News to Note
WSTAR paperwork is due on Friday.
Fund-raising is due now! Please make sure that it is turned in as soon as possible.
ISTEP starts on Tuesday. A hot pink paper is coming home today with our testing schedule. Students will test on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in their language arts class. They will be spending all day with their language arts teacher. They will still have specials. I am looking for 4 parents who would be willing to donate snacks for my language arts class next week. Please email me if you are willing to send in a healthy snack for my language arts class.
It has come to our attention that often times the time stamp on our blog makes it look like we are blogging in the middle of the day. This is not the case. We blog after school. The time stamp is wrong and we can't figure out how to change it.
Language Arts
We reviewed grammar today. We revised a paragraph using complex sentences and conjunctions. We also added another root word to our vocabulary vine. We looked for evidence of character traits in our basal story. We also had a mock ISTEP prompt. The kids did very well at writing. We have been encouraging the students to write at least 2 pages and most of the students did today. I also noticed that they were writing for the entire 55 minutes. Very impressive. I almost forgot. One of the highlights of the day was visiting with our 1st grade reading buddies. It is an amazing sight to see the 4th graders and the 1st graders reading together.
I am starting to get a lot of questions about the cereal box report that is due in October. The cereal box report is basically a book report that is reported on a cereal box. We are going to leave an example of a completed project in the office for you to take a peak at if you still have questions.
I have also fielded some questions about fluency and flow expectations. These are recorded on Monday's edition of the blog.
Have you been recording the number of minutes your child has read on each day of the agenda? Remember that it is a Northpoint expectation that your child read 20-30 minutes a day. That's on top of homework.
Math
Today we reviewed place value, facts, and patterns. We also reviewed fact fluency strategies. We learned many new vocabulary words for math today: number sentence, number models, relational symbols, operational symbols, variables, and open sentences. We also practiced our problem solving skills.
Homework tonight is SL 2.4
Science
Today we learned about temporary magnets and induced magnetsim. There will be an assignment about these concepts tomorrow. Tomorrow we will learn what happens to the magnetic force of an object as the distance between two magnets grow.
