Miss
Flaherty’s
Weekly News
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Classroom Notes:
September
8
Remember:
Please encourage your child
to read 20 minutes at least
five nights a week. Below
are some suggestions on
ways on how to help your
child reach this goal:
• Make a set family
reading time.
• Keep books by their bed.
• Read while you wait at a
restaurant or doctor’s
office.
• Listen to stories online.
• Keep a few books in the
car.
Please make sure to check
out our classroom website.
Our homework is posted
daily along with other
Spell Bowl
Tryouts after
school–9/17
September
Birthday’s:
Kendall (12th),
Allyson (15th),
Connor T.
(18th), Griffin
(26th) and Trey
(28th)
Weekly
Goals
AR Goal – 4
AM Goal - 5
reading strategy. This will help students properly respond to
questions by looking back in the text and citing information they
read.
Spelling – Spelling lists go home on Monday. The pretest in on
Wednesday. If your child receives 90% or higher on the pretest they
do not have to take the final test on Friday.
Writing/Grammar/Vocabulary –We are wrapping up our first unit
on subjects, predicates, run-on sentences, fragments and the four
types of sentences. There will be a test over the unit on Tuesday,
September 9th. Please help your child study by reviewing their
notebook and their Sentence Chef packet. After our test we will move
move our focus on to the 6+1 Traits of Writing. ~Miss Flaherty
Science – We will continue learning about the Scientific Method this
week in order to successfully carry out investigations. First, the
students will experiment with the solubility of Skittles and then
perform an investigation to see if the shape of a paper airplane affects
affects how far it travels through the air. We will have a quiz over
science tools and the Scientific Method on Wednesday or Thursday!
~Mrs. Ortiz
Math – 4th grade math is learning about the relationship between
lines and shapes. Do you remember terms such as parallel,
perpendicular, rhombus, and trapezoids? We are also brushing up on
on regrouping with addition and multiplication. 5th grade math is
finishing up geometry and they will be creating a poster for geometry.
geometry. I will be looking forward to seeing their creative projects
that showcases what we have been reviewing. This is due Sept 12th.
They may bring it in anytime prior to the due date. We are also
working on multiplication facts.~Mrs. Wentz
Indiana History and Health –We are progressing through our first
unit. I am over the moon with all the eager participants I have this
year! Our first health test will be Friday, September 12th. The test will
will cover lessons four through six. Please help your child study by
reviewing their study guides and really focusing in on those
vocabulary words from their book. ~Mrs. Fritz