October is here!

Happy Monday Families!

Please note that this week's blog will serve as our weekly communication for this week and next week. Next week is somewhat of a shorter week due to 2 half days and no school on Friday, October 11th. Also, please remember that Mrs. Ezell will be away Monday, October 7th to Wednesday, October 9th at a professional development conference in Chicago, IL. 

Looking Ahead...

• Tuesday, October 1st - Altar server training from 3:15 to 4:15 in the Church for students in grades 4 and up. One parent must attend. 
• Friday, October 4th - Jesuit Heritage Mass with Brophy at 9:45 to 11:15 pm. Students will NOT be allowed to leave Mass, so plan accordingly. See Mrs. Westerfield's notes in the weekly eNews for any questions. 
• Friday, October 4th - School Auction for parents at 6:00 pm 
• Wednesday, October 9th and Thursday, October 10th - Half Day with dismissal at 12:50
• Friday, October 11th and Monday, October 14th - NO SCHOOL 

English Language Arts



 * We will spend the next 2 weeks on Lesson 5.*

Reading - We will be talking about Tall Tales and use the cartoon video, Paul Bunyan to help us get started. We will be looking at the skill of understanding characters. There will be a reading assessment on this skill next Thursday, October 10th. 

Grammar - Last week, we spent some extra time reviewing our Quotation Marks rules and re-did some of our work. Students will receive directions for their "Let's Chat" Quotation Marks project this week and it will be due next Thursday, October 10th. 

We will then move to looking at the skill of proper nouns. 

Writing - The majority of the students are now working on their rough drafts of their state reports. We will work on finishing them up this week, so that next week we can revise and edit to get ready to publish.

NEW reading log and program - Beginning tomorrow, October 1st, students will be logging their nightly reading in their AZ Coyotes reading log book. This school year, we are participating in the AZ Coyotes reading challenge. Thank you to Mr. Sanford for including us in this year's program. Each night students are expected to read for 10 minutes. Then at the end of the month, a parent signature is required and the reading log will be turned in for points in class and so that we can add up all the minutes we read as a fourth grade.

Social Studies

This is our last week with the region states. We will test on the Northeast region on Thursday, October 3rd. 

The students will have their final states test, where they will be expected to properly locate and spell each state on Wednesday, October 23rd. 

Math

We are finishing our first module. It was adding and subtracting large numbers, rounding numbers to any place, and comparing large numbers.

The second module is Problem Solving with Metric Measurement.

Science

We are starting our new module called Microscopes and Magnification. This week we are studying the eye and using hand lenses to experience high and low resolution.

We will have a vocabulary quiz over the 7 highlighted words that can be found in the Lab Learner book (#'s 2-8) on Friday, October 4th.

Religion 

This week are are memorizing The Prayer for Generosity. The quiz will be Friday, October 4th.

We will talk about the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy. The Church has given us the works of mercy to help care for others.