Grade 4 Newsletter  

                Week of December 10, 2012

                 

“I wish I could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.”   Harlan Miller (Better Homes and Gardens)

Congratulations to Casey Hanley for being chosen the Student of the Month for November.

Our Christmas Play was wonderful. Students did an awesome job!

Thanks to all of the parents for helping to make our annual Christmas Festival a success.

Your hard work is greatly appreciated.

Tuesday, 12/11 is TEAM Day.

Christmas Candy Grams will be sold this week for $.50 each.

Proceeds will benefit the missions.

The annual PTO Christmas Party will be held on Monday, 12/17.

Please be sure to bring your Advent Angel’s $5.00 gift for the party.

Also this is a dress-up day. So wear your Christmas clothes.

Our tentative academic agenda will be as follows:

Math- beginning Chapter 12- Dividing by 2-Digits

Spelling- Lesson 13, Abbreviations

         

Reading- wrapping up Unit 2, Test Wed.-12/12

          Skills tested:  Cause/Effect, Text Structure, Theme, and Context Clues

                                       

English-working on Creative Writing and writing notes for Book Report

Religion- beginning Chapter 6– Making Good Choices

Science – Constructing Mini-Landfills

           Beginning Physical Science- Chapter 1- Measuring Matter

Social Studies- concluding Chapter 1 -The American Landscape,

Open-Book Test-Wed. 12/12

                                                                             Happy Advent,

                                                                             Candace A. Steffie