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Our first semester of fourth grade flew by and we are well into the second semester!
Fourth graders are busier than ever. As we said at the beginning of the year,
multiplication facts have become a daily part of fourth grade life. We have
tunneled deep into fractions and long division. Fourth grade students
continuously work to reach their nine week reading goal. More importantly, as
our students are reading they are predicting, visualizing, questioning, and
inferring as well as using other reading strategies. The development of the
previously mentioned strategies is very exciting for the teachers and students
alike. It allows for great discussion among the classroom community. The
students make book recommendations to each other as well as to their teachers.
In science, we have discovered many new concepts such as the human body
systems, animal classification, and electricity just to name a few. In social
studies, we have traveled the United States exploring the five regions of the U.S. We have also traveled back in
time to find out what life was like during the American Revolution. We will
soon be bringing it back home as we are going to start our unit of study in
Arkansas History. At this point, fourth grade writing is really blooming. We
are writing multiple paragraphs, with style. Again, fourth grade students
should be reading a minimum of 10-15 minutes each night as well as spending
some time practicing basic multiplication facts. As always we greatly
appreciate your time, effort, and support at home.

Educationally yours,

Bob Chism

Cheri DeSoto

Jenniffer Johnson

Terri Redman

Kim Tillman