January Newsletter

4th Grade Mrs. Hanna, Mrs. Ratliff, Ms. Metzler, Mrs. Stockton,
Ms. Valencia

Dear Fourth Grade Parents,

Happy New Year! The Third Quarter is here! Thank you for your continued support at home.
Along with this newsletter you are receiving your childs report card. Please review it with your
child, celebrating strengths and making a plan for what to work on. Congratulations to those
students who showed growth from Quarter 1 to Quarter 2!
The Fourth Grade Team
Upcoming We are excited to continue using our Science FOSS
Events kit, Electricity until later this month. At that time we
will receive a new FOSS kit entitled The Changing
January 9first day
back after winter Earth.
break What do you need to practice?
Math
We have started Module 4 which focuses on Angle Measure and
January 16MLK day
Plane Figures.
No School
Help your child find points, lines, line segments, rays and angles in
their environment.
If you have a protractor at home, help your child practice using it to
measure angles they find around the house.
Create a scavenger hunt for your child in which they need to find 3
Attendance right angles, 3 acute angle, 3 obtuse angles, and 3 straight angles. If
Our attendance as a school possible, students could measure the angles. Bring the completed
has not been great. We scavenger hunt into school with parent signature for a prize from Ms.
know many of you schedule
Metzlers prize box!
appointments before and
after school so that Continue to practice multiplication facts up to 12.
instruction is not
interrupted. We appreciate
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this effort to keep your child
The following are some of the target learning standards for this quarter.
in school as much as
possible. These are the specific skills your child will be learning/working on.

4.RL.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and
when drawing inferences from the text.
4.RL.5 Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural
elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings,
descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.
4.RL.9 Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good
and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from
different cultures.
4.RL.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific
details in the text (e.g., a characters thoughts, words, or actions).

More Ways to Support Your Child at Home

Here is a link for the general AZMERIT site:
http://www.azed.gov/assessment/azmerit/

And here is the practice test link for AZMERIT: (this is also found under
the Resources for Teacher and Students tab of the main page above.)
https://login5.cloud1.tds.airast.org/student/V129/Pages/LoginShell.aspx?c=Arizona_PT