Welcome to Fourth Grade!
We are a community of learners and friends, growing and working together.
We are a community of learners and friends, growing and working together.
September 9, 2019.
Dear Fourth Grade Families,
We are back for our first full week of school, and we will be settling into our normal routine this week! We use a workshop model most of the day in our classroom, which involves the teaching of a lesson in reading, writing, or math, followed by an extended period of independent work. During this extended time, I will be meeting with students in one-on-one or small group conferences. Each workshop ends with a time for sharing work with partners, groups, or the whole class.
Social Studies and Science units will alternate throughout the year, beginning with a Social Studies unit about community and citizenship. Last week we examined the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution and then followed that model to create our own classroom constitution! We also began reading the book Wonder and created our Wonder Wall, full of the wonders that the students have. We will be researching some of those wonders through the year!
We will begin our intervention blocks today. You may hear your child call this “WIN” time. WIN stands for What I Need, and refers to the skills or practices each student is working to improve. Students will be in different groups for WIN time. Every student will at some point be in a WIN group with Ms. Hauser to be the reporters and photographers for school news and the school website!
The week of September 16th will be Bike Week for the fourth graders. A permission slip was sent home earlier which listed the times for extra biking opportunities (before and after school). If you have not completed that form but would like to do so, it is not too late! Let me know if you need another copy of the form.
Have a wonderful week!
Kate Kane
