Week of 12/8 Newsletter

Dear Families,

We have several upcoming events scheduled before Winter Break:

Holiday Night, Wednesday, 12/10 from 6-8:30PM

Banana Slug String Quartet - Watershed Education, Tuesday, 12/16 at 11:15AM

Holiday Sing, Thursday, 12/18 at 11AM

4/5 Hot Cocoa Winter Birthday Celebration,  Thursday, 12/18 at 2:00 Please send your child to school with a reusable mug and we'll have hot cocoa with marshmallows and celebrate the November and December Birthdays. If you're able to donate a box of hot cocoa mix, please send it in by the end of the week.

What We're Learning This Week:

ELA/Social Sciences:
We have begun to learn about the Colonies and will focus on the geographical features that affected settlements. Students will focus on fine-tuning essay writing. We will also be launching Accelerated Reader: a program that will help your child track his/her reading by creating a virtual bookshelf, taking quizzes to monitor comprehension and vocabulary development. We are very excited about this new addition to the intermediate classes!

Math:
The whole class will learn to look at number patterns to determine the function of the change in quantity. Please look for more information in your child's Monday Folder. We will learn to create "Function Tables" and graph them onto coordinate grids. It is a great introduction to algebra.

Science:
4th Graders are working on a Brine Shrimp experiment. They are looking for the optimal salinity that will garner the best living conditions for brine shrimp survival. They will also determine the range of tolerance. It is a fun, hand's on investigation!

Thank you for your help both in the classroom and at home! If you have any questions please feel free to email me at rhonig@mountainesd.org.

Warmly,
Mrs. Honig