Conference Time

Hello Families,

This is a reminder that our Parent-Teacher Conference begin this week before and after school. We will be sending home a list of the sign-ups as a reminder. There are still some open slots if you need to sign up.

Looking Ahead...

• Wednesday, September 26th - 3rd-5th grade Mass @ Brophy Chapel - 4th Grade leading 
• Saturday, October 6th - School Auction 
• Wednesday, October 10th - Half Day dismissal at 1:15
• Thursday, October 11th - Half Day dismissal at 1:15
• Friday, October 12th - No School 

English Language Arts



This week, we will continue to look at the difference between Common and Proper Nouns. The students will have a "let's check-in assessment" to see how we are doing on Wednesday.  We Will then move to the grammar skill of Verbs.

In Reading, we will look at the skill of Story Structure. There will be a reading test on Friday, September 28th. 

Writing - We will all be working on publishing our State Reports this week. We will begin to talk about the details of our Postcard Exchange.

Social Studies

The students will be assessed on both the states and capitals in the Midwest Region, tomorrow, Tuesday, September 25th. 



Then, we will begin to look at the Southeast Region. The quiz on the Southeast region will be Tuesday, October 2nd.

Math

We are subtracting large numbers and using tape diagrams to model our word problems.

Science

We are starting our second module: Microscopes and Magnification. This week we are exploring lenses: the human eye and a hand lens. We are looking at the clarity on how things are viewed, or resolution.

Religion 

Fourth Grade is leading Mass this Wednesday at Brophy Chapel.

We are finishing up our Rosary Poster Contest pictures to honor our Blessed Mother Mary (Our Lady of Czestochowa).

States and Capitals

Happy Monday Everyone!

We are in week 3 of our states and capitals lessons. This week's focus is the Midwest Region. I am sure by now you have heard our famous, "Tour the States" song. It is quite catchy and has a good beat to it. All the students received flashcards last week for ALL fifty states and capitals. Below are a few names of some amazing apps to download for extra practice. All the apps are FREE!!

APPS: 
50 US States - American Quiz 
States and Capitals Quiz
States - The States and Capitals 

MUSIC INFO FROM MS. NEMETH 
Students are suppose to be practicing regularly from home using the FREE app on the iPad.  The app is called: Music Studio, and it is free. CLICK HERE to see what it looks like!
No iPad? practice in music room available: Monday-Friday 7:30 A.M.;Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 3:00-3:30.

Looking Ahead...

• Thursday, September 27th - Altar Server Training for NEW servers at the Parish
• Saturday, October 6th - School Auction @ 6:00 PM 
• Wednesday, October 10th - Altar Server Training for NEW servers at the Parish

English Language Arts



We will continue to look at the difference between fragments, run-on sentences, and complete sentences. We will also begin to review Proper Nouns.

Writing - We will be revising and editing our state reports this week.

Reading - This week is all about Tall Tales. We will be talking about ways author's over exaggerate things by watching a short video, Paul Bunyun. We will also read Stormalong. The students will have a reading comprehension test on Friday, September 21st. 

Thursday night homework: log into Thinkcentral.com from home and read lesson 5: Stormalong

Social Studies

This week our focus is on the Midwest Region states and capitals. We will talk about the 5 Great Lakes as well. Please remember that SPELLING COUNTS for each state's name.Our quiz will be next Tuesday, September 25th. 

Math

We are adding and subtracting larger numbers. We are using our rounding skills to check if our answers are reasonable. We are using tape diagrams to model our word problems.

Science

This week we are culminating our Human Body Module with a performance assessment and a paper / pencil assessment. In the lab on Tuesday, we will do the performance assessment and the other assessment will be Wednesday.

Religion

The Act of Hope quiz is tomorrow, Tuesday.

We will be preparing for the Mass that 4th grade is leading next week.

Work Hard, Play Hard

Happy Monday to All,

We hope you had a fun weekend as college football is in full swing and the NFL season kicked off! Last week, our classes began discussing our From Farm to Football participation. This program is free to us and is brought to us by Hickman's Family Farms and the Arizona Cardinals. Budda Baker, safety for the AZ Cardinals, is this year's representative. Each month, he will send a video to the schools across Arizona talking about pigs, chickens, cattle, and more! Most importantly, he always includes a message for the students and the message this month was, "Work Hard means you get to Play Hard." 

Let us encourage our students to work hard in class and put forth their best self, so that when it is time to play or rest they can truly enjoy it. Let us continue to have conversation with our students about time management, a skill that is quite difficult at this age, but so vital. If we can do anything for our fourth graders this year it will be to help them learn time management and stay organized. It is also important that they use their class time wisely, utilizing their agenda daily, and keeping their accordion file organized. Let us partner together to help our kiddos by not doing it for them, rather helping them learn how to do this by modeling and having conversation about what is expected of them at school. 

On a different note...Be aware in our email is a link for our Parent-Teacher Conferences. Yes, it is that time of year again! We will be sending out a Signup Genius link for you to use. We have lots of slots to accommodate seeing every family. 

Looking Ahead..

• Wednesday, September 12th - All School Mass @ 9:30
• Friday, September 14th - Free Dress IF you donate a gift card to the Auction 

English Language Arts



This week we will be talking about Theme and how we identify a Theme in a story and/or play. We will read a play called, The Power of WOW, which will tie in our Religion standards as well as the community comes together to lend a helping hand. 

Grammar - We will be talking about fragments, run-on sentences, and complete sentences. Students will be working on this skills for the next three weeks as well as other grammar skills. At the end of the three weeks, students will have a summative assessments on the concepts taught. Throughout the next three weeks, we will have informal assessments to check for understanding. 

Our famous person conversation project is due Wednesday, September 12th. 

"The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark."

Writing - We will continue working on our State reports. This week, we will begin the rough draft process. 

Social Studies

This week, the students will learn all about the states in the West Region. They will be assessed on BOTH the states and capitals in this region on Friday, September 14th. Spelling of the each State's name correctly DOES count. For the capitals, students will be given a list of the capital cities and need to write the name of corresponding state. 

Math

We are continuing to round multi-digit numbers to any place value. We are using the number lien strategy along with the standard algorithm. 

Science

We are finishing up The Human Body with the study on the Digestive System. 

There will be a vocabulary quiz on Friday. 

Religion

Altar Serving training for NEW servers is September 27th OR October 10th at the Parish. In order the students to serve at a school Mass, they need to be trained at the Church.

We are working on the Act of Hope this week, and we will test on it next week. 

Happy Labor Day

Hello Everyone!

We hope you enjoyed your long weekend! We are back and ready to roll into September! This week, we begin our Decision Making program. Decision Making is an awesome program that helps our students process through making the right decision.

English Language Arts

We will continue working with Lesson 3. Last week, we experienced some technical difficulties with Think Central, our online portal, but we are hoping it is back up and running this week. We will work on the skill of Cause and Effect. Students will be assessed on this story on Friday, September 7th. 

We will continue talking about Quotation Marks. ALL students received directions for their grammar project. The project is due Wednesday, September 13th. 

Social Studies and Writing

Students will begin to research and learn about their assigned state.

Next week, we will resume learning about and be quizzed on the states in the West Region.

Math

We will be rounding numbers to the nearest 100, 1,000, and 10,000.

Science

We are continuing our study of The Human Body and this week's focus is the Circulatory System. We will have a vocabulary quiz on Friday, so start studying today.

Religion

We will be studying the Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love. This week we will memorize the Act of Faith.