The countdown to year's end is on, but we have lots left to accomplish in 4th grade! You should find the letter and permission slip for our June 3rd field trip to Cave of the Mounds in your student's Take Home Folder. Keep all the info and send back the half sheet with your signature. Thanks a lot. If you would still like to join us on this day, you are most welcome - just let me know. I have asked the kids to talk over with you if they should bring their own completely disposable sack lunches for this day, or if you want them to buy the sack lunch through Lunch Express at school. We will have to fill out forms for Ms. Kay by Tuesday if we want to order a lunch.
Another permission slip will come home in the next couple of days! This one is for our afternoon on June 4th at Pope Farm Park. The naturalists have gone to great effort to accommodate our classes and I think it will be a very special tour and hands-on experience for all of us. Again, any number of parents are welcome to join us, so just let me know. The buses will get us to the Park by noon that day, and we will be back to school by 2:30. See the permission slip info to find out all the details. Your signature will be needed promptly for this trip as well. Thank you!
Back in the classroom, we have spent nearly every day in the past week deeply involved in up to hour-long sessions with our new Chromebooks, doing research for our Informational Booklets. Thanks so much for your support at home with computer time and printing jobs. This coming week, we will be working on creating and constructing our book pages. The kids have been excited to do their searches for info on the Chromebooks, and we have all been teaching each other how to find facts, pictures, save and share documents, etc. They have taught me a number of tricks and shortcuts!
In 4th grade math, we are halfway through Unit 11 already. In a few short days, look for the unit review sheets which will prepare everyone for our last unit math test within the next week. We are learning about metric weights, volume and capacity, three dimensional polyhedrons, and subtracting with negative numbers. Quite a mix of concepts!
Social Studies has had us roaming the western states lately, and comparing the extremes of geography and conditions in this region. Thanks to some high quality National Geographic DVD presentations, within three days we explored the depths of Death Valley in California all the way up to the highest peak in Denali National Park in Alaska. Fascinating! We will still find time to do more exploring in our final science unit during the next two weeks when we delve into a study of our Solar System. We are running out of time with so much to discover, but we are going to pack in as much learning as we can right up to the very last days!
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