Week of March 18th

Important Dates to Remember:

• Wednesday, March 20th - Geography Test 
• Friday, March 29th - Reading Logs are Due 
• Spring Break - March 30 through April 7th!  Enjoy the time off!  
• Monday, April 8th:  Book Report Presentations Begin - Your child has their presentation date written in their agenda. 
• Friday, April 12th - Field Trip to Festival of the Arts.  4th Graders across the district are invited to the Costic Center to attend the Festival of the Arts.  Since this is a shorter field trip, we will not need any parent volunteers. Field trip slips will be going home next week. 
• Friday, April 19th - No School (Good Friday)

Instrumental Music: Anderson Music will be here on Wednesday, April 24th to fit kids with instruments.  I imagine many kids are very excited about the opportunity to play a musical instrument next year!  In 5th grade, students will have the opportunity to participate in instrumental music twice a week before school.  More information will be coming home at a later date. 

Math: We're making a lot of progress with our Fractions unit!  We've been spending a lot of time building on the concepts we know so we can learn additional fraction concepts such as line plots, reducing fractions, and as always we're tackling a lot of word problems. Kiddos are doing great with the skills!  Mrs. Whisenhunt, our Math Interventionist is always an incredible support during this time.  We'll be finishing up unit 5 early next week and we'll be preparing a Math test probably late next week. Keep your eyes peeled for a math review to come home Tuesday or Wednesday.

English Language Arts: We're officially finished with our Persuasive unit!  I should have persuasive papers graded next week.  I'm still working on getting them finished up and back to the kiddos.  You will be very impressed with their final writing piece!  Their writing skills have come a long way and I'm proud of their hard work!  Our next writing unit is research.  This is a bigger unit! Students will be assigned an animal that they will be researching over the course of the next few weeks.  All of the research will be done here at school and I will be guiding them through the process of how to take important ideas and turn them into paragraphs.  There many be days where your child will have homework in writing but it will be merely finishing up what we did in school that day.  There's a lot of hard work ahead of us but we're up for the challenge!

Social Studies:  We're just wrapping up our Geography unit and we will be testing next week.  Your child has a vocabulary sheet that they have been keeping as we've worked through the unit. There are many vocabulary words associated with this unit so please remind your child to study for the test.

Science: In science, we just finished up our last part of this unit which focuses on propeller driven vehicles.  Kids had an awesome time making their vehicles and testing them!  Science quizzes will be sent home next week in Friday folders.