Fourth-grade newsletter

 

4th Grade Newsletter Cycle 3 January 6 - March 13  

Team information/emails/Conference time:

Cindy Sisomphane: CSisomphane@garlandisd.net

Krissy Huynh: KHuynh@garlandisd.net

Madalene Dooley: MNDooley@garlandisd.net

Trang Doan: XDoan@garlandisd.net

Mariela Gomez: mgomez2@garlandisd.net

                                          

About our grade level: 

Our lunch is at 11:50 AM

Specials is at 1:35-2:30 PM

(Mrs. Gomez’s 4th grade class lunch goes with 5th grade class at 11:20 AM)

Cycle 3 (January 6 – March 13)

Progress Notice 1  (1/6/26-1/26/26)       Progress Notice 2 (1/27/26-2/16/26)      Cycle 3 Report Card (2/17/26-3/13/26)

This cycle we are learning…

Language Art

  • Synthesize the information from two texts and make connections between them
  • Evaluate the details in a text to determine the key ideas
  • Use text evidence to infer themes in a text
  • Figurative Language
  • Extended Constructed Response (ECR) - Introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion

Math

  • Decimals, Fractions, Financial Literacy, and Measurement Topics

Science

  • Erosion and Deposition, Natural Resources, The Water Cycle and the Sun,  Weather and Climate, Earth/Moon/Sun System
 

Social Studies 

  • How Texas became a state
  • Understanding how people create governments and how it serves to protect the people and help communities
  • Understanding the importance of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Texas Constitution and why it matters in U.S. history 
  • The Civil War in Texas 
  • Reconstruction of Texas 
  • Settling the Texas Frontier
  • Texas railroads
  • The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

Upcoming events

Cycle 2 Award Ceremony

  • Monday, January 26th 
  • 9:15 - 10:10 AM

100th Day of School

  • 1/30/26

 

Reading Interim

  • February 11th 

Math Interim

  • February 25th 

Spring Break

  • 3/16/26-3/20/26