This Week at Discovery

Greetings everyone!  Thanks for checking in.  Thanks as well to all the parents and students for your hard work and preparation for the Science Fair.  There were a lot of great projects and presentations from our grade 4 students.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS:

Class Photos:  It is not too late to order your child's class photos.  Please see the order form that was sent home, or if it has been misplaced ask for a new one from the office.

Cayos Cochinos Assistance:  The junior class will be heading to Cayos Cochinos on a school trip later this month.  Discovery School is putting together some donations for the local school on Cayos Mayor.  Grade 4 has been asked to donate boxes of regular pencils.  If you would like to contribute, please send a box of pencils to school with your son/daughter before March 22nd.  Thank you!

THIS WEEK'S ACTIVITIES:

Math:  We are beginning to add and subtract fractions this week.  We will begin by adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators, before moving into problems with unlike denominators.

Reading and Writing:  We will be continuing our guided reading of our new class novel, "The Million Dollar Shot".  We will be learning more about our main characters and looking for text-to-self connections between ourselves and the novel.  We will also be engaging in our own Million Dollar Contest, as they do in the book.   The contest will involve writing a rhyming poem, and the best poems will have a chance to enter into a foul shooting contest for a prize.  Fun!  We will also be putting together a collection of the favourite poems that we've written over the past few weeks into our grade 4 poetry anthology.  Students will work on choosing and editing their best examples of free verse, haiku, and rhyming poems.

Social Studies:  We will begin a note taking/oral presentation assignment in social studies this week.  Students will be given an informational text about an aspect of slavery in America, and be asked to take notes on the information and put together an oral presentation to be given at the end of the week.  We will also be looking at an interactive website together this week.  This website details what it was like for the typical African American slave during the 1800's.  The students will use the information from this website to put to use in their board games that they will create next week.

This week's grammar focus will be on declarative sentences.

Thanks for reading everyone!  Have a great week!