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

 January 28 - February 1 News!

Spelling:

  We will be working next week on the suffix -tion.  Our test will be Friday, February 1.  

English/Reading:

We have been presenting our profiles in courage projects this week. We will continue with these next week and get all the presentations in by the end of the week. We started our next unit on journeys!  We are reading and discussing the story Grandfather's Journey.

Social Studies/Science:

  We learned more this week about different sources of energy and think we have a better reasoning as to why Ergstown is having blackouts! :)  We started adding the southeast section of the United States to our maps.  We will finish those up next week.  We will also start learning about the midwest.  We will have our midwest quiz on Friday, February 8.

Math:

We finished up unit 4 this week.  We have done some reviewing and the students are bringing home their study guides to practice over the weekend for their test on Monday, January 28.  We will then start unit 5 on geometry next week!

Important Info:

Friday, January 25- District PTO Trivia Night

Thursday, January 31- early dismissal- 11:00 am 

Have a great weekend!  Stay warm!

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

 January 22-25 News!

Spelling:

  We will be working next week on some more greek roots- micro, hydra, astro, hydro/hydra, and path. Our test will be Friday, January 25.  We have our winner, Bailey Loos and runner up, Gianna Caruso that advanced to the spelling bee for 4th grade from our class!  Congrats and good luck to both of them! 

English/Reading:

We started our profiles in courage project this week. The students have been working hard on their projects this week.  We will start to present these on Tuesday, January 22.  This gives the students time to rehearse and finish up any final details over the long weekend.  This will conclude our first unit on courage.  We will start our next unit on journeys!  Lots of fun things to come in this unit!

Social Studies/Science:

  We wrote our design argument in science supporting the claim that the streetlights should all be changed to LED lights to prevent future blackouts in Ergstown! :)  We read today about the Civil War in Social Studies and how it started in the southeast states.  We conclude the southeast with this and will then move onto the midwest section of the United States.

Math:

We started work on measurement this week.  We also took our MAPS test.  We will be finishing up unit 4 in the next couple weeks.  Our unit 4 test will be the week of January 28- will let you know as it gets closer.

Important Info:

No school- Monday, January 21 (MLK Day)

Friday, January 25- District PTO Trivia Night

Thursday, January 31- early dismissal- 11:00 am 

Have a great, long 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

 January 14-18 News!

Spelling:

  We will be working next week on some more greek roots. Our test will be Friday, January 18.  We will also be practicing for the school spelling bee today and next week.

English/Reading:

We completed our mythology unit and the students presented their myth project this week.  They did a great job on these and will get their grades on them today.  We will then be starting a new project where they pick a courageous person and do a profile on that person.  I will introduce it today and they will be working on that next week.

Social Studies/Science:

  We are learning in science about how to support a claim and use evidence to come up with a solution.  The students also had to use criteria to support their claim for the solution.  Lots of new science vocabulary we have been learning in our energy unit!  We have learned about the Cherokee tribe in Social Studies who lived in the southeast.  We will finish up the southeast section of the United States in the next week and move onto the midwest.

Math:

We have been working hard on addition and subtraction strategies this week.  We took a short 5 question graded paper this week to see how well they are using the strategies to answer subtraction problems.  The students did well on it.  Next week we will start more work on measurement.

Important Info:

No school- Monday, January 21

Friday, January 25- District PTO Trivia Night

Thursday, January 31- early dismissal- 11:00 am 

Have a great  weekend!

Mrs. Olsen