NEWSLETTER
4th Grade
Room 27
Mrs. Bondelli
Volume 11, Issue 16
December 13, 2013
Social Studies
Language Arts
Reading: We have been reading
Mexican folktales, and next week
students will illustrate and write a
summary of their favorite.
Language: There was no spelling test or DOL
(Daily Oral Language) quiz this week.
W r i t i n g : St u d e nt s b eg a n a n
informational essay about Arizona
monsoons, and it will be completed on
Monday.
Quest: Today was the last day to take
a Quest test for 2nd Quarter.
This
quarter’s top Quest readers are:
Drake ~ 215 points
Weslee ~ 200 points
Our next book share will be our
Arizona Hero-Shero presentations.
There’ll be more details next week.
Today our food drive came to
an end. Our class donated 78
cans of food for those who are
much less fortunate.
As we continued our unit on Mexico,
students learned about culture, the
Mexican flag, Spanish place names in
Mesa, Mexican folktales, and
malacates. We look forward to our
Mexican fiesta on December 20th!
Students read the ninth issue
of Arizona Studies Weekly and took
a take-home quiz. They learned
about life in the Middle Ages in
Europe and in the Maya, Inca, and
Aztec civilizations.
ACUITY
Twenty-one students have earned
the off-campus lunch at the park
on Wednesday, December 18th.
December 16
6:00 pm PTO Meeting
December 18
11:00 am-12:30 pm
Reward Lunch at the
Park for students who
completed their Acuity
assignments
December 20
Jingle Jog at 10:25 am
Mexican Fiesta at 11:00 am
Early Dismissal at 11:45 am
December 23-Jan. 3
Winter Break ~ No school
January 13-17
Science
Conferences
Early Release at 1:15 pm
Students learned about Arizona
monsoons — their causes, their
dangers, and their benefits. They
are now writing about them.
Challenge for Thoughtful Thinkers and Dynamic Detectives!
Before Mount Everest was discovered,
what was the highest mountain in the world?
“Be satisfied with nothing but your best.”
~ Edward Rowland Sill
Mrs. Bondelli’s Math Class
Students studied customary measurement of capacity/volume, weight/
mass, and length/distance before moving on to the metric system. They
remember the metric prefixes with the following sentence:
King Hector Doesn’t Usually Drink Chocolate Milk.
kilo– hecto- deca- [unit]
deci- centi- milli
Dessert enjoyed his
weekend with Kyron.
We’re looking forward to
hearing
all
about
their
adventures.
Contact
Telephone:
472-8787
E-mail:
[email protected]