E-News

I was out at the end of last week getting my son to college, so I promise to get our picture changed as soon as everyone is here and we can get a whole class picture. Just a little bit about what is going on in class: Besides LOTS of beginning of the year assessments...  Reading-We are reviewing strategies that good readers use like making mental images, re-reading and making connections. Continue to make sure your child is "sticking with a book" and reading on his/her just right level. Writing-We have been working on collecting ideas for writing in our binders, online and adding detail to our writing pieces. Sticking to a topic will be a BIG focus this year. We collected memories through our bag reports. We will explore different ways to write about these memories. We took pictures of our memories so encourage the kids to continue to take pictures of memories with their laptops to use as ideas for writing. I have noticed that many of the kids are not using capitals and ending punctuation, this is something that should be mastered by 4th grade, I'm sure many of them are just getting back into the swing, but please remind your child that capitals and ending punctuation MUST be used in 4th grade.   Math-We have just begun a short data collection unit as we review computation and our multiplication facts. Content-We started out just by getting to know each other and are now moving into our study of energy and electricity !  Homework - Please initial the calendar each night to show that you have seen and checked homework. You can see your child's homework on our homework blog, or just ask your child to show you our class homework calendar on their laptop. Also, here is a link to their same calendar >>>*Check our calendar for other important dates.