Weekly Newsletter - Week of February 5th - 9th

Grade 4 Newsletter

Weekly Update: Feb. 5 - Feb. 9, 2018

Language Arts
This week we will begin our next non-fiction reading unit. This unit allows the students to explore texts connected to our Earth Changes Science unit, while building skills in information text reading. In writing, many children will be finishing their drafts and publishing their first realistic fiction story.

Math
The students will be reviewing the ‘Equivalent Fractions’ unit and will take the Unit Assessment. Our next unit will be ‘Operations with Fractions’. The students will begin learning how fractions be composed and decomposed, how can fractions of a given set be added and subtracted and how a fraction can be multiplied by a whole number.

Science/ Social Studies
The students will be exploring the Earth’s crust in depth. We will start to inquire into how do materials cycle through the Earth’s systems and what causes the Earth’s structure to continually change by looking at cause and effect relationships between the layers.

Announcements

• Semester 2 Swimming Dates (click on the link)
• After School Activities start on Monday Feb. 5th
• Free Dress Day is on Feb 14th (5RM donation)
• No School for students on Feb. 15 and 16  (Thursday and Friday)
• CNY and  CNY Cultural Day is on Friday, Feb. 23rd .
• The Lion Dance starts at 11AM in the gym.
• Start bringing in books for the annual Book Swap on March 1st.  
• Bring in a book and get a coupon.