Hi Fourth Grade Families,

Week 2 of Quarter 3 is off to a strong start!  We are already invested in our unit studies and digging deep into all sorts of interesting learning.  I hope your dinner conversations have been filled with talks of Paul Revere’s Ride, The Earth’s Four Layers, Figurative Language in Poetry, the 3 regions of Arizona and Conversions of Measurement. 

 If you didn’t hear this doozy of a song pertaining to figurative language, give it a play with your kids for a good laugh- https://open.spotify.com/track/67pP5MaSKkrPM3znai83hw

*****On Wednesday in Science, we will do an experiment with plate tectonics and are in need of 3-4 boxes of plain graham crackers and 3-4 tubs of cake frosting per 4th grade class.  If you can send in any of these supplies, please email your teacher and let them know!  Thank you so much!******

Q3 Week 2 At a Glance:

Literature: In poetry we are studying different types of poems including: color poems, simile and metaphor, couplets and triplets, haiku, parts of speech poems, and creating their own triplets and diamante poems.

Writing Composition: We will work on summarizing two passages, and listen and write two dictation passages.

Grammar: We are practicing prepositions in diagramming, reviewing 8 parts of speech and diagramming.

Q3 W2 Roots  

 

Mon 

geo = earth 

ge ol o gy (n)  the science that deals with nature and Earth history 

ge og ra phy (n)  draw the earth (make maps) and write about it 

ge ode (n)  a hollow, usually round rock with crystals lining the inside wall 

ge om e try (n)  branch of study on ways to measure the earth (Metron = measure) 

 

Tues 

terra = land 

ter ri to ry (n)  the land under the authority of a government 

ter race (n) a flat, narrow stretch of ground, often having a steep slope  

ter ra cot ta (n) a hard red-brown clay, used for pottery  and  building construction. 

ter res tri al (n) someone who lives on Earth 

ex tra ter res tri al (n) something not of Earth (extra = out) 

sub ter ra ne an (adj) underground or existing underground 

 

Wed 

naut/nav = sea 

nau ti cal (adj) relating to ships or sailing 

as tro naut (n) a person who travels into space or who is trained for space 

nav i gate (v) to plan your course or to steer, guide or move through something 

cir cum nav i gate (v) to  travel  completely  around  somewhere or something, especially by  sail 

nau seous (adj) a feeling of being sick to your stomach 

Math:

Monday- Measurement Quiz, common conversions

We will continue and review conversions of measurements into whole and fractional parts.

Friday- Measurement Chapter 5 Test

History:

We will identify the three major Native American peoples to inhabit Arizona prior to 1400AD, and how they were similar/different.

Science:

Students will  understand that the crust is moving and that  Alfred Wegener deduced that all of Earth’s continents were once joined.  We will see how scientists came to believe Wegener’s theory after the development of better technology.   They will learn how scientists eventually proved Wegener’s theory.  There will be an introduction to plate boundaries. Through hands-on activity at desks, we will see the reaction when plates interact with each other in various movements.  Students will understand the different plate boundaries and the various geologic events surrounding those movements.