Hello families! I hope I am finding you well. We are pretty tired here in room 402 today after our successful and fun field trip yesterday. I want to take a minute to thank all of you who were able to join us.
A few important things:
1. Next week we will be having a state mandated lesson on HIV. This is taught like a blood born pathogens lesson and there is NO conversation about sex. There is a note that came home with your child tonight. It lays out all of the things that we cover. If you have questions or concerns, please let me know.
2. There will be no homework or word study this week or next. Because of field trips and M-Step, we will take a small break for the next few weeks. Your student may be bringing home work that they did not finish during the day. You will be alerted by email if this is the case.
3. As stated above, M step begins for 4th grade this coming week. We will be doing the two sections of ELA this week and the two sections of math next week. Please make sure that your student gets to school on time and is well rested. I appreciate your help with this.
4. We have short field trip this week on Friday with Ms. Huckabone to the School of Music. It will take place on Friday from 9:30 to 11:30. We will be back in time for lunch.
5. Our recorder concert is next Tuesday, May 1st. We have a day performance at 9 and then our evening performance is at 7. The students are asked to arrive and be on stage by 6:50.
Friday, April 27, 2018
Monday, April 16, 2018
Detroit Field Trip is Planned and Scheduled!
We will be heading to Detroit on Thursday, April 26th. Our itinerary is as follows:
8:30 Leave STEAM
9:30 Litter Pick up with Greening of Detroit
10:30 Landmark Tour and Lunch at Peck Park
12:00 Tour Detroit African American History Museum
2:30 Belle Isle Adventures
3:30 Head back to Ann Arbor
We would love for you to join us! Please fill out the field trip form if you are able!
8:30 Leave STEAM
9:30 Litter Pick up with Greening of Detroit
10:30 Landmark Tour and Lunch at Peck Park
12:00 Tour Detroit African American History Museum
2:30 Belle Isle Adventures
3:30 Head back to Ann Arbor
We would love for you to join us! Please fill out the field trip form if you are able!
The B Hive 4.16
Happy Monday! As we approach nine more weeks of school, I continue to be amazed by the intelligence and tenacity of your students. I am so happy to be this group's teacher this year. As the temperatures begin to warm up, the students come in less layers. Can you help by making sure they have enough layers to make it through a Michigan day? It seems like lately we never quite know what to expect weatherwise. I tell them that they must dress in what you send them in, but the challenge is sometimes they are not fully dressed for that particular weather. Thanks for your help in this.
Math
We are finishing up our unit on multistep story problems. This is hard and will continue for the next unit as well. Look for extra practice sheets that will be coming home to help students with extra practice on this. We will be taking our unit 7 post test on Tuesday. Today your student is bringing home a practice test that they should complete and bring back on Monday. We will go over it as a class on Monday. Please take some time to do this with them so you can see the challenge of some of the problems that we are currently working on. This unit is getting them ready for 5th grade for sure!
Reading
We are really getting into Bud, Not Buddy as our read aloud. Christopher Paul Curtis has created an amazing character in this book that we are really starting to connect to. We are at this point continuing to practice all of the great reading strategies we have already learned as well as dig into what makes historical fiction special. We are learning a lot about the time and place of this book (Great Depression in Michigan) and what it meant to be a young, parentless African American boy at this time. We are also working on test taking skills as we approach testing time. This is not a big part of our day, but we just use it to review the things that will help make the testing environment more productive.
Writing
We finished up our first round of opinion pieces. Students will be recording themselves this week reading their opinion pieces and these will be sent to their intended audiences. For many of them, it is you. So get ready. :) We will begin a small poetry unit in the next week or so.
PBL
We just finished up our unit on erosion called Project Dirt Pile. The students had a great time learning about erosion, weathering and deposition and how humans can impact these natural events. We created infographics on how we could potentially stop erosion as well. We are now moving into our next unit called We, the Students. During this time, we will learn about what makes up our government and how citizens can have their voices heard.
Math
We are finishing up our unit on multistep story problems. This is hard and will continue for the next unit as well. Look for extra practice sheets that will be coming home to help students with extra practice on this. We will be taking our unit 7 post test on Tuesday. Today your student is bringing home a practice test that they should complete and bring back on Monday. We will go over it as a class on Monday. Please take some time to do this with them so you can see the challenge of some of the problems that we are currently working on. This unit is getting them ready for 5th grade for sure!
Reading
We are really getting into Bud, Not Buddy as our read aloud. Christopher Paul Curtis has created an amazing character in this book that we are really starting to connect to. We are at this point continuing to practice all of the great reading strategies we have already learned as well as dig into what makes historical fiction special. We are learning a lot about the time and place of this book (Great Depression in Michigan) and what it meant to be a young, parentless African American boy at this time. We are also working on test taking skills as we approach testing time. This is not a big part of our day, but we just use it to review the things that will help make the testing environment more productive.
Writing
We finished up our first round of opinion pieces. Students will be recording themselves this week reading their opinion pieces and these will be sent to their intended audiences. For many of them, it is you. So get ready. :) We will begin a small poetry unit in the next week or so.
PBL
We just finished up our unit on erosion called Project Dirt Pile. The students had a great time learning about erosion, weathering and deposition and how humans can impact these natural events. We created infographics on how we could potentially stop erosion as well. We are now moving into our next unit called We, the Students. During this time, we will learn about what makes up our government and how citizens can have their voices heard.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Have some free time this Sunday?
This Sunday, April 15 at 5:00 the Association Football Club (AFC)Ann Arbor will kick off the 2018 season with a friendly vs. Carpathia FC. The clubs new venue is at Skyline High School.
At half-time the Michigan Tigers 08 girl’s soccer team will be playing a 10 minute scrimmage. A2 STEAM fourth graders Amber Weaver and Camryn Murray are part of that team. Please feel free to pass on this information to classmates to come cheer Amber and Camryn on!
Portions of the proceeds from the evening will benefit the Skyline Men’s Soccer program.
Monday, April 2, 2018
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