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Hi 4B Parents & Students,   This week in 4B:   All students need to get to one of the San Mateo - Foster City Library branches and find a research book or two, about their California Missions.  The book(s) are due on Tuesday. Wednesday March 1st, Suzi's photography art project is due. The following day, the final drafts of the explorer's journals are due.  All notes, gathering grids and

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Dear 4B Parents & Students,I'm sorry to have to relay this to you, but thefunding for our fourth grade Guggenheim drama programhas fallen through, forcing us to cancel the program. We are hoping to offer drama with the Guggenheims asan after school activity. We will keep you informed. -Steve===========================Stephen Blatteissblatteis@wornickjds.org

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Hi 4B Parents & Students~   Attached are instructions for the City of Ember game.  This outside of class assignment is due on January 25th.   Today Suzie Roberts began a study of Photography with both 4th grade classes.  Suzi's focus of study over the course of the next couple of weeks is to use photography to help students explore their own personal traits and characteristics.  Part of this

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Dear 4B Parents,   For our next core-literature book(s) the students will be participating in Literature Circles.  A Literature Circle is a student centered reading activity for a group of students.  Each member of a circle is assigned a role which helps guide the group in a discussion of the novel they are all reading.  Literature Circles is a fun activity which provides an opportunity for

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Dear 4B Parents~Happy New Year!   In the fourth grade we have jumped into the curriculum with both feet.  This past four day week was packed with activities. This week we began discussing the early exploration of California by the Europeans.  To understand this topic, we needed to understand what Europe was like in 1492, and what would compel someone like Christopher Columbus to sail out into

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Dear 4B Parents~   With the ERBs completed, we pushed ahead this week with curriculum, especially with writing, social studies and science. The 4th graders explored and studied different types of gathering grids or writing webs this week.  These webs serve as a pre-writing tool to help the students see and organize their thoughts and ideas prior to beginning a rough draft.   Thank you

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Dear 4B Parents,   In Literature, our reading of Island of the Blue Dolphins continues.  Our focus this past week was to study 3 types of questions.   The class is learning how to write and answer 'right there', 'think and search' and 'what do you think' types of questions.  We also went on google earth and flew closely over the channel islands in the hopes of figuring out which of the islands

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Dear Class,    This week is all about you.  We, the teachers, want to know more about you as a person and as a learner.  As we have discussed, everyone is different, with different strengths and interests.     Your task: Tonight you will begin learning about yourself.  Please do the following:    1.  Print this page, so that you can read the directions as you go along. 2.  Go to the following

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Dear 4B Parents~   We have completed our 'Apartment For Rent' Project.  Please click on the link below to watch our presentation. Our Claymation videos are accompanied by a brief introduction by Wornick Jewish Day School teachers, Irit and myself, an interpretation of the book in Hebrew, and an explanation about the process behind the Claymation videos by our 4th grade students.   Note: The

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Dear 4B Parents & Students~   In Social Studies, students should now have all 6 of their explorer's journal entries completed and edited for correct spelling, grammar and punctuation. Most students have begun rewriting the final draft of their explorer's journal.  Some of this writing may need to be assigned for homework this week, as final draft work needs to be completed this Thursday.  The

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Dear 4B Parents~This is the final week for Invention Convention workin the classroom.Students are now required to finish the board andconstruct their model at home. All the information and directions required tocomplete the model, and what is needed on thebackboard is contained on a sheet, coming home today,titled, "FINISHING YOUR INVENTION PROJECT". Don't forget, the model DOES NOT HAVE TO WORK

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Dear 4B Parents~Enclosed is a detailed explanation of our upcomingexciting Explorer's Unit project.The 4B students have been studying life in Californiaup through the 15th century. We have beguncontrasting the lives of California Native Americanswith life in Europe. Students will know whyexplorers began sailing from Europe and what some ofthem hoped to find and what they did find.I will make

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4th Graders,Your job is to access the link below and look throughthe claymation videos. Watch some of the claymationscenes. Things to notice as you browse through thescenes:details of the charactersthe simplicity of the scenesthe settingshow did they get their message across?Write a paragraph about what you noticed. DueWednesday.http://wescott.district30.k12.il.us/classrooms/preich/

