4th Grade
News
April 22, 2016
Upcoming Events
PSSA Science Testing- 4th Grade
Monday- 4/25/16 and
Tuesday- 4/26/16
Field Trip Chaperone Forms Due
Tuesday- 4/26/16
Literacy Night: 4:30-6:30 PM
ELA
By: Miss Vilsmeier
Fourth grade students enjoyed a few fun activities
this week to get ready for Literacy Night next Thursday,
4/28! Students were given a pirate name and they even
created their own little pirate to display on Literacy Night.
Daryl Cobb’s pirate themed literature inspired us to
embrace our inner pirates! Come to Literacy Night to check
out our pirate dialogue, student writing samples, and other
literacy activities! Argghh- see you next Thursday mates!
This week, we began to get into a normal ELA
routine by beginning Lesson 19. We will read the
biographical selection Harvesting Hope: The Story of
Cesar Chavez, which we’ll learn about the man who
brought the plight of migrant workers to national attention.
We will also read the informational text, The Edible
Schoolyard, which tells students how to become
community leaders by creating a school
garden.
Thursday- 4/28/16
Author Daryl Cobb visits GS
Friday- 4/29/16
Student Council Spirit Day- Green &
White Day: Friday- 4/29/16
Mrs. Patel returns 
Monday- 5/2/16
Math
By: Miss Yates
This week we continued to prepare for math PSSAs
by reviewing our skills! We did this by spending some
time each day working on our fact fluency as well as by
reviewing concepts from earlier in the year. All
students had great attitudes and I know they put forth
their best efforts this week! Now that our math PSSAs
are finished, we are easing back into our Go Math
lessons. We are picking up right where we left off with
decimals and we look forward to making connections
between fractions, decimals, and money amounts next
week. Normal math homework assignments will begin
again on Wednesday, April 27 (after the science PSSAs
are finished)!
Contact Information
Mrs. Susan Lahneman
lahnemsm@npenn.org
215-855-4331 Ext. 5718
Miss Christie Vilsmeier
vilsmecl@npenn.org
215-855-4331 Ext. 4682
Miss Breanna Yates
yatesbs@npenn.org
Science
By: Mrs. Lahneman
Glaciers are amazing parts of our earth’s make
up. We learned about valley glaciers, hanging glaciers
and all the new vocabulary that went with them. Words
like cirques, horn, moraines, crevasses, and icebergs were
just a few. We also looked at the parts of our streams
from a bird’s-eye view and were introduced to more new
vocabulary words to add to our growing list this
year. Some of these words included: canyon, tributaries,
floodplain, channel, gully, valley, drainage basin, delta,
and stream channel. We spent a lot of our time looking
at how water affects land, and are excited to begin to
explore how land might affect the direction
and flow of water.