4th
Grade
News
November 13, 2015
Upcoming Events
American Ed. Visitation (9:30-11 AM)
Tuesday- 11/17/15
American Ed. Visitation (1:30-3 PM)
Thursday- 11/19/15
*Salt Dough Map Activity @1:35*
Thursday- 11/19/15
Salt Dough Maps
Students will be making salt dough maps next week to
show their knowledge about the elevation of PA’s land. The 4th
grade team is hoping for parent assistance with this activity since
it takes place during American Education visitation week. Please
see the reverse side of this newsletter for more information.
Thank you ! We hope to see you on Thursday, Nov. 19th 
English Language Arts
School Closed
Wednesday- 11/25/15 to
Friday-11/27/15
End of the 1st Trimester
Wednesday- 12/2/15
25 Book Small Goal Reward
Friday- 12/4/15
By: Miss Vilsmeier
This week, students completed two portions of the
Common Assessment in ELA. Students independently read
complex 4th grade level text, answered multiple choice
questions in which they had to apply skills and strategies from
Unit 1, and wrote a Text Dependent Analysis response (TDA).
The TDA response is new to 4th grade students and it is very
challenging (a lot of higher level thinking involved), but we
will continue to work on it throughout the school year. On
Monday, students will complete the On Demand
Writing Prompt portion of the assessment.
Contact Information
Mrs. Susan Lahneman
lahnemsm@npenn.org
215-855-4331 Ext. 5718
Mrs. Jigna Patel
pateljr12@npenn.org
215-855-4331 Ext. 4628
Miss Christie Vilsmeier
vilsmecl@npenn.org
215-855-4331 Ext. 4682
Math
By: Mrs. Patel
We started our week off with a review of the content
covered in chapter 2. The students worked very hard on completing
the chapter 2 assessment. We have started chapter 3 which focuses on
multi-digit multiplication. Right now the students are practicing
multiplying a two-digit number by a multiple of ten (23 x 40 or 18 x
60). The students should continue to practice their multiplication facts
at home for a few minutes each night. Each student also has access
to www.xtramath.org. This website provides great practice for building
the students’ automaticity with math fact recall.
Health/S.S
By: Mrs. Lahneman
HEALTH was our subject topic this week! Building healthy
relationships with friends and family are skills we worked on through
class discussion and group activities. The topic areas included: Resolving
Conflicts through communication, and understanding that there are various
ways to communicate care, consideration, and acceptance of self and
others. We also had fun learning about verbal and non-verbal
communication focusing on body language, facial expressions, and
gestures. The students had a lot of fun with the activity on Constructive
Criticism vs. Non-Constructive Criticism where they had to come up with
dialogue to answer different scenarios. We also began our journey into
the understanding of the Natural Regions of Pennsylvania,
located in Chapter 2 in the Social Studies text.