Taos Charter School 4th Grade Class

-Math: Practice the starred IXL skills to review and prepare for PARCC math sessions 2 and 3. -Career Project: Continue working through steps 6 and 7 on the blue project checklist. Be sure to practice your presentation at least a few times at home.

-Career Project: Continue working on Steps 3, 4, 5, 6 on the blue project checklist. -Math: Review for PARCC by practicing the starred skills in IXL at home.

-The school’s annual World Fair is coming soon on May 9! Friends of Taos Charter School is seeking a parent who would like to organize a cake walk. We are looking for volunteers to help organize and with class games! If you can do this, please contact Betsy Kinney at bkinney@taoscharterschool.org or Roberta Lerman at rlerman57@gmail.com. We also need some parents from 4th grade to volunteer to help plan our class Carnival Game Booth. Please email me mbonner@taoscharterschool.org if you can help out for this fun end-of-the-year event for the whole school.

-PARCC Testing: On Tuesday morning, 4th grade will be taking the first section of the PARCC English Language Arts test. On the days before testing, get ready for PARCC by getting fresh air and exercise after school. Get a good night's sleep. Eat a healthy breakfast, and be on-time for school each morning at 8:15. Practice tests in ELA and math are posted in the links. Testing will run each morning from Tuesday, April 23 until Thursday, April 25. We'll take one session each day. There are 6 sessions in all: 3 in ELA and 3 in Math. The math sessions will be given next week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. - Headphones or earbuds are required for PARCC testing in ELA as there are videos on some sections. Please bring in a set if you don't have any in class. -Career Project: Step #2 - Narrow your 6 careers to your first and second choices. Start to find information, read and take notes on your top 2 choices.

-Career Project: Continue brainstorming careers that you're interested in learning more about. Bring in your list of 6 on Monday (Blue project checklist step #1). -Dear Parents, The class is beginning a career education project that will require your assistance. Each student is 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 or computer-projected presentation by each student teaching the class about the career that they've studied. The presentations will begin Thursday, May 2 (or sooner if students finish early). Students have more information about the specifics of the project. Please email me at mbonner@taoscharterschool.org if you have any questions.

-Math: Lesoon 13 homework p. 67-68. -Spelling and Vocabulary: Written work is due. Study for the quiz.

-Math: Complete lesson 12 homework pages 60-61.

1. convert 2. setting 3. theme 4. contribute 5. poem 6. stanza 7. influence 8. narrator 9. perimeter 10. area 11. A = L x W 12. decimal 13. tenth 14. hundredth

-Math: Complete Homework p. 28, 29, 30. DREAM group should finish the Mid-Module 5 Assessment. -Song Share: Families are invited to attend the Spring Song Share musical performance for grades 3, 4, 5 on Wednesday at 1:30 in the cafeteria. Hope to see you all here!

-Reading: Today the class received a packet of recipes that are taken from the novel we're reading together in class, Everything on a Waffle . If you can, try one out at home this weekend. Be sure to ask your parents for permission (and help). I suggest starting with one of the easier recipes first (the carrots or the asparagus, maybe the potatoes) before you move on to trying the more advanced ones. Good luck, and let us know how it came out!

1. whole 2. decompose 3. unit fraction 4. improper fraction 5. mixed number 6. incarcerate 7. dwindling 8. unpredictable 9. gnawed 10. expiration 11. pandemonium 12. Como se llama usted? (What’s your name?) 13. Me llamo ________. (My name is ______.) 14. The more, the merrier