Mrs. Olsen's 4th Grade Blog

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

 October 29- November 2 News!

Spelling:

Our spelling words next week will be words with suffixes -ment, -tion, and -ly. We will be discussing the meaning of the suffixes and how they help you know the meaning of a word. The test is Friday, November 2.

English:

We will continue unit 5 this week on capitalization and punctuation.  We have drafted our realistic fiction story, we will continue to work on making it our best story next week with a dramatic ending.

Reading:

We are still in our Courage unit.  We will be doing some more close reading of Martin Luther King's speech next week and more practice with text dependent questions.

Social Studies/Science:

  We started science this week on energy- the students are excited for this unit!  We will be doing this unit for a couple months.

Math:

We will start unit 3 on fractions and decimals next week.

Important Info:

Thanks to all those that joined me for parent conferences this week.  It was great to discuss your student's progress so far this year.

No school on Monday, October  29.

Halloween parties on Wednesday- make sure your child comes to school ready to just put their costume on over their clothes or for it to be on under their clothes.

Have a great  4 day weekend!

Mrs. Olsen

Mrs. Olsen's 4th Grade Blog

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

 October 22-26 News!

Spelling:

Our spelling words next week will be words with prefixes pre-, re-, and mis-. We will be discussing the meaning of the prefixes and how they help you know the meaning of a word. The test is Thursday, October 25.

English:

We will continue unit 5 this week on capitalization and punctuation.  We have drafted our realistic fiction story, we will continue to work on making it our best story next week.

Reading:

We are still in our Courage unit.  We will be doing some vocab activities and close reading of Martin Luther King's speech next week.  We will also continue with some cause and effect practice.

Social Studies/Science:

  We had our Northeast feast today!  They had fun and some tried some new things!  We had dried cranberries, grapes, grape juice, and pancakes with real maple syrup!! :)  We will be starting science next week on energy!  It will be fun for the students to see some ways we get our energy for everyday things!

Math:

We will work on division strategies next week.  We have learned a few different strategies for multiplication and have played some games to practice these strategies.

Important Info:

Parent conferences are October 23 and 24. Please sign up if you need to still.  

No school on Friday, October 26 or 29.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Olsen