Q3W4
Welcome to the fourth week of the third quarter of Fourth Grade! Scholars should focus this week on memorizing stanza 4 of Paul Revere's Ride and preparing for Comprehension Checks in both History and Science on Thursday and Friday.
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Reminder:
Fourth Grade Homework Expectations
It is the scholar's responsibility to regularly communicate with their parents about any missing assignments. Students receive a daily notification of any late work. This will not happen in 5th grade.
For Quarters 2-4, all late assignments will incur a 10% deduction per day. After 10 school days, missing assignments will be recorded as a zero in the grade book.
NEWS:
First Q3 History and Science Comprehension Check this Thursday. History: “Why would the period we discussed be considered Islam’s Golden Age? Provide accomplishments of Islamic expansion, learning, culture, and influence on the western world.” Science: Why is Earth's surface always changing?
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Dress Code Notes:
Only school logo sweaters are allowed to be worn in the building. Non-dress code sweaters/fleeces/jackets can be worn at recess only and must be in their backpack/cubby while in the building. Now that the weather is getting cooler, remember that long sleeve shirts worn underneath a polo can be white, maroon, navy, or black. Black or blue leggings are allowed under skirts, but they should reach the sock line (not capri length).
CURRICULUM:
ELA:
POETRY "Paul Revere's Ride" stanza 4 is due this Friday, January 31st. This poem spans 13 weeks (into Q4) and culminates in a grade-wide reciting of the poem in entirety for the parents.
This Poem is a behemoth of a memorization task for scholars. It should be taken seriously and can be enjoyable to accomplish such a task. In Fourth Grade, we do not have any "at-home" projects per se. Consider the memorization and recitation of this work a 13 week-long project endeavor. It can even become a family practice to memorize the weekly stanza.
Helpful Practices for Memorization:
-Listen to the poem in it's entirety, daily
-Scholars should write out the stanza memorization for the week (hang it on the bathroom mirror)
-Illustrate or act out the stanza
-Look up unfamiliar words or phrases to understand the meaning
-Re-write that section in your own words (modern language)
-Perform a word while another person says every other word until scholar can say it independently
-Practice reciting in the mirror
-Make up body or hand motions to certain lines and phraes
-Write the stanza out on a whiteboard and erase a word or phrase
-Tell yourself everyday, "I can memorize this, and so did the Fourth Graders before me!"
LITERATURE In culmination of our poetry unit, we will finish writing, analyzing and illustrating our chosen poem. Scholars will then read their poem with the class and identify the poetic elements as defined in the red spiral notes. Student poems will be anthologized in a class book for each scholar as a keepsake of poetry.
**In Q3W4, the fourth grade will begin the next book in the Chronicles of Narnia series, "Prince Caspian". If your child has never read the prior, "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", please ensure they read it before we begin the next book.
In the COMPOSITION program for the week we will work on writing a summary of a narrative poem and complete a dictation for a grade.
In GRAMMAR, we continue prepositions and prepositional phrases in WOL. Scholars will complete lessons B and C in the WOL book, and they will demonstrate understanding with a graded prepositions homework and an in-class grammar quiz on the WOL chapter. A preposition is a word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object. For example in the sentence, "The horse jumped over the fence" "over the fence" is the prepositional phrase with "over" being the preposition. Analyzing and diagramming prepositional phrases is a key concept to master in fourth and fifth grade grammar understanding.
In LATIN AND GREEK ROOTS we have 3 roots this week:
cen tum – hundred
cent (n) one hundredth of a dollar
cen tu ry (n) a hundred-year period
cen tu ri on (n) Roman military officer over 100 men
cen ti me ter (n) one hundredth of a meter (metron=measure)
per cent (n) number of parts in every hundred; 10 cents is 10 percent of a dollar (per=through)
cen ti pede (n) hundred-footed “bug” (pes, pedis= foot)
cen ti grade (n) temperature scale with one hundred degrees between freezing and boiling (gradus=step, degree)
mille – thousand
mil li me ter (n) one thousandth of a meter (metro=measure)
mil len ni um (n) thousand-year period or anniversary
mil li pede (n) thousand-footed “bug” (ped, pedis-foot)
decem – ten
De cem ber (n) tenth month in the old Roman calendar
dec i mal (n) pertaining to tenths or to the number 10
Math:
In Math, we will begin Chapter 7 decimal concepts in our new 4B Green and Blue Math books. We have these for the students in the classroom. Scholars should keep the 4A books at home until the end of the school year.
History:
In History in W4, we will wrap our unit on Early Islamic Civilizations. We will read chapter 5 about the Crusades and review and take the Comprehension Check on Thursday.
Science:
We will continue our study of the Earth and its structures in W4. We will look at how Plate Tectonics works (convection currents inside the Earth move the lithospheric plates on which the continents sit), plate boundaries and the causes of earthquakes. The first geology Comprehension Check will be assessed on Friday, 1/31.
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