Hello Everyone,

I hope you all had an enjoyable weekend.

Reminders:

4th grade students need to practice math facts music to mastery by the end of October. 5 minutes each night as homework is assigned. 5th graders should have these memorized, but should brush up on them if they need the review. Click here

"The American Revolution" Opening Night: Thursday Sept. 28 at 7 p.m.  Actors arrive at the school at 6:30.  School performance Friday Sept. 29 at 11 a.m.
Cast Party: Friday Sept. 29 from 12:20 - 1:15. Thank you to those who have volunteered in any way for the play and the cast party. To volunteer to help with our play, click here

**Please make sure your child is rehearsing lines and songs over the coming weeks. We will rehearse at school, but the additional practice is so important to student success.

**Back to School Night: Wednesday September 27. At 6:15 Ms. M. will meet all families in the PAC room with current Mt. topics, presentation and discussion--all parents are encouraged to attend. Then, teachers will give classroom presentations for everyone at 7:00 and again at 7:30. 

Field Trip: The Tech Museum

Fri. September 22 from 8:15-12:00. Drivers needed. Please be sure that you have filled out the necessary DMV paperwork with the office. Permission slips went home last week. I select drivers on a first-come-first-serve basis. Once we have selected drivers, we will assign students to cars. If you still need to return the permission slip, please do so asap. There is a $6.50 fee per student this year.

Simplicity of Electricity Lab

We leave school at 8:15 sharp so that we arrive at the museum in San Jose at 9:00. We will gather on Park Avenue and then go into the museum as a group. A brief orientation will follow where we will receive our wristbands and tech tags. Our Simplicity of Electricity Lab begins at 9:30 and runs 90 minutes. We will visit the exhibits and have lunch in the park across the street. We head back to school at 12:00.

For tech parking and info

All students need a parent signature on their planner each night and a parent initial on the reading homework when it comes home. Please be sure to check with your child.

All students are expected to bring their blue binders, red "My Reading Life" folder, and AR book home and back to school daily.

Student Council Election packet coming home Monday: 4th and 5th grade can run for secretary. There is an application and speech guidelines in the Monday folder. Speeches are on the calendar for October 5 in the PAC room.

ELA: We are continuing our reader's workshop and the study of the American Revolution, vocabulary, spelling and grammar.

Math: 4th and 5th place value, rounding and estimating, factors and multiples and prime factorization. Please check your child's planner for specific page numbers for homework assignments.  In an effort to keep everyone organized, binders will be cleaned out upon the completion of a unit of study and old lessons and papers will be paper clipped together and sent home. You may choose to keep papers in a drop folder or file at home if you like.

4th Science: We will continue our study of magnets this week. We experimented with permanent and temporary magnets and we will learn about north and south poles, and how magnets attract and repel. If your child is in Mr. Halbig's class as a 5th grader this year, please check his blog for further information.

Social Studies: We will continue our study of the American Revolution.

Writing: Narrative essays are beginning this week.

Vocab./Grammar: we will rehearse exclamatory, declarative, imperative, interrogative in conjunction with simple, compound, and complex sentences in the coming weeks. Daily spelling homework will be assigned each Monday and wrap up with a quiz on Friday. Prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections have been introduced.

Enjoy your week!

With Gratitude,

Mrs. Young