A Letter to Our Parents and Students Dear

A Letter to Our Parents and Students Dear Parents and Students, You made it through another week! Yay! The fourth-grade teachers are even more proud of you as the weeks go on. We know hard you are working, and we are thrilled to see your work and progress. We hope that this process is getting a little bit easier. We still feel lucky to have such amazing fourth graders. Continue working hard! We are ready for week 3 and hope that you are, too! We miss you SO much! Please note that teachers are viewing all student progress on all websites to see how students are performing. Khan Academy assignments should be completed in order. There are still many students who are missing videos and assignments. Please watch the videos before completing the activities and quizzes. Videos need to be watched all the way through to receive completion. Students have the option to redo any assignment on Khan Academy. Some students are getting zeros and low scores on the activities. These should be redone (you have unlimited redos). Read Works has the option for the text to be read to the students. There are comprehension questions to answer after reading the text. Students should be using the text to help them answer the questions. If students receive 50% or lower, it will be reassigned. Please re-login to see if the assignment has been reassigned and/or make sure to check the comments on Power. School to see if the assignments need to be recompleted. Online quizzes (Khan Academy, Read Works, Brain. POP, Epic Books): Please try your best. Most scores this week were disappointing and below our expectations. If scores are below a 50%, they should be redone. Please let us know if you need something reassigned to you. Freckle: Moving forward, Freckle minutes cannot be made up from previous weeks. If you have questions regarding your child's Freckle minutes for the week, please email us. Students are encouraged to ask us via Teams, too. We recommend setting a timer and adding a few extra minutes. When students are not engaged or in the Piggy Store, students' minutes do not count. Power. School: Parents, please continue checking Power. School to see your child's work completion and our feedback for each subject and assignment each week. Please remember, at this time we are not taking letter grades – we are monitoring completion. Assignments may have a comment with more information (i. e. scores and feedback), so please monitor the comments, as well. If your child goes back and completes something, please send us an email so we know to change it. Please have all students' work completed by 4 pm on Friday so that we can update Power. School. If you need additional time (we understand), please email us so that we can go back to check their assignments. MS Teams: For assignments on Teams, please make sure your child clicks on the assignment -> clicks edit in browser -> types in assignment -> makes sure it says 'save' at the top -> closes out of the assignment -> clicks the 'turn in' button. Some students are turning in blank work because they are not using the browser version. Also, do not save the assignments as a different name. We will return blank assignments to the students to fix. Check the feedback comments for assignments. If an assignment is returned to the student and does not ask for the assignment to be resubmitted, please do not resubmit the assignment to the teacher. Watch this video on how to turn an assignment in on Microsoft Teams: Turning in Assignments on Teams Video. PE, music, and art participation is expected. Please check their webpages for assignments and participation. If you have any questions about specials, please email the specials teacher for support. Just a reminder that Fridays will be considered "Flexible Friday" and will be a day for students to catch up on any incomplete work or for them to go on any of the optional websites listed for that day. We will continue to be available each day on Microsoft Teams and via email. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us with any questions or concerns you have throughout this unprecedented time. We are here to support you in any way we can. We appreciate all the support you are giving us as we navigate through this new journey, and we cannot thank you enough for that! We are heartbroken that we will not finish the school year in person with our fourth-grade friends, but we continue to look forward to hearing from our students and making those connections as our remote school year continues. We love you all! Take Care, the Fourth Grade Teachers mfish@summithill. org ; jkane@summithill. org ; rmillner@summithill. org ; jreno@summithill. org ; broach@summithill. org

Things to Know: Important Info: Websites Spelling Words ELA Vocab Words PE Art q q q Class. Link Website (Log in using Microsoft Office 365 Information) Office 365/Class. Link Username Example: firstname. lastname@shsd 161. org Office 365/Class. Link Username Password: house address # + Look (Ex: 12345 Look) Epic Books Freckle Khan Academy Read Works Journeys Reading Textbook www. spellingcity. com/mlfish Brain. POP q Spelling Words from "Owen and Mzee" q Words with VCCCV Patterns: q hundred, supply, single, middle, explain, surprise, pilgrim, sandwich, instead, complete, monster, settle, address, farther, sample, although, turtle, athlete, orchard, kingdom, fortress, instant, exclaim, mattress, sculptor q Vocab Words from "Owen and Mzee" q bond, suffer, intruder, companion, enclosure, inseparable, charge, chief, exhausted, affection q Mr. Mena & Mr. Schereck's Webpage -Be sure to log into O 365 first! q See their teacher webpages for daily activities q Ms. Hole's Art Webpage q See Ms. Hole's webpage for daily activities Music q Ms. Turek's Webpage q See Ms. Turek's teacher webpage for daily activities Tech q Ms. Goshko's Weebly q www. typing. com q See Ms. Goshko's teacher webpage for daily activities Social Emotional q Try creating a daily/weekly schedule to help with routine q Take breaks, eat a snack, and/or try movement breaks q Make a Mind Jar q Mindfulness Activities q Covid 19 Time Capsule

