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