2/26 - 3/1 - Teacher Appreciation Week
2/28 - Sparkles Field Trip
2/29 - Enhanced Math Unit 4b Retake
2/29 - House Day & Panther Pantry (Wear House Colors!)
3/1 - Read Across America Day and PJ Day!
What are we learning this week?
Math
Enhanced
This week, we will be focusing on. On Monday and Tuesday, we will be focusing on using fractional parts of a circle to find angle measurements. On Thursday, students will have a minor grade on measuring angles. If students are retaking the Unit 4b Test, they will do so in Math on Thursday. On Friday, students will determine degree measurements.
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)
Science
This week, we are continuing our Science unit on Force and Motion. Students will learn about and discuss the Pulley. Students will continue to work on their Simple Machines project in class. This project will be taken for two grades, a major and a minor. It is due on Tuesday, February 27. On Thursday, we will play a review game to wrap up our unit. On Friday, we will start our new Social Studies unit on The Civil War.
Reading
This week, we will read Historical Fiction texts. On Monday, we will introduce and discuss new vocabulary. Our main focuses of the week are character's point of view and perspective, plot, and setting. Students will be reading two stories this week: "A Telephone Mix-Up" and "The Moon Over Star". It is Read Across America Day on Friday! An administrator will be coming into each class for a read aloud and students will get to shop at the bookstore. Students will get to choose from fun reading activities on this day.
Writing
This week, we will continue to review writing components and strategies. On Monday, we will reteach and discuss the PEEL strategy for including evidence and elaboration in writing. On Tuesday, we will review and practice capitalization and punctuation. On Thursday, we will discuss types of sentences and sentence length. Finally, on Friday, we will review using attributions to cite evidence.
Announcements -
-We will be going on our field trip to Sparkles Kennesaw on Wednesday, February 28th! Everyone should wear their house shirts (or house color). If your student is bringing a lunch from home, please make sure to send it in a disposable bag. Also, if your student is roller skating, please have them wear high socks. We are so excited! 😊
-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_gr4_ela_study_guide.pdf |
23-24_online_study_and_assessment_guides_directions-_math.pdf |