We will be having our ring of fire volcanic eruptions on October 31st at 10:30 a.m. Your students should have brought home the specifications for their volcano project that is due on October 31st. The volcanoes are a take home project and students can work in a group of up to three students or on their own to create the volcanoes. The bases of the volcanoes can be 1 2/3 foot by 1/1/2 foot and they can be up to 2 1/2 feet high. Your volcanoes can erupt or just look nice. Parents are welcome to attend our eruptions on the 31st.
Parent Teacher Conferences are upon us! Your students should have brought home a scheduled time for our conference. If that did not make it home please contact me and I can let you know when your time is.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Sunday, October 13, 2013
October Update
I think we have finally gotten into our stride as 4th graders! We have been doing almost everything on our agenda each day and the class is starting to proceed on 4th grade pace! I am very happy with how well the students are settling into being 4th graders although I am still getting a number of late assignments from students and we have talked about this in class. All assignments are due the day after they are assigned unless I give the students extra time. If that is the case the due date is written on the "What is Due" board. Beginning this week we will be responsible for turning in our assignments by the due date. If they are not turned in they will be graded according to the 4th grade late assignment scale: 1 day late 80%, 2 days late 70% and 3 days late 60 anything after that is a 0.
We have a busy week ahead of us:
Math - continue learning factors, rules of divisibility, common factors and prime factorization
Excellence in Writing - begin a new explanatory essay
Grammar - finish our unit on prepositions and start working on capitalization rules. Students will need to continue to study their prepositions as we will keep testing, I want all kids to pass off these prepositions as it makes the rest of their grammar much easier
Literature - Continue Pollyanna
Science - Continue our unit on Geology and we will be studying volcanoes, mountains, rocks and erosion
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