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
March 4 - March 8 News!
Spelling:
We will be learning about adjectives and how they describe nouns. We will be talking about how adjectives can really enhance our writing and make it more descriptive and visual. Our test will be Friday, March 8.
English/Reading:
We are still reading The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. The students are enjoying the book and we have been doing some open ended questions for more practice in writing while reading the story.
Social Studies/Science:
We finished up chapter 8 in social studies on the midwest. Test will be Tuesday, March 5. The students are bringing home their study guide and stapled to it is some activities we did in class they can use to study for it.
Math:
We will be finishing up unit 5 next week. Test is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, March 12. I will let the students know next week the exact date. We need to see how quickly or slowly we need to get through the last lessons. The students had their last checkpoint before grades come out for trimester 2. They all did well on it so they were happy!
Important Info:
No school- Friday, March 1- teacher institute
End of trimester 1- March 1
March 11- our class is going to Oak Trace Senior Living Community to read and play games with the senior citizens! Elizabeth I has been doing this the past couple years and invited us to join them. It should be fun!
March 13- our field trip to the Museum of Science and Industry- make sure to send your child with a lunch that can be thrown away after eating it.
March 20- we have an author visiting us- Tom Watson- he is the author of the stick dog and cat books.
Have a great, long weekend!
Mrs. Olsen
