Friday, September 6, 2019

Week of September 9, 2019

Innovation Night

Join us for a great night of family fun at Lower School Innovation Night on September 19! Hosted by the Technology Center, Innovation Night offers lots of cool, hands-on Innovation activities for Dunham students (PK-4th grade) and their parents. It also gives parents a glimpse of the exploration, collaboration and problem-solving that happens every day in our Lower School Innovation Lab.

5:00-6:30 pm
No need to worry about dinner. Food trucks will be on hand, offering delicious food for the entire family.

6:30-8:00
All kinds of Innovation fun with interactive games & activities, including a blow-up planetarium for PK3 through 4th grade students and parents to enjoy together.

Honor Choir


Lower School Honor Choir
We are in need of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade singers!
We have concerts throughout the year- to see a tentative schedule, click HERE
The Details: 
When: We meet on Thursdays from 3:15 to 4:00
Where: Lower School Music Room
Cost: FREE!!!
How to join: Fill out this FORM to sign up! 

Hope to sing with you soon!

What’s Happening in Fourth Grade

Week of September 9, 2019
Please send a set of earbuds for your child to use this year with their computers.  They will use
them during class when all of the students are working at once. They will keep their earbuds in
the zipper compartment on the outside of their binders.  

Reading (Mrs. Isaminger):
This week, the students will continue reading “Stormalong” and “Hoderi the Fisherman” in the
Journeys text (Lesson 5). The Journeys text can be accessed online through Think Central. 
Your child’s Think Central login information can be found in the front of his or her planner.
There will  not be a reading test this week. Wordly Wise Lesson 2 words were introduced on
Friday. Homework for Lesson 2 will be due on Wednesday, September 11th. There will be a
Lesson 2 Wordly Wise test on Friday, September 13th. 

Language Arts (Mrs. Isaminger):
We will continue Chapter 2 of Shurley English this week. Chapter 2 teaches nouns, verbs,
adverbs, adjectives, article adjectives, and how to classify sentences. There will be a Shurley
English quiz on Thursday, September 12th. The students will be quizzed over the adverb jingle,
the adjective jingle, and their ability to classify sentences for the parts of speech they have
learned thus far. 

Writing (Mrs. Isaminger):
This week, the students will begin working on writing a personal narrative. 

Bible (Miss Reech)
MV: 2 Timothy 2:15 - “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker
who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.We will be learning
how to use Bible Study Tools such as the concordance, timelines, and maps to help us learn
more about God and the Bible. Our Bible test will be Thursday, September 12. 

Spelling (Miss Reech)
Students received their word list on Friday. They should have instructions on how to
complete homework for Monday and Tuesday stapled to the front of their spelling
notebook. 7 words will be used each night. There will be a practice test on Wednesday. 
If the students receive a 100 A+, they will not need to take the test on Thursday. 

Social Studies (Miss Reech)
We are concluding our unit on latitude and longitude. Students completed their study guide
on Friday. Our unit test will be on Wednesday, September 11. Students will receive
guidelines for their Landform Project on Thursday. The girls will have their projects due
Thursday, October 3. The boys will have their projects due Friday, October 4. 

Science (Mrs. Jaques)
Next week, we will continue our unit on climate.  The students will create their weather
journals and begin collecting data on their chosen city.  The students will also learn about
the different climate zones and how a city’s location affects its climate.  

Math (Mrs. Jaques)
Next week, we will begin Chapter 4. The students will write and evaluate expressions and
equations with variables.  They will identify and use the properties of addition. The fourth
graders will also figure out the pattern of input/output tables and express the rule using
equations with variables.  On Wednesday, September 18, the students will have a timed
basic-facts subtraction test on differences to ten. They may practice at the following
website: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/thats_a_fact/english_K_3.html

Tests This Week

Monday, Sept. 9

Tuesday, Sept. 10

Wednesday, Sept. 11
Geography Test 

Thursday, Sept. 12
Bible Ch. 4 Test 
Spelling List 4 Test 
Shurley English Quiz--Adverbs and Adjectives

Friday, Sept. 13
Reading-Wordly Wise Lesson 2 Test


Important Upcoming Dates 
September 17 Picture Day
September 19 Lower School Innovation Night 6:30
September 24 Early dismissal at 12:30
October 3-4 Landform project due


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