Update: December 13

December Dates:
December 16: Spanish Field trip in morning to Woodburn Family Center
December 18: 12-1 Class Holiday Party
December 18: 1:30-2:30 St. Nick Chapel
December 19-January 3: Winter Break
A Look Ahead into January:
January 8: Spelling Bee in our classroom.
Week of January 11: Geography Bee
January 15: 4th Grade presents the MLK Assembly
No School: January 18, 22, 29

Dear Parents,
It is a busy time of year and the classroom is no different. We have many fun and exciting events happening this week. We are trying to keep a regular schedule as much as possible but many curricular timelines are slowing down as we prepare for Winter Break.

Reading:
We continue to review Reading Logs and Notes. We are sharing book recommendations and personal strategies for reading deeply. This upcoming week, we will talk more about the kinds of notes we take, why we take notes and how notes differ in different genres.

Writing:
We finished our essay on Dams in our rivers. We will publish those to our blog this week as well as start a poem on a river for a publication put out by an organization called Honoring our Rivers. Find out more here.

Math:
In Math, we started talking about place value past the decimal point. We reviewed concepts of place value. We will continue to look at the concept of a whole, parts, and units.

Water Inquiry:
Students have been exploring the concept of water footprints this fall ever since we started talking about water consumption and use. This week, we hope to finish our water bill and uniform project as well as explore how you calculate your water footprint.