Grade 4

Daily
Communication
and Homework
Please remember to
check your childs
agenda daily for
important papers and
homework. Remember
to check the class
website for newsletters,
photos, and other
resources.
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Important Dates
March 9th- Class ESLR
Celebration (movie and
snacks)
March 9th- 3rd ASAP
begins
March 21st- Science
Fair and Key
Assignments
March 27th- End of
Quarter 3
March 30th-April 6thSpring Break and Tomb
Sweeping Day
April 10th- Quarter 3
Report Cards

Mrs. Shannon Pages Class

March 6, 2015

WEEKLY NEWS

How Plants Change the World

Throughout the next two weeks the students will continue learning about plants. They
will be learning about real-world jobs that are related to plants and will conduct scientific
experiments aligned with that job. The students will be doing research, asking questions,
making predictions or a hypothesis, and making observations. Students will be gathering
materials that they will need for the experiments throughout the weekend and over the
next two weeks, so thank you in advance for helping us to get what we need. I would also
encourage you to talk to your child about plants and work with them to research new
information. By researching new information on their own, they can continue to develop
their understanding of the topics and become more interested in science. We look
forward to sharing our knowledge with you at the Key Assignment on March 21st.

Literacy
Unless someone like YOU case a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. Its
not. This is a quote from the book, The Lorax. As a class, we have been reading this
Dr. Seuss book in order to honor his birthday and also to learn more about how
people can have positive and negative eects on the environment. With this book the
students worked on analyzing characters, making connections to the real-world, and
developed an understanding of cause and eect. Over the next few weeks they will
continue analyzing the book in order to write persuasive writing pieces and develop a
deeper understanding of how people can make decisions to impact the environment.
Please take some time to talk to your child about The Lorax and our environment.
On Friday, our class had the opportunity to Skype with an author, Jennifer Swanson,
to learn about her love of science and writing. The author that is from the United
States shared her new book called Uninvited Guests: Invisible Creatures Lurking in
Your Home. The kids were very interested in the research that she had to do in
order to write her science nonfiction books. It was a wonderful opportunity for the
students because they were able ask questions and learn more about what it is like to
be an author.

Math

Fractions! We have started learning about fractions and will continue studying them
throughout the next few weeks. The students will be working on identifying fractions,
April 11th- Prom
comparing and ordering fractions, finding equivalent fractions, determining fractional
April 15th- Parent-Teach parts of a whole, and adding and subtracting fractions. Fractions can be a dicult
Conferences/Half day
concept for students as they dive deeper into understanding them so please support
your student as they study this topic. If you would like resources to help you support
your student please use tenmarks.com, ixlmath.com, studyjams.scholastic.com, or
learnzillion.com
email address: spage@qiss.org.cn

Grade 4

email address: spage@qiss.org.cn

Mrs. Shannon Pages Class

March 6, 2015