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Welcome to Grade 4
Winter News
Happy New Year!
Welcome back!
I hope you all had a joyful and restful Christmas
vacation. As we
begin 2012, please encourage your child to keep focused on
his/her studies as we celebrate Catholic Schools’ Month, a month
filled with many activities in honor of our school and Catholic
Faith.. I would
also like to welcome our two international students from Korea,
Seunghyun and Junsu.
In Religion, we will be learning how the Ten Commandments
help us to love God.
Each chapter will be discussing a different Commandment.
Our theme for Reading is Creative Minds, which
includes expository nonfiction, folktales, mysteries and a play.
In Science class, we will finish studying the human body
and begin our unit on Physical Science.
This is an interesting and hands-on unit, in which the
students will make discoveries about the world around us!
We are also fortunate to have a representative from CL&P
coming to discuss electrical safety. Our Connecticut adventure
will continue with the exploration of everyday life in the
colonies and the struggle for independence. In English, the
fourth graders will be finishing our unit on adjectives and
polishing their capitalization and punctuation skills in our
next unit. We will
be putting our grammar skills to good use in our writings.
The fourth grade is now beginning to study Division.
Please encourage your child to practice the
multiplication tables, as they are the building blocks for
Mathematics.
Important Dates to Remember
Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day- No School, January 16th
Catholic Schools’ Week Mass- Sunday, January 29th
Famous Historical Person Book Report Due Thursday, February 16th
Helpful Websites
http://www.sadlierreligion.com/webelieve/main.cfm?sp=student§ion=activity&grade=4
https://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com/snpapp/login/login.jsp
www.sadlier-oxford.com/vocabulary/levels_color.cfm
Classroom Items Needed
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Tissues
(A special thank you to those
who helped pack and load the toys for delivery.)
Wishing you all the best in 2012!
Miss Stratton
