4th Grade Fun at JBE: Week of 1/3/2022

Happy New Year!!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful and restful Winter Break!! We are now officially in the 3rd Nine Weeks. Your child is halfway through their 4th grade year!!

As we return to school please use the list below to help your child get back into the groove of being back in school

*While there is no mask mandate, students are strongly encouraged to wear a mask when social distancing is not possible.

*Please ask your child to do a supply check. Many have lost their scissors. Some are out of pencils and glue. We will need these supplies throughout the second half of the school year.

*Please make sure your child has paper and pencil when they are completing math work on Freckle. A number of students are attempting to do all of the work in heads. Students are learning when mental computation is the best most efficient way to solve problems. However, for a great deal of their math students should be using paper and pencil to solve problems. When they use paper and pencil the strategies that they choose are up to them. This will also allow them to check their work before selecting an answer.

*When students have Freckle assignments that review specific standards, those assignments are based on work that we have previously worked on in class. If a student does not score a 70% or higher, Freckle will allow them to retake the assignment. I will always enter the higher score that the student earns.

*Technology homework is not due until the Friday of the week it is assigned. If your child does not complete the assignment by that Friday a zero will be entered into the gradebook. They are welcome to complete the assignment after the due date for full credit, however the grade may not be updated in Focus until the end of the quarter.

*Paper pencil homework assignments may also be completed after the due date for full credit. It is your child's job to bring it to me. I will not ask for it.

*When students are absent, they are still required to complete any work that they miss. In some cases It is difficult to give work early, but sometimes allowances can be made depending on the current lesson plan.

*If students are absent on the day a test or quiz is given, they will either need to come in early, or miss resource class in order to make up the assignment.

1/3 Monday

Teacher Planning Day No School for Students

1/4 Tuesday

Talent Show Permission Slips Due

1/7 Friday

Talent Show Audition Videos Due

1/10 Monday

Report Cards Go Home

1/14 Friday

Weather Day--No School

1/17 Monday

Martin Luther King Jr. Day--No School

1/26 Wednesday

Early Release

1/27 Thursday

PTO Talent Show

2/8 Tuesday

3rd Quarter Report Cards

2/21 Monday

President's Day--No School

2/23 Wednesday

Early Release

3/10 Thursday

End of 3rd Quarter

3/11 Friday

Teacher Planning Day--No School

3/14-3/18

Spring Break--No School

School--To--Home Folder

*Timed Quizzes

*Units 7 & 8 Science Test

*Module 4 Quiz

This week in math, we will learn about symmetry. When an object or shape has symmetry, you can cut it in half and the pieces are the same. The object can be folded on the line of symmetry and the pieces can folded on that line and the parts fit exactly on top of each other. Students will be asked to identify lines of symmetry on 2-D shapes as well as on letters and on everyday objects.

We will also begin learning about the different types of triangles. Did you know that triangles can be identified based on characteristics of their side lengths and by their angle measures.

This week in science we will begin working on our standards for force and motion. This will be our last unit for physical science. This unit only has two lessons in our book, so it will be relatively short.

During this unit we will learn what motion is and how different forces affect how objects in motion move. Students will learn about Newton's Laws of Motion, how to calculate speed and that acceleration doesn't just mean speeding up.