Week of September 3rd

I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day. Just a few things I want to share with you.

• Show-n-tell will be every Friday. One student will bring in his/her item to share with the class. Here is a list when your child has show-n-tell:

1. September 6th- Brayden
2. September 13th- Ava
3. September 20th- Lorenzo
4. September 27th- Angelica
5. October 4th- Lucky
6. October 18th-Alejandro
7. October 25th- Isabella
8. November 1st- Travis
9. November 8th- Lynnise
10. November 15th- Kailey
11. November 22nd- Florent
12. December 6th- Aspen
13. December 13th-Celina
14. January 17th-Maddi
15. January 24th- Steph
16. January 31st- Tim

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about the date of your child's show-n-tell. 

Here is last week's show-n-tell: Isaac brought in his G.I.Joe classics

Thanks for sharing Isaac!

• Below is the newsletter. I am trying to cut down on papers sent home. 

Ms. Seeley’s Fourth Grade Class

• Week of September 3rd, 2013
                                                                      
  Upcoming Events   
  • September 9^th: Jean Monday- pay $1 to wear jeans
  • September 9^th-13^th- Scholastic Book Fair
  • September 12^th- Open House: 5:00 Dinner, 5:45 Meeting, 6-7 Meet the teacher
  
  
  
  
  Updates:
  ·         Monthly theme: Africa. Each month we will focus on an area around the world. This focus will be found in all subject areas.
  ·         If you would like to contribute anything for our focus on Africa please contact me. This might be a book, a recipe, show and tell of items you might have from Africa.
  
  
  
  
  News
  
  
  ·        Math:  We will be reviewing comparing, ordering and rounding numbers for our test on Wednesday. Thursday we will begin our new unit on addition and subtraction with larger numbers.
  
  
  ·        Writing:  We will fully immerse ourselves in memoirs this week. We are looking at characteristics of memoirs and the different ways memoir authors "reflect" on their moment in time.
  
  
  ·        Reading:  We will continue our “Life as a Reader” unit. We are talking about just right books, which are books are our level and we are able to comprehend as well as read fluently. We will be talking about what our strategy is when we get to a tricky word and how readers move past the tricky word.
  
  
  ·        Science:  This week we are looking at ecosystems and the flow of energy through those ecosystems.
  
  
  ·        Social Studies: We start our new unit study on Africa. As you can imagine there are many different tribes and countries in Africa but we will be focusing on West Africa. This is to prepare us for a visit from a West African drum and dance group from Mali, Africa.