3/4 - 3/8 - Exceptional Children's Week (Dress Up Days Below)
3/5 - Daffodil Ceremony at 1:30pm
3/8 - Exceptional Children's Week Performance (8:00-9:15 am)
Looking Ahead...
3/11 & 3/12 - No School For Students (Teacher Workdays)
3/18 - Atlanta History Center Field Trip
3/20 - Brain Building
3/20 - Enhanced Unit 5 Math Test
3/21 - Boosterthon Assembly
3/22 - Unit 5 Reading Test
3/22 - Spring Family Event
3/29 - House Day
3/29 - Fun Run
What are we learning this week?
Math
Enhanced
This week, students will be discovering angles as fractions of a circle. Students will have a practice grade on Tuesday over finding angles measurements in circles. On Thursday, students will be introduced to 360-degree protractors and how to use them. The standard we are focusing on this week is: 4.GSR.7.2 Measure angles in reference to a circle with the center at the common endpoint of two rays. Determine an angle's measure in relation to the 360 degrees in a circle through division or as a missing factor problem.
Accelerated
For information on what our students are learning in accelerated, please follow this link,
- - - - - Welcome to 4th Grade at NPE! - - - - - - Accelerated Math Info (weebly.com)
Social Studies
This week, we will dive into Unit 4 - The Civil War. We will be learning about and discussing The Women's Suffrage Movement, Equal Rights, conflict and compromise between the North and South, Uncle Tom's Cabin and John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry. On Thursday, students will take notes on the Civil War which will be taken as a practice grade.
Reading
In the beginning of this week, we will read Historical Fiction texts, while discussing point of view and perspective, character, dialogue, and text evidence. Students will apply the skills they have learned with a minor grade on a Historical Fiction passage on Monday. On Wednesday, we will introduce new Expository Texts to target summarizing, text features & structure, authors craft, and theme. Students will be introduced to new vocabulary.
Writing
This week, students will start a new informational essay using the material we have reviewed. Students will first analyze the prompt - Write an informational essay that explains the similarities between two sea animals, Sailfish and Bottlenose Dolphins. Students will review two sources to gather information about these sea animals and decide on evidence they want to include in their essays. Students will plan for their essays and we will continue to review strategies for writing an introduction and body paragraph of informational essays.
Announcements -
-This year we will be taking GA Milestones between April 29th-May 10th. The GA Department of Education has created study guides that you can use as a resource for home. The ELA study guide is attached as a paper version, but they have transitioned the math study guides and 5th grade science to their online platform. Directions for how to access the study guides are attached and you will go to the following website to view them and take the practice assessment: https://www.gaexperienceonline.com/
If you have questions for how to access the additional parent resources please contact our CST Diana Zarzour at [email protected]
-It is Exceptional Children's Week at NPE next week! Please see the infographic below to see the dress up days. On Friday, students will watch the Exceptional Children's Week Performance.