Monday, October 29, 2012

Week of October 29, 2012

Happy Monday!




This week is our last week of October and then hello November! We can't believe that November is already here!



On Wednesday (HALLOWEEN!!) the students may have an out of uniform day (no costumes for 4th grade)!! However you must have jeans on- no swishy pants, sweats, leggings, jeggings, or yogas. Or, of course, you may always wear your uniform. We also think that a skirt/dress wouldn't be a great idea because of our AWESOME Halloween party and games that we have in the afternoon! You may wear any school appropriate shirt you would like :)



We will attend mass on Thursday this week instead of Tuesday (All Saints Day)



Also a congratulations is in order for the WONDERFUL timelines that were presented in social studies today! Wow! Impressive!!



This week in…..



Reading: We will read Emerald’s Eggs (we skipped ahead because of timing). This is a reader’s theater all about sea turtles. We will watch a great short video all about these cute little guys.



Spelling: Lesson 11



Religion: This week we watched an animated film on The Ten Commandments. We will finish it up tomorrow- it seems like everyone is enjoying it!



Social Studies: Election week is upon us! The students will be learning about how the election works. We should be able to have great conversations at home about it and be prepared to pick our candidate after we learn about where each candidate stands on the big issues. The students are also getting ready to play Electoral College Monopoly on Monday!



Science: In science the students started their unit on Force and Motion



Math: The students are learning about elapsed time, calendar, mean, median, mode, and some different ways to graph. Tentatively there is a quiz scheduled for Friday.



Language Arts: The students are finishing up the writing pieces on Road Runners!

  Have a great week! Happy Halloween!!