October -27--No School Parent Teacher Conferences
Reading: We will continue our Courage theme. The students will read an article on Malala Yousafzai and watched a video clip of Jackie Robinson. They will then complete a Venn diagram comparing the two showing how they showed courage. After viewing the video of Jackie Robinson, reading the Malala passage, and completing the compare/contrast Venn diagram, the students will write a response to the essential question "Can courage be shown in more than one way?"
English: In English, we will continue with paragraph writing. We will also continue a unit on Capitalization and Punctuation. This week's focus is capitalizing names of places and things along with learning how to write abbreviations.
Spelling: Unit 8 : This week's spelling/vocabulary list will include a variety of words that are appropriate for 4th-grade students. Instead of studying a spelling rule, we will focus on the definition of these words and how they might be used in reading and writing. Part of this week's lesson will also highlight how to use reference materials such as a dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, and encyclopedia. The final test is scheduled for Friday, 10/20.
Science: We will continue a unit in Life Science. This week we will learn about invertebrates. The students will begin working on their Invertebrate Slideshow. There may be homework in this.We will also learn more about the five classes of vertebrates. There will be a test on Tuesday, October 24th covering this lesson.
Mrs. Bucklin's Math Class: In math this week we will continue Unit Two, Module One, Building Multiplication Arrays. Skills and concepts we are working on are multiplying and dividing products to 100 using strategies. We will learn that in a multi-digit number each digit represents 10 times what it represents to the place to its right. We will also work with rectangular arrays and apply the area formula to solve problems. There will be a Checkpoint quiz on Friday. A study guide to help prepare for the quiz will be sent home on Wednesday.
Mrs. Bucklin's Math Class: In math this week we will continue Unit Two, Module One, Building Multiplication Arrays. Skills and concepts we are working on are multiplying and dividing products to 100 using strategies. We will learn that in a multi-digit number each digit represents 10 times what it represents to the place to its right. We will also work with rectangular arrays and apply the area formula to solve problems. There will be a Checkpoint quiz on Friday. A study guide to help prepare for the quiz will be sent home on Wednesday.
