Updates!

We have a lot of exciting events this week!

• The Fundraiser ends Tuesday, please send in your money and order forms by then.  
• This Wednesday is Picture Day, please make sure your child is at school to get their picture taken
• Thursday we have World Jam day at school at 10:00 a.m. Students will be dancing to a chosen song on Thursday morning.  
• Thursday is Grant's Farm night from 5-8.  It should be a beautiful evening! 
• Friday there is no school for your child.  Teachers will be hard at work learning about new technology and safety for their classrooms.  

In our curriculum

This week in math, we are continuing to learn about algebra.  We are learning to write and solve expressions and equations with or without variables, addition properties, and finding a rule for a pattern and writing it in an equation.  We will be taking our quiz over chapter 4 on Thursday.  The study guide will go home on Tuesday, and be due on Thursday.  We are then finished with Unit 1 in math.  We will review and take the Unit 1 test next week.  

This week in English language arts we are finishing up with types of questions, and moving on to visualizing in our reading.  Since we read a lot of chapter books in fourth grade, this is a valuable skill.  We learn to make a movie in our minds as we read.  In writing we are continuing to work on our narrative unit, but getting into writing realistic fiction.  Students are finishing their personal narratives, and beginning to learn the writing process through fictionalizing narrative stories.  

As always, please contact me with any questions you have, and have an amazing week!