Mrs.

Rusch’s
Class News to the Point
October 4, 2019
Another fantastic week here in fourth Vocabulary Upcoming
grade! This week Joe’s grandma was Events
our Mystery Reader and read a great Distribute Monday 10/14:
Patricia Polacco story to us! Then Columbus Day—No School
Assortment
Ninos had his talent show today and
Sequence Friday 10/18:
demonstrated some moves on his Pumpkin Patch
hover board and showed us his skills Circular
in football and basketball! Queasy Thursday- Friday 10/24-10/25:
Parent Teacher Conferences

This Week’s Focus Reminders

•  Math: Chapter 2: Test and Test Corrections: We spent time this
week reviewing the topics for our test and then took our time taking •  Check your child’s agenda
the Chapter 2 Test. nightly
•  Reading: Nonfiction Unit: We learned about different text structures
by reading a story about the Wright Brothers and another story •  Check out the Data Binder!
about the Hover Dam! We also learned that sometimes a nonfiction
text can be written in more than one text structure! •  Please be sure you signed
up for parent-teacher
•  Writing: Editing and Publishing: We learned the difference between conferences! If you can’t
revising and editing and spent our week typing up our stories. We make it to either day, please
will keep conferencing with Mrs. Rusch and peers to make this story email me so that we can set
the best it can be! up another time to meet!
•  Grammar: Review: We reviewed all of the skills we have learned
thus far in grammar. •  I highly encourage practicing
multiplication and division
•  Science: Geosphere: Students learned how fossils play a role in facts
the layers of the earth and how Pangea affected the location of
fossils.
Preview of Next Week:
Math Reading Writing Grammar Science
Chapter 3: Typing and Singular, Plural Beginning
Multiplication Publishing our and Possessive Social
Nonfiction Unit
Narratives Nouns Studies