Taos Charter School 4th Grade Class

TCS will dismiss at 12:00 on Friday. 

-History Report: The final due date for your Revolutionary Biography report is now Friday, Dec. 20. Use this extra evening to focus on finishing/ improving your 4 paragraph Final Draft. Students will have time in class on Thursday to work on the "easy" parts like your title page, images, and bibliography. Tonight, it's all about those 4 paragraphs. Be sure to review Step #1 on the purple checklist to check that your paragraphs have the right contents. -GeoBee: Congrats to Ricky and Zimri on advancing in today's preliminary round school-level geography bee! It was a very tough competition this year, and the whole 4th grade team really held their own. I'm quite proud of how all 6 of them performed today. Now, our two finalists will move on to compete against the other 10 TCS finalists in the Final/ Championship Rounds on Thursday, Jan. 16 from 1:00-2:30 in the TCS Cafeteria. One champion from our school will then advance to the New Mexico State-level Geo Bee in

-History: Move onto step #4 in your checklist - write the Final Draft.

-History: If you've written a good, solid 4 paragraph rough draft, now move onto Step #3 on the checklist. Revise and edit your RD. Expand and grow your paragraphs, add more information and details. Then proofread your RD to find and fix all of the mistakes in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. Have a parent, grandparent, or older sibling help you with the editing. -Geography Bee: Congratulations to our 4th grade GeoBee class-level winners Bernice, Jonathan, Santiago, Ricky, Kaylyn, Zimri (and runner-up/ alternate Haley)! They'll now move on to compete against 5th-8th class winners in the School-Level GeoBee that will happen on Wednesday, December 18 at 12:45 in the TCS cafeteria. Parents and grandparents are invited to come in and cheer them on.

Parents, Join us for a fun weekend for a 4th and 5th grade Basketball Tournament, to benefit programs at Taos Charter School and the Adult Basketball league. If possible, please sign up to help in the concession stand or at the admissions desk. Please also donate items for the concession stand if you can. Thank you! GAME SCHEDULE: Saturday the 21st: 9:00am - last game starts @ 9:00pm Sunday the 22nd: 9:00am - last game starts @ 8:00pm Monday the 23rd: 9:00am - 3:00pm To volunteer or donate: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0d4caaa928a31-tcsholiday Contact Jojo with questions - Jojo Valdez USSSA area director TABL Executive Director stadiumjamjojo@gmail.com 575-741-6061

-History: Complete the 4 paragraph rough draft of your Revolutionary Biography for Monday. Purple checklist Step #2. -Our class-level GeoBee will resume Monday with Round 6: The Continents.

-History: Complete your outline of your Revolutionary Biography report. Follow the "organized list" format we discussed in class, and use the white handout page as a template. Remember, you don't need to write in full-sentence form on the outline. This should take no more than 25-30 minutes. -Spelling Bee: Congratulations to our class winners Anastacia, Cante, and Aidan (and runner-up Christian). They'll represent 4th grade versus grades 3-8 in our school-level spelling bee which takes place tomorrow Wednesday 12/11 in the TCS Cafeteria at 1:00. Parents are invited!

-History: Continue to find information, read, and take notes on the person you're studying for your history report.

outline rough draft paragraph topic sentence supporting details conclusion evidence plagiarism patriot declaration bibliography biblioteca (library) tarea (homework) Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.

- History : Continue to find information, read, and take notes for your biography project. If you can put in a good, solid 60 minutes of actual research and reading this weekend, you should be on track for Monday. See the green project sheet for more information. - Headphones : This week, the class received a set of brand new HP Chromebooks, one for each student. This is a great learning resource, but students need to provide their own headphones, and some currently do not have a set as many have been damaged over the course of the year. If you don't currently have headphones at school, please bring in a set next week. Used or inexpensive sets are fine for school. I'm also happy to take donations of used, functioning headphones to keep in class as spare sets if you have any extras at home that you can send in. Thanks!

-History: Research, read, and take notes on the person you're studying for your Revolutionary Biography. Use the books you checked out today, and websites in the Links. -Spelling: Study for the quiz.

-Spelling and Vocabulary: Written work is due. -History: Review the green biography project sheet, and come up with your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices. Feel free to research any name there you don't know by using the American history sites in the links.

1. repeal 2. liberty 3. assembly 4. loyalist 5. mercenary 6. propaganda 7. research 8. biography 9. boycott 10. algorithm 11. libertad (freedom, liberty) 12. Don’t judge a book by its cover.