Great news! We all survived the first full week of school, and what a great week it was!

In math we have been working on rounding and adding larger numbers, evening up to 1 million! You can help your child practice reading larger numbers.  for extra help with these concepts have your child use the Splash Math app on their iPad.  They should select practice and work in the number sense chapter.

In reading workshop this week hew have discussed reading our books like they are gold and not reading like a curmudgeon. Ask your child to show you what this would sound like.  We also discussed that we have to choose books that matter to us and  guard against reading on auto pilot. We need to sit up and take notice, letting the text affect us.

In writing we are working on creating ideas for a realistic fiction story. We used events from our own lives to generate ideas and we thought about stories that we wished existed in the world, books we would like to find in the library. Monday we will be choosing an idea that contains an issue that they are familiar with, getting lost, being afraid of the dark or losing a pet to name a few. Students will also learn how to develop a character as part of the planning process.

In Science this week we learned about what makes day and night and we learned about the phases of the moon and what causes them. Tonight’s moon is a full moon!

Remember to check out your child’s blog!

http://kidblog.org/MrsLannons4thgrade/

REMINDERS

The forms for selling Janie’s Cookie dough went home today.  If you have any questions, please email me.  All orders need to be in by October 4.  If you are paid in full but are still willing to sell the help the class out, please let me know.

Picture Day is Tuesday, September 24, and we are also going to the planetarium at White Pines Middle School on Tuesday.  Our pictures will be taken before our field trip.

Conference forms are also due.