February 14th- (Optional) Valentine Exchange
February 15th- Brain Building
February 20th- Presidents Day (No School)
February 21st- Teacher Work Day (No School)
February 24th- House Day! Wear house colors
February 24th, 25th, 26th- School Play
February 25th- Hands on NPE
February 27th-March 4th- Teacher Appreciation Week!
Upcoming Tests:
- Unit 4 Reading Test- February 14th
- (4.1) Math: Unit 5 Test- February 17th
Guest Speaker for NPE Parents Next Week
We are excited to host Laurie Nicholson, an Alpharetta Police Detective for a parent info session on Internet Safety and Internet Hygiene on Friday, February 17th from 10-11 in the Design Lab. This talk is for our NPE parents (adults only).
(Optional) Valentine’s Exchange February 14th
Your homeroom teacher will send a list of names in your student’s homeroom class, and students may choose to bring in Valentines on February 14th. This is optional, but if they choose to bring in Valentines, they must bring one for every student in the class! Please be mindful of nut allergies.
NPE Book Drive
We are hosting our annual NPE book drive February 15-24 for Read Across America Day! Students can drop off their new and gently used books on the tables outside Loftus’ office in the mornings. All of the books will be housed in P-153 for parent volunteers to sort and organize, and on March 2, students will get to “shop” for a book to keep.
Walks for Water Fundraiser & Event Registration
We had middle schoolers returned to our 4th and 5th grade classes and presented about the importance of having access to clean water and informed us of countries that do not have easy access to clean water.
They also invited us to register for their event on February 26th, 2023 from 2-5pm at Webb Bridge Middle School. If you can, please consider helping them reach their fundraising goal by donating or registering and participating in their fun event! They are trying to raise $20,000 to repair 20 wells in the villages of South Sudan.
Students received a packet with a QR code to a registration link! This is a great opportunity to help out people in need while also having fun!
Tackle Hunger Food Drive Jan 24-Feb14
Join your school café to celebrate the 57th Super Bowl! Help us change the game & tackle hunger by donating canned goods or non-perishable food items to help support Backpacks of Love. #SBLVII
There are boxes in the Café to place the donations. 😊
What are we focusing on this upcoming week?
Writing: This week we finished and shared our poems! We are very impressed with the poets in our classes. Next week, we will begin our second expository essay by analyzing a model student essay.
Reading: This week we read a few more poems and focused on theme. We also practiced our expository texts skills as we prepared for our test on Tuesday. Next week, we will start unit 5 with reading narrative nonfiction and focusing on text structure and text features.
Math: This week we worked with representing decimals with models and ordering decimals and answering word problems. Next week, we will review for our test on Friday the 17th! Study guides went home today.
Click here to see the 4.1 blog- http://fourthgradenpes.weebly.com/current-41-math-info
4.2 (Ms. Smith): Next week in advanced math...
We will begin our 2nd 5th grade unit- Adding and Subtracting with Decimals.
For this standard, we will review place value again- NBT.1 (same as Unit 1); We will learn to read, write, and compare decimals to the thousandths place-NBT.3; We will round decimals to the hundredths place- NBT.4; and We will add and subtract decimals to the hundredths place- NBT.7 (multiplying and dividing will be covered in Unit 3).
Next week, we will focus on the NBT.3 standard. Students will learn to read and write decimals to the thousandths place in standard, expanded, and word form. Then we will begin our work with comparing decimals.
Click here to see the 4.2 blog- h http://fourthgradenpes.weebly.com/current-42-math-info