What are we focusing on this upcoming week?
- Writing: Students will continue writing their historical fiction books. It's been great watching these stories come to life over the past 2 weeks! This week, students will focus on elaboration, adding micro-stories, and adding micro-essays to their books.
- Reading: Continue Unit 4: "Reading like a Historian"/Informational
- Standards focused on throughout the unit:
- 3.0_1 Determine the main idea of a text
- 3.0_2 Explain how the main idea is supported by key details
- 3.0_3 Summarize the text
- 3.0_1 Explain events in a historical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text
- 3.0_3 Explain ideas or concepts in a scientific text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text
- 3.0_1: Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text
- RI6 [3.0_1]: Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic
- RI6 [3.0_2]: Describe the differences in focus and the information provided in the firsthand and secondhand accounts • 2.0_2: Identify the firsthand account of an event or topic • 2.0_3: Identify the secondhand account of an event or topic •
- Standards focused on throughout the unit:
- Math:
- 4.1: Begin Unit 5: Fractions & Decimals
- MGSE4.NF.5 Express a fraction with denominator 10 as an equivalent fraction with denominator 100, and use this technique to add two fractions with respective denominators 10 and 100. For example, express 3/10 as 30/100, and add 3/10 + 4/100 = 34/100
- MGSE4.NF.5 Express a fraction with denominator 10 as an equivalent fraction with denominator 100, and use this technique to add two fractions with respective denominators 10 and 100. For example, express 3/10 as 30/100, and add 3/10 + 4/100 = 34/100
- 4.2 (Ms. Smith): Unit 2 Review
- **UNIT 2 TEST FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH**
- 5.1: http://fourthgradenpes.weebly.com/current-51-math-info
- 4.1: Begin Unit 5: Fractions & Decimals
- Social Studies: We will wrap-up our unit on Westward Expansion.
- Science: We will be starting a new science unit about gravity and balanced/unbalanced forces.
Important Dates:
- February 2: Spring Picture Day
- February 7: Club Picture Day
- February 12: Hands on NPE
- February 14-17: Teacher Appreciation Week
- February 17: STEAM Day
- February 18: Teacher Work Day
- February 21: President's Day (No School)
- February 28: Early Release Day (@12:20)
- Young Georgia's Author Competition:
- Once again, it’s time for the annual Young Georgia Author’s Writing Competition sponsored by the Georgia Department of Education. The purpose of this competition is to encourage our K-12 students to develop enthusiasm for and expertise in their writing, provide a context to celebrate their writing success, and recognize student achievement in the arts and academics. All students have worked diligently to improve their writing so we want to encourage all students to participate in this amazing opportunity and showcase their writing talents across our district and throughout the state.
- WHO CAN PARTICIPATE:
- Any student in grades K-5 may submit a writing piece. Each writing piece will be judged and 1 will be selected from each grade level to represent New Prospect at the district level.
- WHAT TO WRITE
- Unlike many writing competitions, the YGA does not provide a prompt to which students must respond or provide any other boundaries to their genre choice or creativity beyond a 1900-word limit. (if typed, double-spaced Times New Roman is preferred).
- Short Stories
- Poetry
- Essays/Literary Criticism/Analysis
- Journalism
- Academic/Research Reports
- Personal Narratives
- Any Other Original Student Writing
- DEADLINE
- Entries + the Entry Form must be submitted to Diana Zarzour on or before February 1st. Entries will be judged the morning of Feb. 2nd and the winning piece per each grade level will be sent to the district that day. (Entry Form attached below)
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. The instructions reference the "original" work, but then they talk about making sure that there is certain header information on each page of the original and the copy.
A. Original work refers to work that the student created without the help of others. System coordinators are asked to verify that each system winner has the proper heading. This information may be handwritten and must be on each page of the entry.
Q. My students collaborated on a writing project. May I submit multiple names for system consideration?
A. YGA is a writing contest for individuals. While we support collaboration in the classroom, only one student per grade level in each school system may advance to the RESA level.
Please contact Diana Zarzour at [email protected] with any questions
- NPE Book Drive:
- We will now be collecting books the week of Feb. 22nd-25th and ALL classrooms will have a time to come select a book on March 2nd.