We hope you had a great weekend! Here are our fourth grade happenings for this week! Thank you to those of you who have joined us for conferences these last couple of weeks!
Some General Reminders:
- ITBS: New Prospect’s third and fifth graders will participate in standardized testing the week of October 19 - 23. Along with other third and fifth graders throughout the county, they will take the Iowa Test of Basic Skills over that five day period. The testing is generally completed by 11:30 a.m. each day. We cannot have any parent volunteers in the building during ITBS testing because the entire school works to provide the optimum testing environment for our third and fifth graders. The lunch schedule will also be altered during that week, and we ask that parents not come to lunch the week of ITBS. Many of the lunch times occur before testing is finished for the day and parents would not be allowed in the building until after the “testing is complete” announcement is made. We appreciate your understanding and we welcome you back after testing! :)
- Science Lab: 4th grade will have our first science lab of the school year the week of October 12th! Our full schedule is below :) This lab will focus on Stars and Planets in correlation with our upcoming science unit, Unit 3: Stars, Star Patterns, and Planets. THANK YOU for such the wonderful response we have recieved in terms of volunteers - we literally cannot do this with out you! There are still a few slots available, so please check out so please consider signing up on the New Prospect PTA website in order to help out! The link is http://www.nppta.ch2v.com/Content.asp?PageID=14. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
-No school for students on Friday, October 9th and Monday, October 12th due to Columbus Day.
-Picture retakes will be on Thursday, October 8th at school.
Homework for the week of October 5th:
Monday (10/5)
- Reading: Read for 20 minutes and complete reading log
- Social Studies: Quiz on Unit 1 vocabulary
- Language Arts: Study for roots quiz tomorrow!
Tuesday (10/6)
- Reading: Read for 20 minutes and complete reading log
- Math: IXL (Student's will receive specific skill from their math teacher)
- Language Arts: Study for affixes quiz tomorrow!
Wednesday (10/7)
- Reading: Read for 20 minutes and complete reading log
Thursday (10/8)
- Reading: Read for 20 minutes and complete reading log
- Math: Practice Worksheet
Friday (10/9)
- No school for students!
We hope that you have a wonderful week!!
Mrs. Alterman, Ms. Densmore, Ms. Getzfred, Ms. Spaeth