December 14 – 18, 2020

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!