Monday 4/20/20 Subjects ELA Activities to Complete q Freckle ELA (10 minutes- Adaptive Practice ) q Complete the 'Spelling 3 Times Each' as an assignment on Teams (remember to turn this in) q Listen to the story "Owen and Mzee": Click here to listen to Owen and Mzee q Complete the 'Journal Writing' as an assignment on Teams (do not turn this in, it will be an ongoing assignment). Please use complete sentences and correct capitalization/punctuation. Math q Freckle Math (10 minutes- Adaptive Practice ) q Go on Khan Academy and log in q Watch the video called: "Graphing hundredths from 0 -0. 1" q Complete the activity called: "Decimals on the number line: hundredths 0 -0. 1" *Remember to watch the entire video for completion. Social Studies q Introduction to the Five Regions of the United States: Click here to watch the introduction video of regions q The Midwest Region: Click here to watch the video of the Midwest Region q Complete the 'Midwest States Interactive Map' as an assignment on Teams (remember to turn this in) q Click here to view an interactive map to help you with your assignment on Teams q No science today Science

Tuesday 4/21/20 Subjects ELA Math Social Studies Science Activities to Complete q Freckle ELA (10 minutes- Adaptive Practice ) q Reread the story "Owen and Mzee": Click here to read the story "Owen and Mzee" (Use pages 717727) q Complete the 'Comprehension Questions' as an assignment on Teams (remember to turn this in) q Freckle Math (10 minutes- Adaptive Practice ) q Go on Khan Academy and log in q Watch the video called: "Identifying hundredths on a number line" and "Plotting decimal numbers on a number line" q Complete the activity called: "Decimals on the number line: hundredths" and "Understand decimals: Quiz 2" *Remember to watch the entire video for completion. q Watch a video about the Midwest: Click here to watch the video about the Midwest: People and Characteristics q Read the book: "What's in the Midwest? " on Epic! (this was assigned to you) q Complete the quiz on Epic! (this was assigned to you). Try your best! q Complete 'Midwest Flip. Grid Fact Sheet' as an assignment on Teams (remember to turn this in). Before you turn this in, use this to make your Flip. Grid video. q Complete the 'Midwest Region Show What You Know' on Flip. Grid using 5 or more facts you learned about the Midwest (you can access the Flip. Grid link on Teams) q No science today

Wednesday 4/22/20 Subjects ELA Math Social Studies Science Activities to Complete q Freckle ELA (10 minutes- Adaptive Practice ) q Complete the 'Spelling ABC Order' and highlight the VCCCV pattern for each word as an assignment on Teams (remember to turn this in) q Watch the fact and opinion video: Click here to watch the fact and opinion video q Complete the 'Fact and Opinion Activity #1' as an assignment on Teams (remember to turn this in) q Freckle Math (10 minutes- Adaptive Practice ) q Go on Khan Academy and log in q Watch the video called " Decimal place value with regrouping" q Complete the activity called: "Decimal place value with regrouping" *Remember to watch the entire video for completion. q No social studies today q View the Plant and Animal Senses and Behaviors Power. Point: Click here to view the Plant and Animal Senses and Behaviors Power. Point q Click the links on slide 10 to learn about hibernation , mimicry, camouflage , and migration. q Complete the '3 -2 -1 Review Page' as an assignment on Teams (remember to turn this in)

Thursday 4/23/20 Subjects ELA Math Social Studies Science Activities to Complete q Freckle ELA (10 minutes- Adaptive Practice ) q Complete the 'Fact and Opinion Activity #2' as an assignment on Teams (remember to turn this in). Use the story "Owen and Mzee" to find 5 facts and 5 opinions from the text for this assignment. q Click here to listen to the story: "Owen and Mzee" q Click here to read the story "Owen and Mzee" (Use pages 717 -727) q Freckle Math (10 minutes- Adaptive Practice ) q Go on Khan Academy and log in q Watch the videos called: "Rewriting decimals as fractions: 0. 8, " "Rewriting decimals as fractions: 0. 15, " "Rewriting decimals as fractions: 0. 36, " and "Rewriting decimals as fractions: 2. 75" q Complete the activity called: "Write decimals as fractions" *Remember to watch the entire video for completion. q No social studies today q Find the "Plant and Animal Adaptations and Behaviors" book list on Epic! (this was assigned to you) q Read these books in the list: Animal Adaptations and Plant Adaptations q Complete the 'Plant and Animal Senses Chart' as an assignment on Teams (remember to turn this in)

Flexible Friday 4/24/20 *Finish any work from the week. Here are some optional activities below!* Subjects ELA Math Social Studies Science Other Activities to Complete q Read from a book of your choice! Use a book you have at home or Epic! q Go on Spelling City to play a game with your spelling words. Click on the list for "Owen and Mzee Spelling Words" - www. spellingcity. com/mlfish q Go on Xtra. Math, Reflex, and/or Prodigy to practice your math facts q Look through this interactive book on Epic!: Travels With Charlie: Across the Midwest q Check your skills with Mr. Nussbaum's: Midwestern States Label-Me Online Quiz q Try these interactive science games on light: Click to play: Science. Wiz Games q q Free Choice Freckle Friday Flip. Grid Friday: See your Flip. Grid in Teams Send an email to your teacher about your week Practice your typing skills