4th Grade

What We Are Learning: January 2023

READING: Our next read aloud is called Save Me a Seat. We'll use this to focus on realistic fiction techniques and author's craft, as well as answering text-dependent questions.

WRITING: Students will develop research and note-taking skills, as well as informational writing skills as they write their own non-fictions texts about animal adaptations.

MATH: Students will be expanding their multiplication skills into working with multi-digit numbers. They'll also be learning to divide multi-digit numbers using the partial quotient strategy.

SOCIAL STUDIES: We will continue our project-based learning work on the native uses of plants indigenous to New York.

CHILD MIND INSTITUTE: Students will continue to learn about emotions, their intensity, their function, and how to manage them in our daily lives.

  • Students working collaboratively on a chart
  • Students working through a problem together
  • Students using playing cards to understand place value
  • Students creating numbers using playing cards
  • Students writing
  • Students raising their hands
  • Students reading
  • Students in music class
  • Students sitting at their desks working on a math activity
  • Students collaborating on a math activity
  • Students working on a collaborative math activity
  • Student with Haudenosaunee and Lenape Village Model Exhibit
  • Female student with Haudenosaunee and Lenape Village Model Exhibit
  • 4th grade students collaborating on classwork
  • Green team students

Important Dates

  • Tuesday 1/3 - Back to school!
  • Friday 1/6 - Class 408 & B302 field trip to Wyckoff House Museum
  • Friday 1/6 - PA Meeting and Family Game Night at 6 pm
  • Monday 1/16 - Dr. MLK Jr. Day - no school
  • Friday 1/20 - Class 409 field trip to Wyckoff House Museum
  • Thursday 1/26 - Picture Day
  • Friday 1/27 - Class 410 field trip to Wyckoff House Museum

Home Connection

  • Remind: Please download the Remind app and check regularly for messages from the school and your child's teachers.
  • Communication Folders: Check communication folders daily for forms to complete and return.
  • Homework: Homework is assigned each Monday and collected the following Monday, but we check daily, so please remind your child to put their packet back in the communication folder each evening.
  • School Uniforms: Please send your child in the uniform shirt each day. Shirts can be purchased at Pins & Needles on Roosevelt Avenue or online.
  • The school day starts promptly at 8:10 a.m. Please ensure that your child is in the building and ready to learn no later than 8:05 a.m. The building opens at 7:40 a.m. for those who would like to have breakfast in the cafeteria before school starts.

Contact Your Teacher

4-408: Ms. Keeley tkeeley@ps343.org Text Ms. Keeley

4-408: Ms. Ballah-Lewis kballahlewis@ps343.org Text Ms. Ballah-Lewis

4-409: Mr. Poli cpoli@ps343.org Text Mr. Poli

4-410: Ms. Stangel mstangel@ps343.org Text Ms. Stangel

B-302 Mr. Grover's Class