Mrs. Todd’s 4th Grade
September 2, 2007
Homework to look for…
I would like for everyone to know about homework. It always seems to become an issue every year. I have a weekly reading comprehension sheet and weekly grammar and mechanics sheet. I hand them out every Monday and they are due on Friday. The students will have math most every night. There will be a Language arts assignment once or twice a week.
Homework is not accepted late.
We are working on….
We have finished our first unit in every subject. We have talked about nouns, rocks & minerals, how fossils are made, and maps. We are working on place value and ordering and comparing numbers and we will finish reading the novel Tales of the 4th Grade Nothing.
We are starting verbs, volcanoes and earthquakes, North Carolina geography, continue work with place value and work on basic operations. We will start reading Treasure Island and a weekly serial from the newspaper titled The Secret School.
We have started the writing workshop to learn how to become professional writers. I am stressing to the class that the amount of sentences is not what writing is about. The story is important, but so is grammar and mechanics. I would like for everyone to work on the language sheets every week.
Posted 9-4-07
Reminders of upcoming events…
Notes of interest…
I am setting up a field trip to Raleigh. I will be part of the history and science curriculum. I will send home more information when I get all the details arranged.
I have set up a class web page. You can reach it by going to
www.clovergardenschool.com and going to the faculty and staff page. When you find my name click on it and it should lead you to the class page.My email address is