Rocks and Minerals Oral Reports

 

We started working on our oral reports this week. Oral Reports are due the Third week of October (October 19th or 20th). The students know what mineral they are working on with their partner. They can do research via the Library Wiki (click here).

Here are the documents I have shared with the kids about the project.

science-oral-report

science-oral-report-presentation-rubric

We will start the oral reports on Wednesday, October 19, 2016. The students have been assigned their partners and should be working to gather their information.

Have a great weekend,
Mr. V.

Note in the Pocket

Dear Parents,

Your children may share a letter that looks like this with you today:

Dear Parents/Guardians,

For the rest of the year, our class is going to embark on a journey to give back to our community and to make a difference in the lives of children in Wake County Public Schools while learning math lessons along the way. We are partnering with a local, nonprofit organization called Note in the Pocket to collect new and gently used clothing of all sizes. Our donations will be weighed with each delivery and graphed and calculated throughout the remainder of the school year. The students will be learning math concepts while making a difference!

If you or your child has outgrown some of your clothing, please consider making a donation to our classroom clothing drive. We will have a donation box in Mr. Veeder’s classroom where the clothes can be placed each month. As our bin fills up, clothes will be delivered to Note in the Pocket and we will graph our results.

There are 51,000+ children in Wake County living without enough proper clothes and shoes. Through our donations, we hope to support Note in the Pocket to achieve their goals for helping children in Wake County Public Schools get to school in seasonally appropriate shoes and clothing. School Social Workers are able to request clothing for children in need and have been doing this at higher rates than ever before. With this clothing drive we can help stock their shelves that are dramatically depleted as the weather has turned colder.

We also hope to teach our fourth grade students that we can all make the difference in the lives of people living in our own communities. Through the kindness of donating our gently used clothing, we can make a huge impact on the lives of others who live in our own community.

Thank you!

Factors

We started working with factors this week. The following website will help your students see how to use an array to find the factors of numbers. The kids might want to practice this weekend and next week. So I share it with you here:

http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=3511

Have a great day,
Mr. V.

Picture Day

Just a quick reminder:

1. Picture Day is on Thursday for the Liles/Veeder team.
2. Sound to Sea forms are due by Friday. Sooner if possible. We need to send a head count in soon.
3. The science oral reports start October 17th. I will post the rubric and guidelines (that I shared with the students) tomorrow.
   4. Chik Fil A tonight from 5:00pm to 8:00pm.

Have a great night,
Mr. V.

 

Team news and more!

Hopefully, everyone had an amazing weekend. The weather was nice and looking at the forecast, it might be the last nice day for a bit. And I hope the kids are ready to return on Monday, rested and ready for a new week of learning.

Important Items this week:
1) Please send in the Sound to Sea forms by Friday. Sooner if possible. We need to get a head count to the staff at Sound to Sea soon. We do not need payment or a deposit as of now. Information about payments will come out towards the end of October.
2) Pictures this week. Please review the materials we sent out about picture day last week and make sure your orders are in before picture day.
3) Friday is an early release date. School ends at 12:30pm on Friday. Please plan accordingly.
4) Interim Report Cards will be sent home on Friday. Your child will be bringing one home. Please be on the lookout for them.

ELA Updates

Thank you to everyone who has been donating yoga balls to the class. We have really been enjoying them.
The vocabulary squares are getting better. I know there has been some confusion with the homework and the assignments. Hopefully the homework is clear tonight as to what the students are supposed to do. 
As always if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email me and I will get back with you.

Math Practice Links

Good afternoon!

Hope the rain has finally cleared. As part of the homework assignment tonight, the students should click on the following links and practice their addition and subtraction.

Addition Link:
http://www.commoncoresheets.com/oat.php?oattype=Math/Addition/4%20Digit%20Plus%204%20Digit

Subtraction Link:http://www.commoncoresheets.com/oat.php?oattype=Math/Subtraction/4%20Digit%20Minus%204%20Digit

Also, the kids can bring in a mitten or an old rag to help erase their desks when they use dry erase markers on their desks to answer math problems.

Have a great night,
Mr. V.

Just for Fun

We have been talking about inferencing these last few days in class.
Ask your child what an inference is and see what they say.  Feel free to share their answers with me if you would like.

ELA Assignment

Good evening everyone,

Just wanted to put out a reminder that the students are to bring in a personal treasure tomorrow (Wednesday), or no later than Thursday for a writing assignment. Their personal treasure can not be alive, cannot be an electronic device (unless it doesn’t work anymore) and has to be able to fit into their bookbags. I can’t wait to see these treasures.

Sound to Sea Meeting

Good afternoon! We are confirmed.

The Fourth Grade Teachers are holding a Sound to Sea Informational Meeting on Tuesday, September 20^th from 5:30pm to 6:30pm in the Apex Elementary Media Center. Come learn about the field trip that will take place in February and have all of your questions answered.

See you on the 20^th in the Apex Elementary Media Center!

Mr. V.