This week, we are working on adding and subtracting fractions.  Here are two videos students can watch to review adding fractions with like denominators and decomposing fractions.

Adding Fractions Video

Decomposing Fractions

Field Day T-Shirts for Sale!!

Order forms for Field Day T-Shirts will be coming home today.  Students have until Thursday March 9^th to bring back their completed order form and payment.  Please have them place the payment in a white school envelope with the order form stapled to the outside of the envelope.  They will be receiving a white payment envelope. Most students received a payment envelope today, however we ran out and a few did not get their envelope. Those students will get a payment envelope tomorrow.  No late orders will be accepted.  If you have any questions please about T-Shirt orders, please contact Coach Homansky.

This week we are learning:

Math- 4.NF3: Adding and Subtracting Fractions

Reading- 4.RI8: Identifying and author's point and the evidence they use to support their point.

Writing- 4.W3: Responding to Narrative Prompts

Social Studies- 4.H5: Creating a New Nation

ELA- Words this week

Purple Group:

 Adverb

-fully

1. hopefully
2. truthfully
3. playfully
4. painfully
5. cheerfully
6. watchfully
7. gleefully
8. delightfully
9. forcefully
10. pitifully

·      Your assessment this week, I will say the word, and you will write it in a sentence that makes sense. Your test will be worth 20 points. (10 points for spelling the word correctly and 10 points for using it in a sentence correctly).

Blue Group:

Prefixes

in- / re- / non

• 1.nonstop
  2. replaced
  3. inactive
  4. incorrect
  5. rethink
  6. nonfat
  7. retell
  8. incomplete
  9. nonfiction
  10. nonsense
  11. redo
  12. independent
  13. invisible
  14. nonprofit
  15. relocate

Orange Group:

 compound words (cont)

1. snowboard
2. undertake
3. bloodhound
4. underestimate
5. undercover
6. underside
7. undersized
8. underrated
9. greyhound
10.undertook

Tomorrow we will have a test over Sound and Light. Here are some resources to help you study!

Sound Video

Light Video

Reflection vs Refraction Video

Please remember that Winter Break is 

Monday Feb. 20th- Friday Feb. 24th.

Friday is a dress down day. Pay $1.00 to dress down.

Lost and Found

If a student is missing something, they must go check the lost and found by the end of this week (Friday, February 17th).  All remaining items will be donated to a local charity. 

 

Parents,
Today was our Valentine's exchange. Needless to say there was a lot of candy passed out. We requested that all candy be nut free. However, to be on the safe side we instructed all students several times NOT to eat ANY sweets received until their parents checked their candy in the event the candy contained something they were allergic to. Please check your child's sweets before they consume it.

Learning Agenda for this week:

Math- Express a fraction with a denominator of 10 as an equivalent fraction with a denominator of 100. (NF5)

Reading-Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. (RI9)

Writing- Opinion writing- (4W1)

Science- Light and Sound (SP1 / SP2)--Test on Friday. Students will get a Study Guide on Monday.

ELA- No Spelling Tests this week. 

Kindness Awareness Week

February 13-17, 2017

 Monday: No Place for Hate Day J

                                 Classes will sign the “No Hate for Place Pledge”. 

 Tuesday: Celebrate Valentine’s Day

Have a heart; be kind.  You’ll receive hearts in your class to give to someone. Wear a red or pink shirt to celebrate Valentine’s Day & Kindness Week. (Standard school attire still applies!)

 Wednesday: Caught Being Kind

Be extra kind today! School staff will be giving stickers to kids “Caught Being Kind”. 

 Thursday: School Kindness Day

Make a card for an adult at school who has done something kind for you.

 Friday: Spread kindness to our community

We’ll help the Cobb Co. Counselors’ Assoc. by collecting socks to donate to children in foster care!

Gimme 5 for Education

Once again, our school is participating in the “Gimme 5 for Education” campaign to raise funds for the Cobb Schools Foundation! The Cobb Schools Foundation is the only non-profit organization that supports all our schools, staff and students in the Cobb County School District. Please make a $5 tax-deductible contribution and return it to school in the attached envelope. You may also donate online at www.cobbschoolsfoundation.org Students who donate names will be placed in a raffle to receive two Braves tickets in the new stadium!

Good Afternoon Parents,

Here are a couple of reminders:

• The ABC's of the American Revolution projects N-Z are due tomorrow! This is a Social Studies grade.
• Spelling Test tomorrow.
• If students did not complete the Science classwork (answering questions #1-8 on p. 184 in their textbook), they are to complete it as homework. 
• Please check to see that your child has in fact completed his/her homework before signing off on it. We are having a Light Vocabulary Quiz tomorrow and as a part of homework for the past week and a half has been to study this vocabulary.  Unfortunately, today, we've had students who said that they haven't studied at all. (This also pertains to their spelling words that are given out at the beginning of each week.)
• If a student is given a retake packet in order to retake a test, the entire packet must be turned in by the date specified. If we do not have both a parent signature and completed practice work, a retake test will not be given.

Thank you for all of your continued support,

 

Mrs. Rice and Mrs. Wallace

Black History Month Wax Museum

The new deadline to email Mrs. Killimett has been extended to Wednesday, February 8th.

Learning Agenda for this week:

Math- Comparing fractions- (NF2) and Express a fraction with a denominator of 10 as an equivalent fraction with a denominator of 100. (NF5)

Reading-Determine the main idea and supporting details; summarizing a text-(RI2)

Writing- Opinion writing- (4W1)

Science- Light and Sound (SP1 / SP2)

ELA-

Word Sort 16

Purple Group:

Noun suffixes

·        admirer

·        traveler

·        prisoner

·        speaker

·        believer

·        inventor

·        decorator

·        visitor

·        creator

·        director

Word Sort 16

Blue Group:

prefixes in-/post /-after

1. insane
2. insecure
3. indirect
4. informal
5. posttest
6. postdate
7. postmark
8. afterthought
9. afterword
10. aftertaste

Word Sort 16

Orange Group:

compound words

1. notebook
2. classroom
3. underground
4. somebody
5. strawberry
6. household
7. bathtub
8. sailboat
9. flagpole
10. teacup