Mrs. Stemm's 4th Grade ELA/SS

Announcements:  Wednesday, August 29th: PICTURE DAY Friday, August 31: No School- Teacher in-service day Monday, September 3: No School- Have a great Labor Day:)   What we are learning during week 2:  ELA You should have received a parent letter explaining Wit and Wisdom. This is a program that pushes students in their fluency, vocabulary, and writing skills all within a daily 90-minute session. This week we will be diving into Lessons 1-4 which will introduce the idea of literal language versus figurative language. In reading, students have set their AR goals. Be sure to ask them what personal goal they set and the steps they developed in order to be successful. It was great seeing where they want to go over the next 9 weeks. In writing, we will be learning the steps to write a "painted" paragraph. This strategy will teach each student to use topic sentences, supporting evidence, and concluding sentences within their writing. Social Studies This week we wil...

Announcements:  STAR testing- Tuesday, August 21 Picture Day- Wednesday, August 29th No School August 31st for a Teacher In-Service Day.  Langauge Arts There is a lot of housekeeping to do in each subject to get your child ready for our curriculum. Wit and Wisdom will start next week. This week in Language Arts, students will be reviewing the basics of writing. We will be adding to our Language Notebooks By completing the following pages: Capitalization Punctuation Sentences Quotations Adjectives Paragraph writing format All of these topics will help the students become successful in the content expected from Wit and Wisdom.  Social Studies  This week we will be reviewing our Map skills. Students will be working together to use Map Legends, Map Scales, and their cardinal (N, S, E, W) and intermediate (NE, NW, SW, SE) directions to locate different places on a map.  We also accessed our online textbook! We will start using the i...

WELCOME BACK 4TH GRADERS!  Hello! My name is Amanda Stemm and I will your child's fourth grade Language Arts and Social Studies teacher. This will be my sixth year teaching and my second year at Pickerington Elementary. I am extremely excited to continue my career at my alma mater... Go Tigers!!! This year we have a fantastic team including Mrs. Burre, the math and science teacher, and Ms. Westwood, the Math+ teacher. If your child is in my homeroom, they will be attending Math and Science with Mrs. Burre first thing in the morning. If they are in Mrs. Burre's homeroom, they will be attending my class, ELA & SS, first thing in the morning. In the afternoon, each group will rotate to the other subjects they did not have in the A.M. Please check out the important information listed below. If you ever have any questions about anything, please feel free to contact me via email at amanda_stemm@plsd.us. I hope your child is as excited to start the school year as I am:)  Imp...