Grades 3 & 4 Newsletter Week of April 7, 2014 The fourth quarter begins today! Where has the time gone? Also students must wear their standard school uniform-No polo shirts. There will be two field trips in the future. On Friday, April 25th, students in grades K-4 will be visiting the Crayola Factory. On Monday 5/5- (Grade 3) and on Tuesday 5/6-(Grade 4) all students will be attending the Envirothon at the Carbon County Environmental Center for a competition with other school students. Please return the permission slip that was sent home. Soft pretzels ($1.00) and orange drink ($.50) will continue to be sold at lunch each Friday during Lent. Our tentative Academic Agenda is as follows: Math-continuing - Grade 3- Chapter 9- Geometry Grade 4- Chapter 10- Geometry Spelling-Working on Lesson 28- Grade 3 – words containing “er”, “el” sounds Grade 4- Compound Words Reading- Grade 3 -focused skill- generalizing, Selection- Your Dad Was Just Like You Grade 4- focused skill- predicting outcomes, Selection- The Storm English- working on Vocabulary Workshop Unit 4 Both Grades Religion- working on Chapter 10- Called to Love Science- Chapter 1- The Circulatory System and the Heart Social Studies- beginning reading/study of “Tales of the Towpath” a documented history of the Lehigh-Delaware Canal God Bless, Candace A. Steffie