Reminders:
- Food Pantry collection on Thursday - 4th Grade has been asked to donate pasta sauce
- Field trip on Friday - bring a sack lunch

 

Math: This week we are going to finish Chapter 13 as it is a shorter chapter. This week we will cover how to measure and calculate area as well as relate area and perimeter. We will spend a day reviewing the chapter and take the chapter test on Thursday. 
Objectives: 
- Students will find the perimeter of an area. 
- Students will find the area of rectangles and squares. 
- Students will relate area and perimeter. 

 

Social Studies: We are continuing our journey through the Western region this week by continuing to explore various cities throughout the region. The children will continue to work on their visual representation of one of the cities we explored. 
Objectives:
- Identify reasons why the West has attracted people. 
- Apply map skills to locate important sites in the West. 
- Describe the physical and human features of the West  moving on from the Southwest and moving onto the Western region of the United States.

 

Religion: This week we are going to conclude our study of the Ten Commandments. The children will prepare for the Commandment test by playing various games, role playing, and other interactive activities. 
Objective: 
- Consider how Scripture and Tradition can deepen your understanding. 

 

LA/Reading: We are continuing to learn more about the features of Earth in Unit 5 of MyView. The overall question for this unit is, why is it important to understand our planet? Our question for this week is, in what ways do volcanoes impact Earth? We will read Volcanoes by Seymour Simon. We will focus on finding details in the text that help support the main idea. Our language convention for this week is capitalization rules and synonyms and antonyms. 
Objectives:
- Know that Earth consists of useful resources and its surface is constantly changing. 
- Recognize characteristics of and structures of informational text, including the central idea and supporting evidence. 
- Create mental images to deepen understanding. 
- Discuss specific ideas in the text that are important to the meaning. 

 

Spelling: Our spelling words for this week focus on words with -en, -ent, or -ence. 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. 
- Decode 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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Mrs. Hein gave permission to 4th grade to have a Spirit Wear Dress Down Day for tomorrow to celebrate the letter D of our ABC countdown. Please make sure the students are wearing spirit wear. 

 

Spelling: Word Choice Activity

Test Friday

 

LA: Daily Language Review Week 16 - due tomorrow

 

Science: If you have any blueberry, blackberry or raspberry containers that are empty, please send them to school with your child. Ms. Arnold still needs some for our class. 

Reminders:
- Field Trip permission slips are due Monday, April 29

 

Math: We will finish Chapter 11 this week, Customary Measurement. We will learn about displaying measurement data on a line plot and solve measurement problems. On Wednesday we will review all nine lessons from Chapter 11 and take the Chapter test on Thursday. On Friday we are going to jump ahead to Chapter 13 Perimeter and Area and learn how to measure the perimeter of objects. 
Objectives: 
- Students will display measurement data in a line plot. 
- Students will solve problems involving measurement. 
- Students will convert time. 
- Students will convert customary units of length, capacity, and weight. 

 

Social Studies: We are continuing our journey through the Western region this week by visiting various cities throughout the region. We will explore Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Portland, San Jose and Las Vegas. The children will begin working in groups to create a visual representation of one of the cities we explored. 
Objectives:
- Identify reasons why the West has attracted people. 
- Apply map skills to locate important sites in the West. 
- Describe the physical and human features of the West  moving on from the Southwest and moving onto the Western region of the United States. 

 

Religion: This week we are going to continue learning more about the Ten Commandments. This week we will focus more on the seventh through tenth commandments and how they relate to each other. We will continue to focus on ways to be more like God and reflect on ways we can live the commandments. 
Objective: 
- Consider how Scripture and Tradition can deepen your understanding. 

 

LA/Reading: We are heading back into our MyView books this week and starting Unit 5, our last unit of the year. This unit will focus on Features and all five weeks will cover features of the Earth. The overall question for this unit is, why is it important to understand our planet? For our first week the students will. Focus on the features and processes of Earth. We will read an excerpt from Planet Earth by Christine Taylor Butler. We will focus on analyzing text features and making inferences while reading the story. Our language convention for this week is relative adverbs. 
Objectives:
- Make, connect, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structure. 
- Establish purpose of reading assigned and self-selected texts. 
- Make inferences and use evidence to support understanding. 
- Analyze the author’s use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes. 
- Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points.

 

Spelling: Our spelling words for this week focus on the Latin Roots gener, port, dur, and ject. 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. 
- Determine the meaning and use of words with roots.

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Math: We will begin Chapter 11 this week, Customary Measurement. We will cover the first four lessons this week on customary units of length and capacity as well as learning how to convert both. The students will take a quiz converting the first four lessons at the end of the week. 
Objectives: 
- Estimate and measure length using customary units. 
- Convert customary units of length.
- Estimate and measure customary capacities. 
- Convert customary units of capacity. 

 

Social Studies: This week we will continue to work as a class and in groups to learn more about the Alamo. We are using the book What Was the Alamo to help us explore the history of the Texas Revolution. 
Objectives:
- Students will learn about the historical events that took place at the Alamo and consider their impact on American history. 
- Students will be able to explain why the battle of the Alamo was fought. 
- Describe the events before, during, and after the Alamo. 

 

Religion: This week we are going to continue learning more about the Ten Commandments. Our first session will be an overview of the first three commandments and the Greatest Commandment, loving God and loving others. We will focus on ways to be more like God and reflect on ways we can improve how we show or love for God and others. 
Objective: 
- Consider how Scripture and Tradition can deepen your understanding. 

 

LA/Reading: This we will be continuing our novel study for Number the Stars. The students will continue to learn about the events before, during, and after the Holocaust. During this novel study, the students will respond to a variety of questions on the readings, complete character analyses, and create their own summaries of each chapter. Throughout this novel study the students will use maps to learn about where the story takes place and will also learn more about the Jewish community. This week the students will also complete a writing activity by putting themselves in the shoes of one of the characters and expressing their feelings about the war and what they are going through. 
Objectives:
- Students will learn about the elements of historical fiction and the Holocaust. 
- Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. 
- Analyze and understand the reasons and motivations that caused certain people to take a stand.
- Recognize and understand the courage and heroism of the Danish and Swedish people and all others who resisted the Nazis.

 

Spelling: We will not have any spelling tests during our Number the Stars novel study. Instead, the students will have weekly vocabulary tests on the words from each section of the book. This week the vocabulary words come from Section 2, chapters 7 - 12 of the book. The students will complete various vocabulary activities and take the test on Friday. 
Objective:
- Students will be able to define vocabulary words. 

 

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