Q1W4
Hello!
Progress reports are on the horizon! This means not only are the students busy, but it is vital they remain caught up and dedicated to their homework, test, and the like. It is only now that the pressures of fourth grade really begin to make themselves known, but I know this year's class is more than up to the challenge. We are seriously impressed with their work ethic, but expect their mettle to be tested in the coming week.
NEWS:
-Kingdom Crest due on 8/30. This optional activity allows for students to potentially be the designer of their kingdom's emblem and the further chance of winning points for their kingdom. All submissions must be turned in by 8/30 to ensure they are in the pool to be judged.
-Math Test on 9/1. We wrap up our quick review on addition and subtraction on this upcoming Friday, so ensure your students are prepared.
-Half day 9/1. This Friday is a half day, so please prepare accordingly to pick up your student at 12:30p.m. There are no clubs or other afterschool activities on Friday sans Atheneum.
-No school on 9/4. This is labor day.
-Students will recite "The Moon" by 9/8. It is important that students are practicing their poem so they can recite it by this date.
CURRICULUM:
ELA:
In GRAMMAR, we will use our WOL book in order to practice and master adverbs within a sentence. This includes identifying, analyzing, and diagramming them. We will also continue our review of helping verbs.
LITERATURE continues with the reading of Wizard of Oz chapters 13-17, so please ensure your student has their copy at school. We will utilize the text to practice understanding order of conflict, resolution, and themes.
We continue our COMPOSITION program, which will spend a great deal of time practicing their writing. This week we will focus on summary construction, one assessment of which shall be graded, and one dictation. We will also review capitalization rules.
In LATIN AND GREEK ROOTS, we will be learning our next three roots; co, and contra. With them we will learn the definition and spelling of the following: community, coexist, coordinates, cohesive, contrast, contrary, contradict, contraction, and contract.
We have a new poem for POETRY RECITATION. Students will be memorizing the poem "The Moon" by Robert Louis Stevenson and will recite it in front of the class on September 8th.
For PHILOSOPHY, we discuss the following question: what does perseverance look like?
Math:
In math, we already wrap up our unit on addition and subtraction. This smaller unit is mostly review and introductory, so we will finish it with further breakdown of word problems, including two-step variants, and chapter review before the test on Friday, 9/1.
History:
In history, we begin our new unit on world mountains. This begins with understanding why mountains are significant, learning about key mountain ranges and peaks across the world, and discovering how life has adapted to the frosted regions upon those peaks.
Science:
We continue our investigation of chemistry by learning about how atoms work together to form the different building blocks of the universe and how they subsequently can be categorized into different categories. This includes learning about compounds, molecules, states of matter, density, etc.
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