Just a little bit about what is going in class: Reading-We finished learning about the types and features of non-fiction. We are also learned how to quickly find information and better understand information when we are reading non-fiction. We have just started learning about literature circles. We spent last week and the beginning of this week learning about each job so that we can better discuss our books when we get into our groups. Writing-We have packed our journals with ideas for writing. We have been working on writing personal narratives. We have learned about strong beginnings and endings, transition words, how to focus in on a small moment and we have read lots of mentor texts to learn about how authors write personal narratives. Now we are ready to choose a piece, edit and revise, and start publishing, we will have a celebration when we are done and share our published pieces with each other. We have also finished studying nouns, and now we are working on verbs, and pro-nouns will be next. We study these parts of speech the same weeks that we do vocabulary. The kids have an English book that they are welcome to bring home at any time, just make sure it comes back the next day. There is also a good website below to practice if needed. Math- We finished our second unit that was on multiplication (with small numbers). We ended the unit by focusing on the multiples of 100 and their factors. And then talked about how those factors of 100 could help us with the factors of 200, 300 and so on. Don't forget the Math Student Handbook I sent home, it will help you help your child with any of these homework pages. Some of the kids are still not fluent with their multiplication facts 1-12. This is imperative to be successful with harder multiplication problems and division which is our next unit! There are some links below to help your child practice their facts. Content-We finished up our study of Space last week. We learned about the differences between comets, meteors, meteorites, meteoroids, and asteroids, the moon phases, technology in space and the planets. We have just started our study of electricity, see sites below for helpful links. Technology-Even though we do not have our chrome books yet, we have been very busy with technology! The kids are using Spelling City to practice their spelling, vocabulary and even science words, Reading Rewards for their independent reading book, and we are working on a Google Presentation to teach our book buddies how to be safe around electricity. We also have a Google Classroom that we have used a little. The kids should know how to get to it and log in. For now I just use it as a place to post extra study guides. Tomorrow I will introduce the kids to the Typing Club to improve their keyboarding skills. Many of the sites we use and will be using have parent codes that you will see from your child's account if you are interested in seeing what they are doing, or you can always just log in using their username and password. Remember to keep talking about online safety and have clear rules for your child using technology at home.
Thanks to everyone who was able to sign up for a conference, I have met with a few of you already. If you have a conference scheduled and have not filled out this
conference form, please do so before we meet. This will help me better prepare for our time together.
Also, a big thank you for all of the donations sent in for our change for change! We passed the halfway mark to our goal.
Sites to check out!*Check our calendar for important dates.Favorite Links-for just about anything your child needs to work on or learn about in 4th grade!Lab Lessons-This is the link we go to during our computer lab, remind your child to check here and make sure their lab assignments were completed each week.Nouns and Pronouns practice
Multiplication Practice!!
Have a great week!
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