Good Evening 4th Grade Families,
We hope you had a fantastic Thanksgiving break with your families! These next four weeks before Christmas Break are going to be jam packed!
This week in:
Reading: We will read the story Mountains by Seymour Simon. It is a nonfiction piece and has a lot of information to get through. Our test will be on Friday but will be open book- we normally do not have open book tests but this is a great strategy to be able to find the information that is needed n the text.
Next week we will be combining classrooms to have the students work on an in-class research project on another one of Seymour Simon's books. Each student will get paired with someone from the other class, work with that person to finish the project, and then will report back to their own homeroom class with their information. It will be a great way to collaborate and work with a friend from the other room. This also means that we will have no reading test next week.
Spelling: Lesson 14
Religion: We are finishing up the Ten Commandments and starting to learn about the Trinity. We also will have Advent activities this week and next.
We are also starting a mini-unit all about our character. We are trying to figure out real life examples for each of our character pillar words. Our new words are:
trust, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship.
We will be working on this throughout the year. We will have some in class projects and different books to read and discuss as a class. Please talk with your 4th grader at home about these words and to find out what we have discussed!
Social Studies: Our region tour is underway and our binders are getting full of materials! Last week we sampled some of our Northeast resources, saw a real life quarry explosion on video, and got a rock from that quarry! We will have our Chapter 4 test sometime next week- probably Tuesday or Wednesday.
Science: Students are continuing to work on Force and Motion
Math: The elapsed time projects were super great! We enjoyed looking at all of them. They were very creative and full of great pictures :)
Language Arts: Nouns, Nouns, Nouns!
