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 5:00pm-7:00pm
3/29 - House Day (Wear House Shirts / Colors!)
3/29 - Fun Run
What are we learning this week?
Math
Enhanced
This week, students will be practicing with using protractors to determine angle measurements. Our main standards of focus this week are: 4.GSR.7.1 Recognize angles as geometric shapes formed when two rays share a common endpoint. Draw right, acute, and obtuse angles based on the relationship of the angle measure to 90 degrees. / 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. On Friday, we will go through the Unit 5 Study Guide in class and clear up any misconceptions. The study guide is also posted to our Weebly under Math. Our test for this unit is on March 20th.
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 continue on Unit 4 - The Civil War. We will be discussing the Election of Abraham Lincoln, Secession, Causes of the Civil War, important figures in the War and Fort Sumter. Students will start a Civil War project. They will show what they know about the causes, events, important figures, and effects of The Civil War. This project will be both a major grade and a minor grade.
Reading
This week, we will apply our strategies and skills learned to read and analyze poetry. We will be reading a variety of different poems this week to guide our instruction. Our focuses this week are on theme, poetry structure, summarizing, sensory & figurative language, and character perspective.
Writing
This week, students will continue the informational essay we started. The prompt of this essay is to 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 provide text evidence in their essays. This week, we will plan and write two body paragraphs using the PEEL strategy (Point, Evidence, Elaboration, Link).
Announcements -
-Students do not have school on Monday (3/11) or Tuesday (3/12) due to Teacher Workdays.
-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]
23-24_online_study_and_assessment_guides_directions-_math.pdf |
23-24_gr4_ela_study_guide.pdf |