Fourth Grade News 

January 15, 2018 

Math 

   
A Look Ahead   
  Unit 3 in Bridges focuses on Fractions and Decimals.  
COL    
Friday, December 19th - 8:10am  In Modules 3 and 4 your child will: 
   
Early Release  ● Identify equivalent fractions and decimals 
Thursday, February 1st  ● Compare fractions and decimals 
  ● Convert fractions to decimals and vice versa 
No School  ● Write decimals to the hundredths place 
Friday, February 2nd  ● Compare two decimals to the hundredths place 
● Ordering decimals and fractions on the numberline 
 
● Solve story problems that involve multiplying 
First Winter Wellness Day 
fractions by a whole number 
Monday, February 5th   
 
Winter Break  *Please see attached letter for examples of upcoming 
February 26th - March 6th  problems and some frequently asked questions. 
   

Reader’s Workshop - INFORMATIONAL READING 

 
We have launched into our unit on Informational Reading. 
● Students will be working on strategies that help 
  them read for the main idea and supporting details. 
Writing Workshop  ● Students will determine text structures and 
All fourth graders have strong opinions  synthesize when reading informational text. 
and in this unit students are focused on  ○ Organization - descriptive, chronological, 
building a strong opinion that is  comparison, cause and effect and problem and 
supported with reasons and convincing  solution structures with and across sections of 
examples.    text. 
  ● Students will learn strategies for overcoming the 
We have dove into some terrific mentor 
challenges of solving unknown words and their 
texts to find evidence to support our 
opinions. We have analyzed that evidence  meanings. 
and have learned to pull out the strongest  ● Students will read narrative informational and 
reasons to support our opinions. The  hybrid informational texts. 
students in room 206 are real fired up  ○ They will think about the big ideas the text is 
about the penny right now - just ask  teaching, form their own inferences and 
them how they feel and why!  thinking to synthesize all information. 
 
  
Fourth Grade News 
January 15, 2018 

CELEBRATION   
 

   
   
Drop Everything and Read ½ Day  Over the past two weeks students have enjoyed 
  learning about the southeast states and capitals.   
Fishie Room 206 has met its goal of 200   
marbles in the kindness jar. We will celebrate  For the next couple of weeks we will be zooming 
this great feat by having a comfy day of reading  back into Vermont and taking a closer look at 
and snack on Friday, January 19th from 12-2.  Vermont's Economy. We will be learning about: 
   
Students are welcome to bring in the following:  ● What an economy is 
  ● How the economy works 
● Blankets  ● What makes the economy such a vital part 
● Pillows  of our lives 
● Comfy Clothes    
● Snacks