Mrs. Olsen's 4th Grade Blog

General reminders:

1.  Binders should come back and forth to school everyday with your child.  Please check their binders for homework.

2. Make sure chromebooks are charged before coming to school everyday.

3.  Please do not hesitate to email me with any questions or concerns you have with your child. jolsen@ccsd66.org

 October 29- November 2 News!

Spelling:

Our spelling words next week will be words with suffixes -ment, -tion, and -ly. We will be discussing the meaning of the suffixes and how they help you know the meaning of a word. The test is Friday, November 2.

English:

We will continue unit 5 this week on capitalization and punctuation.  We have drafted our realistic fiction story, we will continue to work on making it our best story next week with a dramatic ending.

Reading:

We are still in our Courage unit.  We will be doing some more close reading of Martin Luther King's speech next week and more practice with text dependent questions.

Social Studies/Science:

  We started science this week on energy- the students are excited for this unit!  We will be doing this unit for a couple months.

Math:

We will start unit 3 on fractions and decimals next week.

Important Info:

Thanks to all those that joined me for parent conferences this week.  It was great to discuss your student's progress so far this year.

No school on Monday, October  29.

Halloween parties on Wednesday- make sure your child comes to school ready to just put their costume on over their clothes or for it to be on under their clothes.

Have a great  4 day weekend!

Mrs. Olsen

Mrs. Olsen's 4th Grade Blog

General reminders:

1.  Binders should come back and forth to school everyday with your child.  Please check their binders for homework.

2. Make sure chromebooks are charged before coming to school everyday.

3.  Please do not hesitate to email me with any questions or concerns you have with your child. jolsen@ccsd66.org

 October 22-26 News!

Spelling:

Our spelling words next week will be words with prefixes pre-, re-, and mis-. We will be discussing the meaning of the prefixes and how they help you know the meaning of a word. The test is Thursday, October 25.

English:

We will continue unit 5 this week on capitalization and punctuation.  We have drafted our realistic fiction story, we will continue to work on making it our best story next week.

Reading:

We are still in our Courage unit.  We will be doing some vocab activities and close reading of Martin Luther King's speech next week.  We will also continue with some cause and effect practice.

Social Studies/Science:

  We had our Northeast feast today!  They had fun and some tried some new things!  We had dried cranberries, grapes, grape juice, and pancakes with real maple syrup!! :)  We will be starting science next week on energy!  It will be fun for the students to see some ways we get our energy for everyday things!

Math:

We will work on division strategies next week.  We have learned a few different strategies for multiplication and have played some games to practice these strategies.

Important Info:

Parent conferences are October 23 and 24. Please sign up if you need to still.  

No school on Friday, October 26 or 29.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Olsen

Mrs. Olsen's 4th Grade Blog

General reminders:

1.  Binders should come back and forth to school everyday with your child.  Please check their binders for homework.

2. Make sure chromebooks are charged before coming to school everyday.

3.  Please do not hesitate to email me with any questions or concerns you have with your child. jolsen@ccsd66.org

 October 15-19 News!

Spelling:

Our spelling words next week will be words that are grade appropriate and specific vocabulary to use for a richer reading and writing platform.  The test is Friday, October 19.

English:

We started unit 5 this week on capitalization and punctuation.  We will continue with that next week as well.  We have drafted our realistic fiction story, we will continue to work on it next week and have conferences with classmates to help with ideas for improvement on the stories.

Reading:

We are still in our Courage unit.  We will be doing some cause and effect activities and vocabulary work next week.  We will do some cause and effect and comparing with other stories and articles, which we will then use to compare with the Happy Birthday Dr. Martin Luther King story.

 

Social Studies/Science:

We started the first part of our United States map- the Northeast region.  They look great so far!  We will do a fun project next week on creating a Narrangansett Village.  We will end the week with a Northeast feast!  Trying some food from resources used in the Northeast!

Math:

We finished this week with a checkpoint on the math strategies we have learned the past couple weeks.  We will finish unit 2 module 3 next week on multiplication stories and strategies.

Important Info:

Parent conferences are October 23 and 24, I sent an email to sign up earlier this week- if you did not receive it let me know and I will resend it to you.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Olsen

Mrs. Olsen's 4th Grade Blog

General reminders:

1.  Binders should come back and forth to school everyday with your child.  Please check their binders for homework.

2. Make sure chromebooks are charged before coming to school everyday.

3.  Please do not hesitate to email me with any questions or concerns you have with your child. jolsen@ccsd66.org

 October 9-12 News!

Spelling:

Our spelling words next week will be words with the suffixes -ness, -less, and -en.  A couple vocab words will also have those suffixes.  The test is Friday, October 12.

English:

We started unit 5 this week on capitalization and punctuation.  We will continue with that next week as well.  We have also been working hard on writing a realistic fiction story, we have been making story arcs and dramatic scenes for our stories.

Reading:

We are having some good conversations with our unit on courage.  We will continue working on the story Happy Birthday Martin Luther King!  

Social Studies/Science:

We started chapter 5 lesson 1 on the reservations and indian tribes in the northeast region this week.  I had them answer some questions while using their social studies books, they did really well so I counted it towards their grade.  You probably saw that yesterday and it said quiz at the top, I did not count it as a quiz, I just counted it towards classwork but was pleasantly surprised at how well they did on it!  Next week we will make the first part of our United States map- the Northeast region.

Math:

We learned this week some strategies to figure out multi-digit multiplication problems.  Such as 4x16, 7x23 and so on.  We can build arrays, add numbers over and over, use linear pieces, and just building smaller rectangles  to make up the whole array.  We will continue work with multiplication stories and strategies next week.

Important Info:

Reminder there is no school on Monday, October 8 for the Columbus Day Holiday.

Progress reports are coming home today for any students getting a D or F in any subject.  Please sign and return.  

Parent conferences are October 23 and 24, I will be sending home an email soon for you to pick a time.

Have a great, long weekend!

Mrs. Olsen