October Fourth Grade Newsletter

We strive to create an environment that helps our students to meet their highest potential.

Please read our newsletter each week to get important updates and reminders.

• PLEASE make sure that your child is completing their weekly homework as it reinforces what we are doing in class.
• PLEASE make sure that your child is learning their multiplication facts, as everything we do from this point on in math will require multiplication and division.
• Reading for pleasure.

October 6-9: Hispanic Heritage Week

October 8: Hispanic Heritage Celebration from 5:30-7:00pm

October 9: 4th Grade Family Engagement Event from 1-2pm at PSE

October 12-16: Parent/Teacher Conferences (early dismissal at 1:15)

October 16: Homecoming Parade

October 26-30: Red Ribbon Week

Science:

• Space, planets, our solar system, and stars: Students will have an at home project to create a model of the solar system (information coming home soon)

Social Studies:

• Post Revolutionary War: The Constitution and Bill of Rights

ELA/Wit and Wisdom Reading:

• End of module Informational Writing
• Identifying the differences between literal and figurative language
• Begin Module 2: Extreme Setting (Fiction unit looking at how a challenging setting or physical environment change a character)

Writing/Informative Writing:

• Informative writing and how to organize and plan their ideas using the Painted Essay structure in connection with our Wit & Wisdom lessons.
• A Writing "Bridge" unit that will help students prepare for the GMAS writing that they will take in the Spring.

Math:

• October 6-7 District Quarterly Math Assessment

Finish Unit 2: Analyzing Patterns

• Patterns: input/output tables, shape and number patterns
• Finding factor pairs
• Prime and composite numbers
• Finding multiples of a number

Begin Unit 3: Reasoning with Multiplication and Division

• Multiplying a 1-digit number by a number to a 4-digit number (4 x 2,347 =)
• Multiplying a 2-digit number by a 2-digit number (45 x 78 =)
• Dividing a 1-digit number by a number up to 4-digit number 2,348 ➗ 4 =
• Solving multi-step word problems involving all operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division)

Change of Transportation

If there is a change in transportation arrangements, we require notice from the parent before allowing students to be transported by anyone other than a parent. You may send in a note with your child or email parkstreet@marietta-city.org with the details of the change. We do not allow students to walk or to ride home with unauthorized people.

If you must make a change during the day, notify the school office staff before 2:30 p.m.

Tardy Drop-Off

When a student arrives late (after 8:30), an adult must sign the student in at the office.

Early Pick-Up

Please limit early pick-up of children to emergencies and appointments. If a child is out for any portion of the school day, the missed time is recorded as a tardy. A note sent in the morning will help us to have your child ready. To avoid interruptions to instruction, no student

will be released between 2:45 and 3:15. Parents will be asked to wait for the dismissal bell. Come to the office to check out a student. Please be prepared to present photo identification upon request. No student will be released to an unknown or unauthorized person.

Late Pick-Up

Students waiting to be picked up will be supervised until 3:30. After 3:30 they may be sent to the After School Program if they are pre-registered ($10 fee). Regular after school charges will apply. Many parents sign up for the program so their children can attend in case of emergency.

Attendance

When your child is absent, please remember to send in a note explaining the reason why your child was not at school.

* If you child has 3 or more unexcused absences, you will receive a phone call from your child's teacher.

*If after 5 unexcused absences, you will receive an official notice from the school.