Ms. Mullins Grade 4/5 Class

Monday, December 3, 2018

Wow! It is hard to believe that we are into the first full week of December.
I will be keeping the same spelling words as last week because we only had 2 days with them.
Continue reading 20 min each night and continue with your math facts each night as well.
Wed. December 5th is Disney Day. Everyone is asked to dress like your fav. Disney character.
Dec. 12 and 13 will be candy gram sales for 50 cents a piece.
We have started our Human Body unit in science.
Please dress for cold weather and it wouldn't hurt to pack an extra pair of socks.
Have a great week everyone.

No school on Monday, November 26 due to a PD day.
I am looking forward to meeting with everyone for interviews :o)
Students handed in their social studies projects on one of the six physical regions of Canada on Thursday. There were to complete a poster or a brochure.
We are moving onto our first science unit "The Human Body" this week! Students are excited.
I will be sending the last book order home before Xmas break later in the week.
Grade 4 words for the week are: hole, whole, also, growing, slower, toaster, oldest, grown, throne, more, snowing, stolen, throat, ago, joke
Please make sure you are reading 20 mins each evening.
We are finishing up our fraction unit this week and we will beginning our decimal unit after that.
Have a great week everyone.

The parent teacher interview times are up. Grade 5 students should make sure that they are signing up for Mrs. Toombs (language arts and math), and the grade 4's sign up for myself.
We are continuing to work on our fractions unit in math. Please review math facts nightly.
I sent the book order in on Wednesday.
Please be reading 20 min. each evening and record it in your duotangs.
This week in writing we will be focusing on how to answer questions completely. We should be able to tell what the question was from the answer we write.
I will be going over a social studies project with the class on Tuesday. We will decide on a due date then.
Grade 4 words for the week are the following: dear, piece, reading, repeating, agree, thirteen, speaking, breeze, relieved, eager, steam, slimy, funny, honey, thief
Have a great week everyone!

There will be no spelling words this week. I am going to give the students the 103 high frequency word list throughout the 3 days.
There will be no school on Thursday and Friday of this week due to PD days.
Grade 4's math- please continue to work on your math facts each night. We are continuing to work on our fractions unit.
We will have a small match quiz on the 6 physical regions of Canada on Wednesday.
4's please read 20 min. each evening. We have been discussing story elements in fictional books.
Have a great week!

Please be reading 20 min. each night and record in your duotang.
We wrapped up our adding and subtracting numbers to 10 000 unit this week. Quizzes will be going home at the first of the week. Please sign and return. We are beginning our unit on Fractions next. It is very important for the students to be reviewing their multiplication facts to 81 each night.
I will be sending home new book orders on Thursday and they will be due back the following Wednesday.
Spelling words for grade 4's are the following: pancake, extreme, escape, beware, flame, stripe, globe, arrive, skate, smile, use, surprise, became, scrape, confuse.
We have been learning about the 6 main physical regions of Canada this week in Social Studies. They will have a very small match quiz on Friday and I will be introducing a project to them later in the week.
All of the gr. 4 assessment results went home with the students this week.
The students will have no homework on Wednesday night....Happy Halloween!
Have a wonderful week everyone!

The weather is getting much colder out there, so it will be very important for your child to be bringing warm outdoor clothing.
Grade 4's please be reading each evening and recording the title in your duotang.
We are working on some descriptive writing in class and the students are doing an AMAZING job. Our pieces should be finished up soon and will be going on display in our classroom.
Please continue to practice multiplication and division facts each night.
I will be handing back the health quizzes in the next couple of days.
Book orders came in and I will be sending the November book order closer to the end of October.
Gr. 4 spelling words are the following: enough, physical, cough, paragraph, autograph, laughter, tough, laughing, photograph, phone, rough, laughed, enough, trophy, nephew
Thank you for sending in your notes if there are changes in your child's after school plans. You are all doing a great job with this so.....THANK YOU!
Have a great week!

There will be no school on Friday, October 19th due to a PD day.
Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Cross Country Meet last week and good luck to students heading to Provincials.
Picture day will be October 18th.
Gr. 4 students should be reading 20 min. each evening and they should be recording it in their reading log. I should have their Recount writing back on Monday, so please sign their rubric and send back both the writing and rubrics. We have started some descriptive writing this week.
Words for the week focus on the short u and o sound. They are: trusting, costume, suddenly, shock, crunch, octopus, fudge, clock, summer, plump, follower, drop, plucked, under, plump
Health quiz was on Friday and we are now moving into a social studies unit.
Book orders were placed last week and I am hoping they will be in sometime this week.
Gr. 4 math- I have sent home a multiplication fact sheet and students should be reviewing these with the strategies we have learned for approx. 10 min. an evening. We have been working on 4 digit adding and will be working on 4 digit subtracting. Students have also been solving and creating word problems.
Have a great week everyone!