TOPS 4th Grade Weekly Newsletter

Each Friday you will receive a grade level newsletter with important information needed to plan your upcoming week. Since you have one more week of orientation, you are receiving a special edition of the newsletter crafted specifically for students who started with us on January 23rd.

You will see Class Connect (CC) sessions on your daily plan for course sessions outside of orientation. You are not required to attend those sessions this week. However, you are free to drop in and see what class is like.

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Welcome to TOPS!

Welcome to 4th Grade ELA (English Language Arts) at TOPS!

Follow the Daily Plan in the OLS for all assignments except the LITERATURE course.

Follow the Newsletter for LIT Lessons.

You will begin in Literature Unit 11 novel study please find and secure a book to begin this unit.

VOCAB: Unit 12

COMP: Unit 5

SPELL: Unit 20

GUM: Unit 7

Please join me in my ELA Orientation Session on Tuesday 1/29 @ 9:00am so that we can go over all the expectations and requirements for ELA and to answer any questions you may have. I am looking forward to seeing you!

Welcome to TOPS!

Welcome to 4th Grade Writing!

Please join me in my Writing Workshop Orientation Session on Wednesday (1/30) at 1:00 pm. We will go over the class expectations for the Writing Workshop. I can’t wait to “see” all of you!

Welcome to 4th Grade Math at TOPS! Please follow the daily/weekly plan online in order to access the correct lessons for this week:

U11 L1 Analyze Story Problems A

U11 L2 Analyze Story Problems B

U11 L3 Multistep Problems

Stride Math U1 L6

Stride Math U1 L7

Also, please join me in my Math Orientation Session on Tuesday, 1/29/19 @ 11:00am so that we can go over all the expectations and requirements for math and to answer any questions you may have. Looking forward to seeing you!

A great big WELCOME to our new TOPS students! I am so happy to have you 4th graders in Science, and I just want to give you some idea of what next week will look like for us. We started the year by looking at the scientific method and what that means as we are doing science all year long. This week you won’t need anything except your working headset, a science journal/notebook, pencil, and your imagination.

You will have one OLS assessment that goes with next week’s lesson (listed below), and we will discuss what that assessment will look like as well as how we will use USATestPrep. This lesson is a way for you to get familiar with the OLS and the online and offline assessments. DON’T WORRY, we’re going to make sure that you can understand what we have been studying and where we are going from here. Remember that you can always reach out to me with any questions that you may have about science or anything else. See you in our orientation session on Monday, Jan. 28th at 11am!

Lesson for Week of Jan. 28th - Feb. 1st

Energy Unit, Lesson 2, Offline lesson on pp. E40-45 in your textbook

Assessment – 4th Energy TGA #2 in USA Test Prep

Key Vocabulary for Energy Unit Lesson 2: heat, conduction, convection, radiation, infrared

Welcome to 4th-grade social studies! We are learning some exciting things about Texas and we are happy to have you join us! Currently, we are working in unit 5 Statehood and Separation.

You will see these 2 lessons on your plan this week:

• Lesson 9: War in the West
• Lesson 10: More About Republic of Texas

I'm looking forward to seeing you in our social studies orientation class connect on Wednesday, January 30th. We will talk about class expectations and then have some fun using the tools in Blackboard and getting to know each other.

Welcome to TOPS!

Welcome to 4th grade Music! This week we will learn how to navigate the music program, Music Studio. Check your email for a PDF file from me about Music Studio (it will also be available in the file share in the OLS). There are also some directions and helpful hints in the Music Reference Guide book you received in the mail with your materials.

Every week you will check the grade level newsletter to see which Music Studio lessons to complete. Just open Unit 1, Lesson 1 in the OLS and click the link to take you to Music Studio! (I marked everything else as skipped in the OLS because there isn't any content in those lessons. You can just ignore the skipped ones.)

Course prep work for the week of 01/28:

• Watch the video showing how to get into Music Studio and find the lessons and Assessments page: https://tinyurl.com/elem-MusicStudio
• Music Studio - Section 1, Unit 4, Lesson 1 - Leap Over the Rainbow
  
• Music Studio - Section 1, Unit 4, Lesson 2 - The Long and Short of It
  
• Music Studio - There is an extra credit assessment, but no other graded work for you to complete this week. :)
  
• Attend Music Orientation on Thursday, 01/31, at 10:00am.

Welcome to 4th grade!!! I am very excited to begin our classes. We have a fun year ahead of us full of activities, projects and much, much more. This week you will continue with orientation sessions. We will practice using the BBC tools and navigate through the OLS.

Lessons for this week:

Art: none

Health: none

PE: none

The Hive is on Tuesdays 12-12:30 and Thursdays 8:30-9. Plan on a fun week! Are you ready? I sure am!!!

Email: bwatt@texasonlineprep.org
Phone: 682.593.1514
Twitter: @TOPSMrsWatt