Welcome to Fourth Grade

Dear Third Graders,
I hope that you have had a great year, but now you are going to be entering the fourth grade! In fourth grade you have to learn how to play the recorder and you get an hour in art. You also go on field trips such as, Indianapolis, the Roller Dome, and the McMillan Health center. During the Indianapolis feild trip you will go to The Children's Museum, Indianapolis 500, and Conner's Prairie. And all of these places have a gift shop, but that is not the point of the trip. The main thing is to learn something from each of the places that you go to. I don't want to spoil the trip so I will begin to tell about what you will be doing during the other trips. At the Roller Dome you will basically just be skating, and since you will be there all day long you'll have to eat lunch there too. At the McMillan Health Center you will be learning about drugs, what they do to you, and how to say no to drugs. In class you have five subjects, reading, language arts, math, science, and social studies. In reading you will be reading stories and take a test which is the same as usual, but I am warning you those books are about twice the size as those books you have now. For language arts you do writing most of the time but other times you might have a paper with questions about punctuation or personification. During math you will be learning about algebra, more about decimals, and adding or subtracting fractions. In science you have to learn about Structures of Life, Electricity, and Earth and Life. In social studies you will be learning about the Native Americans and you have to write a report about something that has to do with the Native Americans like a person, weapons or even a whole Indian tribe. I hope that enjoyed reading about what fourth grade is like and I also hope like what teacher you end up getting.

Sincerely,
Brittany Keuneke