Newsletter for Week of 9/21-9/25

Hello Families and Friends of the 4/5 Classroom,

Hope you all had an enjoyable weekend. The kids shared many of the things they did, and it sounded wonderful; camping, Bird Island, Renaissance Fair, the SC County Fair, the Boardwalk, and more.

Reminders:
Field Trip: O'Neill Sea Odyssey. Tuesday October 20th from 7:45 -12:00. Please be sure you are here at the school with your child promptly at 7:45. Space is limited. We are allowed no more than 8 parent volunteers/chaperones. Your child should eat a good breakfast. There are no breaks once on board. Dress comfortably, wear soft-soled sneakers only (no sandals, platforms, heels, or thick-soled shoes allowed) and a jacket (gloves and hats as necessary). This should be a great adventure!

ELA: We will continue with in our literature circle book--The Birchbark House.  

Math: homework on factors and multiples went home on Monday and will continue each night this week. Please check your child's planner for specific page numbers. We will continue to review rounding and estimating with whole numbers and using number lines.  In an effort to keep all organized, your child has selected his/her favorite notes on this concept to keep on hand in the blue binder. All other papers relating to this topic where gathered together and put into their drop folders at school. We are starting a new unit on prime factorization this week.  We will work on prime and composite numbers, factors and multiples.

Science: We will continue our study of magnets this week. We experimented with permanent and temporary magnets, learned about north and south poles, and how magnets attract and repel.

Social Studies: We will continue our study of the migration routes of the Native Americans who settled North and South America. We are diving deep and will be discussing this and writing summaries in our interactive notebooks. This background information will help support our study of some of the Indian tribes and civilizations like the Hopis, Mayans, Incas and Aztecs.

Writing: We will edit and print out our preposition poems Tuesday. A pen and ink illustration drawing will accompany this work which will be finished in class this week.

Grammar: Homework on the 4 types of sentences: exclamatory, declarative, imperative, interrogative in conjunction with simple, compound, and complex sentences went home Monday night as practice.  We will journal write this week and practice incorporating these into our writing.

Enjoy your week!

Warmly,

Mrs. Young