Mrs.+Hughes'+Class

Mrs. Hughes' Fourth Grade Class Welcome!

Class News: = = ====  Our field trip to Madison to visit the Wisconsin State Capitol was fantastic! Thank you to all the parents and students for arriving so early and joining us on the trip. We took the tour and met with Representative Honadel. Please feel free to check to link below to the Capitol website ==== Here is a link to the [|Wisconsin State Capitol tour and facts] __**R**____**eading:**__

The students are doing a wonderful job following our Daily 5 routine. They use their bookmark as a guide and can work quite independently. We are continuing to work in our strategy groups.
**Spelling is part of the Daily 5 and will be an assignment if it is not completed in class. Students are given 2 assignments for the week along with writing their words out and bringing one of the lists home. The spelling tests will generally be on Friday and the 2 assignments will also be due on Friday also.**

**__Writing:__**
The students working on a persuasive writing piece and continuing their free writing during writing time for now. They may continue writing, editing or publishing a piece they started earlier or begin something new in their journals.

**__English:__ working on our End of the Year Assessment**

__**Math**__**p.starting Unit 9 p. 11-12 in packet 1 and p. 17 -18 in packet 2** **We are now working on Multiplication and Division below you will find a link to some Investigations Math games - online**[]**__Please make sure that your son or daughter is completing their math homework.__****This homework is practice for what we have been working on in class.** **__Science__**: We are now finishing on a short unit on plants and we have also started **Motion and Design**.

**__Social Studies__: our State Capitol booklet is due on Friday, June 1st**

**You may want to check out. [|BrainPop] it covers all subject areas and has very good short videos that will interst just about anyone. There is also a Brain Pop Jr. for the younger students too. The Log in to watch the videos on BrainPop may only be used until 5:30pm.****They are as follows: __Username: sdsmbw Password: blake123 __** ** Please contact me if you have any questions. Mrs. Hughes766-5946 ** **or email me at****mhughes@sdsm.k12.wi.us**