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Feb 22

I’ll Be Attending the NAEA National Convention Next Week!

 

The NAEA National Convention is the largest professional development opportunity offered worldwide, exclusively developed art educators. Participating in exemplary professional development workshops and sessions with other pK-12 art educators, museum educators, researchers, scholars and university professors, teaching artists, and administrators offers a unique opportunity to collaborate and learn from other professionals in the field, as well as share our schools successes.  Within the 1,000 concurrent sessions offered at the 2012 NAEA National Convention, there are numerous sessions specically targeted to my professional development goals including strategies for enhancing student achievement, interdisciplinary learning, assessment, curriculum, and instruction.

 

I can’t wait to bring back all that I will learn  and share it with the students at SJV!

 

 

 

 

Feb 20

4th Grade Book Bag News 2/21/12

Reminders:

Tuesday is Team Spirit Tuesday! For those that played basketball, you may wear jeans, your jersey and white tennis shoes.

IOWA testing begins next week and we will begin our BizTown Curriculum in the afternoons following testing. There will not be any homework, but please make sure your child gets plenty of sleep and eats a good breakfast in the morning prior to coming to school. Please also try not to stress your child out about these tests. I have explained to them that the tests are a measurement tool to see, not only what their strengths and weaknesses are, but a way for the school to make sure we are providing them with the best education possible. It is therefore important that they do their personal best, but it is not something that needs to cause any anxiety. Additionally, if you would be willing to send in a fun snack for the afternoon so as to keep up morale, I would really appreciate it. Just shoot me an email and let me know. Thank you so much!

 

Here is what we’re studying this week:

Religion: Learn about the Precepts of the church and discuss the contributions of family to healthy living.

Math: Math Test Tuesday 2/21. This week, locate positive and negative numbers on a number line, review concepts in preparation for ITBS testing.

Reading/Language Arts: Read and discuss The Case of the Gasping Garbage. Complete reading comprehension and grammar practice tests for ITBS preparation. Spelling Test Wednesday 2/22, Open Book Reading & Vocabulary Test Friday, 2/24

Science: Discuss water conservation, farming, irrigation, water pollution and ways that we can conserve water.

Social Studies: We will complete our newspaper articles.

Music: Identify voice types – soprano, alto, tenor and bass

Library: Students will be given time to read towards their reading commitment goal.

Feb 12

4th Grade Book Bag News 2/13/12

Reminder – we do not have school on Friday (Diocesan In-Service) or Monday (President’s Day.) Enjoy the four day weekend!

Here is what we’re studying this week:

Religion: Begin a study of Abram/Abraham and discuss the prefiguring of Christ in the story.

Math: Math Test Thursday 2/16. This week, identify and draw quadrilaterals, solve two dimensional spacial problems, and learn to find an average

Reading/Language Arts: Begin a reading Science unit with an expository text excerpt titled, Magnetism and we will begin diagramming sentences. Reading, Vocabulary and Spelling Test Tuesday 2/21

Science: Science test Wednesday 2/15. Review weathering and erosion, how caves are formed, and glaciers and glacial movement. Begin a unit on the human body.

Computer: Complete research for newspaper article.

Library: Students will be given time to read towards their reading commitment goal.

Feb 8

Yoga in P.E.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brendan and Anna strike a tree pose in P.E.

Feb 5

4th Grade Book Bag News 2/6/12

Here is what we’re studying this week:

Religion: Study the Story of Noah and how the flood prefigures Baptism and the ark the Church.

Math: Math Test Friday, 2/10. This week, we will continue practicing long division, learn the name of and find the area of polygons, and learn to convert improper fractions to mixed numbers.

Reading/Language Arts/Social Studies: Learn how to use the newspaper and the different types information found in the newspaper, write articles for a 4th grade newspaper by exploring both the print and online versions of the Tennessean for a writing grade, learn to research a topic and cite references, Spelling Test Friday 2/10, Social Studies Quiz on Newspapers Monday 2/13

Science: Science test Tuesday 2/7. Study the difference in weathering and erosion, how caves are formed, and glaciers and glacial movement

Computer: Learn to research topics online and how to cite websites

Library: Conduct research on topic for newspaper article

Music: Mrs. Wise will be teaching music this week.

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