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Your child needs for the playground: snowpants, boots, coat, gloves and hat. If you would like your child to keep their snowpants or boots at school, please send in a note giving your permission. Otherwise, your child will bring their boots and snowpants home daily. ~Become Santa~ Click on this link below to upload a picture of yourself to transform into Santa. I had a lot of fun with this! Hope you do too! http://www.macysbelieve.com/#/BeClaus Mark your calendars: - Dec. 18th - 4th Grade Chorus Concert
- Dec. 22nd - Make Latkes with Mrs. G's Grandma
- Dec. 23rd - Field Trip to Movie Theatre to see Tale of Despereaux http://www.thetaleofdespereauxmovie.com/splash/
- Dec. 23rd - 4th Grade Holiday Party (more info. to follow)
- Dec. 24th - Jan. 2nd - Holiday Recess
- Jan. 5th - School Resumes
- Jan. 13th - 15th - NYS ELA test
Parent Portal You are now able to view your child's grades online using the link, username and password that was handed out to you at Open House. Please use this as a tool to check assignments, check your child's progress and missing assignments. If your child has a score of "1" or it is marked "completed" with a green check that means that is was a REDO and it was handed back to your child to fix and then they must hand it back in to raise their grade. All papers that are redos are marked with an "R" at the top of the page. I will do my best to add grades in quickly, however you may need to give me a day or two before they are entered. The Fourth grade teachers meet regularly to ensure that we are teaching the same material and we do grade similarly, however we differ slightly in our methods. If there is a misprint in the Grade Book, please give me some time and I am sure I will find it before report cards are printed. Math We are studying chapter 16 on Geometry. The topics included in this chapter are: MATH CHAPTER 16 TEST on MONDAY, DECEMBER 22nd! - geometry vocabulary (line, line segment, ray, point)
- types of lines (intersecting, perpendicular, and parallel)
- types of triangles (sides: equilateral, isosceles, scalene and angles: right, obtuse, acute)
- polygons & types of quadrilaterals (trapezoid, parallelogram, square, rhombus, rectangle)
- patterns
Reading and Writing Currently, our unit of study is Test Prep. We are preparing for the New York State English Language Arts exam on January 13th - 15th. Book 1 - reading comprehension - 28 multiple choice questions Book 2 - listening comprehension - 2 short answer and an essay Book 3 - reading a non-fiction and fiction piece - a few short answer questions and an essay incorporating facts from both writing pieces Social Studies We have begun to study Northeastern Woodland Native Americans. We will be exploring in great detail a few of the tribes, especially the Iroquois tribe. We will be studying: - the location of the different Native Americans in New York
- longhouses
- the roles of the women, men and children
- clothing
- hunting
- clans, tribes
- similarities and differences between Iroquois and Algonkian Indians
- storytelling
- legends
Our Iroquois Confederacy meeting will be scheduled in the future. Science We have completed our unit on Sun, Moon and Earth. Now, we have started to investigate the human body and some of the systems. These systems include: - The Skeletal System
- The Digestive System
- The Circulatory System
- The Respiratory System
- The Excretory System
Then we will study plant systems and how they compare to Human Body Systems. Homework The homework policy for fourth grade is that any daily assignment (math sheet or spelling sheet) should only take about 20 minutes to complete. If it is taking your child longer than 20 minutes and they truly have tried and stay focused during it, please sign the top of the paper and your child will receive full credit. The weekly reading is something that will take longer than 20 minutes and should be completed with a parent and child together, with the child writing the answers. This is a chance to discuss the text with your child. Allow them to show you how smart they are when reading. It does require a parent signature somewhere on the weekly reading. You can email me at gigliellohe@egcsd.org.
Mrs. Gigliello's Fourth Grade!
Bell Top Elementary
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