Mrs. Paul’s 4 th Grade Class

August 22, 2016 4th Grade Vol.1 Issue 1 Reminders Fall Pictures Tuesday, August 23rd Freedom Friday (Mrs. Allday-1:00-1:45) Friday, August 26th Back to School Splash Saturday, August 27th Parent Night (changed) 5:30 Monday, August 29th Labor Day – No School Monday, September 5th All Star Student  Jude Allday August 22 – 26  Brooks Braswell August 29 – September 2  Analine Clifton September 6 - 9

Dear Parents,

What a terrific week we had. I appreciate all of the wonderful classroom items that have been sent in from the Wish List. We are looking forward to our Back to School Splash at OMIS on Saturday, August 27th. Please take a look at the letter that went home with your child with ticket information. Hope that you can make it for some family fun! The blue progress folders went home for the first time 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 since the start of school. Your child should ask you to sign in two places in the progress folder. Please make sure that your child brings back all of the papers and folder by Wednesday. There are lots of wonderful grades going home this week! The date for Parent Night has changed. We will now be meeting on Monday, August 29th. Miss Campbell’s class and Mrs. Paul’s class will meet in Mrs. Paul’s classroom. We appreciate all of the parents who signed up to bring Parent Night snacks. Please send those in with your children on the morning of Parent Night, if possible. The students will be taking a multiplication assessment this week. 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 Miss Campbell’s Class: We will continue working on Unit 5. Our focus this week will be on place value understanding, rounding, expanding and comparing, and a variety of addition strategies. The students will be working on exit slips for the first time this week. There will be a quiz on Wednesday on what has been covered in the journal so far. Also, the students will be assessed on their multiplication facts that were covered in 3rd grade this week. Science – Mrs. Paul’s and Miss Campbell’s Class The students will continue looking at the scientific method with an experiment with M and M’s. If you are interested in sending in a large bag of plain M+M’s for our class, please send them in on Tuesday. We will also continue our investigation with scientific tools, looking at an article and making two tab books that will be located in the science journal. In the science lab, we will do an experiment on how to keep water cool. The students will have a quiz on Friday, August 26th on the scientific tools.

Social Studies – Mrs. Paul’s Class The students will have a quiz on the SS week #1’s magazine on Tuesday, August 23rd. The students will then begin working on the magazine for week #2. The students will work on week #2 Alabama Dailies. There will be a quiz on Friday, August 26th on week #2.

ELA with Miss Campbell The students are continuing to establish classroom routines while building stamina for independent reading and writing. Students are required to read for 20 minutes every night for homework.

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