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HI 4TH GRADERS!!!   LOT'S OF RAIN TODAY!! CHECK THIS WEBSITE OUT, SCROLL DOWN TO THE BLUE AND GREEN RADAR / SATELLITE IMAGE, CLICK ON THE IMAGE,.,.IT'S NEAT!!! THE SATELLITE/RADAR IMAGE SHOWS THE RAIN CELLS APPROACHING THE SAN MATEO COAST. YOU CAN READ ABOUT RADAR AND FIND OUT WHAT THE COLORS MEAN IF YOU GO TO '''RADAR INFORMATION'''.   http://radar.wrh.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.p19r0

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Dear 4B Parents~A very busy and wet week. The 4B class has beenworking hard on their California Native Americanreports. The gathering of data has been completed,and students are beginning to synthesize and shapethis material into a rough draft. To support this, wehave been studying topic and concluding sentences. This week we have merged the two classes for ourdiorama construction. The fourth

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On May 9th, I'll be starting a 300 mile bike ride from Jerusalem to Eilat.Send Mr. B to Israel, Dear Friends, I am very proud to announce that On May 9th, I'll be starting a 300 mile bike ride from Jerusalem to Eilat. Although not an experienced biker, I'm looking forward to the challenge. I'm also thrilled to have the opportunity to show solidarity with Israel and to raise money for two

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Hi 4th Graders, Would you please list your academic goals for the upcoming 4th grade school year. You may need to do some research on what a goal is. As a 4th grade student, what do you hope to get better at this year? That's it!  That's your homework for the 4-day week-end. Ohh,.,., and please have some fun, too! -B

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Dear 4B Parents~   In Social Studies, the students are well on their way to completing the research portion of their report.  They have each chosen a topic to study, (jobs, houses or food).  They are using a “gathering grid” to organize their notes.  To date, they have researched their three tribes, looking at Indian fact cards and books about each tribe.  Today we extended our research to the

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Dear 4B & 4B Math Parents~On May 9th, I’ll be starting a 300 mile bike ride fromJerusalem to Eilat. I will be away from school from May 8th to May19th. I am undertaking this once in a lifetimeopportunity to raise money for two worthwhileorganizations and to continue to bring Israel into thehearts and minds of my school and community. This trip will in no way compromise the learning

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4B Students~Please complete the book, 'Island of the BlueDolphins' by Monday, November 14th. The two questionsare also due at that time.Thank you!-B

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Dear 4B Parents~ I just wanted to thank Ellie Byrd, Marcy Arnesty, Stacy Horowitz, Alex Pisarevsky, Michele Nemschoff, Kathryn Karp, and Jennifer Levine, for driving on yesterday's field trip.  We couldn't have made it without you all! -Steve    

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Dear 4B Parents~   In preparation of our 4th grade field trip to Coyote Hills in Fremont tomorrow, please remember to provide a bag lunch for your son or daughter.  We will leave school by 11:15 and be back to Wornick by 3:15. In the event the weather stays damp, make sure your child brings a warm and water repellent jacket.   Our Thanksgiving program this year will consist of a rotation of the

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Dear 4B Parents~   In preparation of our 4th grade field trip to Coyote Hills in Fremont tomorrow, please remember to provide a bag lunch for your son or daughter.  We will leave school by 11:15 and be back to Wornick by 3:15. In the event the weather stays damp, make sure your child brings a warm and water repellent jacket.   Our Thanksgiving program this year will consist of a rotation of the

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Dear 4B Parents~   In preparation of our 4th grade field trip to Coyote Hills in Fremont tomorrow, please remember to provide a bag lunch for your son or daughter.  We will leave school by 11:15 and be back to Wornick by 3:15. In the event the weather stays damp, make sure your child brings a warm and water repellent jacket.   Our Thanksgiving program this year will consist of a rotation of the

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Dear 4B Parents~Our 6th of 8 ERBs is scheduled this morning. Two moretomorrow, and it will be over.in Social Studies, we are into our 2nd week of ourCalifornia Native American Unit. The in class writingproject is underway as well. The students have begunfilling in their gathering grid. We spentconsiderable time talking about the gathering grid,and I believe the class is comingg to see that it

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