Happy Thanksgiving From Our Family to Yours

 Thanksgiving Break is November 23-27.  

There will be NO SCHOOL.

The Tiger Trot has raised over $17,000!!! 

Thank you for donating and supporting our students at the fun run today.  We had 21 out of 23 students register for the Tiger Trot, and as a class we have raised $260!!! I am so proud of our class.  Remember, we have until December 2nd to turn in donations, so share your child's donation page on social media.  All of the donations are going to support our STEM program here at Teasley.

Holiday Hearts Program

Our program started on Tuesday, November 17th.  This is how it works.  If you would like to help one of our Teasley families at Christmas, choose a heart from the holiday hearts tree that is located near the cafeteria.  Purchase the gift listed on the heart.  You will need to wrap the gift and attach the heart to the gift.  Return the gift to the counselors by Friday, December 11th.

Teasley Spirit Night

Mark your calendar! There is a spirit night 

at Panera Bread on Tuesday, December 1st.

School Tours

There will be school tours on Thursday, December 3rd at 8:15 a.m.  This is a great opportunity for future Teasley families to hear from the Teasley staff and walk around the school.

Teacher Tales

Please join us on December 3rd, to ring in the holiday season!   Teasley teachers and staff will read some of their favorite holiday books to students.  If you buy a book during this time, a teacher will gift wrap is for you, free of charge!  A portion of the proceeds will be given back to Teasley.  Teacher Tales will be held at Barnes and Noble, located at 2952 Cobb Parkway, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.  Be on the look out for a flyer that tells you when certain teachers will be reading and wrapping!

Santa Shop

Tuesday, December 8th, kicks off our annual Santa Shop.  Our students get the opportunity to purchase gifts for family and friends.  Look for the Sign up Genius coming soon.  Volunteers are needed to help our student shoppers.

Homework Over Break??

NO WAY!!! Have a wonderful week off with your family and friends.  I will NOT be checking my email over break, so all e-mails or work related questions will need to wait until after we return.

See you back on November 30th!

Helpful Hints for at Home

Here is a great article that will guide you in the fourth grade curriculum.  There is a section for each of the core instructional areas.  In Cobb County, we use the common core standards for reading,writing and math.  This article gives pointers to parents on how to best help your child meet the 4th grade, common core standards.

The Guide to 4th Grade

Reading:

  

This week, we have been focusing on reading comprehension strategies in class.  With this, we have continued to talk about how an author uses reasons and evidence to support a particular point (opinion) in the story or article.  This is a standard that we go over many times throughout the year with students.  Students have been exposed to each of these strategies this year, and we will continue to work on them in class.  It is also important that your child is practicing these skills while they read at home.  One way to use this chart at home, is to have your child stop during their reading and show you how they work through one of the strategies.  One example is to have your child think aloud during a confusing part of their book.  This helps students to better understand the text, so that they can more accurately answer questions about the book.

Writing:

We have moved on to opinion writing (be on the look out in ParentVUE for informational writing grades).  Today, students were asked, "Should kids eat candy, why or why not?"  We completed a T-Chart in their journal to depict the reasons for each opinion.  You would be surprised how many of them thought kids should not eat candy!  One way to help them with their opinion writing is to ask your child questions that require them to give their opinion, but don't stop there!  Ask your child the 3 reasons why they feel the way they do (we call these their subtopics).  Then, have them using evidence to support their reasoning.  This is important, so that when we get into writing their essay's they will know how to formulate not only and opinion, but the reasons why as well. This also ties in nicely to everything we are working on in reading. 

Here is a really great article that gives some suggestions of how to help your child at home with their common core writing.  

Writing Article

Math:

As we wrap up our unit on multiplication, we are jumping right in to multi-digit division. This unit is much easier for students who have memorized their multiplication facts and can relate multiplication and division. Students who do not know their facts will have difficulty and will probably feel some frustration. Please help avoid this by practicing multiplication facts with your child.FAIR WARNING: over the past few years, any confusion with this standard was directly related to students using strategies that were not taught in class. Please do not attempt to teach them the traditional algorithm, as it truly impacts their grade and understanding of what is being taught in class.Students will not learn the standard algorithm, nor will be tested on it, until 6th grade. If they are struggling with their homework, please send a note in to me and let me know.

