Mr. Sassman's 4th Grade Class Blog
PEARL CREEK HARVEST FESTIVAL 2017
PEARL CREEK HARVEST FESTIVAL 2017
Last Week:
The Harvest Festival was a huge success! The food was awesome and the crowd was amazing! Thank you to the incredible staff and PTA members for organizing and running the event. Thank you parents/community members for coming out. If you couldn't make it this year, perhaps next year...
Our field trip to Ballaine Lake was also a highlight of the week. While we were there, we explored aquatic and terrestrial insects, identified local flora of the Boreal forrest, made watercolor paintings, and reflected with Six Rooms Poetry writing. The following day, the kids were able to type up their writings and save them in their Google Drives. We will print final copies this week.
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| Insect Art! |
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| Coming home this week! |
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| Geometric Lines of Symmetry and Perspective! |
This week:
Spelling is back on with the full week ahead of us. Hopefully stepbook book reports are coming along at home. I have been meeting with the kids one-on-one, editing their summer reflections rough drafts and we will continue with that this week. Final drafts up next...along with final drafts of Six Rooms Poetry. Social Studies will begin this week with our first edition of GeoNotes and Textbook read aloud. Our first STEM lesson will be tomorrow afternoon, featuring "TOWERS," where the students will use the Engineering Design Process to solve real-world problems.
The First Quarter Plan:
- Narrative Writing - Summer Break Reflections
- Spelling
- Insects
- The United States - Geography, Mapping, Economy
- STEM Kits
- Kahn Academy
- Daily Oral Language (DOL)
- Reading Logs
- Cursive Handbooks
- Step Book - Book Reports
Monday looks like:
9:00 - 9:10
New Jobs
Class Meeting
Planners
9:10 - 10:30
Spelling
Summer Reflections
GeoNotes Lesson 1
Read Aloud - The United States
10:30 - 11:10
Physical Education (The Pearl Creek Olympics start this week)
11:00 - 11:40
Writer's Workshop - DOL
SSR
11:40 - 12:10
Lunch
12:10 - 12:40
Recess
12:40 - 1:55
MATH BLOCK - Topic 2-2
1:55 - 3:30
STEM Kit One - TOWERS!
IN-CLASS ASSIGNMENTS - QUIZZES - TESTS
Final Draft - Summer Reflections
Final Draft - Six Room Poetry
Spelling Quiz Friday
GeoNotes Lesson 1
Final Draft - Six Room Poetry
Spelling Quiz Friday
GeoNotes Lesson 1
HOMEROOM HOMEWORK
By Friday
Spelling Lesson 3
By the end of the quarter (Friday, October 13, 2017)
Stepbook Book Report
Don't forget reading logs for extra credit points and tickets for the prize box drawings
Spelling Lesson 3
By the end of the quarter (Friday, October 13, 2017)
Stepbook Book Report
Don't forget reading logs for extra credit points and tickets for the prize box drawings
MATH HOMEWORK DUE THIS WEEK (only if your child is in my math class)
Due On
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
--Practice 2-2/2-3
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
--Practice 2-2/2-3
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
--Practice 2-4
Thursday, September 14, 2017
--Practice 2-5
Friday, September 15, 2017
--Practice 2-6
ONGOING INFORMATION
--Practice 2-4
Thursday, September 14, 2017
--Practice 2-5
Friday, September 15, 2017
--Practice 2-6
***Please note that Math, Specials, Lunch, and Recess are Intermediate schedules and stay in blocks. At times, curriculum instruction will be shuffled to accommodate different initiatives.
If you have any questions, concerns, or comments, please feel free to call or email me anytime to discuss things further. I hope you find this information helpful and useful.
ONGOING INFORMATION
READING LOGS
Reading logs are a regular part of our class. Students will receive "points" for for each day that they read a minimum of 20 minutes at home. The purpose: for students to read each day (not 100 minutes over the weekend or 40 minutes on Tuesday to catch up for Monday).
The logs will be due on a rolling basis and should have dates read on them. I will give credit as they are turned in and filled out correctly (please initial these). The points students receive will be added to their overall reading grade, counting towards their final grade.
It is simple, if students read and turn in their logs, they will see their grade improve significantly while naturally benefiting in fluency and accuracy. If they do not, they will not be given a "0" on the assignment, they simply will not receive any points.
Please look for these to come home this week. I have a yellow folder by the classroom front door filled with new reading logs. Email me with any questions or concerns please.
GOOGLE DRIVE - I will be sending the kiddos home with their specific login information soon
You can access all of your student's digital assignments online and work at home if you would like. Just go to www.gmail.com and type in their email address and password. Then find the Google Menu (where you will find the Drive, Docs, and Slides) icon in the top right corner (it is a nine square grid next to their s-number). This is where they will make their Google Slides Presentation for their Biography Book Reports. It is as follows:
DATES TO REMEMBER
Reading logs are a regular part of our class. Students will receive "points" for for each day that they read a minimum of 20 minutes at home. The purpose: for students to read each day (not 100 minutes over the weekend or 40 minutes on Tuesday to catch up for Monday).
The logs will be due on a rolling basis and should have dates read on them. I will give credit as they are turned in and filled out correctly (please initial these). The points students receive will be added to their overall reading grade, counting towards their final grade.
It is simple, if students read and turn in their logs, they will see their grade improve significantly while naturally benefiting in fluency and accuracy. If they do not, they will not be given a "0" on the assignment, they simply will not receive any points.
Please look for these to come home this week. I have a yellow folder by the classroom front door filled with new reading logs. Email me with any questions or concerns please.
GOOGLE DRIVE - I will be sending the kiddos home with their specific login information soon
You can access all of your student's digital assignments online and work at home if you would like. Just go to www.gmail.com and type in their email address and password. Then find the Google Menu (where you will find the Drive, Docs, and Slides) icon in the top right corner (it is a nine square grid next to their s-number). This is where they will make their Google Slides Presentation for their Biography Book Reports. It is as follows:
Username: s#@student.k12northstar.org (for example: s123456@student.k12northstar.org)
Password: s#g (for example: s123456g)
DATES TO REMEMBER
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Back to School Night - 5 to 6 PMFriday, September 22, 2017
Picture Day - Intermediate Students (Primary on Thursday)
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Pillow Making - Sewing (Parent Volunteers Needed Please)
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Pillow Making - Sewing (Parent Volunteers Needed Please)
9:00 - 11:40 am
Friday, September, 29, 2017
Teacher In-service (No School)
It's a good life!
Mr. Sassman
