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