Week of 9/19 - 9/23
Week of 9/19 - 9/23
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IMPORTANT DATES
IMPORTANT DATES
**Please make sure to complete the conference form sent to you by Ms. Thomas and return by Tuesday, Sept. 20. We will be scheduling conferences soon. If your form is not sent in with your preferred time, we will select a time for you. Thank you!**
Sept. 26-30-8th Grade Grand Canyon Fundraiser, free dress for $1 per day
Sept. 28- Early Dismissal @11:00 for Teacher PD
Oct. 5 – 3:30pm-7:00pm PTS conferences
Oct. 6 – 11:00am dismissal, PTS conferences 11:45
Oct. 7 – 10 No school
Nov. 7-11-8th Grade Grand Canyon Fundraiser, free dress for $1 per day
Jan.23-27-8th Grade Grand Canyon Fundraiser, free dress for $1 per day
WHAT WE ARE LEARNING
WHAT WE ARE LEARNING
LA MRS. SCHMITT
This week students will continue to focus on the essential question: "How can I use retelling strategies to summarize the text?" Students will be introduced to and practice retelling strategies to demonstrate their understanding of a text. These strategies will be modeled with the whole class, then students will work independently to complete the strategies and write summaries using various 4th grade level texts. We will be reading Wonder as our main read aloud/mentor text, as well as a few fiction picture books.
Students are continuing to work on identifying and writing using appropriate sentence structures. Students are identifying types of sentences (declarative, interrogatory, exclamatory, and imperative), run on sentences, fragments, and complete sentences. Students are identifying and creating simple and compound sentences. We are analyzing well crafted mentor sentences as a class. Students are also practicing these skills on IXL and Freckle Apps.
Homework:
Weekly Reading Log for week of 9/19-9/23. Students are to read each night for 20 minutes and document their weekly reading every Thursday on the Google Form. The form is posted on their Language Arts Google Classroom.
Vocabulary Test on Thursday, September 22. Vocabulary Unit 2 words were reviewed in class today and have been posted on Google Classroom, as well as on the Google Site Resource page titled Vocabulary. An example vocabulary test has also been posted on Google Classroom.
MATH: MRS. BENNETT
In math class this week, students are working on subtracting multi-digit whole numbers. Students are using estimation as a tool to check the reasonableness of their answers. We will focus on solving subtraction word problems and using evidence from the text to support the operation we think we should use. Students will write their own word problems and solve each others. We will be ready to take a test next week over Module 1 and 2. The test will cover the following: We will complete a study guide in class and review.
understand place value relations
renaming numbers (regrouping)
rounding
compare and order numbers
adding/subtracting whole numbers
word problems that involve addition/subtraction
Homework:
Students should complete one Simple Solution lesson each night (Monday-Thursday). They are allowed to work ahead. In addition, students have one assignment to complete on their HMH Dashboards. This assignment corresponds with what is being taught in class. The purpose is to help students review material from class and communicate with parents what students are learning/monitor their progress. The assignment will be posted every Monday and due that Friday. This allows students to work around their schedules!
9/19 SS #17 & ONE HMH dashboard assignment due Friday!
9/20 SS #18
9/21 SS #19
9/22 SS #20
9/23 SS Quiz #5 & HMH dashboard assignment due today!
SOCIAL STUDIES: MRS. CRUSH
We will continue our unit of Geography of the United States. Students will understand that the United States has a diverse geography and various maps can be used to represent and examine the geography. They will identify and map major physical features, including mountains, rivers, lakes, and large bodies of water. They will also examine climate and vegetation maps to explore the relationship between physical features and vegetation/climate. We will be focusing on the Southeast Region first. Students will be assessed on the state capitals + states and they will also be researching and presenting a landmark on the Southeast Region. They have been working on their Southeast Region Landmark Projects and will be presenting this week.
Southeast Region State + Capital Test: Tuesday, September 20 (*Students will be given a blank map of the Southeast Region and they will have to identify the capital city + state and where it is located on the map.)
IXL Practice: 4th Social Studies~ H-7, H-8, H-9, I-5, I-6
RELIGION: MRS CRUSH
The students will continue Ch.1 "God's Goodness" in our Blest Are We workbooks. Students will realize that God created the world, to learn the Scripture account of creation, to understand that God reveals himself as the Holy Trinity, to describe how we respect and care for God's creation, and to praise God with a blessing prayer. The students will create and share their Student Led Prayers as they did last year. There have been a few changes and will be discussed in class.
SCIENCE: MRS JACKEL
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