Hi Everyone!
Our class is running pretty low on dry erase markers. If you happen to have some lying around the house, I'd love to take them off your hands. Or, if you are looking to donate something to the classroom, dry erase markers would be much appreciated!
We enjoyed the warm weather this week. We went outside for reading!
Student Council has begun! All students who submitted an essay this year were accepted. I am really impressed by how many students in our class decided to join. Many students have been sharing all of the ideas they have to help NDLC. I am excited to see what these fourth graders can do!
If you haven't already please sign up for Parent Teacher Conferences using this link: https://ptcfast.com/schools/NDLC
Then, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/28GzZ1wuwncMgKXp6
This form will help guide our conference and assure we discuss everything that you feel is important!
November 11: Picture Retake Day
November 12: Parent Teacher Conferences (4:00pm - 7:30pm)
November 17: Parent Teacher Conferences (4:00pm - 7:30pm)
November 25: No School
November 26: Happy Thanksgiving! No School
November 27: No School
Curriculum Update:
Reading: We spent the beginning of the week practicing the process for reading nonfiction texts. We then started our new unit which includes a whole class research project! Students are working in small groups studying various types of extreme weather and natural disasters. This work will allow them to continue working on their reading of nonfiction as well as have them improve on their notetaking, synthesizing, ability to read a variety of texts, and grow research based ideas. Here are some photos from this week while they were working hard to research their topic:
Writing: We will be finishing up our review writing early next week. Students have been composing some amazing and very persuasive review pieces! I definitely have some new restaurants to try, new movies to watch, and new video games to play after reading their reviews! Next week we will move into writing persuasive speeches to make a real-world difference.
Math: Last week we worked on two-digit by two-digit multiplication. The students did very well transitioning into more tricky multiplication. We've been practicing many different multiplication problems, estimating, and reading and solving word problems. The Quick Quiz the students took Friday afternoon will be coming home early this week.
Word Study: We began Unit 3 on Monday which will focus on the vowel-consonant-e syllable. Although this unit is very short, we did not finish by Friday, November 6th like originally planned. We will take our Unit 3 Fundations test on Monday, November 9th!
Content: Students began working in their small inquiry groups researching an energy topic. Each day students are guided with a big question to prompt their research for the day. Students will gather all the information they learned each day and at the end of the unit they will create a presentation with their small group to share!
I am looking forward to meeting with all of you at parent teacher conferences! Please always feel free to reach out if you ever have any questions or concerns!
Have a great weekend!
Carly Burris
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