Mrs. Olsen's 4th Grade Blog
Welcome back to the 2019-2020 school year!
This will be a weekly reminder of what is coming up in the following week. I will send it out as an email to the parents on Fridays.
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
This is what we will be working on the for the week of October 7-11!
Spelling:
This week we will be working on the suffixes -ed and -ing. We will be practicing and learning these words throughout the week. The test will be Friday, October 11.
English:
We will finish up our first unit in English next week. The students will be reviewing at the end of next week and have our unit 1 test on Tuesday, October 15.
Reading:
We finished up the poem titled "Casey at the Bat" this week. We compared it to another song or poem this week and did some comparing and contrasting activities with it. Our next unit will be on Courage.
Social Studies/Science:
We have finished the environment part of the Northeast region. We will have our first Social Studies test on Friday, October 11. I will send home the study guide on Monday. The review activities we have done will be in your child's Social Studies folder. Please use these to help study for the test.
SEL:
We have been learning about being assertive this week in certain circumstances. Ask your child when and why it is good to be assertive! You will start to see flyers coming home with activities you can do to help with the lesson we are learning about in school for SEL.
Mrs. Olsen's Math Class:
We had our unit 1 test this week. The students did pretty well on it. :) You should have seen it come home and returned it signed. We have done some linear measurement activities this week and will start unit 2 next week on building multiplication arrays.
Important Info:
Band starts next week!
October 14- No school in observance of Columbus Day.
Have a great weekend!
