Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you've had a great week and enjoyed the Spring weather we've been experiencing!
If you hadn't had the chance yet to sign-up for Parent Teacher Conferences, please do so as soon as you can. Conferences will be held on the evenings of March 23rd and March 25th. Please let me know if you'd like me to resend you the link.
We are running very low on post-its in the classroom. If you have any that you'd like to donate, that would be greatly appreciated! 😊
Here's the link to order a Yearbook! https://www.prepaysystems.com/view/ZEBslp43/new-directions-learning-community-yearbook-orders
Upcoming Events:
March 25th: Parent Teacher Conferences
March 26th: Early Dismissal for students
April 2nd: No School
April 5th: No School
Reading: This level we've started this week is all about lifting our reading levels! We are identifying our personal reading challenges and figuring out ways to tackle them as well as accomplish reading goals for ourselves. The units I am teaching revolve around narrative nonfiction skills and strategies such as orientating, identifying multiple themes, pacing, and identifying when something doesn't make sense.
Writing: I've got to say, this unit has been my absolute favorite so far! We are currently being journalists this unit and practicing writing and publishing journalism pieces. We have students working on current events throughout the school, sports, comics, and we even have a secret advice columnists who is giving advice to peers that privately wrote to them. We will be publishing a whole class newspaper and it's my goal to print enough copies to send home to families as well!
Math: We are continuing through Unit 6 on Fractions. I have been really impressed by how quickly everyone has grasped understanding fractions. We have spent majority of the week working with fractions that have the same denominators. We've practiced adding, subtracting, identifying fraction problems in word problems, and converting fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa. Students were all given fraction strips at the beginning of the unit to visually see the difference between fractions and their parts related to the whole. The first quick quiz of the unit came home this past week. As a class, this quiz was one of our best ones yet! Everyone really demonstrated their expertise on fractions. Way to go, fourth graders!
Content: We've been exploring the water cycle this week. Through readings, videos, and labs we've learned the different stages and processes of water.
Word Study: We are wrapping up Unit 9. We will be taking the Unit 9 Word Study Test early this week! This is what your child's word study paper should have looked like for this week:
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