Mrs.

Rusch’s
Class News to the Point
January 17, 2020
Happy Friday everyone! Vocabulary Upcoming
We had a wonderful week here in 4-4! Preview Events
Students got to engage in a partner
obstacle Monday 1/20:
research and writing project on a country of
No School (MLK Day)
their choice, finished their fraction unit in equivalent
math, and continued to learn about renewable Wednesday 1/22:
and non-renewable energy in science and
phrase Mrs. G Visits!
reading. We were also lucky to have Olivia’s deceive Friday 1/24:
mom come in this week as our mystery rely Spelling Test
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This Week’s Focus Reminders

•  Math: Chapter 6: We worked on word problems with fractions, •  Please send in earbuds
line plots, and then took our test. Next week the students will or headphones if your
finish their test, complete test corrections, and start decimals. child took them home for
break
•  Reading: Content Literacy: We learned about renewable energy
•  Please see the email
and an island off of the coast of Denmark that is energy about next Wednesday
independent! and the Google Form
survey
•  Writing: Writing Task: This week we chose a country and worked
with a partner to begin research. •  We have a new
classroom newsletter
•  Science: Energy: We learned about energy transfers in written by Davis and Joe!

collisions. Next week we will spend a large part of Thursday Check it out under our
building a Rube Goldberg machine! news links!

Preview of Next Week:

Math Reading Writing Grammar Science
Decimals Content Literacy Expository Spelling and Energy
Writing Vocabulary Transfers