Thank you to all the parents and students who attended conferences this week.  Teamwork between the teachers, students, and parents is what makes a successful Intermediate student! 

We will be viewing the play Peter and the Starcatcher at Dominican High School on  November 3.  Students will need to pack a bag lunch.

I heard from a couple of parents that they were having trouble finding actual grades for their child.

They were able to find the assignments, but not the actual class grade. 

If you go to your child’s page in OPTION C, and look in the upper left-hand corner for STUDENT.

Click on that and you we see the drop-down menu for classes.  Click on classes and you will be able to see how your son or daughter is doing in all of their classes. 

Hope this helps, please let me know if you have any questions contact Mr. Bradford.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

4A Mr. Bradford

Thank you for taking the time to speak with me this past week. I will continue to catch up with everyone.  I have found this to be a great opportunity to hear and learn about your child.   Please let me know if there is a good or better time to call in the evening.

Reading 

We began our next novel, Witches, by Roald Dahl
Spelling lesson 7 (short u) Test Friday

Science
Bags of dirt are growing new matter and we are trying to make something without know the end result. Interesting watching the students follow directions.  Gases and hot air next.

Although we will continue with some matter experiments, we will have a test moved to the 24th.

Social Studies

This coming week the children will be doing some expository writing from their notes they took on the early Indian groups in Wisconsin. On Wednesday, we started a sample piece which we did together. On Monday, we will finish the sample, and then they will write on one other group of their own choice. There will not be a formal test on this material.  The expository piece will serve as an assessment of this chapter.


Math

We continue in Chapter 3.  We will practice single digit by larger number multiplication.  We will then move into double digit by double digit multiplication.  

Language Arts/Writing
We will continue to write about summer fun, and start on adjectives. 

Religion

Tuesday is our mass.  We are working on being more welcomeing!

4B Mrs. Kuhnmuench

K-4 Buddy Time 

                                                                    

Reading in the loft

Helping their buddy with their reading

Reading

Beginning a new novel Ralph S. Mouse, by Beverly Clearly.
Skills:  Decoding syllables and using quotations in writing.
Spelling lesson 7 Test Friday 
  

Science.

Bags of dirt are growing new matter and we are trying to make something without know the end result. Interesting watching the students follow directions.  Gases and hot air next.
Although we will continue with some matter experiments, we will have a test moved to the 24th.

Social Studies

This coming week the children will be doing some expository writing from their notes they took on the early Indian groups in Wisconsin. On Wednesday, we started a sample piece which we did together. On Monday, we will finish the sample, and then they will write on one other group of their own choice. There will not be a formal test on this chapter. The expository piece will serve as an assessment of this chapter.

Math

We continue in Chapter 3.  We will practice single digit by larger number multiplication.  We will then move into double digit by double digit multiplication. 

Language Arts/Writing
Vocabulary: Beginning unit 6 Vocabulary unit
Writing:  Writing a proper summary
Grammar: complex sentences and recognizing fragments and run-on sentences.

Religion
Religion Unit 1 test was moved to this Tuesday.  We will review and study in class.  

Wednesday is a 2:30 early dismissal.

Thursday is Halloween Dress up Day! Students are invited to show their costume creativity.  There will be a small class celebration!

Conferences are on Thursday, October 26 from 1:00-7:00 and on Friday, October 27 from 8:30-3:15.  Please see sign-up Genius for your specific time.  We have several conferences with no break in between so we have to keep our schedule tight to get to everyone.  Please arrive on time to get your full time in; we have a very tight schedule.  

Reminder:   We will be viewing the play Peter and the Starcatcher at Dominican High School on  November 3.  Students will need to pack a bag lunch.

4A Mr. Bradford

Thank you for taking the time to speak with me this past week. I will continue to catch up with everyone.  I have found this to be a great opportunity to hear and learn about your child.   Please let me know if there is a good or better time to call in the evening.

Reading 
Journeys:  Monday we will complete our Journey's lesson-practice using reference materials.
We will begin our next novel, Witches, by Roald Dahl
Spelling lesson 6 (short u) Test Thursday!

Science
Bags of dirt are growing new matter and we are trying to make something without know the end result. Interesting watching the students follow directions.  Gases and hot air next.

Although we will continue with some matter experiments, we will have a test moved to the 24th.

Social Studies

We finished our study of the early people of Wisconsin with the Oneota group on Friday (pp. 42-51) and received an assignment. There are still a few more points to study in the chapter on Monday. Then the children will be doing some summary writing using their notes they took on the early people.


