Friday, August 26, 2022

We wish you a beautiful 4 1/2 day week and Labor Day week end! This Friday, 9/2/ is a half day and there is no school Monday, 9/5.

NOTE:  Curriculum Night: Wednesday, 8/31, 6:30pm-8pm. Parents will start for a general 3-5 meeting in the MPR.  Please plan to be there.  Hearing what we will share about fourth grade will make the whole year go smoother and provide a foundation for you to have a common bond about what your children will be experiencing and learning this year. IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION you would like your teacher to address at Curriculum Night please e-mail those by Tuesday, Aug 30.

Wednesday clubs have begun.  Pick up time is immediately at 2:00pm and 3:00pm.  Please make sure your children know what club you have signed them up for and when you will pick them up.  Note that students with last names ending in A-M are on the parking lot and M-L are on the building side. 

ROOM PARENTS NEEDED:  Some fourth grades are in need of  PSO Liaison/ Room Parent volunteers.  If you are interested please reach out to your child's teacher.  

Watch this short video with your child about Personality vs. Character and discuss how it relates to Archway's Core Virtues (found in student agendas).

MATH

This week we will be solving 1-2 step word problems using addition and subtraction of  multi-digit numbers.  We will be sharing how to use bar models to help students visualize the word problems and figure out the operations needed to compute the correct answer. The Unit 2 test over addition/subtraction of multi-digit numbers is Friday, Sept. 2nd.

Parents- Please watch this video explaining the bar model method with your child.  Scholars will be expected to solve addition and subtraction problems using a bar model, expression, work and a sentence for this Friday's test.

SCIENCE

 We will be continuing our chemistry unit.  It will be a very interactive week with cool demonstrations and experiments to spark wonder and search for truth.  

 Language Arts 

     Grammar – We are introducing adverbs. Students analyze and diagram simple sentences. There is a Parts of Speech grammar quiz on Thursday that will cover nouns, pronouns, verbs, and adverbs. Students will make flashcards to help them memorize the definitions. 

     Writing– Continue writing key details in long texts. This week we have a graded summary and a graded dictation covering a text about chemistry and atoms.  Scholars focus on a good sentence, expressing a complete thought, containing a subject noun and a predicate.

     Poetry – The new poem is "The Moon" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Students will recite this in the front of their classmates by Friday, September 9th. This poem is on a small piece of paper and located in their clear plastic envelope. Click the link to the side for the poem.

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     Literature – Wonderful Wizard of Oz chapters 13-17 are read this week. Students will need to bring in the next literature selection, Pollyanna. We begin this the week after Labor Day. Parent reading groups will start in September. Please look for a signup from your class liasons.

Latin & Greek Roots – THIS WEEK THE SPELLING TEST IS ON THURSDAY. Students will have a spelling test on root derivatives of “co" and "contra". Click the list to the right side for the 10 words. Students should know all previous root meanings (pre, post, unus, mono, poly, bi, tri, quad). We make flashcards each week. All flashcards are stored in the clear plastic envelope that should be in their YELLOW folder. Please ask your student to show you their flashcards. They have worked very hard on these and should spend a few minutes every night going through each one as well as ALL flashcards.

 Reading - Make sure your students are reading a 150+ page chapter book, at the rate of about 150 pages every week to week and a half.  They then record this in their Roots Journal on their Book List page.

 

HISTORY

We begin our study of mountains of the world.