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News and Notes from Miss Ds 4th Grade

Heres what we are working on! Reading: This week we are beginning a unit on questioning. We will focus on asking good insightful questions while reading. We will be reading a nonfiction piece about the Titanic and The Sweetest Fig Our guided reading groups are all beginning a chapter book this week. Math: We continue our unit on multiplication and division. We will also be introduced to using variables as our unknown. Writing: We continue to work on writing settings for our personal narratives. This week we are focusing on using vivid verbs and adjectives. Social Studies: We are moving into our study of what makes up a region. Science: We continue to work on rocks and are getting ready for our first Science assessment.

Dates to Remember
October 31: Halloween party November 7: Matt Tavares Visits SSS

Help Wanted!
There is a help wanted schedule in the Spring Street Folders. I would like to have volunteer calendars set for the first week in November

Other Reminders
Xtra Math and Everyday Math online are up and running. Letters to access these sights are in Spring St. folders. We will be going over both sites on Tuesday.

Student of the Week

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Student of the week will be assigned on Tuesday and will be due on the 21st. I will be taking volunteers first and then setting up a schedule for the year. .

Heres What We Have Been Up To

Rock Man Comes to Spring Street! Creating Images

We were lucky to have a great presentation by Tom Luby about being a geologist. Mr. Luby was nice enough o take time out of his busy day to discuss his time as a geologist and share his extensive rock collection. The students did a great job showing their knowledge and asked some fantastic questions!

We finished up our unit on creating images this week. It was a nice connection to writing as we are working on writing descriptive settings for our narrative pieces of writing. The secret number is 12.

Homework Reminders

Please make sure that your child is completing the back of his/her math homework. I am noticing that some are forgetting the MCAS problem. Please remember to return Weekly Progress Reports signed.

You can contact me at: ldoherty@shrewsbury.k 12.ma.us