Dear Families,
Your child has brought home a questionnaire for you to fill out prior to our Student-Led Conference. This conference is a time for us to set goals for your child’s fourth grade year. Leading up to the conference, each child will have spent time reflecting on their own work and identifying samples that they will share with you. They will also set their own goals for the year. When thinking about your hopes and dreams for your child, I ask that you think about both social and academic goals. I’m looking forward to our conference time! Below is an announcement from the Development Office: Saturday, October 20th: Farmers For America Screening and Panel with Local Food Tasting. Click here to learn more and register. In addition, the Northeast Organic Farming Association, NOFA, is offering a free gardening workshop, led by FA teacher Steve Walach, on campus prior to this event. You can click here to learn more about their workshop. Contact Steve Walach to register. Curriculum highlights: Math
Language Arts
Social Studies We had a wonderful field trip the the Mashpee Wampanoag Museum. We enjoyed learning about the Wampanoag culture and history. Check out the photo section to see some pictures from our trip. Next week, we will begin to learn the states and capitals of the Northeast region. Other Social Studies highlights:
Have a wonderful weekend! Warmly, Brigid Dear Families, Thank you all for attending Parents’ Night and learning about our 4th grade curriculum. It’s going to be an exciting year! I look forward to our Student-Led Conference time where we get a chance to share our hopes and dreams for the year. Our social studies curriculum focuses on the regions of the United States. For each region, we plan to explore four major concepts. They are:
Over the next few weeks, our discussions will focus on the Northeast. To learn more about the region before it became the United States, we will be taking a field trip on Tuesday, September 25th. Mark your calendars because Whaling Days will be our culminating event on Friday, November 9th from 9:30-10:30. Below are a few pictures from our Outside the Classroom activities and our fourth grade hike. Have a wonderful weekend! Warmly, Brigid Dear Families, We have had a wonderful week in fourth grade! It is during these beginning days of school that we have been adapting to our school routine, learning our team rules, establishing peer relationships, and introducing the fourth grade curriculum. It is crucial that during these first few days expectations are spelled out and predictable structures are established. This helps us create a cooperative and stimulating learning environment. I just want to remind you that Thursday, September 20th is Parents’ Night. There will be a brief introduction in the Commons at 6:30 followed by our fourth grade presentation in Ms. Pindell’s classroom. You will have time to look around your child’s classroom after the presentation. I look forward to seeing you all then! Below are a few curriculum highlights from the week: Morning Meeting/Social and Emotional Learning Morning meeting is a time that allows us to greet one another, share important news, engage in a team building activity, and hear about the day ahead. We also will use this time to discuss topics that are important to the social and academic growth of the children. This past week we discussed Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset. Below is an image we have in the classroom to remind us of how to have a growth mindset: Language Arts
Students have started to learn the reading and writing routines used in fourth grade. Having time carved out in our day for independent reading will help build reading stamina. Students also took time to go through our classroom books and they decided together how to organize our library. This was a great team building activity that helped students feel a sense of ownership within our classroom. During Writer’s Workshop, fourth graders have been introduced to the Writer’s Notebook. This is a place where students will write stories or share ideas over the course of the year. Each student has brainstormed different topics that are meaningful and close to their heart. These topics were put in a Heart Map. They can refer to the Heart Map if they are ever stuck for a writing topic. Math Fourth graders have spent the first few days of school reviewing their addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. This is has been done through independent practice, class review, and partner or whole group games. The math games are a wonderful way to support and extend math concepts. Please let me know if you are looking for suggestions to reinforce math skills at home. Along with a Math in Focus math journal, each fourth grader will have a Math Notebook. This notebook will be a place where students store math vocabulary and examples of concepts introduced and can be used as a resource over the course of the year. Students can also use the grid paper in the notebook as an extra place for solving problems. I hope you all have wonderful weekend! Warmly, Brigid P.S. Check out the photo section to see fourth graders in action! |
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