4/1-4/5 - Spring Break!
4/8-4/12 - Spirit Week for Testing (Dress up days below)
4/19 - Kindergarten Round Up @ 8am
4/21 - Gwinnett Stripers Game @ 1:05pm
4/25 - Spring Showcase @ 5-7pm
4/26 - Panther House Day
What are we learning this week?
Math
Enhanced
This week, we will continue our final math unit of the year, Unit 6: Geometric and Spatial Reasoning. Our main focuses this week will be angles in triangles, lines of symmetry, and exploring area.
Our target standards this week are 4.GSR.8.1 Explore, investigate, and draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), perpendicular lines, parallel lines, and lines of symmetry. Identify these in two-dimensional figures. 4.GSR.8.2 Classify, compare, and contrast polygons based on lines of symmetry, the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular line segments, or the presence or absence of angles of a specified size and based on side lengths. 4.GSR.8.3 Solve problems involving area and perimeter of composite rectangles involving whole numbers with known side lengths.
Students will have a minor grade on Tuesday on angles and types of lines in shapes. They will also have a practice grade on Friday over symmetry.
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/ Science
Monday through Wednesday, students will continue working on their Civil War project. This project will be due on Wednesday for a Major grade (overall project), Minor grade (important figures), and two practice grades (notes and Clickbook presentation participation). On Thursday, we will start a new Science unit - Unit 6: Ecosystems. We will introduce this unit by discussing the role of producers, consumers, and decomposers. Later, we will discuss how the flow of energy moves through a food chain/ food web/ food pyramid, starting with the sun.
Reading
This week, we will continue Milestones Review and share test taking strategies. Students will be using iReady Milestone Practice Assessments through both whole group collaboration and independently. In the beginning of the week, students will sharpen their skills of determining theme and summarizing. Later on in the week, we will take a look at comparing topics, themes, and events in stories. We will also review language and grammar questions. We will practice multiple choice questions, as well as constructed response.
Standards we will focus on this week:
ELAGSE4RL2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
ELAGSE4RL9: Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
Writing
Monday through Wednesday of this week, students will continue their opinion essay on whether or not elementary students should have cell phones. On Wednesday, this essay will be due for a practice grade. On Thursday and Friday, we will start a new essay to prepare for Milestones. Students will use what they have learned about analyzing a prompt, planning, and writing an opinion essay off of two texts to write an opinion essay independently in a test taking environment. This essay will be written in two writing blocks.
Announcements -
-We hope everyone has a safe and happy Spring Break!
-Spirit Week for Testing is the first week back from Spring Break! (April 8 - 12) Dress up days are as follows: