Mrs. Olsen's Blog

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 adding ch and tch to words. Our test will be Friday, February 21.

English/Reading::

We are working hard on our hero essays. We got them all organized and mapped out on a graphic organizer. We will be working next week on getting them into essay form.

Social Studies/Science:

We took our Ch. 8 test this week. They will be bringing them home today to see how they did. We will be reading about the Native American tribe the Ojibwe next week to finish up the Midwest region. In science, we will be designing our own wind turbine using the knowledge we have learned so far about simple machines.

SEL:

This week we practiced how to avoid jumping to conclusions when put it an uncomfortable position. Please look for the purple sheet to come home today. There are strategies you can try at home to help in practicing this concept.

Mrs. Olsen's Math Class:

We started unit 5 on geometry. We are learning all about angles and how to measure angles using polygons. Next week we will have a checkpoint on Thursday, February 20. I will also give them a work sample on Friday, February 21 and will see how they do to decide if I am going to take a grade on it.

Important Info:

We had fun at our Valentine celebration! Thanks to the parents who helped out making it great!

Here are some pictures from the party today!