March 20-24

**It's hard to believe we're officially into the 4th quarter! We were SO proud of the 4th grade 3rd quarter because ALL of them reached their AR goals. We've NEVER had that happen and were so excited to celebrate with them last week. Not only did they get their points on time, but they got them a week early!!! We challenged them to do the same this quarter and hope they can do it!

**Grade cards will come home tonight, please sign and return those as soon as possible.

This week in math we will wrap up our metric measurement unit with a test on Monday (Kountz's class took the test Friday). We will then move on to measuring using the customary system.

In reading this week, we will finish Little House in the Big Woods. We will continue working on summarizing each chapter as we read. Then we will create a magazine cover that will summarize the ENTIRE book. We have focused a lot on summarizing for this book and are excited to end it with such a fun project! 

In writing, we will begin to draft our scripts for the Famous Missourian Wax Museum project. Students have been working hard to research and take notes on their Missourian. We will begin organizing those notes in an outline and eventually a first draft that will be due on Friday. 

This week we will use a couple days to introduce science fair and put them into their groups. Groups will choose their projects, but we will not start them for a couple weeks. We wanted to group and choose ideas so that we have time to get the needed materials for projects. 

After the two days of introducing science fair, we will move on to our final Social Studies unit. This unit will focus on the growth of Missouri and the era near the civil war and slavery. 

In spelling, this week will be a review week, so there is no new rule. Test will be Friday as always!