Tuesday!

**MAP Testing:
We will take our first round of MAP testing tomorrow! We will begin with Reading.  Please remind your child how important this is! It will show me where your child is currently at the beginning of the year, what he needs to work on, and on what levels he is on.  Today I met with each child individually to work on setting MAP goals.  I let the kids see the 'norm' score for beginning of the year MAP for 4th graders and they set their own goal.  For the Winter and Spring tests, I will be helping them make their own goal to achieve! :) 

FYI:
*pictures were today - if your child was absent, we will have make-ups at a later date
*Please remember to check the behavior charts inside your child's binder each night.  Our goal is to have everyone on Good Day, Great Job, or Outstanding.  Also, if your child hasn't told you about HWC Mystery, ask them! :)
*Thanks to Ben for bringing in a G movie and popcorn for our PAW party today! We are now working on 20 PAWS towards our next class reward.

Reading:
We are continuing with main idea and details.  This week we are focusing on the genre plays.  Students were split into 3 different groups to read a play on their levels and then discuss the main idea and details.  Students had a bit of trouble with retelling the play instead of telling the main idea.  Students also worked on their vocab. words with definitions in pairs.  No lit. circles today. We will be in our new groups on Thursday after we get our new lexile scores.
No HW

Writing:
Writing was cut short due to pictures! We were able to complete our conclusion to our opinion piece.  Tomorrow and the rest of the week we will work on editing the pieces.
No HW

Math:
Today we took a pre-test for our new unit on estimating, rounding, factors, and multiples. After that we worked on rounding 4 digit numbers.  Mrs. Wilham took a small group and worked on rounding with multiplication and division.
HW: one group has a worksheet with estimating answers in mult. and division, one group has a paper with 3 rounding questions, and one group has a sheet with 2 rounding questions - the papers will be in the red folder

SS:
Today we reviewed the compass rose and took a quick quiz.  Next, we learned about all-purpose maps and how to read those.  Students did a good job with this!
No HW
**My class does have this as Homework!

**We ended SS early to continue the PAW party.  We started watching the movie during lunch in the room, and then watched the movie and ate popcorn during the last 15 minutes of school. :)

Have a good night,
Mrs. Burton