I hope you enjoyed the long relaxing weekend. I know I did. :-)
The students really enjoyed the reward movie Friday this past Friday. We will do that again at the end of September. Students are able to earn the movie based on their behavior. They also earn popcorn, candy, and a beverage if they maintain good behavior/turn in work and homework throughout the 4 week period. At the end of the month, if a student has no checks in their choice card then they will earn popcorn, a drink, and a piece of candy. If they have 2 checks then they will earn popcorn and a drink. 4 checks will be popcorn only. 5, 6, 7, and 8 checks are the movie only (no extra treats). If they have more than 8 checks then they will not earn the reward and will be working during the movie instead
What's happening in the classroom?
We will finish up our studies of subject and predicate this week. Students will take a test on this topic this Thursday. Fourth grade does not issue separate study guide for this test, but the topics students must be familar with are identifying simple and complete subjects and predicates. A few sheets went home in last Friday's folder, and we will do a few more activities this week.
Word Study
Root: pro- Definition: forward, for
promote, progress, proceed, propeller, proclaim,
pronoun, pro-war, product, proverb, profess
Fry Words: apple, arms, around, away,
became
My math class will finish up our studies of using rounding to estimate sums and differences. They will complete a study guide on Wednesday and test on Friday of this week.
Please make sure you are reviewing all items sent home in Friday folders. I do not separate the papers to the two different sides of the folder because it simply takes too much time with 32 kids. I would ask that you look through the items and if I have stamped in red a 'please sign and return to Mrs. Phillips' that you go over that paper with your child and return it in the Friday folder on Monday. I keep these in a file to monitor your child's progress on the given skill. I stamp anything under a 70.
We are starting a new Native American unit in Social Studies. I have placed a study guide on the blog. Please click in the study guide section to the left of this post to find that. A test date has not been given, but it is never too early to begin studying.
Progress reports will go home this Friday.
Have a super week. :-)
