Canterbury Office Phone: 216-371-7470
BOOK CHARACTER DAY is Friday, October 30th. NO MASKS OR WEAPONS!
Reminder: We are are PEANUT FREE classroom. Please ensure all snacks are PEANUT FREE. Thank you!
Test Retakes:
Students who earn below a 70% on a test with work with me to understand misconceptions and then work to make corrections to earn partial (1/2) credit back per question. Any student who earns a 70% or higher may also make corrections, but will be the responsibility of the student to do so. They will need to get a test correction paper from me and complete it and turn it back in with the original test.
A peek at our learning:
ELA:
Essential Question: How do animal characters change familiar stories?
Genre: Drama
Shared Read: "The Ant and the Grasshopper"
Anchor Text: "Renita The Frog Princess"
Paired Text: "Pecos Bill and the Bear Lake Monster"
Vocabulary Words:
annoyed attitude commotion cranky familiar frustrated selfish specialty
Please make sure your child reviews the vocabulary words/definitions.
Vocabulary Strategies:
antonyms
Reading Skills & Strategies:
theme
plot
story elements: play
inference
Text Features:
dialogue
stage directions
characters
Writing:
Multi-paragraph Opinion Essays - using two texts to cite evidence.
Opinion Writing to Text
Paragraph #1 - Opinion (3 sentences)
Hook (question, onomatopoeia or set the scene)
State your opinion,
List 2 reasons (don’t go into detail)
Paragraph #2 - Reason #1 (4 sentences)
RA - Transition, state your first reason in your own words
C -Evidence from the text (According to the passage….)
E -Example (from your head)
S - Sum it Up (expand on evidence)
Paragraph #3 - Reason #2 (4 sentences)
RA - Transition, state your second reason in your own words
C -Evidence from the text (According to the passage….)
E -Example (from your head)
S - Sum it Up (expand on evidence)
Paragraph #4 - Restate your opinion
Restate your opinion
Call your reader to action!
** Make sure you have included evidence from both sources!
** If you have more than two reasons, add a third paragraph following the same structure as paragraph 2.
Math: Module 6 & 7 - Division
Students will be learning the standard algorithm for division. Students in 4th grade must know how to divide 2, 3, and 4 digit dividends by 1 divisor as well as interpret the remainder when solving a word problem.
✖️Please make it a part of your child's nightly routine to practice multiplication facts.✖️
Area Model/Distributive Property Multiplication Examples:
One School One Book:
We will be reading The One and Only Ivan during school time. We will be discussing the chapters as well as digging into literary elements.
SPECIALS SCHEDULE:
Monday - ART
Tuesday - P.E.
Wednesday - MUSIC and Library
Thursday - STEM and Guidance
Friday - SPANISH and Instrumental Music
Class Dojo is now District Wide and has been rostered through Infinite Campus. If you are not connected to my classroom, please follow this link: https://www.classdojo.com/ul/p/addKid?target=class&class=6a859541329c340adad092d2