Birthdays We �Celebrated This Month!

Mason - 20th

Rachelle - 23rd

-4A’s May Newsletter-

Ms. Davidshofer

What an unbe”leaf”able year in fourth grade!

Thank you for helping us to grow this year!

Thank you for helping me bloom!

Q-tip Painted Daisies!

During the summer months, I enjoy creating a class yearbook on the MixBook website, with photos and memories from 4A. Creating a yearbook helps me to remember the wonderful school year. While the yearbook is not done yet, I will send parents a link to the yearbook if they wish to order a copy once it is completed this summer, so don’t delete your Bloomz account just yet!.

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Did you forget to order a 2023-2024 yearbook?

Reveal Math

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During this last month of fourth grade, the students worked on Unit 14 of Reveal, which focused heavily on geometry.

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Some of the topics that students mastered were:

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• Measuring and Drawing Angles
• Identifying Angles (acute, obtuse, and right)
• Identifying Lines (parallel, perpendicular, and intersecting)
• Solving for Unknown Angle Measures in Complementary and Supplementary Angles.

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Students were also exposed to the following topics::

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• Understanding the attributes of quadrilaterals (parallelograms, rhombus, rectangle, square, trapezoid) and triangles (acute, obtuse, right, equilateral, isosceles, and scalene)
• Some fun projects the students participated in were the quadrilateral collage and a shape scavenger hunt in the classroom.
• Symmetry
• Students created a 3D doodle bug with a symmetrical body.

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What a great year of math in fourth grade!

4A’s May Newsletter-

Ms. Davidshofer

Wonders

This month, we finished up Unit 5. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to get through all of unit 6, but we were able to get a start on it. Some of the content learned this month was:

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• Social Studies Topics:
• Jamestown → learning about the settlement & how archeologist are learning more.
• Maps → understanding maps (compass rose, map key/legend) and creating our own maps.
• Science Topics:
• Energy and Renewable Resources
• Boulderville science experiment, where they helped the town of Boulderville determine the best source of renewable energy for them.
• Finalizing and editing our expository/explanatory essay about our state: Illinois
• We learned how to edit and make adjustments according to our classmates, who were so kind to help us edit.
• Adjectives (including comparative and superlative adjectives to compare things)

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Reminder: Wonders is our English Language Arts curriculum. It focuses on reading, writing, grammar, �but it incorporates science & social studies.

What Did We Learn in May?

-4A’s May Newsletter-

Ms. Davidshofer

That’s a wrap for AR Reading for fourth grade! Check out the reading stats from our classroom as of May 24th (the last day of AR BINGO).

Look for tons of reading ideas for this summer on the next slide.

4A took 1,490 AR quizzes this school year.

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They read 6,862,150 words!

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The average AR level of the books we read this year was 4.3.

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13% of the AR quizzes we took were on non-fiction texts.

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87% of the AR quizzes we took were on fiction texts.

Independent Reading (AR Reading)

Every incoming CIS student in 4th-7th grade had an opportunity to paint a square on the Trojan Mascot.

The graduating 8th graders painted in 2024 as part of their parting gift to the school.

Summer Reading Options

-4A’s May Newsletter-

Ms. Davidshofer

Coloring Sheet – color 1 book spine for each book read!

Read 8 books this summer and get a free book from Barnes and Noble!

English Log

Click on each image to get a a printable version of each activity for summer reading!

Washington District Library at Five Points has “Read, Renew, Repeat”. Check their website for more information about the kickoff coming up!.

Central Primary’s Grade Scale

-4A’s May Newsletter-

Ms. Davidshofer

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Central Primary School grades assignments and assessments by looking at the standards or skills that are being assessed, which means your child would receive a 3, 2, or 1.

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What does a 3, 2, 1 mean?

• 3 → meets standard/skill expectations
• 2 → approaching standard/skill expectations
• 1 → does not meets standard/skill expectations

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• 3, 2, 1 → these are the standards based grades that we give at CPS. This is how I’ll be tracking their progress on the assignments and how I’ll report it on report cards.
• A fraction, a percentage, and/or a letter grade → these are the types of grades the students will receive at the Intermediate building (starting next year). In order to help the students transition to this type of grading next year, the fourth grade team will begin exposing the students & families to that in April and May of 4th grade.

If you have any questions about how standards based �grading compares to the 7 point grade scale that CIS uses, please let me know!

Grading After Spring Break

In order to help bridge the gap between CPS and CIS (where they are on a 7 point grade scale with A, B, C, D, F), 4th grade has put together a grade scale visual to help you understand standard/skill based grading in comparison to the 7 point scale your students will have at CIS next year. You can view this grade scale by clicking HERE.

After spring break, you’ll notice that your student’s graded work (assessments, homework, projects, etc) might have multiple grades on it. You might see:

-4A’s May Newsletter-

Ms. Davidshofer

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Click on the 2 smaller images below to watch videos of 2 songs they performed!

May 7th – Ukulele Concert

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Ms. Davidshofer

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Q-tip Painting

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Ms. Davidshofer

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Reveal Craft: Quadrilateral Collages

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Ms. Davidshofer

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Trojans Code Tournament on Friday, May 24, 2024

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What a fun way to celebrate the Trojans Code at the end of the year!

-4A’s May Newsletter-

Ms. Davidshofer

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