Math

We continue in Chapter 3.  We will practice single digit by larger number multiplication.  We will then move into double digit by double digit multiplication.  

Language Arts/Writing
We will continue to write about summer fun, and start on adjectives. 

Religion

Tuesday is our mass.  We are working on being more welcomeing!

4B Mrs. Kuhnmuench

Reading

Journeys:  Tall Tale Stormalong and Folktale Hoderi the Fisherman.  Comprehension skill:  Understanding characters and point of view/hyperbole. 
Target Strategy:  Infer/predict 
Fluency:  Using expression
Spelling lesson 6 (short u) Test Thursday!
  

Science.

Bags of dirt are growing new matter and we are trying to make something without know the end result. Interesting watching the students follow directions.  Gases and hot air next.
Although we will continue with some matter experiments, we will have a test moved to the 24th.

Social Studies

We finished our study of the early people of Wisconsin with the Oneota group on Friday (pp. 42-51) and received an assignment. There are still a few more points to study in the chapter on Monday. Then the children will be doing some summary writing using their notes they took on the early people.

Math

We continue in Chapter 3.  We will practice single digit by larger number multiplication.  We will then move into double digit by double digit multiplication. 

Language Arts/Writing
Vocabulary: Unit 5 Vocabulary test Wednesday
Writing:  Frankenstein descriptive writing
Grammar: compound sentences and complex sentences

Religion
Religion Unit 1 test Wednesday.  We will review and study in class.  

We are half way through the trimester.  Please make sure you check your son or daughters grades in Option C.

Please look for Field Trip form in the Monday folder.  We will be viewing the play Peter and the Starcatcher at Dominican High School on  November 3.

Mark your calendars:  Conferences are on Thursday, October 26 from 1:00-7:00 and on Friday, October 27 from 10:00-6:00.  Soon there will be a sign-up Genius going out to parents.  Some parents will have a request from the teachers for a group conference.  If you do not receive a group request, please sign up for a conference with a specific teacher.


A note from the Office:  A reminder that all cold lunches that arrive later in the day need to be taken to Donaivan Hall.  Students should look for them at that location.


4A Mr. Bradford

This week, I will try calling

each of you to see how 4th grade is going after our first month of school.  I have found this to be a great opportunity to hear and learn about your child.   Please let me know if there is a good or better time to call in the evening.

Reading  
Journeys:  Tall Tale Stormalong and Folktale Hoderi the Fisherman.  Comprehension skill:  Understanding characters and point of view/hyperbole. 
Target Strategy:  Infer/predict
Fluency:  Using expression

Spelling lesson 5 Homophones:  No pretest this week, just practice all the homophones in sentence form.  Final test Friday is on all 20 words.

Science
We are working on creating new matter and will start creating hot air balloons to show how gases work.

Although we will continue with some matter experiments, we will have a test next Friday the 20th.

Social Studies

This week we discussed and took notes on the Paleo and Archaic people. Next week we will continue in the chapter with the Woodland, Mississippian, and Oneota.


Math

We continue in Chapter 3.  We will evaluate how to use the Distributive Property to solve multiplication problems.  We will then move into double by single digit multiplication.

Language Arts/Writing
We will continue to write about summer fun, and start on adjectives. 

Religion

We are still holding the doors on most days as we continue to become our back door greeters.  In class, we are looking at Virtues.  They are  Faith, Hope, Charity, Fortitude, Justice, Temperance, Prudence.

4B Mrs. Kuhnmuench

Reading

Spelling lesson 5 Homophones:  No pretest this week, just practice all the homophones in sentence form.  Final test Friday is on all 20 words.
We are working on completion of the Witches unit this week.  Writing:  We will bring writing a scary story to culminate the finale of our Witches unit using 5 elements of a story in reading and writing.  Kids will need a protagonist and antagonist clearly identified in their story!

Science.

We are working on creating new matter and will start creating hot air balloons to show how gases work.

Although we will continue with some matter experiments, we will have a test next Friday the 20th.

Social Studies
This week we discussed and took notes on the Paleo and Archaic people. Next week we will continue in the chapter with the Woodland, Mississippian, and Oneota.

Math

We continue in Chapter 3.  We will evaluate how to use the Distributive Property to solve multiplication problems.  We will then move into double by single digit multiplication.


Language Arts/Writing
Vocabulary: Beginning unit 5.
Please feel free to go on the vocabulary website to download flashcards and play any games to reinforce these skills.  We will practice using this site in computer class. 

vocabularyworkshop.com/orange
Grammar:  Simple predicates and more compound sentences.

