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Week of October 14-17
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Reading-Mrs. Bryan
Reading-Mrs. Bryan
GROWTH is the goal for everyone this year, and each day brings opportunities for everyone to strenghten their reading skills. Reading a text carefully, rereading for clarity, looking back to the text, and applying best effort are everything in 4th grade.
Students have finished their Formative Module Test over the skills taught in Modules 1 & 2, as well as Narrative Writing. I'm pleased with the students' independent applicaton of these skills. Grades have been posted in Parent Portal, and a detailed report is coming home in graded paper folders this week.
We are continuing Module 3, Rise To The Occasion. We ahve finished Rent Party Jazz, and we are moving into the informational & multimodal text, Hurricanes, A Force of Nature. Students will read a text explaining how hurricanes form, read a first hand account from a research meterologist's perspective, and listen to interviews with people who have experienced the strength and destruction of a hurricane. The students have lots of their own first hand accounts to share after last year's Hurricane Helene.
Our focus skills are understanding how text features make nonfiction easier to read and understand, determining point of view, and comparing perspectives of diffrent narrators in a text.. Our vocabulary words are surged, perished & debris. Our vocabulary quiz will be on Thursday, and the open book test will be on Friday.
A vocabulary list always comes home for studying and these words are posted on Google Classroom and under Reading Resources for your reference.
Language Arts-Mrs. Bryan
Language Arts-Mrs. Bryan
Students are continuing to learn how to form lowercase letters in cursive right now, and we've covered i, t, e, l, c, s, h & j, m and n. This week we will cover b and f. Homework will come home each Monday. This can be done throughout the week at your convenience, but will be due each Friday.
Students are constructing and deconstructing words weekly. This week will will review suffixes -ness, less, -full & -ous. Students will also discuss synonyms and antonyms for common words. We are also continuously using the skill of context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words.
In writing students completed a narrative response to their Module Passage, Marta's First Day Dilemma. This has been graded and will be included on your child's Module 2 Assessment report.
We are finishing our Game of Silence Narrative this week and will move into our study of Expository Writing. Students will learn the elements of expository writing (topic, main idea, supporting idea, evidence, elaboration & conclusion). We will practice with a short nonfiction text about Parasites.
Math-Ms. Yost
Math-Ms. Yost
Unit 2: Multiplicative Comparisons
These lessons help students to understand that multiplication means that one number is times another. We use models to help us understand that multiplication is a multiplicative in nature. Example: 32 is 8 times as many as 4.
Multiplication and Division Word Problems:
We use multiplication and division to help us solve word problems. We will discover the connection between multiplication and division.
Multiples and Factors
We will review how we can find the multiples of a number (skip counting by a number) and factors of a number. Our knowledge of multiplication will help us determine if numbers are prime or composite. Prime numbers only have one factor pair. Composite numbers have more than one factor pair.
Number and Shape Patterns
We will create patterns this week using rules and input and output tables. An example of what types of patterns we will be making can be found on this website: Number and Shape Patterns . We will have a short quiz over patterns on Thursday, October 9th.
Science-Ms. Yost
Science-Ms. Yost
Unit 2: Properties of Water, The Water Cycle, and Weather
This week we will focus on how water can change states of matter from a solid to a liquid to a gas. We will discuss how heat energy flows between these states of water. We have been working on learning the water cycle and the process of recycling the Earth's water. We will continue to connect this to weather patterns throughout this unit.
Important Vocabulary: solid, liquid, gas, water vapor, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection, runoff, infiltration (water that soaks into the ground)
Students will bring home a detailed vocabulary list and a diagram for this unit starting on Monday, October 6th.
Social Studies-Mrs. Bryan
Social Studies-Mrs. Bryan
Results for our Revolutionary War test have been posted on Parent Portal, and tests will come home in our next set of graded papers! Thank you for your support from home in helping them study. I want Social Studies to be exciting!
We are continuing our next unit, Forming A New Nation. Now that we are free from British rule, The Articles of Confederation will be written. The colonists will quickly learn that it has significant weaknesses when Daniel Shays & his men form a rebellion.
The colonists will then choose delegates to represent them in The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Students will learn about the challenges faced by the framers of our Constitution, and how the delegates disagreed sharply about states' rights, representation in Congress for large and small states & how to count slaves in a states' population. We will also learn the words of the Preamble to the Constitution and what they meant in 1787. I have posted a Liberty Kids episode, We The People on our Social Studies Resources page. It reviews everything we are covering in class. Be sure to talk to your child about what is new this week!
Classroom Reminders/Upcoming Events
Classroom Reminders/Upcoming Events
Report Cards are coming home on Wednesday! It's a great time to set goals for the 2nd nine weeks.
10/10-10/13-Fall Break
10/15-Report Cards
10/13-National School Lunch Week
Week of 10/27-Bobcat Store
Red Ribbon Week begins October 27th
October 31-Book Character Parade at BRE!
11/13-Fall Into Reading Literacy Night 5:30-6:30
Wish List Items-Paper towels, hand sanitizer, Clorox wipes, candy for our treat jar (no peanuts, please)
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