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 September 12.

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.

https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/Recording-Attendance

https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/Missing-Attendance

https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/Support-for-the-Attendance-Mobile-App

We will have a staff development/student holiday on Monday, September 17th, so enjoy a day of rest and relaxation.

Welcome to TOPS!

Welcome to 4th Grade ELA at TOPS! Please follow the daily/weekly plan online in order to access the correct lessons. Complete Vocab Unit 3 Lesson 1 before starting the order on the plan. Also, please join me in my ELA Orientation Session on Wednesday @ 11:00am 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 4th Grade Math at TOPS! Please follow the daily/weekly plan online in order to access the correct lessons. This week, students should be completing:

• Unit 4 Lesson 1
• Unit 4 Lesson 2
• Unit 4 Lesson 4
  

Also, please join me in my Math Orientation Session on Wednesday @ 11:30am 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 some OLS assessments that will begin during the week of Sept. 24th, and we will discuss what those assessments will look like as well as how we will use USATestPrep. You will also have a Course Prep Plan that will help you understand what was covered during the first two weeks of school. 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 class!

Welcome to 4th-grade social studies! We are learning some exciting things about Texas and we are happy to have you join us! This week we are wrapping up unit 1 by completing:

• Lesson 9 - The Geography of Texas Review
• Lesson 10 - The Geography of Texas Assessment

I'm looking forward to seeing you in our social studies orientation class connect on Wednesday. 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!!! 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!!!

Welcome to 4th grade Music! This week we will learn how to navigate the music program, Music Studio. I will walk you through how to find everything you need during our content orientation on Thursday morning. :) 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 09/17:

• Music Studio - Section 1, Unit 1, Lesson 3 - Rhythm, Round, Fun!
• Music Studio - Section 2, Unit 1, Lesson 2 - Sing with Do, Re, Mi
• Music Studio - There is an extra credit assessment, but no other graded work for you to complete this week. :)
  
• Attend Music Orientation on Thursday, 09/20, at 8:30am

Video showing how to get into Music Studio and find the lessons and Assessments page:

https://k12inc-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/jbass_k12_com/EY4-uSYFegNLtaz1rcTZSREBUeo-TGm17c0ljqPp9zujaQ?e=niWThx

Video showing how to find just the Assessments page in Music Studio:

https://k12inc-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/jbass_k12_com/EYmNdB6FSztOuCqZsifUT08B9AfPyx9ShL5japwEilZXQw?e=aul3Bx

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