Messages from Mrs. Graczyk:

Please see my new webpage on:

Wikispaces

All vocabulary and spelling lists for each subject can be found at http://www.spellingcity.com/agraczyk/

Please use this as a tool to learn, study and review important fourth grade terms.  Students may play games and be quizzed on the terms through this website.

 Please check your child's grades on the Power School Parent Portal. Contact the school if you need your username and password.  Please click here for access:  http://ps.d142.org/public/

Our mealtime lunch program's information can be viewed here:  https://www.mymealtime.com/signin.aspx This gives you access to your child's account information and balance.  You may make credit card deposits here as well. 

**We are always looking for donations for our classroom.  Pretzel tubs, foam shaving cream, skinny markers, and sidewalk chalk are some items our classroom would be thankful for.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. You may reach me by phone at 687-2860 ext. 332.

You may e-mail me at agraczyk@d142.org.

Please click on the above picture to access the Math Texbook website.

We will continue to use the Houghton Mifflin math series. Please be sure you look over your textbook with your child before they begin any math homework.

 Click on the above picture to access the Reading Textbook website.  This allows you to read the textbook and work on activities for the skills for each story.

Please login with your child's username and password for this site.  There are many activities on the site.

After each Reading Unit, there will be an Interactive Review.  This will take approximately a week to complete.  This focuses on previous skills and bridging the learning to the next skill. 

We will continue to focus on reading skills each week.  These skills consist of, but are not limited to, inferences, cause/effect, problem/solution, context clues, comparing/contrasting, compound words and inflectional endings. 

Unit 1:

Because of Winn-Dixie

Lewis and Clark and Me

On the Banks of Plum Creek

The Horned Toad Prince

Letters Home from Yosemite

Unit 2:

What Jo Did

Coyote School News

Scene Two

Horse Heroes

So You Want to Be President?

Unit 3:

The Man Who Named the Clouds

Adelina's Whales

How Night Came from the Sea

Eye of the Storm

Paul Bunyan

Unit 4:

The Case of the Gasping Garbage

Encantado:  Pink Dolphin of the Amazon

Navajo Code Talkers

Seeker of Knowledge

Encyclopedia Brown

 Unit 5:

Smokejumpers

 
Lost City

Cliff Hanger
 
Antarctic Journal

Moonwalk

Unit 6:
My Brother Martin 

Jim Thorpe's Bright Path

How Tia Lola Came to Visit Stay

A Gift from the Heart

The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon

Please click on the above picture to access Language Arts games.
We will be using our reading series to focus on Language Arts.  We are focusing on incorporating language arts in our writing and across the curriculum.  We have also been working on our 6 traits.   

  

 Please click on the above picture to access our Social Studies Textbook Website.

We will be learning about our country's regions in fourth grade.

 
Please click on the above picture to access the Harcourt Science website.  Please enter the author name as the password:  McLeod.  The password is case sensitive.  Enter it as it appears.
 

 

Each week, a child will be chosen to be our star student. A form will be sent home to be filled out. Please send in pictures of your family. We will post these in our classroom. 

Hope you enjoy our classroom newletter!  

Mrs. Graczyk

Our specials schedule:

Tuesday

Thursday

Friday

Monday

Wednesday

Taught by Mrs. Graczyk on:

Monday

Thursday

Library
Wednesday