Hello Fourth Grade Families,
Thank you to each of you who made the effort to attend your child's fourth grade conferences. Winter conferences are by teacher or parent initiation only. Thank you for trusting our team to work with your children and help them make academic and character development over the course of the whole school year. It truly takes a partnership between child, teacher and parent for the best growth and learning outcomes.
Q2W2 Fourth Grade Happenings:
10/26 is Classical Character Day. Your child should've already turned in their character permission slip, and if it is approved they may wear their costume on Wednesday.
Classes will have various literature-based activities throughout the day.
Scholars should not need a snack as Class Parents are providing for this day.
Each fourth grader will need to bring a favorite picture book to school to read to a first grade reading buddy.
10/27 is our second Galileo testing session. Please send scholars to school on-time with a non-messy snack.
10/28 is our first Science Comprehension Check of Q2. Scholars will be asked to tell everything they know about the Water Cycle. Students should study their green spiral notes.
10/28 is a Grammar Quiz based on Chapter 4 of WOL book, scholars should study the content.
10/31 is our first Math Test of Q2 on chapter 4 (Word Problems), scholars should study their green and blue Math books, chapter 4.
Q2W2 Curriculum:
Math: We will continue studying word problems with all 4 operations and review for the Chapter Test on 10/31.
Science: Continuation of Meteorology unit with a Comprehension Check on Friday 10/28.
History: We'll explore Feudal societies in the Middle Ages.
ELA:
Roots (test 10/28)-
phobia = fear of
hydro – water
hydrophobia (n) - fear of water
acro – high
acrophobia (n) - fear of heights
arachnid - spider
arachnophobia (n) - fear of spiders
claustrum - lock or bolt
claustrophobia (n) - fear of closed places
hemo – blood
hemophobia (n) - fear of blood
agoraphobia – (n) fear of being outside
auto – self
autophobia (n) - fear of being alone or lonely
xenos – stranger
xenophobia (n) - fear of strangers or foreigners
ology/logos = study of/word
anthropology (n) - the study of humans
biology (n) - the study of life and living things
ecology (n) - the study of the environment
geology (n) - the study of Earth
psychology (n) - the study of the mind
sociology (n) - the study of how people interact
zoology (n) - the study of animals
Poetry- Beowulf, due 11/4
Literature- Robin Hood Chapters 5-8
Writing- Finish conclusion paragraphs for Charlemagne and write final drafts of Introductory and Conclusion paragraphs for Charlemagne (we will not write 3 body paragraphs this time).
Grammar: WOL pages 74-81, Grammar Quiz based on these pages on Friday, 10/28.