Religion
Fr. Andrew came to visit last week.  He had a great discussion with the kids and even sent an email answering any of the kids unanswered questions.
Virtues:  How can we live them out in our daily lives?
Sessions 4 and 5 Assessment this week:  Making the Right Choices and Living as Disciples.  Students will use their books for this. 

4A Mr. Bradford

Short week, Fall Break!

Starting this week, I will try calling

each of you to see how 4th grade is going after our first month of school.  I have found this to be a great opportunity to hear and learn about your child.   Please let me know if there is a good or better time to call in the evening.

Reading  
Continued reading of Ralph S. Mouse, focusing on character development and comprehension.  Look in assignment notebooks to check for assigned reading at home.  

Reading Logs:  Please note there are two sides, one for each week.  You only have to sign the bottom of each side of the log, next to the total minutes; not each time your child reads.  
There will be no spelling this short week.  

Science
We are going to study changing states of matter by looking at bags of dirt.  My favorite piece of matter project is being sent home this week.  Each child has received an outline for the project.

Although we will continue with some matter experiments, we will have a test next Tuesday the 17th.

Social Studies

This week we started Chapter 3, Wisconsin's First People. The chapter covers pp. 38-57. They will be taking notes in class on each of the Native American groups. With the notes, they will be writing summary paragraphs on each of the groups.  The two tests from last week will be sent home in the Monday folder on Monday, Oct. 9. The tests do not need to be signed. The children did very well on their first big tests.


Math

This week we closed Chapter 2, Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers and Decimals.  The students struggled with knowing how to perform the problem based on directions as well as accurately performing the operations.  These two areas will need to be revised and can be corrected with practice.  It was evident during the test which students studied using the pretest and which students did not. Based on the last two test outcomes, I plan to decompress the subject matter and provide shorter assessments.  That all being said, this week we will take a look at the three addition properties.  Then we will move into Chapter 3.  We will start with using patterns found in  multiplication to help solve problems.

Language Arts/Writing
With a short week, we will continue to write about summer fun. 
We have finished nouns and will test on Wednesday the 11th.

Religion

We are still holding the doors on most days as we continue to become our back door greeters.  In class, we are looking at Virtues.  They are  Faith, Hope, Charity, Fortitude, Justice, Temperance, Prudence.

4B Mrs. Kuhnmuench

 Parents, please remember to send HOMEWORK folders for your child's binder.  Any folder will do, just make sure it fits in their binder and is 3-holed punched.  

Welcome to the new library 4th graders!  Today we went to the library to check out books and read a bit.  This is an opportunity that your kids will have during our reading time every couple weeks.  They were thrilled to go down and have this opportunity to get more books.  The picture above really was a candid shot!

Reading
Reading Logs due Monday

No spelling this week due to short week.  
We are working on completion of the Witches unit.  Kids will bring it home to finish reading chapters.  Comprehension will also go along with these later chapters. In addition, we will practice inference but finding examples in the book where we can infer what is happening.  We will also discuss and apply figurative language.

Science

We are going to study changing states of matter by looking at bags of dirt.  My favorite piece of matter project is being sent home this week.  Each child has received an outline for the project.

Although we will continue with some matter experiments, we will have a test next Tuesday the 17th.

Social Studies
This week we started Ch. 3, Wisconsin's First People. The chapter covers pp. 38-57. They will be taking notes in class on each of the Native American groups. With the notes the children will be writing summary paragraphs about each group. The two tests from last week will be sent home in the Monday folders on Mon., Oct 9. They do not need to be signed. The children did very well on their first big tests.

Math

 This week we closed Chapter 2, Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers and Decimals.  The students struggled with knowing how to perform the problem based on directions as well as accurately performing the operations.  These two areas will need to be revised and can be corrected with practice.  It was evident during the test which students studied using the pretest and which students did not. Based on the last two test outcomes, I plan to decompress the subject matter and provide shorter assessments.  That all being said, this week we will take a look at the three addition properties.  Then we will move into Chapter 3.  We will start with using patterns found in  multiplication to help solve problems.  


Language Arts/Writing
Vocabulary:  Unit 4 test  Wednesday.  
Please feel free to go on the vocabulary website to download flashcards and play any games to reinforce these skills.  We will practice using this site in computer class. 

vocabularyworkshop.com/orange

Grammar: Compound sentences 

Religion
Review of Unit 1:  God Our Creator and Father  
We will complete session 5:  Ordinary Time in the liturgical year and use art prints to teach this section.