Important Dates
1/16/2020: Parent-Teacher Conferences (4-6PM)
1/20/2020: MLK Day – no school
2/10/2020: Receive letter if child is promotion in doubt
2/17 – 21/2020: Mid-winter recess – no school
1/16/2020: Parent-Teacher Conferences (4-6PM)
1/20/2020: MLK Day – no school
2/10/2020: Receive letter if child is promotion in doubt
2/17 – 21/2020: Mid-winter recess – no school
Happy New Year! We are now at the halfway mark for the school year. Please keep in mind that it is very important that students maintain their concentration as the schoolwork will get more intense. Students have reached the time of year to determine whether they are ready for the next grade. Some parents will receive notification in the second report card and via a letter by the first week in February whether their child is “promotion in doubt.” The evidence of work is important. Please check that your child is completing all their assignments.
You can help improve your child’s skills in math by using some of these strategies year round.
You can help improve your child’s skills in math by using some of these strategies year round.
- Talk about how many bowls or plates to put out for dinner.
- Fold napkins in different shapes
- Measure ingredients for recipes.
- Give your child change to count out for small purchases or have child calculate the change
- Compare prices between items, “Which one costs more?”
- Please check your child’s assignments daily.
Adapted from: www.nwea.org
What are we learning?
Reading
Reading
- 3rd Grade: Students will be reading about a topic of their choice and learn how to follow that across multiple texts.
- 4th Grade: Students will learn about asking questions to themselves as they research a topic of choice.
- 3rd & 4th Grades: Students will learn how to gather and interpret information to then communicate what they’ve learned by explaining facts in writing.
- 3rd Grade: Students completed learning about patterns of multiplication and division and are now using those patterns to learn about distributive and associative properties within multiplication and division.
- 4th Grade: Students have completed learning about strategies to divide. They will now learn about factors and multiple to extend understanding of patterns and making predictions.
- 3rd Grade: Students are learning about living organisms and their traits. They will learn how to describe organisms, and their unique and diverse life cycles.
- 4th Grade: Students are learning about how animals use vision and other senses to survive their environ- ment. They will learn how plants and animals have internal and external structures that support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
- 3rd Grade: Students will be studying the culture, geography, and history of Egypt. They will compare what they have learned about other countries and show the differences and similarities between the countries learned so far.
- 4th Grade: Students had studied the Colonial and Revolutionary period in New York State (NYS). They will now look at the different levels of government within the United States and NYS and how it established rights, freedoms, and responsibilities for its citizens.
