THE ADVENTURES OF

FOURTH GRADE K E I K O D A V I D S O N E L E M E N T A R Y

S E P T E M B E R 3 0 T H - O C T O B E R 4 T H , 2 0 1 9

Upcoming Events

Monday, September 30thAuthor Visit - Max Brallier

(students only)

Tuesday, October 1stSpring Creek BBQ Spirit Night

Thursday, October 3rdReading Assessment

Friday, October 4thMath HW due

Word Study Assessment

Monday, October 7thEarly dismissal for students

Tuesday, October 8thAddition/Subtraction Assessment

Friday, October 18th Book Character Parade

Early dismissal for students

Thursday, October 31stMake-up Pictures

BOX TOPS

This Week is a BoxTop Collection Week

Parent ConferenceC O N F E R E N C E S T A K E P L A C E O N 1 0 / 7 A N D 1 0 / 1 8 . B E

O N T H E L O O K O U T F O R A N E M A I L A B O U T

C O N F E R E N C E S F R O M Y O U R C H I L D ' S H O M E R O O M

T E A C H E R .

Y O U ' R E I N V I T E D T O A

Reading

In reading this week, we're wrapping

up our Interpreting Characters unit!

We'll have an assessment testing the

students' knowledge on complex

characters and character change as

well as basic reading comprehension

skills that have been taught

throughout the unit. We'll end the

week with a celebration to reward

ourselves for all the had word we've

done in the unit!

This week in grammar, we're beginning a mini-unit on reviewing simple sentences

to remind students that every sentence has a subject (a noun or pronoun) and a

verb.

It'll be a review week in word study. We'll review the different ways to make nouns

plural... there are many! Most of the time, we simply add -s. Occasionally, we add -

es. Sometimes nouns are irregular and have different rules to make them plural.

There will be no need to complete the review at home because we will complete it

in class.

Writing

This week in writing, we're wrapping

up our realistic fiction stories. We'll

work on finishing and publishing our

stories! The students will take some

time to fine-tune their writing with

editing checklists, and then make

the effort to rewrite their pieces with

neat handwriting on fresh, new

paper.

Word Study Grammar

Social Studies

In social studies we will continue

to learning about native

americans in Texas. Students will

finish sharing their research.

Also,students will begin to work

in groups on an artifact. They

may bring materials from home.

to complete this project.

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SCIENCE

In science we are continuing our

unit on Energy. This week the

students will begin an in class

project designing their own robot.

that uses the different forms of

energy.

MATHThis week we wil l continue the addition and subtraction unit. We wil lfocus on estimating when rounding and using compatible numbers to

problem solve. We wil l also work with problem solving by drawingmodels. The students wil l learn to f ind the differences in models tomatch it to a particular question and learn how to use it to solve. Areview homework is attached. Please know that we only began this

Unit on Wednesday so there may be some stuff we have not coveredyet.   However, we wanted to send it out early because we wanted togive plenty of t ime to complete it with it being a shorter unit .    The

homework is due for a grade on Friday, October 4th.   Our Unit 2Addition/Subtraction Assessment wil l be Tuesday, October 8th.

S.O.A.R.POSTERS

Our SOAR posters are found

throughout the campus.

These are our school-wide

expectations. Please review

some of these with your

child!

Odd #s Only - sets: b, d, f, i, j - DUE Friday 10/4