Benson/Bodrick News
News from the 4th Grade
April 12, 2019
Math News
We took our topic 12 test on Tuesday. Those grades were just put in the gradebook today. Some students did wonderful (100’s and above) and some not so wonderful. If your child did not do as well as they would like, we will do some review when we return after Spring Break.
When we return, we will have 3 weeks until the Math Standardized testing. We have one more topic to do--Topic 13. This is about decimals and fractions, which we have touched on over the last couple of weeks. We will quickly move through this topic and test the last week of April. The first full week of May will be review week. We will be going back to some of our old Study Island lessons and doing another session or two to refresh our minds.
Study Island will be crucial when we return. I will have students work on Study Island lessons during RTI time instead of ALEKS for those 3 weeks. This means that there might be 2 assignments in one week. Students will need to work efficiently on these assignments. I have found in the past that students wait until the last day to work on them. Please encourage your child to start on day 1 of the assignment so that they don’t fall behind.
If students finish their Study Island lessons, they can do ALEKS for extra credit. Starting the week we return, I will still check the ALEKS topics weekly, but it will be for extra credit. I will only give 10 points per week so if they do more than 10, I will only put a 10 in the gradebook. If they don’t do any ALEKS it won’t count against them for those few weeks. I will let you all know when I start counting ALEKS again as a grade and not just extra credit.
Please, please, please have students working on Study Island over the next month. It can only help them review and do better on any testing.
I put in their Study Island Assignment #12 grades today. If your child’s is missing, it’s only to remind them to work on it so that we can move onto the next assignment when we return. It will not be counted as late, but does need to be done before we return from break.
Science News
We will be exploring light the week we return from break and then moving quickly to Sound. We will also be doing Study Island lessons in Science to review topics from earlier in the year. These will be going in the gradebook as classwork assignments. The SCPASS test for Science will be Tuesday, May 21st so we will only have 4 weeks when we return to review and learn.
The posters that were returned this week with the permission slips were delivered to the Richland County Conservation building today and we will find out in a few weeks if we have any winners. I was very impressed with our entries so I am crossing my fingers that we will have a winner or two!
Fourth Grade News
Field Trip Thanks
Thanks to all of our chaperones who made our field trip go so smoothly. We had a great time. If you have any pictures that I could add to a video, please email them to me. I am almost finished with a video I will share soon on the blog.
Ending Thoughts
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