Just a reminder: Reproductive Health form due no later than Friday, May 27th. The presentation will be on Monday, June 6th. As a result, the Kiwanis Park picnic will not be on June 6th. Kiwanis Park will be on Tuesday, June 7th from 10-12:00!
Kalamazoo Valley Museum field trip:
We will be leaving in the morning on May 24th. Our time at the museum will be from 9:30-11:15 so we can get back for lunch. Please let me know if you would like to join us so I can give the museum a count. This trip is free. Your child can bring a snack. We do not need you to follow the bus this time, so you could just meet us there!
M-Step test (MI state test): Students will take the math part starting on Monday, May 16th in the morning. We will continue testing in the mornings until finished. Some Chromebooks are not getting charged the night or morning before school. I know this time of year is busy, but CB's are a big necessity in 4th grade, especially during testing season. If you could help your child remember to charge the CB, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! :)
Track & Field:
Track & Field Day turned out to be an amazing all-around success! The weather was spectacular and so were our students! Mr. Pfahler will be sending the final results soon. However, our 4th-grade boys 400 M relay won! It was so much fun to watch all of our students participate in this event. Thank you for coming out and supporting Lincoln school as well as SJPS.
Important Dates:
Late Start Days: 5/25, 6/1
Kalamazoo Valley Museum: 5/24th (9:30-11:15)
M-Step Testing: 5/16, 5/17 (until finished)
No School Memorial Day: 5/30
Sarett/Grand Mere Park Dunes Field Trip: 6/3
Health Presentation: 6/6 (8:30-11:30)
4th Grade Kiwanis Park: 6/7 (10-12:00)
Last Day of School: 6/10
Chromebook Reminders
* Charge computer
*Leave charge cord at home
*Bring CB in case
*Pack-up Backpack
*Bring to school every day
This Week's Academic Focus
Reading: Students all have a new individual reading goal that has been recorded in their "reader's notebooks". We will continue meeting weekly in small groups and individual reading conferences. These strategies are intended to be added to their "reading tool kit". The mini-lessons over the next few weeks will be to focus on text structures. For example, compare/contrast, cause/effect, time/order/sequence, description in certain fiction and non-fiction text. We are also including a study on poetry!
Writing: Our next writing goal will focus on informational writing which will be connected with social studies. Here is a rough draft example of a finished presentation: Historical Event
Math: We will begin Unit 7: Geometry. I encourage extra practice in IXL Diagnostic and IXL IM in UNIT 7 lessons.
Link to families for Unit 7: Geometry
Link to families for Unit 6 Multiplication & Division
Link to families for Unit 5 Multiplicative Comparison and Measurement
Link to families for Unit 4 Hundredths to Hundredred-Thousands
Link to families for Unit 3 Extending Operations to Fractions
Link to families for Unit 2: Fraction Equivalence and Comparison
Illustrative Mathematics. (Here is the link if you are interested in looking at the program).
Science: Human Machine: We started this week! Link to Mystery Science: Human Machine
Link to Mystery Science Energizing Everything Unit is finished. Our focus will be on Social Studies. This week. Our next science unit will be Human Machine.
Social Studies: The focus will be Physical Geography: The United States in Spatial Terms as well as Our Government
The Positivity Project focus this week is "Be Present and Give Others Your Attention"
Classroom Snack Information
To help reduce this from happening, we ask that no student brings any products containing peanuts/ may contain peanuts/ or produced on shared equipment that also processes peanuts into the classroom.
In addition, please provide snacks that are unopened with ingredients listed on the back of the package. Many students are bringing clear plastic bags with opened food in them, which leaves room for unsafe snacks to enter the classroom without knowing what is in the food. SNACKS MUST HAVE A LABEL. NO CLEAR BAGGIES.
If a student does bring unsafe food products into the classroom, they will be asked to place them back into their backpacks to return home.
Please click on this peanut-sensitive safe foods list link. We appreciate your support with these procedures.
Back-to-School Night Presentation
If you were unable to attend Back-to-School Night above are the slides. The field trip permission slip went home with your child. Please sign and return as soon as possible if you haven't already. If you would like to make a donation for the field trips, please go to slide six and click on the link. Thank you.
Weekly Specials Schedule
No letter days this year!
Lunch 12:30-1:20: Specials will be the last 45 minutes of the day 3:05-3:50: A.M. Recess will be from 9:40-9:55 and P.M. Recess from 2:25-2:40 every day.
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