Talent Show

Information about this year’s talent show is online.  Sign up online if your child would like to participate.

Field Trip

May 15 8:45-2:45 will be our all 4th grade trip to the capitol building in Salem.  Students will need to bring a sack lunch and water bottle in their backpacks.  Students may bring quiet bus activities such as books or notebooks & pencils.  In keeping with our school technology policy, students may not bring any technological devices, watches, phones, cameras, Kindles, etc.  If you would like to chaperone, please contact Shelli hopper_s@4j.lane.edu.

Homework:

Mme Shelli’s Class:  Nightly math review homework

Mme Jana’s Class:  No French homework this week. 

Important Dates: 

Friday, May 3   NO SCHOOL – Transition Day (Teachers work, kids stay home.)

May 6-19     State Testing in English & Math in Mme Shelli’s room.

May 15      Trip to Salem to state capitol building

Monday, May 27    NO SCHOOL – Memorial Day 

Mme Jana’s News  (kincaid_j@4j.lane.edu) 

FLA (French Language Arts): Last week, we we had reading groups twice, and we spent most of the week working on the Francophone country project. We still need to go over the corrected sentences and the last dictée. Please check out your child’s latest reading in French on Seesaw. It’s the same as a reading they did in November, so you can compare the two, unless your child missed the first reading or did it incorrectly. I’ve written comments for one whole class, but I have the red class to do, which I will do early this week. It’s pretty amazing the progress they’ve made; I am super pleased.

Les sciences:  Sorry, no update yet.

Les sciences humaines (Social studies): The kids are super into their Francophone country projects. We are doing all the research online and in French, which is time consuming as they are not yet skilled at Internet research and some of the French can be challenging. Each week I will includ all the research materials for the project and a list of which students have which countries :  Liste projet pays francophone 2019 order alph, francophone projet. Again, if you look under “Les ressources de Mme Jana” at the top of the blog, you’ll see the “Geographie” section, and you can browse some of the sites we will explore. Most students have finished side 4 of the dodecahedron, the flag, and side 9, the government leader(s). Next, they do side 1, a map of the country, showing other countries or bodies of water that touch it, its capital and its currency. Our next side will be the climate, and we’ll go from there. I’m hoping that most students will have six of their 12 sides completed this week.

Mme Shelli (hopper_s@4j.lane.edu)

I’ve been reading your notes to your children about their historical fiction journals.  Thank you for taking the time to celebrate their work!  I think students enjoyed the unit and learned a little about narrative writing, too.
Kacie, our student teacher will be doing much of the teaching this week.  She is designing a reading unit from our Journeys curriculum.  This week students will be reading about Women’s suffrage and will be learning a little about how our government is organized. 
In writing, students are beginning to formulate persuasive essays.  They will learn to formulate a 4-5 paragraph argument with an introductory paragraph, 2-3 paragraphs with supported, logical reasoning, and a conclusion.  Students have selected topics that are important to them.  Don’t be surprised if your child brings home a paper such as “Why we should get a dog” or “I should be allowed to stay up later!”
Math:  Students continue a unit on modeling multiplication of fractions.  Kacie will take the lead in teaching with me assisting.  Students will not just learn to multiply numerators and denominators, but will be modeling what is happening as they multiply.
The modeling is crucial to the process for students to build conceptual knowledge of fractions.  In the past, some students have learned the process without learning they how and why.  This has caused confusion for many students when they try to understand higher level math because they really didn’t understand fractions at the earlier levels. Our goal is for students to deeply understand the concepts so they can apply their understanding to complex, multi-step problems.
Here are a few samples of problems students will solve and explain.  Modeling Multiplication  Table Problem