Upcoming Dates to Remember: Interim Reports – 9/23 Book orders due – 9/29 September Birthday’s:

1. Miss Flaherty’s Weekly News • Week of September 22nd Upcoming Dates to Remember: Interim Reports – 9/23 Book orders due – 9/29 September Birthday’s: Kendall (12th), Allyson (15th), Connor T. (18th), Griffin (26th) and Trey (28th) Classroom Notes: • AM Tips – Practice assignments can always be completed at home. If your child is falling behind earning objectives, they need to be taking their AM folder home daily. • If you are out shopping and would like to make a classroom donation, we are looking for the following items: Thin Smelly Markers • Glitter or Metallic Pens (for WOW words)Colored lined paper (for Spelling tests) • Motivational or fun stickers   • Glue sticks  • Bold or brightly colored card stock or craft paper Small containers of play dough for vocabulary activities  • Weekly Goals • AR Goal – 8 • AM Goal - 9

2. What’s Happening • Reading – We are continuing to learn about story elements this week to help us comprehend our first class novel! This week our focus is on plot, problem and solution, summarizing, and theme. • Spelling –This week Spelling will take on a new look The students will be placed in groups based on their needs. On Monday the students will get their word lists and choice board assignment. There will no longer be a pretest on Wednesday’s. The test over the spelling of the words will be on Friday’s. The weeks that we have Spelling we will not have Vocabulary. • Writing/Grammar –We will be wrapping up our introduction of the 6+1 Traits of Writing and learning about rubrics to assess our writing.. I am eagerly waiting to read the finished pieces the students have been working on! Our first finished writing piece the students will present, will be ready by the end of the week! ~Miss Flaherty • Science – This week, the scientists will be learning the difference between observations and inferences.  Great scientists are constantly observing the world around them in order to make intelligent inferences.  The classes will also work in groups to create two differently shaped paper airplanes—the “Bald Eagle” and the “Flying Squirrel,” and perform a test to see which design is more aerodynamic.   These young scientists are really learning how to conduct a fair, controlled experiment!  A test over the scientific method and process skills is approaching!  The students should study the notes from their notebooks and the vocabulary in their binders.  I periodically grade the notebooks for completeness and neatness.  Please take a peek at your child’s notebook next week! ~Mrs. Ortiz • Math – 4th grade math: We are diving into place value, working with large numbers, and taking a look at several kinds of graphs. We will also do some sorting with raisins to discover median, mode, maximum, minimum, and range. Sounds a bit sticky to me! The math posters are hanging in the hall and they are WONDERFUL! Great job! • 5th grade math: Hooray! We are now in the 5th grade book! Factors, arrays, products, prime and composite numbers are some of the discoveries this week in math. Passing that 3 minute time test is still a challenge for a few, so keep working on memorizing those facts!  ~Mrs. Wentz • Indiana History and Health –Our cartographers were busy last week.   The students made great efforts at ripping their way through the seven continents.  I will be displaying them this week in our 4th grade hallway.  By the end of the week we will incorporate some physical features into our map making.  Please expect a quiz on Friday over the continents, oceans, and basic map reading skills. –Mrs. FritzPlease contact me if you have any questions, comments, or concerns...or just to say, "Hello!" cflaherty@cps.k12.in.us  or 663-8800 Ext. 14207 • Miss Flaherty