Friday, December 14, 2018

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

 December 17-21 News!

Spelling:
  We are continuing our study of the mythology spelling words. Our final test will be Thursday, December 20.  

English:
We finished up unit 5 and took our test.  The students overall did well on it! :)  We have done revisions on our personal narrative and the students are making their final revisions to it. 

Reading:
We started mythology this week and the students are excited for it!  I will be introducing a project for them to work on with a partner next week.   
 
Social Studies/Science:
  We are continuing our energy unit in science.   We have learned about converters and what energy is converted into from electrical energy!  We will be finishing up the Southeast chapter next week.  We will be reviewing and having our chapter 6 test on Friday, December 21.  I sent home a study guide for them today. 

Math:
We had our unit 3 test this past week.  We started unit 4 on addition, subtraction, and measurement.

Important Info:
We had a great assembly on Women in History today.  The students were very interested and learned a lot from her!
We also had our marble party on Wednesday this week- thanks to Mrs. Free and Mrs. Kosinski for sending in popcorn and all the students who brought in movies for us to choose from- I think they all enjoyed The Sandlot!

Please make sure you send in the permission slip to see the Elf movie as a school on Tuesday, December 18. It should be a fun day!  We also have a band concert that afternoon.

Wednesday, December 19 we have our bowling field trip with Mrs. Cushing in the morning.

Have a great  weekend!
Mrs. Olsen



Friday, December 7, 2018

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

 December 10-14 News!

Spelling:
  We will be starting mythology spelling words this week.  There are 10 words and 8 vocabulary words.  We will work on these words for the next 2 weeks.  Our final test will be Thursday, December 20.  

English:
We have been reviewing all week.  The unit 5 test is on Wednesday, December 12.  Please look in their english folders- we have been putting all the review pages in there to keep for studying.  We are finishing up revising our personal narratives.  I will be bringing them home over the weekend to look through so we can finalize them and print! :)

Reading:
We will be starting mythology next week and for the next few weeks!  The students will enjoy this!
 
Social Studies/Science:
  We are continuing with our energy unit in science.   We will be finishing up the Southeast chapter next week.  We will be reviewing and having our chapter 6 test on Friday, December 21.

Math:
We will have our unit 3 test on Monday, December 10.  We did some reviewing today and I sent home their pre-assessment they took at the beginning of the unit.  Please study that over the weekend.  It is very similar to the test on Monday.  We will then start unit 4 on addition, subtraction, and measurement.

Important Info:
Next week we have a special assembly on Friday, December 14.  It is on famous and courageous women in history!  Looking forward to seeing it!
Please make sure you send in the permission slip to see the Elf movie as a school on Tuesday, December 18.

Have a great  weekend!
Mrs. Olsen