This is going to be a very busy and fun week!

Field Trip: Our field trip is Friday. Students may bring a sack lunch from home, but everything they bring must be in a container/bag that can be thrown away. They will be very active during our time at Safety Village and will not be able to carry empty lunchboxes around with them. Sack lunches from school are also a choice if you prefer. Please have them wear comfortable sneakers, standard attire bottoms and a spirit T-shirt or standard attire shirt.

On Tuesday I will be in an all day planning meeting, therefore we will have a substitute. Please remind the students about the importance of presenting their best selves when I am not there. Your children are amazing and I know that they will welcome our substitute and show them how amazing they are!

Learning objectives for the week:

Unit of Inquiry Theme: Sharing the Planet: An inquiry into communities and the relationships within and between them.

• We will continue to learn about various contributors to our society. We will be choosing an individual whose actions had a significant impact on the American Revolution and we will learn how to research information about them and write to reflect on their contributions. In our research we will take note of how authors organize text and how we, as readers, can determine the structure that they used to organize the text. 
• We will continue to learn how to use proper nouns, common nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs in our writing. We will have an assessment on this on Thursday.
• In math we will be learning how to use a number line to set a benchmark for when we round numbers. Here is a resource video for rounding that might be helpful.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQryP-AIwO8&feature=youtu.be
• Students will receive their main idea assessment from last week and the retake test will be on Wed of this week, unless otherwise noted on the assessment.

My goal is to have all ParentVue codes to you by the end of this week. If you have not turned in your ParentVue  form please do so as soon as possible or if you need another form, please let me now. I will be requesting the codes from our ParentVue coordinator on Monday. One grading change to note...as a 4th grade team we have decided to have all assignments (assessments, projects, classwork etc) be worth the same weight when the final grade is averaged. After much discussion and consideration, we determined that it would be most beneficial for students.