Field Trip Reminders:

Our field trip is this Thursday, October 20th.  We will load the buses at 8:10. Please make sure your child is at school on time.

The cost per child is $6 cash.  Please turn this in to your child’s teacher by Wednesday, October 19th.

If you did not sign up for a cafeteria lunch, please make sure your child has a sack lunch and drink with their name on it.

Parents are allowed to come to the Oil Museum and walk with their child only while they tour the museum with their homeroom.

If you plan on coming, you MUST come to the office and sign in through our RAPTOR system and get a visitor tag before going to the Oil Museum.  At the Oil Museum, you will be required to pay $6 for your admission.

Students will be allowed to be checked out with their homeroom teacher after lunch at the park.

Math Learning Goals: Decimals on a Number Line

Important Dates:

Monday, September 26th  PTO Meeting 6:00

Tuesday, September 27th Watchdog Kickoff  6-7pm

Friday, September 30th 4th Grade parents may eat with their children.  Lunch Time:12:00-12:30

Friday, September 30th Big Kahuna Fundraiser Begins- Packets will be sent home.

Math Learning Goals: Comparing Decimals

4.2E- Use models to represent decimals (S)

4.2F- Use models to compare & order decimals (S)

4.2G- Relate decimals to fractions:  Tenths & Hundredths (R)

Math Homework: Math HW due Thursday, September 29th

1.  Math HW was passed out on Friday and is due the following Thursday, September 29th.

Science Learning Goals: Life Cycles

4.10C Explore, illustrate, and compare life cycles in living organisms such as beetles, crickets, radishes and lima beans.

Important Upcoming Dates:

Wednesday, September 14, Wear GOLD for Childhood Cancer Awareness

Thursday, September 15th Fall Pictures

Wednesday, September 21, Early Release Day for Students

Math Learning Goals:  Decimal Models

4.2D- Round whole #’s to a given place value through the hundred thousands place (S)

4.2E- Use models to represent decimals (S)

4.2F- Use models to compare & order decimals (S)

4.2G- Relate decimals to fractions:  Tenths & Hundredths (R)

Math Homework: Study all facts and Math HW due Thursday, September 15th.

1.  Math HW was passed out on Friday and is due the following Thursday, September 15th.
2.  Study all X facts.  A quiz will be given Friday on all facts.  The highest grade from last week and this week will be recorded in the grade book.

Science Learning Goal:  Structures & Functions (Adaptations)

• 4.10A Explore how structures and functions enable organisms to survive in their environment

Math Learning Goals:   Review of X facts and Place Value

1. Multiplication Review (3rd Grade)
2. (4.2 A) Place value is 10 times position to right & 1/10 of the place to the left
3. (4.2 B) Place value of whole numbers through 1 billion and decimals through hundredths

Math Homework:  Study Squares, 2’s and 5’s & Math HW due Thursday, August 25th

1.  Please study the squares multiplication facts & 2’s .  We will have a quiz this Wednesday, August 24th on squares and 2’s only.   We will add the 5’s and have a quiz over squares, 2’s and 5’s on Friday, August 26th.

2.  Math homework will be sent home each Friday and due the following Thursday.

Science Learning Goal:  Inherited Traits 

(4.10B)  Explore and describe examples of traits that are inherited from parents to offspring such as eye color and shapes of leaves and behaviors that are learned such as reading a book and wolf pack teaching their pups to hunt effectively

Math Learning Goals:   Review of X facts and Place Value

1. Multiplication Review (3rd Grade)
2. (4.2 B) Place value of whole numbers through 1 billion and decimals through hundredths

Math Homework:  Squares 

**A letter will be sent home on Monday explaining how we will study for our multiplication facts and when they will be tested.  Please sign and return.

Please study the squares multiplication facts.  We will have a quiz this Friday.  The squares are the “doubles” 2×2, 3×3, 4×4, 5×5, 6×6, 7×7, 8×8, and  9×9.

Math home work will be sent home on Friday, August 19th and due the following Thursday, August 25th.

Science Learning Goals:  Safety

(4.1 A)  The student conducts classroom and outdoor investigations, following school safety procedures and environmentally appropriate practices.

I hope everyone had an amazing summer!  I’m super excited to get to meet all of my new students!  Meet the Teacher is Tuesday, August 9th from 5:00-6:00. I hope to see everyone there!

Parents, please do not send snacks for STAAR testing days, May 10, 11, and 12, as our PTO is furnishing snacks for all students on testing days. Students may bring one bottle of room-temperature water on testing days. Again, Thank You, PTO, for taking care of our students on these important days.