Taos Charter School 4th Grade Class

-Math: SL 9-8 -Spelling: Study for the quiz. Work on those knowing the Spanish verb forms. -Career Project: Steps 5, and 6. - Field Trip : Come prepared to hike, and be dressed for the weather which is forecast to be cool, windy, and maybe a little wet. Parent chaperones, we are now planning to leave school at 10:30 (rather than 10:00). If we have to postpone the trip because of weather, we'll call you by 9:30 to let you know. Please make sure your son or daughter has your cell number. If you don't hear otherwise, the trip is ON .

-Math: Study and practice fraction, decimal, and percent equivalents for the quiz (you should know the hundredths, tenths, eighths, fifths, fourths, thirds, and halves). Example: 2/5 = 0.4 = 40%. -Spelling: Written work due. Study for the practice quiz.

-Math SL 9-6, 9-7 (p. 205, 207) -Career Project: Continue working on steps 3, 4, 5. -Hiking Field Trip: On Friday, the class will be taking a hike on the Devisadero Trail in Taos Canyon. We'll leave school at around 10:00 a.m. and return by 2:30. Parents are invited (and needed) to come along and help chaperone. More info. will go home with students on Wednesday.

1. carbon footprint 2. destiny 3. desolate 4. innocent 5. guilty 6. urban 7. suburban 8. rural 9. comer (to eat) 10. Yo como. (I eat.) Tu comes. (You eat. - friendly) Usted come. (You eat. - formal) Ustedes comen. (You all eat.) El/ ella come. (He/ she eats.) Ellos comen. (They eat.) Nosotros comemos. (We eat.) 17. It’s always darkest just before the dawn

Greek Final y=/i/ ny/lon py/thon cy/cle cy/clone de/hy/drate car/bo/hy/drate en/cy/clo/pe/di/a hy/brid hy/dro/gen hy/dro/plane hy/e/na hy/phen

-Career Project: Get started on steps 3, 4, and 5.

-Math: SL 9-4 (p. 201) -Spelling: Written work due. Study for the practice quiz. -Career Project Step #1: Fill in the six spaces with possible choices for you to study. -Our Earth Day Celebration is outside at TCS from 1-5 pm. See the Chalkboard for all the info!

-Math: SL 9-3 (p. 199) -Career Project: Parents, the class is beginning a career education project which will require your assistance and involvement. Each student will be choosing a career that they are going to be studying. As part of the project, I’ve asked the students to arrange a visit and an interview with a local person who has the career that they choose. Please assist your son or daughter in contacting this person (perhaps you have a friend or a colleague who would work). The culminating activity of the project will be a posterboard presentation by each student teaching the class about the career that they have studied. The presentations will begin Thursday, May 13 (or sooner if students finish early). The students have more information about the specifics of the project. Please contact me at school if you have any questions. Tonight, students should be thinking about what careers they may be interested in studying. Write down two or three of them on your tan checklist.

-Math: SL 9-2 (p. 196 and 197) -Earth Day: We still need a few 4th grade parents to help out with activities for Earth Day on Thursday. If you can make it, please come on in for the 12:30-2:20 shift or the 2:30-4:30 shift, or both! Contact Susan Vernon at 770-7430 or email her at susanv@newmex.com for more information.

1. career 2. local 3. national 4. global 5. interview 6. inexpensive 7. mislead 8. foreign 9. caminar (to walk) 10. Yo camino. (I walk.) 11. Tu caminas. (You walk. –friendly) 12. Usted camina. (You walk. – formal) 13. Utsedes caminan (You all walk.) 14. El/ ella camina. (He or she walks.) 15. Ellos caminan. (They walk.) 16. Nosotros caminamos. (We walk.) 17. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.

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-Math: Review for Unit 8 test (area and perimeter). -Concrete Truck Day procedures are still ON for Thursday, but NOT for Friday. I apologize about all the back and forth changes on this, but I'm just passing it on as I hear it.

-The Concrete Truck Days at TCS are now going to be on Thursday and Friday. I'm told we couldn't get one of the necessary permits for work to start on Wednesday.

-Parents, on Wednesday and Thursday this week, work crews will be pouring the foundation for the new gym. Numerous concrete trucks will be rolling in and out of campus all day both days, and the parking lots will be closed to cars. Parents should drop their children off at the Youth and Family Center by 8:00am on those two mornings. Ms. Perry and I will walk with groups of students from there up to TCS. After school, students will be transported by bus from school down to the TYFC where parents can pick them up at 3:00pm. Please notify other parents in the school of what's happening on those days in case they don't hear about it. -Due Tuesday: Math Study Links 8-8 (p. 189) -Test Prep: Use your test-prep strategies to get yourself ready for the final 3 sessions of the NMSBA on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. You're almost done with it. Let's finish strong!

-Math: SL 8-7 (187) -NMSBA schedule next week: Science 1 and 2 on Tuesday, Science 3 on Wednesday, and that's it!

-As updated in today's Chalkboard, the "Concrete Truck Days" have been changed to next Wednesday and Thursday, April 14 and 15. More info coming soon on that.

Tuesday: Writing 1 and 2 Wednesday: Math 2 Thursday: Math 3