Happy Monday everyone,

This week we have many different things going. We will not have a full Valentine’s Day party but we will be setting up mailboxes and writing kindness notes to each other. I will post a link to our class list on Dojo, if your student wants to make a Valentine for each student. Wednesday is the due date for all 4th grade Yankee Candle camp fundraisers so please send them in. Thursday is our class field trip to the Dearborn Orchestra. Please return those permission slips by tomorrow. I only have about half of the class’s slips.

This week:

Spelling- Both grades- final /le/ sound- Words are all posted on Quizlet at https://quizlet.com/_4fqw5z

Math-3rd grade- We are finishing our unit on place value and data representation. We will have a study guide and test towards the end of the week.

4th grade- We are still working on multiplication of 1 digit x 3 digit and up to 2 digit x 3 digit. This is a very challenging concept for the students and a very important one.  Here is a video from Khan Academy that you can use at home to solve 2 digit x 2 digit problems. https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/arith-review-multiply-divide/arith-review-multi-digit-mult/v/multiplying-2-digit-numbers

Science-3rd- Mrs. Parana

4th-We are going to start looking at how fossils related the layers of the Earth. We will also create a model of erosion exposing fossils.

Social Studies-3rd- Mrs. Parana

4th-We are digging deeper into the branches of government and the powers provided by the people.

Writing-We are taking a break from our current unit to work on writing kindness notes with a positive voice. We will be writing these for different people all week.

Reading- We are focusing on pulling the main idea from texts, along with supporting details. We will be taking this information and turning it into a constructed response.

Have a great week!