4th Grade Weekly Newsletter October 11, 2016
We hope you find these weekly emails helpful. Please direct any questions or concerns to your child’s classroom teacher.
Upcoming Dates and Notes:
●Oct. 12th Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at New Building
●Oct. 21st 3rd-5th Movie Night
●Oct. 25th 3rd-5th IB Night for Parents
●Oct. 26th College Shirt Day
●Oct. 27th Principal’s Coffee
Curriculum Focus This Week
Math -- This week students will begin Unit 3. The focus in this unit will be on equivalence in numbers, fractions, decimals and comparing these. There will be a quiz at the end of the week. When it is graded and returned to you, we encourage you to work on any problems that your child missed at home for extra practice.
**Please note that we as teachers maintain flexibility in the schedule of our math curriculum within our classrooms in order to differentiate to meet the needs of all students, both with extension and remediation.
Literacy Connections: This week students are focusing on their grammar skills by reviewing topics such as “Subject & Predicate” and “Proper Nouns”. We will also be practicing the transdisciplinary skill of Research, specifically efficient note-taking practices.
IB Unit of Inquiry
Trans. Theme: Where We Are in Place and Time
Central Idea: Challenges & Opportunities Promote Change
Lines of Inquiry: Motives for Exploration, Evaluating Multiple Perspectives, Impact of Change on Society
Students will be selecting their topic for our Migration Research Project and accessing a variety of resources as they prepare a final product for presentation. They will have two whole weeks for research. We encourage you to find more resources for your child to bring to school for this project. These can be articles printed from the internet or books checked out from the local library. Students should not be doing research at home as time will be provided in class, but they are welcome to look for additional resources to bring.
Homework – Please check your student’s yellow folder for the current homework sheet. A reminder that MONDAY homework is DUE and TUESDAY a new one comes out!
The intent of homework is to be another means of communication with parents. It’s another look into what is going on in the classrooms. Students should not be spending more than an hour each day on homework and should not work to a point of frustration. Teachers ask that parents assist students in pacing themselves throughout the week.
**The Everyday Math link below in the HW section is the link you will need to find the Home Link pages to print for your child’s HW. For example: After clicking on the link, scroll over to Unit 1 and click, then find the home links that are listed on the HW page and find corresponding number. Click and print.
Fourth Grade Website and Homework
Please visit the 4th Grade Website. Homework, weekly emails and other important information are posted here. You can access the website by going to the general Meridian Website ( and following the tabs: Academics -- >Primary --> Fourth Grade or by using the direct link below.
http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/parents/4th-grade/em4-at-home/
Miscellaneous:
A note about morning tutorials: (please be mindful that not all students are attending)
Morning tutoring sessions will take place on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Fridays from 7:30-8:00. The focus of morning tutoring will be to prepare the students for the day's math lesson and give them further background knowledge. Students must arriveat 7:30to take full advantage of the content. Students who arrive after 7:40 will not be allowed in the classroom so as to notdisturb others inthe tutoring sessions. Thank you for your understanding.
Thank you,
The 4th Grade Team