Kudos to your kiddos for exceptional attendance in small group instruction! We love that students are on time, ready with materials, and excited to be part of their learning community. This week we’ll focus on increased responsibility with BLEND asynchronous assignments. As teachers, we’re previewing and answering questions about assignments during small group meetings. We’re also building in time for students to reflect on the quality of their work and completion of all daily assignments. As parents, we ask that you help your student to create responsible work habits by reviewing each day’s BLEND module and helping your child to check for completion of the day’s assignments. Creating this routine will help your child to gradually become more independent and responsible with assignment completion using BLEND.
We’ll be taking our first grades this week over skills that students have been practicing. Know that all official grades are recorded in TEAMS (not BLEND) and that you can view your child’s grades at any time through the parents portal. 4th grade readers are watching their characters more closely than ever! We notice character traits, how problems create an overarching struggle, and how these elements contribute to a story’s theme. We’ve been noticing contrasts and contradictions in our reading and pausing to consider “Why?” when we notice that a character’s behavior has changed. As writers, we are learning to analyze sentences for the many structures that create meaning for readers. We considered how each capital letter and punctuation mark have an effect on a sentence. With this heightened awareness, we edited our own personal narratives and look forward to sharing with each other this week. Our mathematicians solved their first Match It puzzle this past week. This routine provides an opportunity to build fluency with all 4 operations and promotes accuracy with computation. Thanks for your help as students are learning to take a picture of assignments and upload so their teachers can give feedback. This week we’ll continue to explore place value patterns and will move into decimals. We’d love to use a few dollar bills, dimes, and pennies as we represent decimals his week so please gather any that you have at home. You may have heard your 4th grader talk a little about the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution last week. Please ask them to share the movements that help us remember the how and why behind these foundational documents. We’ll keep building our understanding this next week, so your student will have some assignments in BLEND that will continue to help them process these big historical ideas.
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Nicole Murry
9/28/2020 02:45:46 pm
Thank you so much for keeping us informed and being such amazing teachers!
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