Benson/Cave News
News from the 4th Grade
January 29, 2016
Math News
We took the topic 8 on Wednesday. Those grades came home Thursday. For the most part, everyone did a great job! I can tell everyone knows how to multiply double digit numbers, we just sometimes make mistakes adding or forget a zero. We are now diving into Division!! We began Topic 9 and we will be testing on it next Thursday, February 4th.
Don’t forget that you can access your child’s text book at www.pearsonsuccessnet.com Their username is their school number id and the password is richland2.
Zearn username: student number Zearn password: benson
Aleks username: (ask your child) Aleks password: aleksmat
Science News
We have enjoyed talking about classifications of animals--specifically the vertebrate groups. We even tried to make some giraffes today with playdoh and quickly found that without a backbone, our giraffe was merely a blob. Once we added a backbone (coffee stirrer) our giraffes were able to stand with their heads held high. (Pictures to come over the weekend.) We will continue with animals next week with an open notebook quiz on vertebrates most likely Tuesday.
If your child wants to do the extra credit for Science which I emailed about earlier in the week, make sure they have gotten the forms from me and it will be due no later than February 25th.
Language Arts News
In ELA we finished reading “The Battling for Independence” and took a test on Thursday.While reading this booklet, students learned how to identify key details in a passage. Hopefully the information that they learned from this booklet will help with social studies. Next week we will read “Snowflake Bentley,” a biography in Treasures. We will work on generating questions from the story to draw conclusions. There will be quiz on this story selection on Wednesday.
Next week students will get a new reading log on Wednesday. Students will be given their reading level and be expected to use a book on their reading level for the reading log summary. Please encourage your student to write good descriptive complete sentences!
Social Studies News
In social studies students we have completed our unit on the American Revolution. Students were given a study guide on Friday. Class time was used on Friday to complete the study guide. A test on the American Revolution will be given on Tuesday. Social Studies notebooks will also be collected and checked on Tuesday. Then we will begin examining the first form of government for the new United States.
Fourth Grade News
We are collecting items to donate to a local pet shelter for our combined 3rd - 5th grade 100th Day Service Project. Any items or donations can be brought to school next week.
PLEASE, PLEASE! We need your child to have headphones or earbuds in class everyday. We use them every day. They also need them every time we go to the computer lab. Please make sure your child brings them to school everyday.
Ending Thoughts
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