Week of 11/16

Happy Monday Everyone,

     Our wonderful JBE Student Council is sponsoring a food drive for the less fortunate. We will be collecting nonperishable food items all of this week. Students can bring items to the classroom or place them in the collection bins in the foyer by the front office. 
     We will have our Colonial Kids Festival on this Thursday. Students will participate in several activities that kids in colonial times would have also done. A special thank you to Mrs. Brown who has volunteered to be the helper for our class. It would be great if we can get one more volunteer to provide assistance. The Festival will run from about 8:45-11:30.
     Next week is only a two day week. Students will not be receiving a any math or science homework. However, please try to continue your work on i-Ready. Please encourage your child to always try their best when working on the program. Each lesson has a teaching/practice session followed by a quiz. Students receive a score on the quiz. The items that students are receiving practice on now will be the things that will asked on the Winter Diagnostic. In order to move their placement students need to score better on this test than they did on the test in September. 
     The week after Thanksgiving (12/1-12/4) I will be absent from school. Mrs. Pobst and Mrs. Moorer will the subs for the week. If an emergency arises please contact Mrs. Pavlinek. 

     This week in math, we will begin to put together our multiplication strategies with our ability to solve multi-step problems. The standard in fourth grade is for students to be able to solve multi-step problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Right now our problems will cover just addition, subtraction and multiplication. Once we get to division in a couple of weeks we will add that operation to our classwork.

     This week in science, we will continue our study of energy. Our focus for this week will sound energy. Did you know that sound travels in waves? Sound travels through all matter (solids, liquids and gases). Sound travels faster on warmer days than on cooler days, and sound can't be heard in outer space.