September 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.

• Making sure that your child is completing their weekly homework as it reinforces what we are doing in class.
• Making 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.

September 10: Super Specials

September 10: Grandparents' Lunch

September 18: Donut Day!!!!!

September 21-25: Fall Break

October 8: Hispanic Heritage Celebration

October 16: Homecoming Parade

Science:

• Identifying weather tools, cloud types and how these help forecast the weather.
• Phases of the moon.

Social Studies:

• Causes of the American Revolution
• Bill of Rights

ELA/Wit and Wisdom Reading:

• Informational Writing
• Identifying the differences between literal and figurative language
• Elements of poetry
• Reading the book Love That Dog

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.
• Writing different types of poetry

Math Finishing Unit 1

• Finishing place value: rounding, identifying digits that are 10 times the value of another, identifying the place and value of a digit
• Adding and subtracting larger numbers
• Multi-step word problems
• We will take our Unit 1 assessment 9/17-9/18

Begin Unit 2: Analyzing Patterns

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

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.