Week of Mar. 16 - 20

iPad Reminder:

Students are expected to come to school with their iPads charged to 80% or higher. We’ve noticed several students arriving with batteries under 20%, which requires charging during class and interrupts learning. If a student comes to school three or more days in a week below 80%, they will receive a written assignment and will not be able to take their iPad home. This may result in incomplete work if they cannot access their homework. Please help your child come prepared each day to ensure a smooth and productive learning experience! Thank you!

What we are Learning This Week

Math: Mrs. Bennett

Fourth graders are beginning an exciting new unit on fractions, and we are connecting this work to the division strategies students just learned. Students will explore how a fraction can represent a division situation. For example, if three friends share two cookies, each friend receives 2/3 of a cookie. We will model situations like this by drawing pictures and even using Post-it notes to physically cut and share pieces, helping students visualize how the fraction represents the result of a division problem. Later in the week, students will begin comparing fractions using multiple strategies such as drawings, models, and reasoning about the size of the pieces.

Homework: 

• SS #63

• SS #64

• 3 Reflex Sessions due Friday

• SS Quiz Friday

LA: Mrs. Phelps

  Skills we will be developing weekly include:

Reading:

• RI.4.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text

• RI.4.5 Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text

Topics we are reading about to develop these skills include: The Intolerable Acts, First Continental Congress 

Morphology:

• Latin root port meaning "to carry, gate, or entry"

Grammar:

• demonstrate proper use of commas with quotation marks when writing dialogue and quoting text

Writing:

• use paragraph writing skills draft an essay about the causes and effects leading to the American Revolution

Homework:  Vocab Quiz Friday (found on p. 4.1 in workbook with definitions)

• import

• export

• grievance

• intolerable

• rebel

• revolutionary 

Social Studies: Mrs. Crush

• Last week, Mr. Mullaney attended our class and the students interviewed him on one particular county that they studied and everyone learns more about that county. 

• We are also continue working in our state postcard exchange! We have already received several postcards from around the country and will be mailing ours out soon as well.