Hello 401 Families,
Thank you all for attending our digital Publishing Celebration today! Despite technical difficulties it really brightened up my week.
I appreciate everyone's patience, and I apologize to those of you who weren't able to log on. We will have a REDO on Monday during Morning Meeting, so that everyone who wasn't able to share today gets a chance to show off their work to their classmates! (I am also attaching the shared folder where everyone's stories can be read!)
This week we'll be starting new units in Reading, Writing, and Math to wrap up our time together in 4th grade!
Reading/Writing
We'll end the year with a study of poetry, reviewing form of poetic language and using all we've learned about theme and symbolism to push our thinking about meaning. While I will be sharing digital resources for poems next week, please help your child explore your bookshelves at home for poetry anthologies, nursery rhyme books, or any collections of poems (or music) you may have around your home!
This week we'll be be brainstorming poetry topics and writing cinquains and haikus.
Math
We'll end the year in math by returning to geometry. This week, students will review geometry vocabulary we originally learned in March and will be learn about quarter turns to equal 360 degrees.
Social Studies
States Capitals Quiz on Friday, June 12: Resources have been posted on Google Classroom for pt. 2 of our U.S. Geography study. Please encourage your child to begin studying this week!
State Project, due Monday, June 22: Our final Social Studies project of the year will be for students to research and create a project about a State of their choice. On Monday at Morning Meeting students will choose the state they'd like to research. Feel free to start thinking about favorite states as a family! Assignment details will be posted on Monday.
Passion Projects
Since starting remote learning, students have been encouraged to research, practice, and learn more about a topic they're passionate about. We will be presenting these Passion Projects at Morning Meeting from June 8 to June 19.
Students can share their work as a live performance or talk, through a slideshow or video, or really... in any way they'd like! Presentations should be no more than 10 minutes. The sign-up sheet is posted under "Long Term Projects" in Google Classroom.
Lastly there will be NO small groups again this week as I wrap up end-of-year reading assessments. There will be NO SCHOOL for students on Thursday, June 4 and Tuesday, June 9. Assignments will not be posted on Google Classroom on those dates and there will be no live meetings.
Thank you again for logging-on to share all the hard work students (and you wonderful co-teachers and editors) put into their Historical Fiction Stories! I am looking forward to reading them all in the coming week.
Have a great weekend,
Kati