Weeks of May 6-10 & 13-17

It is hard to believe that the end of the school year is coming up!  Students will have the chance to show off all that they have learned this year as they take the Virginia SOL assessments on the following days:

  • Thursday, 5/9 – Reading SOL Part 1
  • Friday, 5/10 – Reading SOL Part 2
  • Thursday, 5/16 – Math SOL Part 1
  • Thursday, 5/17 – Math SOL Part 2
  • Wednesday, 5/22 – Virginia Studies SOL

Thank you for helping to keep your child focused throughout the last few weeks. Please encourage your child to review at home and to work carefully on all homework assignments.

 

*Important Announcements*

*Jamestown Outreach Program:  Last week we had a visitor from the Jamestown Outreach Program come to our classroom and do a lesson with the students.  This was a very fun hands-on activity that allowed the students to review the cultures of Jamestown.  If you have not done so already, please send in $1.25 by Friday, May 10th to help pay for this program.

*Pictures:  If you have not done so already, please either return the pictures your child brought home or you may pay for them.

*SPES Spring Carnival:  Information went home about the Spring Carnival that we will have on May 31st this year. Please consider signing up for this fun event because we can’t have it unless we have adults helping out. Sign-ups are on MySchoolAnywhere. Please consider creating our class’s carnival game or teaming up with another family from our class and taking on this task together. Please reach out to me our our room parents with questions.  Thank you!!

*Field Day:  As you know, Field Day has been rescheduled for Thursday, June 6th.  Sign-ups for volunteers are happening on MySchoolAnywhere. If you are planning on attending Field Day, please consider volunteering some of your time.

Since Field Day will be different this year, here is some information that Mr. Grey provided in “The Buzz” to help you understand what it will be like:

Field Day 2019 will be an all-day event with grade levels and classes rotating around to multiple activities inside and outside of the school building. These are activities are:

1. Field Events at the Short Pump Park football field (next door to the school)

2. Sidewalk Games on the sidewalk leading up to Short Pump Park

3. Fun Run activity on the track behind the school

4. Kids Heart Challenge (Jump Rope for Heart) in the gymnasium inside the school

5. Taekwondo Training Session in the cafeteria inside of the school

Each grade level will be rotating to each activity at different times and has a lunch built in to their schedule. Students have the option to bring in their own lunch or order bagged lunches from the cafeteria. You will be receiving a note home from the cafeteria staff about orders for lunches.

All of fourth grade will be having lunch in the parent drop off/parent pickup area. There is a nice shady area where we will all eat our lunch. Please bring a blanket and your lunch and join us for lunch on Field Day.

 

*What Are We Doing in Class?*

*Reading:

Our 4th grade Reading SOL test is this week.  It will be broken up into 2 days – Thursday 5/9 and Friday 5/10.  We will spend the last 3 days before the test reviewing skills and strategies and test-taking tips.  Students will also spend time working on their writing and reading independently during rotations.

*Math:

Our 4th grade Math SOL test is next week.  It will also be broken up into 2 days – Thursday 5/16 and Friday 5/17.  We will continue reviewing this week.  Please check in with your child each night to make sure that they are taking their time on homework. Please encourage your child to use his or her notebook if they need help on assignments and any concepts they have forgotten.  Thank you for your support!  Here is the planned schedule of how we will be reviewing:

  • Monday 5/6:  Fractions review – all concepts
  • Tuesday 5/7:  *Fractions & Decimals “Checkpoint” Review Quiz ; Graphing Review
  • Wednesday 5/8:  Measurement review
  • Thursday 5/9:  Geometry review
  • Friday 5/10:  Patterns/Equalities/Properties review
    • *Measurement & Graphing “Checkpoint” Review Quiz
  • Monday 5/13:  *Geometry, Patterns, Equalities, Properties “Checkpoint” Review Quiz
  • Tuesday 5/14 & Wednesday 5/15:  Review of tools and strategies for the SOL test
  • Thursday 5/16 & Friday 5/17:  *Math SOL Test*
*Social Studies:

Our Virginia Studies SOL Test is Wednesday, May 22nd.  We will be reviewing for the test by going through each unit and reviewing the most important concepts we learned this year.  Here is the planned schedule of how we will be reviewing for the SOL test:

  • Monday 5/6:  VS.2abc Virginia Geography
  • Tuesday 5/7:  Virtual Lesson with the Virginia Museum of History & Culture
  • Wednesday 5/8:  VS.2d-g Virginia Indians
  • Thursday 5/9:  VS.3abc – Jamestown
  • Friday 5/10:  VS.3d-g Jamestown
  • Monday 5/13:  *VS.2 & VS.3 Review Quiz ; Review of VS.4 Colonial Virginia
  • Tuesday 5/14:  VS.5 American Revolution
  • Wednesday 5/15:  VS.6 New Nation
  • Thursday 5/16:  *VS.4-6 Review Quiz ; Review of VS.7a Civil War
  • Friday 5/17:  VS.7b & c Civil War ; Virginia People Quiz
  • Monday 5/20: VS.8 Reconstruction
  • Tuesday 5/21:  Strategies / timeline review for SOL
  • Wednesday 5/22:  Virginia Studies SOL Test
*Science:

This week we will continue our plant unit by learning about the process of photosynthesis. Please encourage your child to be working on all of the vocabulary words associated with this unit.

 

Have a good week!

-Mrs. Jacobsen

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