4^th grade news Walden Lower School May 9, 2008 Issue 28 School Phone: 893-0434 Ms. Aboud’s email: aaboud@walden-school.org School web address: www.walden-school.org Ms. Geller’s email: dgeller@walden-school.org
A Few Reminders · PE – Monday and Wednesday – dress appropriately with proper shoes · Snack provided Monday – Thursday · Read 20 minutes a night · 12:45 dismissal on Fridays	Ms. Aboud’s and Ms. Geller’s Notes Hello Parents! The end of the year is almost here! We are wrapping up our units that we are working on and beginning to review our skills from the whole year. In Math we will be making a Paper Patchwork Quilt. The children will learn about different patterns, lines of symmetry, and design. We will continue to work on our Civil War Project during most of our free time. For Reading we are going to focus on short stories and reading comprehension, main idea and supporting facts. This is our last week of homework, spelling tests, and Scholastic/Time Quizzes. .
DATES TO REMEMBER 5/16 – Civil War Project Due 5/17 – WPA Auction 5/26 – No School 5/27 – High School Graduation 5/28 – end of the year trip – Connor Prairie 5/30 – Award’s Day and last day of school
Just a Reminder …. Civil War Project The Civil War Project is due Friday. The children have been working on this for a long time at school and at home. It is a major portion of their Social Studies grade. One thing we have stressed to the kids is that we want to see their own work not their parent’s, siblings, etc. We want them to use their keyboard skills and type the pages themselves. You will be impressed once they are bound! Discovery Quest On Fridays we have our Discovery Quest presentations. Below is a schedule of when the children are presenting. Please check the website or the Fourth Grade Open House Packet for each month’s topic choices. May 16^th – Kamron, Sydney, Christopher, Nicole, / Aidan, Madelyn, Kalin, Rosemary, Kinsey May 23^th - Madeline, Zac, Andrew, Katie, Alexander / Jake Martina, Bridget, Rachel
Scholastic News / Time Magazine Quizzes Our classes get two children’s magazines every week – Scholastic News and Time Magazine. We will distribute one of the magazines on Tuesdays with a take home Quiz. The children can read the magazine at school or at home and answer the questions. They may use their magazine to answers the questions. The Quizzes will be due on Thursdays to be used as an assessment.
Homework Homework will always come home in the yellow. All assignments (unless otherwise noted) are due the following day. Spelling will be assigned on Monday and the unit is due on Friday. A spelling test will be given on Friday.
Spelling Words Robin, button, bacon, reason, cotton, sunken, eleven, cousin, woven, raisin, cannon, muffin, widen, wooden, ridden, common, proven, often, penguin, skeleton, medal, pupil, paddle, violin, vitamin
Fourth Grade Parents It is a Walden tradition to have a Lower School end of the year photo show during the Awards Day ceremony. As the 4^th grade will be “graduating” from Lower School we add a special “then to now” section. Please gather a cute picture of your child under the age of 3 and a current picture of your child. Either email them to Mrs. Fitts at lfitts@walden-school.org or put the hard copies in plastic bag with the student’s name written on it and turn in to the office or Mrs. Fitts. If you do not have a current picture of your child Mrs. Fitts will take a photo during school. These work best if both picture images are about the same size. The pictures will be returned to you in your child’s awards day envelope. Thank you!
Spelling Bonus Words These are “Bonus Words” for spelling they come from all areas of study. You may choose for your student to study these in addition to the regular spelling words. Brittle, agreement, definitely, quesadillas, jewelry, video, coordinating, mounting, unbelievable, repeated
Monday Math Review WS Language Art WS Reading 20 minutes every night
Tuesday Math Review WS Language Arts WS Social Studies Time Magazine / Scholastic Take Home Quiz Due Thursday Reading 20 minutes every night
Wednesday Math Review WS Language Arts WS Reading 20 minutes every night
Thursday Math Review WS Language Arts WS Reading 20 minutes every night
Friday No Homework Read 20 minutes