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 weeks of November 25- December 6!

Spelling:

Next week, we will not have a spelling list because of the short week.  However, the following week when we get back from the Thanksgiving holiday we will have a list on homographs.  These are words that are spelled the same and sound the same but have multiple meanings. The test will be Friday, December 6.

English/Reading::

We are finishing up our work with the book Happy Birthday, Dr. Martin Luther King.  We will start a story after this about Lou Gehrig and how he showed courage.  We will do many activities to dig in deep like we did with the Martin Luther King story

Social Studies/Science:

We are learning all about the Southeast in Social Studies.  We will finish up chapter 6 the first week in December.  In science we have been learning how energy is converted into different forms.  We are working hard as systems engineers to try to figure out why Ergstown is having so many blackouts.  We have been given solutions and criteria to follow to come up with an argument for what solution we think is best for the city.  We will continue with this when we get back in December.  

SEL:

This week we learned about joining into groups or conversations; what is the correct way to try to join in to something.  We had some good practice at it too.  Our next lesson is on showing compassion.

Mrs. Olsen's Math Class:

  We are continuing to work hard at fractions.  The students will be bringing home their checkpoints they took this week.  They did well on them.  Please sign and send back with your child.  We will continue with fractions and introduce decimals the next couple weeks in unit 3.

Important Info:

The 1st trimester ends today.  Report cards will be available next Tuesday, November 26.

Next week is a short week due to the Thanksgiving holiday.  No school Wednesday, November 27-29.

Have a safe and restful holiday with your family!  

See you in December!!

Have a great weekend!