First Newsletter

Week of August 31-Sept. 4, 2015

Dear Parents and Friends of the 4/5 Classroom,

With our first week of school off to a great start, we are looking forward to a successful second week. We will be assembling our math and planner binder tomorrow as a class. Please be sure your child has his/her blue binder so that we can get started with the process. Shauna and I will be handing out the planners and dividers and supporting each student with this task. If all goes as planned, you should notice that the blue binder begins to travel back and forth with your student on a daily basis. They will need a parent signature EVERYDAY, so please be sure to ask your child about it. 

We will be diving into our math curriculum on place value this week and the planner, which is in the blue binder, will reflect the math homework assignments with page numbers should you need to reference them. The first math homework assignment is as follows:

Assigned Monday due Tuesday: Exercise 1 pp. 7-10
Tuesday math packet: due Wednesday
Wednesday math packet due Thursday
Thursday math packet due Friday
Friday: test on whole numbers

Our weekly social studies vocabulary homework is assigned Tuesday and is due on Friday. This week's terms: globe, geographic terms, latitude, longitude, geography, physical feature

There is no science homework this week 

Grammar homework this week: worksheet on 4 types of sentences due Wed.

Nightly reading is 20 minutes a night for 4th graders and 30 minutes a night for 5th graders. A reading log comes home daily in the planner for parents to sign each night upon nightly reading completion.

Announcements: 

Tues. Oct. 20: O'Neill Sea Odyssey field trip 8:30-12:00 (More information to follow). We will need drivers.

Fri. Sept. 11: Spaghetti Feed/Movie Night 6:30-9:30 

Wed. Sept. 16: Back to School Night. Ms. M will greet new families in the PAC room at 6:30. Teachers will give presentations at 7 and 7:30. I'll share our curriculum. I look forward to seeing you all then.

Thank you for supporting our classroom and your child. 

Warmly,

Mrs. Young