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!