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What's Happening This Week in Fourth Grade?
May 13 - 17
Final Unit of NJSLA on Monday - Make sure Chrome Books are charged
The Little Mermaid – Tuesday at 7pm
Reading & Writing: Students will wrap up both studies of figurative language and memoir. Next during Reading AND Writing Workshop, the students will embark on a new genre study: MYSTERIES. The children will be reading assorted mystery novels and zooming in on characteristics of the genre. The children will be focusing on related vocabulary such as detective, suspect, witness, clue, and alibi as well as the authors’ use of literary techniques such as foreshadowing and cliffhangers as a means of building suspense in the stories.
Math: The children will conclude their work with measurement and data skills and concepts found in Chapter 12 of the district’s Go Math! series. This chapter focuses on units of measurement for length, weight, and volume. After taking the Chapter 12 assessment, students will continue to work with measurement and date focusing on perimeter and area. These skills and concepts can be found in Chapter 13 of the district's Go Math! series.
Science: Students will begin to research various natural disasters focusing on what they are, where in the world they occur, how they impact humans and the environment, warning systems in place and preventative safety measures that may be taken in advance. To show what they know, students will create a PSA for their expert natural disaster. This may take the form of a brochure, poster, commercial or other teacher-approved concept.
Don't forget our on-going bucket filling "fill-osophy" we are following in our classroom. All students should be trying to help fill a bucket every day! Want to learn more about "bucket filling" and "bucket dipping"? Read Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud.
This story states that every person carries an imaginary bucket around every day of their lives. Two things can occur with their bucket. It can either be filled by their own good deeds done for others or by others caring for them in various positive ways; or the other thing that can happen with a person’s bucket is that it can be dipped into and drained empty by negative words or actions. By using this analogy, and encouraging and reinforcing this positive bucket-filling “fill-osophy”, I hope to teach the children how to reach out and express love, respect and appreciation to others, to help each student become “other-centered” rather than self-centered, to help children express their feelings, both good and bad, in a healthy manner, and to establish a framework for more constructive words and actions which will consequently reduce a tendency to bullying. By establishing a classroom culture of “bucket fillers”, I expect to have a classroom where sharing, caring, and learning together occurs everyday.
You can support this bucket filling “fill-osophy” at home too. Here is a list of ways you and your family can fill your buckets and those of the people around you. Have FUN!
Bucket Filling A, B, C’s
A - Ask if you can help
B - Be a bucket filler
C - Cheer up a friend
D - Donate to a special group
E - Excited to fill buckets
F - Friends have fun or hang out
G - Give a little time of yourself
H - Heroes look out for others
I - Invite someone to join the fun
J - Joyful when you give a hug
K - Kindness brightens up your day
L - Listen when people talk
M - Make a bucket filling card
N - Notice helpful things
O - Offer to help
P - Practice daily bucket filling
Q - Quit any bucket dipping
R - Respect everyone
S - Smile and see what happens
T - Tell your family you love them
U - Use kind words
V - Volunteer to do some work
W - Watch out for bucket dipping
X - Extra special is a bucket filling friend
Y - You do your best
Z - Zero you can't work out
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