Reminders for this week:
- Trimester 3 starts Monday
- 4th Grade will go to reconciliation on Tuesday
Math: We will finish Chapter 8 this week and take our chapter test on Wednesday. Thursday we will begin Chapter 9: Operations with Fractions. We will start this chapter by learning how to add and subtract like fractions.
Objectives:
- Students will write mixed numbers and improper fractions.
- Students will add like fractions.
- Students will subtract like fractions.
Social Studies: The children will complete the Midwest Unit by choosing four people that they think would be great faces of the ‘new’ Mount Rushmore. Each student will white a short explanation stating why they picked those four people and then they will create their version of Mount Rushmore on paper. We will start our next unit, The Southwest, this week. We will start by learning about the people of the Southeast. We will then take a virtual tour of some of the interesting places in this region, including the Hoover Dam, El Paso, Austin, and the Grand Canyon.
Objectives:
- Tell the story of a geographic place through multiple perspectives.
- Work cooperatively with others to create a product that showcases the history and geography of the Southeast.
Religion: We are continuing to reflect on Lent during religion this week. The children will take some time to reflect on their Lenten journey so far in their Lenten Journal. We will go to reconciliation during the day on Tuesday. Mrs. Nelson will talk to the students about the readings for the weekend on Friday.
Objectives:
- Prepare for Easter Sunday through reflection and reading.
- Reflect on Lenten journey through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.
LA/Reading: This week we will explore U4W2 in our literacy books. Our question for this week is, how can being different be an advantage? We will learn about the elements, purpose, and text structure of tall tales and read Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen. We will learn about inferring themes, exaggeration, and developing reasons. Our language convention for this week is adjectives. Our vocabulary words are: accentuated, obliged, misled, commendable, riled. The U4W2 test will be on Friday this week.
Objectives:
- Demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children’s literature such as folktales, fables, legends, myths, and tall tales.
- Infer basic themes supported by text evidence.
- Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society.
- Make inferences and use evidence to support understanding.
Spelling: Our spelling words for this week focus on words with suffixes. The students will complete three word choice activities and one spelling worksheet to help them prepare for the test on Friday.
Objectives:
- Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge.
- Demonstrate and apply spelling knowledge.
- Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding words using knowledge of suffixes, including how they can change base words such as dropping e, changing y to i and doubling final consonants.
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