4.NBT.6: Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.

Thinking Prompts:

• What is the relationship between multiplication and division? Provide examples to show your thinking.

• How does knowing 5 x 5 help you to solve 75 ÷ 5? Explain.

• How many different ways can you solve 84 ÷ 6?

• If the quotient is 15, what could your possible dividend and divisor be?

• How does changing the value of your divisor affect the quotient? (e.g., 350 ÷ 5 vs. 350 ÷ 50?)

• Using the digits 4, 9, 7, and 5, create a division sentence with the greatest possible quotient.

• Which division strategy (partial quotients, rectangular array, area model) do you think is best? Justify your answer.

DIVIDE 3 DIGIT NUMBERS TUTOR

** THERE ARE MANY TUTOR VIDEOS ON THEIR ONLINE MATH TEXTBOOK, AS WELL AS ON OUR MATH EDMODO GROUP, UNDER FOLDERS. 

Music:

After Thanksgiving break, students will be tested on their recorders.  Students have their recorders and need to be studying at home.  The music for them to practice can be found at http://www.musicatteasley.com/

Have a wonderful week, and a Happy Thanksgiving!

The Tiger Trot

The Tiger Trot is a healthy fundraiser that all students will run in on Friday, Nov. 20. We're asking parents to register their child at www.thegetmovincrew.com and share the online link with family and friends to ask for pledges to support our school.  Cash and checks can also be turned in at school.  

Our goal is 100% class participation!  All classes who achieve this goal will get a popsicle party and the teacher will get 10% back in an Office Max gift card.  All students who turn in at least $10 will get a pedometer on race day.  Thank you to top sponsor A+ Pediatric Dentistry of Atlanta!   Check out our other sponsors at www.teasleytigerpaws.com!

Students may dress in athletic attire on Nov. 20th to participate in the Tiger Trot and we will not collect $1.  It is a free dress down day!!  :)

The Teasley Talent Show is coming up!

Teasley Talent Show permission slips are now available!  Forms can be found in the media center or on the new Talent Show blog http://www.cobblearning.net/teasleytalentshow/.  We are looking for singers, dancers, musicians, magicians, MC’s, gymnasts, comedians, etc.  The more creative the act, the better!  All permission forms are due by 2:45 on Friday November 20^th.  No late forms will be accepted.  We already have a few surprises planned for this year, so you won’t want to miss it!  Check the Talent Show blog regularly for more updates and information!!

4th Grade Learning Frameworks

For your information, the link below will bring you to the 4th grade, Cobb County Academics page.  This will tell you the different teaching and learning frameworks for fourth grade.  Each subject is broken down by the quarter so that you know what the kids are learning during each quarter.  I hope this helps some of you assist your child at home.

4th Grade Cobb County Learning Frameworks

Force and Motion

Today, our science Friday was all about force and motion.  We were able to watch some videos, and look through our science textbooks.

Here are some video's about force and motion:

Study Jams - Force and Motion
Study Jams - Newton's 1st Law of Motion (Inertia)
Study Jams -  Newton's 2nd Law of Motion (Acceleration)
Study Jams - Newton's 3rd Law of Motion (Action and Reaction)

After watching some of these fabulous videos, the students had to fill in the lyrics to a force and motion rap, using context clues. We practiced our rap with Mrs. Beason's Class.  Student will be memorizing their rap this weekend, so have them perform for you, and learn about force and motion.

Then, we got into our Fun Friday experiment, Football Forces.  Students created paper footballs, and experimented with different force to determine the motion.  Below are the important take always that students should have after today's experiment.

Key Question: How does force affect the change in position of a paper football?

Connecting Learning: 

1. What are pushes and pulls?  What is their purpose?
2. How is flicking a paper football related to force and motion?
3. Does an object always move when a force is applied?  Explain your thinking.
4. To move the football downfield,what force did you use?  How did you decide how much force to apply?
5. What are you wondering now?