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!
March 2nd- Panthers, Pages, & PJ’s (wear pajamas!)
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.
Panther Pages & PJs for Read Across America Day!
Panther Pages & PJs is our schoolwide celebration for Read Across America Day on Thursday, March 2. Everyone can wear their PJs that day, and students will get to "shop" for a book to keep. A member of Admin will also be coming to classes to read!
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!
What are we focusing on this upcoming week?
Writing: This week we started our new unit- writing our second expository essay! We started by reviewing the rubric and analyzing a student model and sources. Next week, we will work on writing a strong introduction, analyze a new prompt, and read 2 sources on the topic.
Reading: This week we started unit 5 with reading narrative nonfiction and focusing on text structure and text features. Next week we will finish narrative nonfiction and start reading an expository text with a focus on text structure and finding the central idea (main idea) of a text and relevant details.
Math: This week we reviewed and took our unit 5 test. Next week we will start unit 6- Geometry! We will begin with this standard: 4.G.1: Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines. Identify these in two-dimensional figures.
This unit is heavy vocabulary, so it is important to practice!
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.
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