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.