Week of August 26, 2019

Happy Monday Everyone,

     I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. This week we will have our first early release of the school year. On this Wednesday 8/28 we will begin dismissal at 1:10. Please make sure your child knows how they are getting home. For bus riders please make sure their will be someone to meet them at the bus stop. 

     This Thursday is our Open House session. We will begin in the cafeteria at 6:00 for the general session. We will then move upstairs to hear more specifics from Ms. Billiard and myself. We are trying to win an invitation to a special Jaguars Assembly. Only the classes with the highest Open House attendance percentage will get to go the assembly. If you do not have child care students can go to the library for a movie. We are looking forward to seeing everyone on Thursday night. 

     Students will take individual pictures of Friday. So practice that smile. These are the pictures that will go on our ID tags and in the year book.

     Students will not have school on Monday 9/2, due to the Labor Day Holiday. So enjoy your 3 day weekend. 

August 28th Wednesday

Early Release @1:15

August 29th Thursday

Open House 6-7:30

August 30th Friday
Picture Day

September 2nd Monday
Labor Day--No School

September 5th Thursday
Girls Scout Info Night @ 6:30

September 6th Friday
100 Mile Club Begins 7:45-8:15
PTO Meeting 8:45

September 12th Thursday
Progress Reports Come Home

October 17th Thursday
Field Trip to the Public Library 10:00-11:30

     This week in math we will continue to work on place value. We have began learning that a number in one place is 10 times greater than the place to it's right. For example in the number 234,572 the two in the hundred thousands place is one hundred thousand times greater than the 2 in the ones place. In the number 1,231,457 the one in the millions place is one thousand times greater than the one in the thousands place. 

     Students will have their first quiz on this Thursday. It will cover lessons 1-10. We have covered writing numbers in different forms, comparing numbers, rounding numbers, and the 10 times greater relationship between places will all be on the quiz. Students are allowed to use their journals on the quiz so please make sure to bring them to class. 

     We will also take our first graded timed quizzes of the year. In 4th grade we take timed quizzes every other week. Students will have two quizzes. One will be multiplication and the other will be division. On each quiz their are 50 randomly selected problems. For the this nine weeks only the multiplication quiz will go into the grade book. All timed quizzes count as a classwork grade except the last one of the quarter. The last one of the quarter counts as a quiz grade. During the 1st nine weeks students will get 3 minutes to answer as many as they can. During the 2nd nine weeks students will get 2 minutes and 30 seconds. And during the 3rd and 4th nine weeks students will get 2 minutes.

     This week in science we will continue to learn about the work that scientists do. This week we will continue discussing the scientific method and other skills that scientist need in order to do their jobs. Students will use these skills when we complete our first hands on lab on Thursday.

    For this weeks technology homework students need to go to their online science book to complete Lesson 2 What Skills Do Scientist Use. Students also need to watch two videos on Brain Pop Jr., Science Skills and Scientific Method.

     We will begin i-Ready for homework next week. As per our district requirement students need to complete at least 45 minutes of i-Ready each week. Students may complete their minutes in whatever way works best for their families. They may break it up into chunks of minutes for a total of 45 minutes or they may choose to sit and do all of their minutes at once. Students have a week to complete their minutes. The week starts on Friday afternoons and runs through the next Friday morning. Students receive a homework grade for math based on the total number of minutes they complete.

45 minutes-100%

40-44 minutes-90%

30-39 minutes-80%

20-29 minutes-70%

10-19 minutes-60%

10-0 minutes 0%

     Last week we began our work with Mrs. Chin for Genius Hour. Students were given the assignment to think about something science related that they are passionate about or want to learn more about. Students will spend the next several weeks completing research about their passion projects. They will then spend time creating a presentation to teach their classmates about their subject. If you would like to learn more about Genius Hour please click on the link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMFQUtHsWhc

     We will once again be using a Growth Mindset this school year. It had such a wonderful impact on our thinking we decided to continue this wonderful mindfulness outlook. For those of you that are not familiar with this positive way of looking at life please click on the links below to watch the videos that we have shown to my homeroom class. 

Episode 1 Your Brain is Like a Muscle

Episode 2 The Magic of Mistakes

Episode 3 The Incredible Power of Yet

Have a GREAT Week!!

Week of August 19, 2019

Hi Everyone,

     Welcome to the second week of 4th Grade!! We had a week to get use to being back at school and hopefully everyone is back in the groove. If you are like me you probably are not. This is my third week back and my alarm clock seems to go off earlier and earlier every morning. 

     Students have homework assignments this week. Check their Agendas in the trapper to see what we will be working on. Students typically get homework sheets the day before they are due. Unless otherwise stated assignments are due the next day. Technology homework is usually given on Mondays and is not due until Friday. This week for technology students should add themselves to my Brain Pop Class, Cactus Ranch 19-20. We went over the directions today in class and students have a hard copy direction sheet in their folders. Students also have a digital science activity this week. It is listed for Thursday night, but students may completed anytime during the week. 

August 28th Wednesday

Early Release @1:15

August 29th Thursday

Open House 6-7:30

August 30th Friday
Picture Day

September 2nd Monday
Labor Day--No School

September 5th Thursday
Girls Scout Info Night @ 6:30

September 6th Friday
100 Mile Club Begins 7:45-8:15
PTO Meeting 8:45

September 12th Thursday
Progress Reports Come Home

October 17th Thursday
Field Trip to the Public Library 10:00-11:30

     This week in math we will work our standards for rounding (NBT.1.3), and for recognizing that the value of a digit in one place is ten times greater than the place to it's right (NBT.1.1). This will also include our standard for recognizing that multiplication can be viewed as a comparison (OA.1.1).

     For rounding students are able to use a variety of standards to round multi-digit whole numbers to any place.

 

Students will also learn that a number in one place is 10 times greater than the place to it's right. For example the tens place is 10 times greater than the ones place, the hundreds place is 10 times greater than the tens place, and so on. Students should also begin to recognize that a number in the thousands place is 100 times greater than a number in the tens place.

     This week in science we will continue learning about what scientists do as part of their work. Students will have a sheet to complete as part of their homework this week. And as mentioned above students need to complete the digital lesson for Unit 1 Lesson 1. 

     Below is a copy of the sheet that students were given in class that lets them know how to add themselves to my Brain Pop Class and how to access their science book online. They will need to access the science book online in order to complete the digital lesson.

Have a great week,

Ms. Johnson