A Note from your Teachers

Hello parents and guardians!

Important Cooking Homework - Due Friday September 26th

Next week in reading, students will be celebrating the end of our unit by making a recipe book as a class. Last week, papers went home so you can add a special recipe to our classroom cookbook. Please take the time this weekend to create this with your student and be ready to send the paper back in on Friday the 26th. If you need more directions, please read the Week 5 Newsletter. We are limited in the number of copies that we can print, so we can't send extra papers home, however here is a link for you to print an extra if you need it! Thank you for your help with making our learning fun and purposeful. 

Also with our celebration, we are looking for wonderful parents to donate a few supplies. Here is the signup genius to donate to your class! Please bring in these items in the day before our celebration on Friday, September 26. 

Thank you for your partnership,

Your 4th Grade Teachers

What did we learn this week?

📚 Reading and Writing

This week during our Amplify lessons, students continued to dive into their characters. We studied perspective, character emotions and relationships, and character changes. Students were given inferring questions and needed to use their schema and text evidence to answer. At the end of the week, we took a trip to the PIE'ED bakery and studied Author's Purpose. 

Attached is a parent letter from our Amplify Curriculum. It goes over the major points of this Contemporary Fiction Unit and conversation starters to use at home. CLICK HERE

✍️ Grammar

This week during our writing block, students studied homophones and writing sentences with a subject and predicate. Students were able to identify the correct homophone within a sentences. Students also broke sentences apart into their subject and predicates by identifying the main noun and verb. 

🧮 Math

This week in math, students started our unit on metric conversions. Each day we looked at either length, mass, or capacity. Students discussed everyday objects and their lenght, weight, and capacity. Students also practice decomposing units, adding and subtracting units, converting units, and finally solving one and two student addition and subtraction word problems with different units. 

Attached is a parent letter from our Module 2 Bluebonnet Curriculum. It goes over the key concepts covered in this unit as well as additional ways to help support your student at home. CLICK HERE

🧪 Science 

In science this week, students continued to classify matter. This week we classified matter based on magnetism. Students preformed a lab to test various items and then answered reflection questions. Students also took time to review all of the different ways we classify matter.

🌍 Social Studies

This week in social studies, students wrapped up their learning about different Native Texas Tribes. We focused in on their locations, government and economics, and way of life. Students also practiced using key vocabulary words.