Week of 1/16

It's hard to believe we are almost half-way through the school year already! We've got benchmark testing coming up, so stay tuned to the agenda and email for more information. Report cards come home February 7th! Remember that you can check your child's grades at your convenience online anytime via ParentVue.


Awesome job with Beary Blue/Purple/Gold last Friday... our class WON for most participation in the 4th grade! :)


Last week, order forms went home for Read Across America Week shirts. Proceeds go towards activities for that week. It would be awesome to have great participation from our class again - there may be contest for the most participation with this fundraiser - I'll keep you posted! All orders are due February 1st  - no late orders will be accepted.

Here's what's coming up this week:
Language Arts: 
Skills/strategies: We are working on being able to differentiate between fact and opinion, while also reviewing main idea in small groups. Below are some great ideas to help your child with reading at home:

 

Math:
We'll continue to work on equality in an equation (balancing equations) and the associative property of addition.  We are also reviewing estimation with addition and subtraction and will also learn to estimate products/quotients and solve multi-step word problems. There is a quiz on Thursday on equality (balancing equations) and estimation! It is critical that students are practicing their facts daily (all basic facts: addition/subtraction/multiplication/division). Lack of fact fluency really slows them down in their computation of larger numbers. 
Students should be bringing home their math notebook any time they have math homework and should be using notes as a guide for the steps.
Remember to use the portaportal site to review math concepts at home: http://www.portaportal.com/ 
I sent the login information via email in the beginning of the year. If you need it again, just email me: devon.day@nn.k12.va.us

Virginia Studies:
We'll continue to learn about the American Revolution - this week we'll learn about the roles that Virginians played in the war, as well as the Battle of Great Bridge and the victory at Yorktown. We started a booklet today that we'll finish tomorrow and should be reviewed daily before the test next Wednesday. I will send home the notebook daily so students can continue to review notes since it's a lot of information to learn. Be sure to have conversations about what they're learning to help it stick! :) Stay tuned to the agenda for upcoming assessment dates!