Happy Sunday! I hope everyone is enjoying their Labor Day weekend!!
Last week, we focused a lot on learning\/reviewing Habits 1-3 (Be Proactive, Put First Things First, and Begin with the End in Mind). We also spent a lot of time practicing classroom procedures and expectations! Please review routines at home and discuss the habits:)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This week, we will be moving more into content:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ELA\/Writing:<\/strong> In reading, we will be practicing Daily 5 stations and building our reading stamina. Students will also be finishing up their All About Me Posters. ** 4th grade will be taking their Fall NWEA Reading Assessment this Thursday. **<\/strong> Spelling:<\/strong> We will be starting our first list of spelling words this week! I post spelling words in the classroom, send a list home, put them on the blog, and also have them uploaded on SpellingCity for students to practice at school\/home. We will normally take spelling tests on Friday<\/strong>, but with the short week we will have our first spelling test on Monday 9\/9\/19<\/strong>. There are 10 4th grade words and 5 content words that we are learning that week on the test. The content words for this test will be about math.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spelling List: (Focus: Vowels) Math:<\/strong> Our first homework will be on Tuesday<\/strong>. Fourth grade is sending math homework books home this year and students will just return the page of daily homework the next day. We will have math homework on a very regular basis. A note will be stapled to the math books today to further explain the homework procedure. We will be completing Lesson 1 and Lesson 2 this week. We may even get to Lesson 3! Please check planners nightly and sign up for Remind to get updates on nightly homework!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Science\/Social Studies: <\/strong>In science, we are working on our Energy unit. Students will be exploring how their bodies are similar to a car. In Social Studies, we will be working on our Geography unit. Students will be able to describe where the United States is located in spatial terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Important Dates\/Info:<\/strong> Math Homework<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am excited to start our second week! Please reach out if you have any questions or concerns Happy Sunday! I hope everyone is enjoying their Labor Day weekend!! Last week, we focused a lot on learning\/reviewing Habits 1-3 (Be Proactive, Put First Things First, and Begin with the End in Mind). We also spent a lot of time practicing classroom procedures and expectations! Please review routines at home and discuss the habits:)…»<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/miles4th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/miles4th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/miles4th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/miles4th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/miles4th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/miles4th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/miles4th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/miles4th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/miles4th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
In writing, we are starting our first unit: personal narratives. Students will focus on narrowing their topics and brainstorming this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. oxygen
2. strap
3. bent
4. umbrella
5. shipment
6. prime
7. staple
8. because
9. hope
10. rumor
Content words:
11. ones
12. tens
13. hundreds
14. thousands
15. standard form<\/p>\n\n\n\n
* I will be doing individual DRA reading tests this week so I can assess reading levels and start reading groups. This may carry over into next week as well.
* Our NWEA Reading Assessment will be this Thursday. NWEA Math will be next week Tuesday.
* Open House is on September 12th at 6:00
* All About Me Posters should be complete and at school by this Friday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Ms. Miles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"