4th grade
March Newsletter
Important Dates Coming in March
6th - End of 3rd 9 weeks 📅
6th - Field Day 🏅 4th grade 10:10 - 11:00
9-13 - Spring Break 🌷😎
20th - War Eagle Challenge 🦅🏆
26th - First Grade Program 🍿🎦
27th - PTO School Store 🏪
What we are learning in . . .
Math🔢
In March, students will focus on measurement using both customary and metric units, along with conversions and elapsed time. Students will also continue practicing area and perimeter word problems.
Key elements students will learn:
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How to choose and use appropriate customary and metric units
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How to convert within measurement systems
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How to calculate and solve problems involving elapsed time
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How to find area and perimeter and apply these skills to real-world word problems
Ways to support learning at home:
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Practice measuring items around the house using different units.
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Ask your child to explain how they solved an area or perimeter problem.
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Talk through real-life time problems, such as how long activities take during the day.
Thank you for supporting math learning at home! 📏⏰
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Science🔬
4th graders will learn about producers and food webs and how energy moves through ecosystems.
Key elements students will learn:
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What producers are and how they make their own food using sunlight
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The roles of consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem
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How food chains connect to form food webs
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How changes to one part of a food web can affect other living things
Ways to support learning at home:
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Talk about where food comes from and identify producers in meals (plants).
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Look for examples of food chains in nature, books, or videos.
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Discuss what might happen if one plant or animal is removed from a food web.
Thank you for supporting science learning at home! 🌱🔍
ELA📚
In ELA, we will continue using Bluebonnet ELA curriculum supports students in becoming strong readers, writers, and communicators through an integrated approach to literacy. It will strengthen reading comprehension, writing, and grammar, with a focus on nonfiction texts.
Key elements students will learn:
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Identify main ideas and supporting details in nonfiction texts
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Use text features (headings, captions, diagrams) to better understand information
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Write organized informational responses using evidence from the text
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Apply grammar skills to improve sentence structure and clarity in writing
Ways to support learning at home:
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Read short nonfiction articles together and discuss the main idea.
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Ask your child to point out text features and explain how they help.
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Encourage your child to write or talk about something they learned using details from the text.
Thank you for supporting literacy learning at home! 📚✏️
Social Studies📜
4th grade students will study important changes in Texas history, including cowboy culture, industrialization in Texas, the growth of the railroad industry, and the urbanization of Texas.
Key elements students will learn:
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How cowboy culture influenced Texas traditions, jobs, and economy
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How new industries created jobs and helped Texas grow
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How railroads connected communities, supported trade, and led to town growth
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How and why cities in Texas grew as people moved for work and opportunity
Ways to support learning at home:
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Discuss how transportation helps communities grow.
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Compare life in rural areas to life in cities.
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Read or watch short resources about Texas history and talk about what changed over time.
Thank you for your continued support!
Friendly Reminders
Transportation Changes:
If you know ahead of time please:
email contactore@conroeisd.net OR
send handwritten note to teacher in the morning
Unexpected - Unplanned - Last Resort
call front office at (832)-592-5900
PTO
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Attendance
- Please email contactore@conroeisd.net if your child is absent and cc the teacher in the email.
- If your child has a fever or is vomiting, they must be home 24 hours without fever or vomiting before returning to school
- Students are considered tardy at 7:56 a.m.