Please remember we are a nut free( peanuts and tree nuts) classroom this year. Thank you!!


 Homework:

Language Arts: 

Read every night! 
3rd: 20 minutes minimum
4th: 30 minutes minimum



We will be studying sentences and nouns this week. Watch the video below about nouns








Social Studies Homework





4th grade Mathematics Homework


Worksheet 1-12

DynaMath due October 11th.

Be sure to do your timed practice quizzes at ThatQuiz.org. The link is below. All practice quizzes are due 9/27/2013.

Class home page: http://www.thatquiz.org/tq/classpage?00f1279bdef7cc2

Math work from Think Central due September 30th. Watch the video below to learn how to use your new math website.

A Message from our Principal,

Parents,

 As we continue to grow as learners and educators, we are beginning to utilize a new system that will help us identify student strengths as well as needs, and more importantly help in creating goals and expectations for each of our learners.  Grading students against performance goals will allow us to see whether a student is mastering a standard over time, rather than during a glimpse of their learning experience.  Through this shift, feedback will be given along the way based on their achievement toward a set standards. Assignments will be scored using Below Standard, Working Toward a Standard, Meeting Most of a Standard, or Mastering a Standard.  As a student works along the continuum, it is possible that they might get all the questions on an assignment correct but still receive a score of Working Toward or Meeting Most.  This is for two reasons, first, many standards cover skills that cannot be assessed on a single assignment.  Multiplication and Division of numbers to 100 is an example that cannot be assessed at one time.  Second, in order to master a standard, a student will need to demonstrate they can satisfactorily complete the task multiple times.  A single test will no longer demonstrate whether a student understands material, the ability or lack of ability to reproduce similar results will help as we work with each student to reach their goals. 

More information on Standards-Based Grading will be coming in this weeks WAG.  Have a great Week!