Friday, December 8th: All School Meeting and Spirit Day
Dress up as your favorite character
December 18th - Jan 1st: WINTER BREAK
Tuesday, January 2nd: School is Back in Session!
Monday, January 8th: Puffins to Forest Grove Public Library 2pm-3pm
Students should bring their library books to return, library card and a tote bag.
Chaperones Needed!
Level 2 Suggested Weekly Homework:
Reading Homework
Spend at least 20 minutes reading (outside of school) every day.
Reading is on the "honor system" and we ask that you help your kiddo to develop a daily reading routine with good-fit books. At fall conferences, your kiddo brought home the Tower of Books wall poster, which is a fun (and optional) reading genre challenge.
Typing Homework
Level 2 students have typing homework to develop and support important keyboarding skills. Please practice at least 20 minutes per week on: Typing.com
Math homework
It is strongly recommended that your student practice math skills
at least 30 minutes (or more) per week.
This can be completed online with Dreambox or Khan Academy. Students can also play math games, or complete worksheets (you can find grade level workbooks online or at the Learning Palace).
Current 4th grade Math Topic:
- Multiplication: 1 digit by 2 digit and 2 digit by 2 digit using the "area method"
4th graders should be doing DAILY home practice of multiplication facts 2-12. Resources were sent home at conferences to support this practice.
What's Happening in the Puffin Nest?
This week, we visited the Portland Art Museum and Oregon Historical Society to wrap up our study of Early People of the Northwest Coast.
In class, we assembled our NW Coastal Unit writing into a bound journal.
Students reflected on the unit and our "First Salmon Ceremony" by considering the role of ceremonies and celebrations in human societies. We discussed the following questions:
- Why are ceremonies and celebrations important to communities?
- What ceremonies do you know about?
- Why is it important for early Northwest Coast people to continue celebrating the First Salmon ceremony?
In our NW Story path unit, students have investigated the culture of early people of the Northwest Coast. They have built an understanding of this place and time in history and learned about the forces that threatened this culture during the nineteenth century through roleplaying critical historical events and writing/reflecting about their experiences.
Beginning next week, we will jump into our next big project...
Once Upon A Time: Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
- Students will explore this genre and write their own fairy tale adaptation and folk tales using mentor texts.
- Students will work in partners to complete an engineering activity based on a popular fairy tale.