Room 208 Update Week of September 17, 2012 Spring Street School Mrs.

Lubys class

This week the children will repond on our TemLuby Kidblog writing about their Grade 4 Hopes and Dreams. Parents-feel free to assist your child with entering their responses. As the year continues, this is a great time for the children to practice their word processing skills. Passwords will be sent home on Monday. Homeworkopology will begin soon. The children can win small prizes for completing their homework on a regular basis! If you are out and about and see any inexpensive packages of pencils or bookmarks or other small trinkets, we could use them for our Homeworkopology bucket! Calling all Volunteers!
Volunteers needed for Language Arts and Math as well as Math Olympiad and Math Stars!

* Parent Conferences No school, Tuesday, November 6 (on-line sign-ups presented at Curriculum Night) * Veterans Day Mon.., Nov. 12 No School *Thanksgiving Break Wed. 11/21-23
Homework Date Assigned Due Date Nightly Reading approx. 20 min/each day Dont forget sneakers for PE on Tuesdays! SL 2.1 9-17 9-18 Spelling Packet 9-17 9-21 Hopes & Dreams 9-17 9-20 On-line response MB 2.2 9-18 9-19 MB 2.3 9-19 9-20 MB 2.4 9-20 9-21 Spelling Quiz Friday, 9/21 Multiplication practice quiz 9/21 Language Arts We have begun our Literacy by Design reading program where we will be working on determining importance and making connections. Spelling begins this week-as we progress, spelling lists will be differentiated through Words Their Way. *Children can choose a book to read from our class library to read in class and to also bring home to read for Genre Bingo!

*Curriculum Night Thursday, Sept. 20 (6:30-7:30 PM) *All School Meeting Friday, Sept. 28 * Professional Development Day Fri., 10/5 Columbus Day Monday, October 8 *Lowell Mills Field Study Mon., Oct. 29 (more information later this month)

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We will complete our Summer Reading persuasive writing pieces on Monday. Then we will work in small groups on another piece before heading into narrative writing. Math The children will complete EDM Unit 1 Open Response before heading into BIG NUMBERS!
*Check out TeamLuby Resources Math Sites! There are many fact sites to choose from especially for fact practice. You may want to look at the one titled Multiplication Practice. EVERYDAY MATH FAMILY LETTERS can be found on-line this year! As in past years, they contain unit vocabulary, activities, and selected homework answers. You can find these newsletters at: http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/parents/4th- grade/family-letters/ If you cannot access them, please let me know.

breaking them apart we are left with a big pile of dust. We will discuss how we are going to find out what ingredients make up the dust and continue to compare our mock rock to real rocks.

Class Tidbits! Happy Birthday Isabella Palermo 9-6 Haley Coghlin 9-27

*Specials* Art: Monday, 9:15-9:55 AM Physical Education: Tues., 10:45 11:25 AM Music, Wed, 12:55 1:35 PM Health: Thursday, 10:00 - 10:40 AM Chorus: Friday 10:00-10:40 AM Media: Every other Wed. 9:10-9:30 AM As always, your comments are welcome. Please drop me an e-mail at school or at home. Barbara Luby

Social Studies Where are we? The class will focus on directions and the compass rose this week. Science - from the desk of Mrs. Liporto This week we will continue to try to determine what the minerals are that make up our mock rocks. So far we know they have red gravel and shells in them, but after