Our 4th Grade

Classroom News January 2018

Email: aehlers@wcpss.net pfoster1@wcpss.net kgeorge@wcpss.net ggolden@wcpss.net
Website: www.fpde4.weebly.com

Weather Make-Up Readvolution

Don’t forget to keep
Students and teachers will recording the minutes
have school on Monday, you read daily
https://
January 22nd & Monday, readvolution.cengage.com/
February 19th. These will
be weather make-up days The event ends on
Reminders
January 12, 2018.
for the snow days on 1/4 &
Children can be part
1/5.
of this event by
reading daily for 20
minutes! Students
Winter Wonderland Dance can earn a FREE
ticket voucher for a
Hurricanes game.
Our school could also
earn a cool Field Trip
to PNC arena if we
read 2,020 books!
The 4th grade class
with the most minutes
& books read will
have a celebration!

Upcoming Dates
1/23  –  3rd  Quarter  begins  
1/15  -­‐  No  School  -­‐  Holiday   1/23-­‐1/24    -­‐    CASE  TesOng  
1/16  -­‐  FPDE  Spirit  Night  at  East  Coast  Wings   2/2  –  Second  Quarter  Report  Cards  
1/19  -­‐  2nd  Quarter  Ends   2/9  –  Early  Release  Dismissal  at  1:15  
1/22  -­‐  Weather  Make-­‐Up  day  -­‐-­‐  SCHOOL  DAY   2/9  –  Winter  Wonderland  Dance  
 Spring Field Trip
Mark you calendar, we will be going to the Battleship North
Carolina & Island to Sound program on Masonboro Island March
27. We will need chaperones and hope you can join us. Be sure
you have registered to be a volunteer ASAP. The number of
volunteers we will be able to take will be limited. Priority will be
given to chaperones who:
*Return the chaperone form
*Is ALREADY approved through the WCPSS system
*Pay the chaperone fee (amount to be determined)

Math Language Arts

In Reading our focus

In Math we will be working
continues to be historical
on Geometry. You can
fiction. We are beginning
access information about
book clubs focusing on
Unit 10 - Measuring Angles
World War II next week.
on the 4th grade website.
Our lessons will include
http://fpde4.weebly.com/
historical fiction and
unit-10---measuring-
informational texts as well
angles.html
as poetry. Number the
Stars will be our focus text
Students will be taking
for this unit. We will begin
standardized CASE tests in
reading it aloud on January
math on January 23rd and
8th. In writing students are
reading on January 24th.
going to pick a topic related
These assessments will
to World War II that they
measure understanding of
would like to know more
concepts in math and
about.
reading that we have
covered so far this year.