Hello Parents and Guardians!
Here is the upcoming information and events for February. Please read through thoroughly. If you have any questions feel free to email us.
Upcoming Events in Fourth Grade
Culture Night
Date: February 6th
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
4th grade immersion performance time: 6:30 pm.
Valentines Day Party
Date: February 14th
Time: 2:00-3:00
More information to come!
SEP's
Date: February 12-16th
Presidents Day
Date: February 19th
No school! Enjoy the day off!
Mrs. Wyatt's English Class
Language Arts
Spelling
We will be finishing unit 4 and starting unit 5 this month. The lists are attached on the English documents page. Each Monday students will bring home a list of words that need to be categorized by their root word, they need to turn these in Friday. Just a reminder that every student is assigned a specific amount of words to practice.
Spelling tests are given every Friday.
February 5-9: Unit 4 Week 3
February 12-16: Unit 4 Week 4
February 20-23: Unit 4 Week 5
February 26- March 2: Unit 5 Week 1
Reading
At the beginning of the third term in January you should have seen a book report packet come home.
Each term there will be a genre themed book report. This term is Fantasy. They will need to complete a novel with in this genre and create a movie poster representation of their book. They will present their poster on March 30th to the class.
This terms book report is due March 23rd.
The reading menu is the other part of how we monitor student reading each month. Students need to pick one novel each month with in the book report requirements. They need to pick an activity for each section (Appetizers, Main Course, and Desserts) and fill out the back of the menu, using details from their book. Menu's are due the last Friday of each month.
This month's reading menu is due March 2nd.
Math
We will be continuing fractions and starting decimals this month. Please pratice with your student at home, with the help of the math websites or the My Math website.
Ms. Zhou's Chinese Class
Chinese
Here's a vocabulary practice website. It has pronunciation, English translation, and different types of practicing games. I think it can help with the Chinese character recognizing.
https://quizlet.com/join/xA5GtG39k
Feb 1-Feb 8 Unit 13 story 3不听话的玩具
Feb 9 Unit 13 test
Feb 12-Feb 16 Unit 14 story 1手影游戏
Feb 20-Feb 23 Unit 14 story 2 做披萨
Feb 26-March 1 Unit 14 story 3 日食
March 2 Unit 14 test
Science
This month, we will first learn about physical characteristics of Utah's deserts. Students are expected to be able to describe common plants and animals found in Utah deserts. Then, we will learn about classification. Students are expected to be able to classify animals and plants. To help kids to be well prepared for the unit test, please encourage kids to answer key questions listed both on the homework and on the science blog page.
Jan 19-Feb 7 Desert
Feb 8 Desert Unit test
Feb 12-March 7 classification
March 8 classification Unit test
Thank you!
Mrs. Wyatt and Ms. Zhou