Final Blog Post of the Year

 

Hello Families, 

This week's blog post will serve as our final blog post for the 2020-21 school year. We appreciate all of you for sticking by us through this rollercoaster of a year. It has been a pleasure walking alongside you and your child during their academic and spiritual development. We wish you all a very restful, fun, and safe summer! 

Looking Ahead.....

• Thursday, May 27th - 4th Grade End of the Year Party in the afternoon 
• Friday, May 28th - End of the Year Mass - 4th grade will be attending in person. Mass begins at 9:00 AM. Dismissal is at 10:30 AM for ALL students in grades 4th to 7th. 

English Language Arts

Spelling - This week, to end our year, we have a list made up of our peers first or last names. Students are expected to write a story using each one of their friend's names. All homework must be in cursive. There will be one last spelling test on Thursday, May 20th. 

Grammar - We will finish commas and practice all ending punctuation. 

Reading - We are on our last story of the year, Lesson 25. Our skill is author's purpose. 

Writing - We are going to reflect on our best memories from the year and create a little booklet to remember them by. 

Social Studies 

We are so excited to welcome Mr. Barraza into our classroom, virtually, via Zoom as a guest speaker this week. He will be talking to the entire fourth grade about the job responsibilities of a lobbyist and an overview of how a bill becomes a law. We will use this as a way to wrap up our Government unit. 

Students will have a government vocabulary quiz on WEDNESDAY (this is being pushed back by one day) and will need to select one branch of government to describe in a short answer. We will review in class the expectations. 

Math

We will continue to power through our fraction module. This week, we will do addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers. We will do word problems that involve fractions and mixed numbers. We will also play games. 

Science

This is the chapter final activity. The students will write questions and answers as if they were the teacher. This will be a 50 point activity. 

Religion 

We are studying for a final vocabulary quiz. The students are having fun quizzing each other with memory games.