of you on Monday for Parenting Day. Breakfast and lunch are wonderful times to spend with your kids. Remember our lunch time is at 12:00. We will also have an opportunity of a classroom visit from 10:15-10:45. We will be playing two math games, so start brushing up on your addition and multiplication facts (to beat your children). The blue progress folders went home again on Friday. Please make sure that your child shows you the papers inside. You will see the Weekly Report, letting you know the behavior and homework choices that your child made the preceding week. Please make sure that your child brings back all of the papers, weekly report, and folder by Wednesday. There are lots of wonderful grades going home again this week! I am so proud of the hard work that the students have shown! Report cards went home on Friday. Please look over the report card, sign it, and return the report card and envelope by Friday, October 21st. There is a lot to celebrate with this smart class A form went home concerning the upcoming Water Festival field trip on Tuesday, December 13th. Please fill out the form and return to the school. We will look for chaperones for this trip after we pull out of a basket for the Montgomery trip. We have some students who need to brush up on their multiplication skills. Here are some math websites for continued multiplication practice. Hopefully these will be helpful! www.multiplication.com/games www.free-training-tutorial.com/times-tables- games.html www.ixl.com/math www.ABCya.com Here are some upcoming activities for our class: Math – Mrs. Paul’s Class and Ms. Campbell’s Class: We continue to focus on Unit 1, Factors, Multiples, and Arrays. Our focus this week will be on multiplication combinations, factors of 100, factors of the multiples of 100, and factors of related numbers. The students should continue to practice with the multiplication cards that they made. There will be a multiplication assessment and an assessment on finding factors and determining prime and composite numbers on Tuesday, October 18th. The students will have the opportunity of working on some more exit tickets this week to glue into their journals. These exit tickets are study guides for the upcoming summative assessment for the whole unit.

Science – Mrs. Paul’s and Ms. Campbell’s Class We will focus on the systems of the human body. The students will create a body systems book and begin investigating the different systems of the body. The students will be using the scientific method with a lab working on digestion.

Social Studies – Mrs. Paul’s Class The students will have an Alabama Dailies Quiz on Friday, and will begin magazine #9 this week. We will be working on the regular Alabama Dailies #9 each morning this week. The students will be working on the Alabama magazine study guide Wednesday and Thursday, and it will be due on Friday.

ELA - Ms. Campbell The kids are wrapping up their nonfiction text features project and we'll begin looking at the difference between visual and textual representation of the same material. We'll be studying the "magic e" syllables. Some guidance has come from the county level about how to assess phonics, so if you help your child study the phonics pattern in the journal, the focus should be on reading words quickly and breaking them into syllables. The assessments will be based on reading the words, not spelling them. Big news! Now that we've had nine weeks to settle into the routine, students will bring home a journal prompt in their red folders. There will be one journal prompt per week, and students will be responsible for completing it by their assigned day. The assigned due dates are staggered to make grading easier. Check the handout for the schedule. The journal prompt will always be for the book they are independently reading at home. This assignment will be explained to the kids on Monday and the information will be coming home with them.

Thank you for your support! Email me if you have any questions Mrs. Paul