Mrs. Abbott's 4th Grade Class 2024-25

  Important Dates  Late Start:  1/8, 1/22, 1/29 School Resumes: 1/6 Ice Skating: 1/14:  Depart Lincoln 8:40 Arrive at rink 8:55 Leave ice 9:35 Arrive at school at 10:00 NWEA testing window: ELA 1/15 & 1/16; Math 1/21 & 1/22 In the Classroom: Please ask your child what they are learning in our classroom. Reading :  In Unit 2, students continue to build expertise about their animal and its defense mechanisms, writing the first part of the final performance task—an informative piece describing their animal’s physical characteristics, habitat, predators, and defense mechanisms. With their new knowledge about animal defenses from Unit 1, students read informational texts closely, using the same research notebook to synthesize information about their animals. In Unit 3, students apply their research from Units 1 and 2 to write a narrative piece about their animal that incorporates their research. This narrative takes the format of a choose-your-own-adventure. ...

  Hello Lincoln Families, Our winter party is on Friday, December 20th. We will show a movie and have fun snacks from 2:00-3:00. Our winter party committee is sending some sweet and salty snacks. However, if you want to send something festive and fun, feel free! Thank you for your consideration.  Music:  Recorders were passed out this week. The music book and the recorder may go home for extra practice but must be here for music class on Thursday. Thanks for your help in making sure everything is here!   Thank you for the Kleenex donations! Have a fantastic winter break! In the Classroom: Please ask your child what they are learning in our classroom. Reading:   We started the next module unit, Animal Defensive Mechanisms.  In this eight-week module, students explore animal defense mechanisms. They build proficiency in writing an informative piece, examining the defense mechanisms of one specific animal about which they build expertise. Students also bu...

  Hello Lincoln Families, We have two weeks until our break! It goes by so quickly. Our winter party is on Friday, December 20th. We will show a movie and have some fun party snacks. Our winter party committee is sending in some sweet and salty snacks. However, if you want to send something festive and fun, feel free! Thank you for your consideration.  We are getting really low on Kleenex. We have a lot of runny noses:) If anyone can donate some boxes, it would be greatly appreciated! In the Classroom: Please ask your child what they are learning in our classroom. Reading:   We started the next module unit, Animal Defensive Mechanisms.  In this eight-week module, students explore animal defense mechanisms. They build proficiency in writing an informative piece, examining the defense mechanisms of one specific animal about which they build expertise. Students also build proficiency in writing a narrative piece about this animal. In Unit 1, they build background knowle...