Hi Families - hope you have a lovely weekend. I will be at the Liberty game tonight to see my daughter at halftime with the drill team in this lovely weather. I sent home progress reports today (sorry for the typo, one of my 12 year old daughters helped me create the template, collaboration is a tough spell =)) - please review and sign as soon as possible. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
We have many exciting events coming up next week. Monday: Student council speeches, election and a Willy Wonka themed writing celebration to share our published realistic fiction stories (please feel free to join us at 1:00 p.m. - just send me an email so I can let the office know you are coming) Tuesday: Picture retakes and tech party Wednesday: Oobleck and Fall Party Thursday: Black and orange spirit day/Escape Room Highlights of this week: Character Trait - Each month we will focus in on an important trait as a whole school. The trait for October is "acceptance." Congratulations Magnus and Averie! Math: This week we took our end of unit test for module 2. We started the third unit this week working with area and perimeter. Ask your students to show you the "old school" third grade way of solving perimeter vs. the "new school" 4th grade way. Reading: We took our end of unit assessment as well as pre-assessment for our new reading unit. The next unit will be a study in non-fiction. Writing: This week we worked on responding to this prompt from Scholastic Books: WILLY WONKA IS LOOKING FOR AMAZING STORY IDEAS FROM ACROSS THE USWilly Wonka is searching for the most exciting, most brilliant story ideas from 5-12 year olds across the US to transform into wonderful creations. Log on to Scholastic.com and enter your student if they would like to submit an idea. I will be sending home what they did in class if they want to enter those as well. We also worked on a task involving folk tales - we are looking at three different sources and gaining information to write our own folktale. Social Studies: This week found us comparing and contrasting the coastal and plateau tribes. We also did a research project to answer essential questions related to the first people of Washington. We were fortunate to have a visit from the Burke Museum as well - we were able look and touch artifacts from the tribes. Science: We took a trip to space with the google expeditions. The kids loved the virtual reality devices and are anxious to try them out again. Kindergarten Buddies: We went to Ms. Johnson's Kindergarten class this morning to have snack and build towers out of paper and index cards with our buddies. The 4th graders were so helpful to the little ones - check out SeeSaw for photos! Important Dates
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