Volume 1 Issue 6

mroman@wcpss.net & cyahn@wcpss.net

Weekly Learning Objectives

Dates to Remember
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Language Arts - In Reading, students made inferences while reading nonfictional text. To make inferences we use the title and subheading, use
diagrams and timelines, use illustrations and captions, and use context clues
and our background knowledge. We also determined the main idea of nonfictional text. To find the main idea of a text we try to figure out what is
the most important part of the text.
In Writing students published their personal narratives. Our next writing
piece will be a narrative written in the point of view of an animal your child
has selected. Students went to the library on Wednesday and check out
informational books on an animal they are interested in. The narrative will
include facts that are true to the animal selected.
Math - In Math, students took a math test on prime and composite numbers.
We began our unit on multi-digit multiplication. In the next couple weeks we
will be learning different strategies to multiply multi-digit numbers. We
started with the base ten strategy where we draw ten stick and ones. Next
week we will discuss how this strategy is not the most practical. A letter will
be emailed home with links to videos to watch on the different strategies we
will be using. Students will not learn the traditional algorithm to multiply
until fifth grade.

-September 2 Animal Habitat Project Diorama

due
-September 4th - Scholastic book orders due
-September 4th Track out day; Early Release;
Report cards go home
-October 1st First day quarter 2
-October 2nd Zoo Field Trip

What went Home in the Friday Folder?

Take Home
-Morning work
-Checked classwork and homework
-SCES Spirit Wear form
-Box Top Flyer
-Animal Habitat Project Diorama
-Scholastic Book order

Sign and Return

-Weekly Progress Report
-Consent for Technology and Digital Resource Use

Specials: Monday Science ; Tuesday Music ; Wednesday Guidance ; Thursday Enrichment ; Friday Art
CHOMP CHAT
Currently our class has 60 Chompliments!
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CLASS INFORMATION
-Please note that our first field trip will take place on October 2 nd. Fourth grade will be going to the NC Zoo in Asheboro. If you would
like to volunteer as a chaperone, you need to be a registered WCPSS volunteer. You must come to school to register on a school
computer. It can take up to six weeks to receive clearance. Permission forms and more information went home last Friday! You can pay
for the field trip online or send in a check made to Sycamore Creek Elementary. Thank you to those who have paid already! If you have
not paid already, please pay no later than Monday the 17th!
-Congratulations to Benjamin for being elected our class representative for Student Council. I know he will represent our class well!
-Included in Friday folders is a handout for our Animal Habitat Project Diorama. Students will be creating an animal habitat in a shoe
box that includes a replica of the animal and other animals present in its environment. Habitats should have everything the animal
needs to survive (food, water, air, and shelter!) Dioramas will go along with the animal your child selected to write a personal narrative!
Dioramas are due Wednesday September 2nd.
-Data Notebooks are coming home today!!! Please review and send back in on Monday for conferences.
-Scholastic Book orders went home yesterday! Our class code is MX7TM. If you are interested in purchasing books please use our
class code because we can earn points to help add books to our classroom library! Online orders are due September 4 th.
- Conferences are going GREAT! Cant wait to meet with everyone in the next two weeks.
SCHOOL INFORMATION
-Sycamore Creek is once again participating in the GoPlay fundraiser. If your family does not want to participate, please return the
coupon book back to school. The fundraiser will end Friday, August 21st. All coupon books or orders need to be returned to school
once your order is complete.
-Spend your evening at PRO Martial Arts while supporting your school through fundraising! Track 1s Family Night is Saturday, August
15th from 6-8pm.
-The Board of Education approved a policy and R&P (3225) that requires every student in the system to have a signed form (Consent
for Technology and Digital Resource Use) on file regarding technology use and access. This policy and R&P now require parental
permission for the use of technology and digital resource use. Parents will have the opportunity to choose between granting all
technology access and granting no technology access. If a parent chooses to deny access, their student will not be allowed to use any
form of technology (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) or access digital resources. Students who have had their individual technology
access denied are still able to participate in teacher or administrator led activities that contain Internet content. Students who have
their technology access denied are not protected from viewing Internet content in use by other students. All students must turn in
signed consent form.