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 for the week of February 10-13, 2020!
Spelling:
We will have a new list of words next week. They will be focusing on the suffix -tion. Our test will be Thursday, February 13 because of no school on Friday, February 14.
English/Reading::
We presented the profile in courage project this week. They did a great job on them! Their presentations were great as well! Thanks to those of you who helped them practice, it showed! :) We started an expository essay this week on a hero in their life. We are working through these and will try to finish them up next week. There are a lot of moms and dads as heroes!! :)
Social Studies/Science:
We will be finishing up chapter 8 today in social studies. We will have the chapter 8 test on Wednesday, February 12. A study guide will be going home today. In science we learned this week about how students studying to be engineers are similar to what we are doing as junior engineers in science. Next week, we will be designing our own wind turbine using the knowledge we have learned so far about simple machines.
SEL:
This week we practiced strategies on how to calm down when you are feeling anxious. We practiced lots of strategies and what makes us anxious too. You might hear them singing a song too! :) Next week, we will be working on avoiding jumping to conclusions. This is a great one for all the comments I hear all day that "Someone stole something from my desk!" Most of the time they end up finding it pretty quickly! :)
Mrs. Olsen's Math Class:
We finished up unit 4 today and will start unit 5 next week on geometry. The students will get their tests back on Monday to see how they did.
Important Info:
Next week we have our Valentine's Day celebration on Thursday, February 13 since we do not have school on Friday, February 14 or Monday, February 17 for President's Day.
Enjoy the long weekend!
Spring picture day is Thursday, February 20.
Have a great weekend!
