Dear Parents of Grade 4,
Who’s ready for week two of home assignments? Do I hear you all cheering? Sighing? Crying?!?!- Whatever your reaction, please remember that these assignments can be flexible and approached in ways that work for you and your families.
(Family life and health first, school work to follow. Please be in touch if you are having trouble meeting the assignments, getting diorama supplies or getting online to help research your child’s animal for their report. I’ll help figure it out.)
Suggestions for beginning each day’s school work session
:
Begin: with the Morning Verse (The children know this by heart...)
‘The Sun with Loving Light makes bright for us each day......’
Next : have some fun with a tongue twister and/or a riddle :
*Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.
*Which witch wished which wicked wish?
*Of all the felt I ever felt, I never felt a piece of felt that felt the same as that felt felt when I first felt felt.
*What won’t go up the chimney up,
But will go up the chimney down?
What won’t go down the chimney up,
But will go down the chimney down? (An umbrella)
*The beginning of eternity,
The end of time and space,
The beginning of every end
And the end of every place. (The letter E)
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Suggested Assignments for this
Monday
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Suggested Assignment for
Friday
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Below are two reading list suggestions
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Please keep reading to your children and supply them with books that they can read themselves. These efforts will go a LONG way!!!
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In addition
:
Dioramas should be finished by the end of THIS week, and I suggest the students work on them as they are able in conjunction with writing of their reports.
I would like for you all to send pictures to me of the dioramas. This way, I can see their final work and hold a bit of accountability for this assignment getting done. Please hold onto both the finished dioramas and reports so we can share them together in person at some point.
Letter writing
:
What better way to stay in touch and reinforce our writing skills then by writing letters to each other? I am putting together a list of our home addresses and will get this to you asap.
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Looking ahead to next week
:
- Math practice resumes along with lessons on the Lion and Cow.
- Some fun with writing a poem to go along with our animal reports.
- Sending our letters to each other.
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Subject teacher assignments
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From Frau Pilgrim and Senora Concha :
Dear Fourth Grade Families,
We hope you are well. For the week of March 23, your students can recite the Morning Verse in both Spanish and German each morning. Your students are already quite familiar with these verses, but here is the Audio File (
German
;
Spanish
) as well. Wishing you all the best. Let us know if you have any questions.
Señora Concha and Frau Pilgrim
From Mrs. O’Neill:
handwork kits are available for pick-up tomorrow at noon in the grade 1 classroom.
Strings :
practice those instruments for 20 minutes each day : )
