Hello Lincoln Families,

Thank you for signing up for a student conference! I look forward to meeting with you and your child to celebrate and discuss learning goals. Click on the link Student-Led Conferences for your scheduled time and date. I will also send a reminder email. 

From Mrs. Richards (music teacher)

Hello Fourth grade Families! 

            Your 4th grader is bringing home an order form for Recorders as a part of our 4th grade music program. Please read my letter; as I go into more detail about our  curriculum and hopefully answer any questions. Remember that it is not required to purchase a recorder or book, just an option. If you choose not to purchase a recorder or book your student will be "checked out" a school Recorder and Book.  

All Orders forms are due October 13th.  Here is a digital copy 

Safety Patrol

Is your student interested in volunteering time before or after school to help with patrolling the sidewalks? Please see information below: 

Dear Families,

If your child has any interest in participating in Safety Patrol this year, please have them attend an informational meeting with Mrs. Fiesbeck and Mrs. Schmidt in Mrs. Fiesbeck's classroom (Room 107) on Wednesday, October 1st at 3:55pm - 4:15p.m. If your child is interested, this form will need to be completed before they will be given a post. Permission forms need to be completed by Friday, October 3rd. 

If you have any questions please reach out to Mrs. Fiesbeck at lfiesbeck@sjschools.org or Mrs. Schmidt at aschmidt@sjschool.org 

Have a fantastic week!

Important Dates

 Late Starts: Every Wednesday in October

Picture Day: (retakes 10/15)

No School: 10/10 PD day for teachers

Student-led Conferences Dates: 10/8, 10/9, 10/16, 10/17

Fall Party: 10/31

Birthdays

We love to celebrate birthdays! For students who would like to celebrate birthdays in our class, please bring in non-food items, such as pencils instead of cupcakes. Sometimes parents put together little gift bags. These are just ideas. There is no obligation to send anything! 

Snacks in the Classroom

Please ensure that everyday snacks are quick and easy for your child to handle. For example, please refrain from yogurt, pudding, uncut fruit, Doritos, Takis, or messy items as daily snacks. This prevents spills from damaging school devices, furniture, and carpet. Often, we have to eat a quick snack while working. These snacks work better in the lunchroom. Thank you for your understanding. 

Arrival & Dismissal Video from Mrs. Knuth 

Class Party Information: If you are interested in volunteering to organize classroom parties, please fill out the Google Form(s) below (click on the title/link). Thank you for your consideration!

Fall Party Volunteer Form 

Winter Party Volunteer Form

Kindness Party Volunteer Form (The link should be working now)

Be sure to add the party dates to your calendar!

Fall Party--October 31

Winter Party--December 19

Kindness Party--February 13

Getting to Know You Google Form

(Click on the link)

Back-to-School Night Presentation 

(Click on the link)

Fall Student-Led Conference Sign-up Sheet

(Click on the link)

In the Classroom:

Please ask your child what they are learning in our classroom!

Reading: Letter to Families: Unit 1 Poetry; Unit 1 Performance Task

Math:  Unit 2: Unit 2 Narrative video

In this unit, students extend their prior understanding of equivalent fractions and the comparison of fractions. 

In grade 3, students partitioned shapes into parts with equal area and expressed the area of each part as a unit fraction. They learned that any unit fraction results from a whole partitioned into equal parts. They used unit fractions to build non-unit fractions, including fractions greater than 1, and represent them on fraction strips and tape diagrams. The denominators of these fractions were limited to 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8. Students also worked with fractions on a number line, establishing the idea of fractions as numbers and equivalent fractions as the same point on the number line. Here, students follow a similar progression of representations. They use fraction strips, tape diagrams, and number lines to make sense of the size of fractions, generate equivalent fractions, and compare and order fractions with denominators 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 100.

Students generalize that a fraction is equivalent to fraction because each unit fraction is being broken into times as many equal parts, making the size of the part times as small and the number of parts in the whole times as many. For example, we can see that it is equivalent to because when each fifth is partitioned into 2 parts, there are 6 shaded parts, twice as many as before, and the size of each part is half as small, or.

Science: Human Machine

Social Studies: Democratic Values

(Scroll down for more information in the classroom)

Welcome to 4th Grade Letter 

(Click Link)

Weekly Specials Schedule

Lunch: 11:30-11:55 Lunch Recess: 11:55-12:20

A.M. Recess: 10:00-10:15 every day

P.M. Recess: 2:20-3:05 every day

Monday Art

Tuesday P.E.

Wednesday Book Check out

Thursday  Stem

Friday    Music

Renee Abbott

Fourth Grade Teacher

Lincoln Elementary School

1102 Orchard Ave.

St. Joseph, MI 49085