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 January 6-10, 2020!

Spelling:

The week we get back from the holiday break we will be starting in reading and spelling a unit on mythology.  So, our spelling words will go along with this.  We will work on the words for the first 2 weeks back.  So, our test on those words will be on Friday, January 17.

English/Reading::

We will be starting our unit on mythology.  I did a quick introduction on Thursday this past week about mythology.  We will be learning all about the Greek myths and doing a project as well.  The students will really enjoy it!

Social Studies/Science:

The students presented their Southeast scrapbook this week.  They did a great job.  We will finish off the Southeast with learning about the Cherokee Native American Tribe.  In science, we will start chapter 3 to continue with our unit on energy conversions!

SEL:

This week we will continue to learn more about emotion management.  

Mrs. Olsen's Math Class:

  We will be starting unit 4 on place value and the standard algorithm of addition.

Important Info:

No school from December 21- January 5. for the winter holiday break.  Enjoy the time with your family and enjoy some relaxation as well!

Classes will resume January 6.

Thanks to the parents who donated tissue boxes already!  I appreciate it! :)

** We are down to our final tissue boxes for the year! If anyone would like to donate a box or two it would be greatly appreciated!  These 4 boxes won't last till June!! I have a ton of plastic bags- I will send your child home with plastic bags in place of the tissue boxes contribution! :)

Have a great winter break!

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 December 16-20!

Spelling:

This is the second week of no spelling- we have been playing hangman to make up for practicing spelling! :)

English/Reading::

We are finishing up Lou Gehrig next week.  We have done some great extended response practice this week using the RACE strategy.  We will be using that strategy throughout the year and adding onto it as well.  We will touch on mythology next week before the holiday break.  When we get back in January we will start our unit on mythology. This will be fun for the students!

Social Studies/Science:

We have finished up Chapter 6 in Social Studies.  We are starting today a scrapbook for the Southeast.  This will be done with a partner and on their chromebook.  This will be a fun culminating project for them to wrap up chapter 6 on the Southeast region.  In science, we wrote our own design arguments to see how well we could do on our own supporting our claim and giving good science vocabulary to support it.

SEL:

This week we learned about emotion management.  This will continue when we get back from holiday break on controlling emotions and learning how to control our emotions.  

Mrs. Olsen's Math Class:

  We have finished up unit 3 today.  We will have our unit 3 test on Wednesday, December 18.  Next week we will spend Monday and Tuesday reviewing for the test.  They will be working on and finishing for homework their study guide on Monday, so look for that on Monday evening. Then, Tuesday we will go over the answers and practice anything that needs it so we are ready for the test on Wednesday.

Important Info:

We had a great time at the Tivoli to watch The Polar Express!

Wednesday, December 18 is our bowling field trip with Mrs. Cushing!  Should be fun!

** We are down to our final tissue boxes for the year! If anyone would like to donate a box or two it would be greatly appreciated!  These 4 boxes won't last till June!! I have a ton of plastic bags- I will send your child home with plastic bags in place of the tissue boxes contribution! :)

Have a great weekend!

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 December 9-13!

Spelling:

We will be taking 2 weeks off from spelling.  We have 2 weeks that have field trips, a SIP day and we are ahead of the other 4th grade teachers spelling lists.  So, I am giving the students a spelling break! I am sure they will be happy about that, as well as, parents!  We will start up when we get back in January from holiday break.  

English/Reading::

We finished up our work on Martin Luther King last week and have started learning about Lou Gehrig.  We will continue with this next week.  He was a very courageous and humble man.  We will be practicing more extended response questions using the RACE strategy too.

Social Studies/Science:

We have finished up Chapter 6 in Social Studies.  I will give the students a study guide today to take home to study from.  The test will be on Wednesday, December 11.  Along with the study guide is a vocab sheet we have been filling out, you can use this to help with the study guide.  If the students know the information on the study guide they will do fine on the test.  In science, we have written a design argument together to send to the Mayor of Ergstown.  We will continue practicing different ways and ideas to come up with solving the blackout issues in Ergstown.

SEL:

This week we learned about showing compassion.  We practiced different scenarios and what we would do or how we would show compassion in these scenarios.  Next week, we will be learning about emotion management.

Mrs. Olsen's Math Class:

  We have learned about decimals this week. They are doing a great job understanding them.  We have practiced how to make a fraction into a decimal and vice versa when in the tenths or hundredths place.  I sent home a practice sheet for the checkpoint we will have on Monday, December 9.  I also sent home a study guide.  Please make sure you look at both those yellow sheets to help you with preparing for the checkpoint on Monday.

Important Info:

Tuesday, December 10 is an early dismissal day- we will end at 11:00- no lunch that day.

Thursday, December 12 is our school wide field trip to the Tivoli Theater to see The Polar Express!  Looking forward to it!

Have a great weekend!