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Mrs.

Rusch’s
Class News to the Point
September 13, 2019
We had a wonderful week here in fourth Vocabulary Upcoming
grade! Some of our highlights included Events
watching the Music for Youth Concert on
Friday 9/20
Wednesday, learning about SMART Goals, Gradually Vocabulary Test
and our science lab about glaciers! Be Typical (10 words—Week 1&2)
sure to ask your child what they saw Sole
after the glacier melted! Finally, a short Ascend Friday 9/27
shout-out to Jack S. who was our first Descend Chapter 2 Math Test
Keep the Quote Winner!

This Week’s Focus Reminders


•  Math: Chapter 1 Test and corrections: Students took their test on
•  Please send in your child’s
Tuesday and corrected today. I will be sending home their copy on
Monday to be signed and returned by Tuesday. We also learned recorder for Music
about growth mindset in Math! Ask about 4 4 4 4…
•  Check your child’s agenda
•  Reading: Launch Unit: We’ve spent a lot of time this week reading nightly
through a variety of genres, including poetry, non-fiction, and
realistic-fiction. Students will continue to practice tracking their
•  Math homework is on
reading, noticing character development, and understanding theme.
Tuesdays and Thursday
•  Writing: Getting Ideas from Great Writers: We read books by Allen
Say and were inspired to write stories about our own lives. Today •  Reading 20 minutes is
the students listened to poems from the perspective of an animal! required every night! (I
•  Grammar: Complex Sentences: Students learned about and ask students for the page
practiced complex sentences. number they are on in the
•  Science: Geosphere: Students learned about glaciers and how they morning)
helped shape our earth!

Preview of Next Week:
Math Reading Writing Grammar Science
Beginning Learning how to be Learning how to Sentence What forces
Chapter 2: a good reader & prewrite using Fragments vs. have
Estimation and track our thinking lists and writing Complete shaped our
Number Theories while reading about non-fiction Sentences earth?

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