Dear Parents & Students!
Wow! Last week flew by with such a short week! Super excited to jump into learning this week.
Topics this week:
Reading AND Writing: I am so amazed at how fast students absorbed their books for book club this nine weeks. So many groups were so excited about their books that they read them even faster than our goals! Some groups are starting to finish their books and will be filling out a fiction review form and then will be choosing another book to read soon! The next couple of weeks we will be also working on taking the BAS assessment and this is done one on one with the teacher. Thanks so much for continuing to support your child's love of reading by getting them a copy of the book they chose to read for book club. These books are on their individual reading levels.
Last week students learned about the non-fiction text structures (description, compare & contrast, cause & effect, chronological order, and problem & solution). At the end of each lesson we did a Kahoot to review each days text structure. I will also be starting to read aloud a book titled Fantastic Failures. Through this read aloud, students will be challenged to identify a variety of text structures. The book has stories about J.K. Rowling, Oprah Winfrey, and Nelson Mandela. Students will have an assessment on text features on Friday.
For our essays, we have completed all of our lessons on how to write an informational essay (intro, body, and conclusion). We will continue to review but now that we have done these lessons students will work on their Write Score essays on informational writing for Fulton County this week. This is a Fulton County assessment. You can find notes and info on our website as well as Google Classroom. Students will also continue to work on the informational essays for their magazine after we finish Write Score.
Grammar: We are learning about affixes. We will continue to talk about the affix "chron/chrono" and begin learning about the affix "graph." Take notices of when you use words with these affix at home.
Reminders:
That's all for now! Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns by emailing me directly at [email protected].
Have a wonderful week!
-Hope Webster
Wow! Last week flew by with such a short week! Super excited to jump into learning this week.
Topics this week:
Reading AND Writing: I am so amazed at how fast students absorbed their books for book club this nine weeks. So many groups were so excited about their books that they read them even faster than our goals! Some groups are starting to finish their books and will be filling out a fiction review form and then will be choosing another book to read soon! The next couple of weeks we will be also working on taking the BAS assessment and this is done one on one with the teacher. Thanks so much for continuing to support your child's love of reading by getting them a copy of the book they chose to read for book club. These books are on their individual reading levels.
Last week students learned about the non-fiction text structures (description, compare & contrast, cause & effect, chronological order, and problem & solution). At the end of each lesson we did a Kahoot to review each days text structure. I will also be starting to read aloud a book titled Fantastic Failures. Through this read aloud, students will be challenged to identify a variety of text structures. The book has stories about J.K. Rowling, Oprah Winfrey, and Nelson Mandela. Students will have an assessment on text features on Friday.
For our essays, we have completed all of our lessons on how to write an informational essay (intro, body, and conclusion). We will continue to review but now that we have done these lessons students will work on their Write Score essays on informational writing for Fulton County this week. This is a Fulton County assessment. You can find notes and info on our website as well as Google Classroom. Students will also continue to work on the informational essays for their magazine after we finish Write Score.
Grammar: We are learning about affixes. We will continue to talk about the affix "chron/chrono" and begin learning about the affix "graph." Take notices of when you use words with these affix at home.
Reminders:
- 4th grade READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS has a NEW WEBSITE! Everything we are learning about, including extra resources will be housed on this new website (for all of 4th grade.) Instead of having resources just for my class, the 4th grade Reading Team decided to spread the love! Here is the link: http://dolvin4threla.weebly.com
- iReady: Fulton County's goal is to strive for students to work on iReady for 45 minutes a week in Reading. I have started to assign this as homework (just 25 minutes at home) and we will continue to work on this program in class. I will be sending home a weekly accountability sheet that students will fill out as they are working on this program.
- Want to volunteer at the next Dolvin Discovery Lab? Email Karen Berry at [email protected] if you would like to help out! It's always a fun time!
- BOOSTERTHON: Our school will be participating in raising money for our school through Boosterthon. We had our pep rally on Wednesday, February 20th to learn more on how to be healthy and raise money for our school! Ask your child about the pep rally and our visits from the Boosterathon people each day! Right now our class is in FIRST PLACE for 4th grade! Let's keep it up!!
- CLASSROOM Needs: Candy! If you have any candy laying around the house that you would like to donate to our class, I would be more than happy to take it off your hands. The students love incentives!
That's all for now! Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns by emailing me directly at [email protected].
Have a wonderful week!
-Hope Webster