Wow!  This is our last week of school in 2020!  Our holidays around the world and count down to Winter Break continues!  Encourage your child to participate this coming week by doing the following each day:

Monday 12/14 Wear your pajamas!

Tuesday 12/15 Wear plaid!

Wednesday 12/16 Wear lights, glitter, tinsel, or sparkle!

Thursday 12/17 Wear your favorite winter sweater!

Friday 12/18 Wear a tropical shirt, sunglasses, and flip-flops!

We will be sprinkling fun winter activities connected to our content throughout next week, and have some great information to share as we continue to learn about holidays around the world.  I know the students are excited about the Winter Wonderland party on Friday!  Please help them remember to log in at NOON, not 12:30.

Also, the teachers have a grade-level training Wednesday afternoon so the students will log off at 1:05 when the resource teacher dismisses them.

Important Dates:

12/15 – Southeast States and Capitals Quizzes

12/16 –  Make up IB Writing Prompt (if you missed 12/11)

12/16 –  Jingle Bell Drive Thru 4:00-5:30 pm at GAES (Pick up supply bags for our Winter Wonderland Party on 12/18)

12/17 –  Science Quiz on Adaptations & Ecosystems

12/18 – Word Study Quizzes on List 12

12/18 Noon to 1 pm – Winter Wonderland Party *School will end today at 1:00 pm when the party concludes*

12/21-1/1 – Winter Break!

1/4 – School Resumes, log in to Teams at 8:00 am 🙂

MATH

We will work with ratios this week.  The students will learn to compare two quantities using relationships of part to part, whole to whole, and part to whole.  The students will have notes in their notebooks as well as access to notes in the Student Resources folder.  When we come back from Winter Break we will work with fraction computation.

LANGUAGE ARTS
We have just two chapters left in Running Out of Time.  The students will complete the plot map for this novel for a grade this week.  Our Word Trek quizzes will be on Friday as usual.  This unit is a review unit for lessons 7-11.  The students will also finish their snowman writing this week.

SCIENCE

Our quiz on adaptations and ecosystems will be on Thursday. Please have your child review the notes in their notebooks, their digital notebook, and the study guides in the Student Resources-Science folder. There is a lot of information included in this 4th grade review unit!

SOCIAL STUDIES

Students need to know both where the states are on a map and which capital cities go with each state for their two quizzes on Tuesday. We will then continue learning about the features of the Southeast Region!

It was so fun hearing about your holiday and break activities!  I am glad you and yours enjoyed some quality time together.  We have two more weeks and then we will be on Winter Break!  Time really flies this time of year.

Class Dojo is here!  As an incentive to promote the best from our virtual learning environment, I started our Class Dojo this week.  Students are earning points left and right for being on time, participating, cameras on, completing homework, etc.  I’ll send each parent an email with the Dojo link for their child so you can see how they are doing.  Points accumulate into weekly virtual prizes.

Mr. Elston has requested that the students bring a plastic cup to music on Wednesday.  Mrs. Lucas has requested that the students bring an unopened water bottle, a paper ball, and a small squishy ball to P.E. on Tuesday.

Mr. Beasley, our Innovative Learning Coach, has put together some fun activities and spirit days for the next two weeks to help us learn about holidays around the world and to count down to Winter Break. Encourage your child to participate this coming week by doing the following each day:

Monday 12/7 Wear red and white!

Tuesday 12/8 Wear your favorite shoes!

Wednesday 12/9 Wear blue and white/silver!

Thursday 12/10 Show a picture of how you decorate for the holiday you celebrate!

Friday 12/11 Show something you created and/or wear red and green!

Important Dates:

12/10 – Converting and Ordering Fractions, Decimals, and Percents Test

12/11 – IB Writing Prompt at 9:00 am

12/11 –  Word Study Quizzes on List 11

12/15 – Southeast States and Capitals Quizzes

12/16 – Make up IB Writing Prompt (if you missed 12/11)

12/16 – Jingle Bell Drive Thru 4:00-5:30 pm at GAES (Pick up supply bags for our Winter Wonderland Party on 12/18)

12/17 – Science Quiz on Adaptations & Ecosystems

12/18 – Word Study Quizzes on List 12

12/18 – Noon to 1 pm: Winter Wonderland Party *School will end today at 1:00 pm when the party concludes*

MATH

We will spend this week practicing converting and ordering fractions, decimals, and percents to prepare for the test on this material on Thursday, December 10th.  Please be sure that your student uses their notes to complete the homework each night.  The students should have notes in their notebooks.  There are also notes in the Math folder in the Student Resources folder.  Next week we will begin working with ratios.

LANGUAGE ARTS

We will continue to work with text structures and context clues this week. The students will finish their context clue poster and their figurative language slideshow.  The students will also work on a creative writing piece about snowmen.  It will be fun for us to hear their stories next week!

SCIENCE

We will continue our 4th grade review unit on adaptations and ecosystems.  This week we will review niches and adaptations.  We will have a unit quiz on Thursday, December 17th.  There is a lot of information in this unit, and even though it is review from last year, please make sure your child spends time studying their notes.  There are notes in the Science folder in the Student Resources as well as in their Science notebooks.

SOCIAL STUDIES

We will spend the rest of the year learning about each of the 5 regions of the US in depth.  We are starting off with the Southeast!    Your child will need to know all the states and capitals in the region, so please utilize the flashcards (digital or ones to be printed).  Our quiz on states and capitals will be on Tuesday, December 15th.