Author: monzykcm

What’s Happening in
Ms. Harms’s
4th Grade

Date: 9/1/17

Dates to Know:
9/5 Happy Birthday, Connor
9/8. Mid Term Progress Reports sent home
Grandparent’s Day at MCE
Book Fair
9/12 Book Fair
Parent Involvement Night
9/13 Book Fair
9/14 Book Fair
9/15 Book Fair
HOMECOMING Football Game
"Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

Math: Next week, we will continue working on addition and subtraction rules. We will working on estimating answers and adding and subtracting whole numbers. It is extremely important to be working on their math facts!
Reading: We are starting our theme on A Place for us. We will be working on determining importance as we read. When we determine importance you decide what the main ideas of the passage are. Our words study focus will be consonant blends.
Writing: Our focus this quarter will be on narrative writing. We will be starting to practice writing narrative stories. We will also be learning about subject verb agreement.
Science: We will continue our unit on energy: collisions. Students have made their cars and will be testing to see how friction and potential energy affect the kinetic energy and the distance a car travels. Students will also create collisions and observe their affects.

What We Will Be Exploring!

“If you’re struggling, you are learning.”
–Albert Einstein

Missing Assignments
as of Thursday night

Parent Signature: Date: 9/1/17

Comments:
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to write them in the box below, detach it, and return it in the folder. Please include your child’s name on the portion returned.

Word Study Focus: consonant blends
brisk
clever
craft
dentist
grip
probably
restrict
spinach
stump
traffic
applaud
drainage
plastic
splendid

Next Week Vocabulary Words:
permanent
relocation
origin
regulate
necessities

Contact Information for Mrs. Harms charms@mc-wildcats.org
573-564-3711 ext 3059
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Harms-Happenings-106745489428325/
Website: http://harms4.weebly.com
Bloomz: text @Z86DAG to 1-858-BLOOMZ1 (1-858-256-6691)

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Technology: This year we have chrome books for every student in fourth grade, which is very usually for meeting the needs of each child. Some students have expressed a desire to use a mouse with their chrome book. Students are welcome to bring their own mouse for their chrome book. The mouse would need to connect with a USB port. Please emphasize the importance of using their technology appropriately.
Conversation Starters: Each week, conversations starters are included in the newsletter, these are not required, but can be helpful in starting conversations with your child in what happened this past week– besides the typical, “It was fine.”

Fun Trivia:

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

Conversation Starters:
What are the steps to rounding a number?
How did fourth grade get extra recess time next week?