I hope you've all had a wonderful week. Here are some reminders for next week:

1. Please remember to send your child with a coat, hat, and gloves each day.

2. We will have Christmas program practice on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Community Center during the school day.

3. Our Christmas program will be Wednesday evening from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Please have your child at the Community Center by 6:05 p.m. The prelude starts promptly at 6:15 p.m.

4. We have a FULL day of instruction on Friday. The public school does not. If your child usually rides the yellow bus home, you will need to find alternate transportation that afternoon.

Here is what we've been up to this past week in class:

Reading: We have continued our study of Tuck Everlasting. We've had some suspenseful and exciting days of reading. Each day we focused on applying a different comprehension skill: symbolism, comparing and contrasting, point of view, writing to explain, and analyzing how characters change throughout a text.

Math: We reviewed the division strategies we had already learned. Then we dove deep into long division with 1-digit divisors. Long division is one of the more difficult skills in 4th Grade due to all the steps required in solving the problems. This way of solving division problems is probably how you also learned how to do division when you were in school. If you could give your child a problem or two to practice at home, that would be helpful. Here's a link to a video that reviews the steps we learned that you can use:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uexn6qQouY

Spelling: The students focused on words with the long "e" sound at the end spelled with
-ey, -y, and -ie. They took their tests today and did very well.

Grammar: The students worked with past and present participles used as adjectives and identified participial phrases.

Science: The students continued to work on their STEM kits with SnapCircuits. Some students really enjoy working on the projects.

Have a blessed weekend!

Mrs. Heisdorffer