October 24-28

Odds and Ends...

- The next day that students can wear their class t-shirts is October 28th!

This Week's Academics
MUR - This week we will be reading the story "Two Pairs of Eyes." We will really be working on retelling the story this week. Along with the story we will work out of our Wordly Wise books which focus on vocabulary and also out of our Analytical Grammar books where we have already started working with nouns, proper nouns,  adjectives, articles, and pronouns.
Spelling homework is due Friday.

MUM - This week we will be wrapping up long division and moving into fractions! We will start with a review of what the students already know about fractions, and then move into adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators.

Most students have not mastered their facts higher than 5s. Memorizing their facts 6-9 will help them with the skills we will be working on the rest of the school year. Each student made flashcards for 6-9 in class last week that they should have brought home to work with. If you have not seen these flashcards, let me know.

Basic facts homework is due Friday!

History - We will continue to work through chapters 8-10 in our Europe in the Middle Ages unit this week. The quiz for these 10 chapters will be on Friday, October 28th.
Students who are working on the independent project will present on Monday, October 31st. (This is a change from this Friday the 28th.)

Writing - This week we will continue to work on our informative papers on endangered animals. Each student is taking notes that will guide them through the paper writing process. We will have a publishing party at the end of the week to celebrate our final published pieces.

Read Aloud - We are reading the Core Knowledge Novel Robin Hood this week. It ties in nicely to our history unit about Europe in the Middle Ages and students will see a lot of similarities between the two.

On Friday, we will have our fall party. Since one of our Core Knowledge novels in 4th grade is The Legend of Sleepy Hallow by Washington Irving, we will be watching the Disney version of The Legend of Sleepy Hallow. Permission slips to watch the movie will go home early this week.

October 17-19

Odds and Ends...

- Science Family Fun Night is October 14th at 6:30 pm.

- No school on October 20-21 for MEA

- Conferences will be the evenings of the 13th, 18th, and 19th of October. If you have a child that is just in my MUM/MUR class, feel free to sign up if you would like to chat!

 

- The next day that students can wear their class t-shirts is October 28th!

This Week's Academics
MUR - This week we will be reading the story "How the Peasants Bought Wisdom." We will really be working on retelling the story this week. Along with the story we will work out of our Wordly Wise books which focus on vocabulary and also out of our Analytical Grammar books where we have already started working with nouns, adjectives, and articles.
No spelling homework this week!

MUM - This week we will start working on long division. Long division is a HARD concept for students to learn and will take some time for students to master this skill.

Most students have not mastered their facts higher than 5s. Memorizing their facts 6-9 will help them with the skills we will be working on the rest of the school year. Each student made flashcards for 6-9 in class last week that they should have brought home to work with. If you have not seen these flashcards, let me know!

There is no Basic Facts Homework this week!

History - We will continue to work through our Europe in the Middle Ages unit this week. We will go through chapter 5 on Monday. We will take a quiz after the first 10 chapters. This puts the tentative quiz date the Friday October 28th. There will also be an at home project that students will be responsible for completing. This project will be introduced next week.

Writing - This week we will continue to work on our informative papers on endangered animals. Each student is taking notes that will guide them through the paper writing process.

Read Aloud - We are reading the Core Knowledge Novel Robin Hood this week. It ties in nicely to our history unit about Europe in the Middle Ages and students will see a lot of similarities between the two.

October 10-14

Odds and Ends...

- School pictures will be on October 14th. This will be an out of uniform day.

- No school on October 20-21 for MEA

- Conferences will be the evenings of the 13th, 18th, and 19th of October.

 

- The next day that students can wear their class t-shirts is October 28th!

This Week's Academics
MUR - This week we will be reading the story "Two Brothers" by Tolstoy. We will really be working on retelling the story this week. Along with the story we will work out of our Wordly Wise books which focus on vocabulary and also out of our Analytical Grammar books where we have already started working with nouns, adjectives, and articles.
Spelling homework will be sent home on Monday and is due Friday. This will occur every week!

MUM - This week we will continue to work through multi-digit multiplication and start to work on long division. Long division is a HARD concept for students to learn and will take some time for students to master this skill. Most students have not mastered their facts higher than 5s. Memorizing their facts 6-9 will help them with the skills we will be working on the rest of the school year. Each student made flashcards for 6-9 in class last week that they should have brought home to work with. If you have not seen these flashcards, let me know!

Basic facts homework will be sent home on Monday and is due Friday.

History - This week we are starting our Europe in the Middle Ages unit in history. This unit is 21 chapters long, and will take us several weeks to get through. We will take a quiz after the first 10 chapters. This puts the tentative quiz date the Tuesday after MEA break which is Oct. 25th. There will also be an at home project that students will be responsible for completing. This project will be introduced next week.

Writing - This week we will learn about the 6+1writing trait VOICE. We will be writing a tribute poem that will demonstrate good voice by using specific words that create visual pictures for the reader and striking words and phrases that made the reader want to read more. We will continue to work in our cursive handwriting books and also review the basics of writing good sentences and paragraphs.
When we finish out tribute poems, then we will move into informative writing about animals. Students will learn an effective way of taking notes, and will use those notes as they draft their papers. Some research may have to be done at home.

Read Aloud - We are reading the Core Knowledge Novel Robin Hood this week. It ties in nicely to our history unit about Europe in the Middle Ages and students will see a lot of similarities between the two.

October 3-7

Odds and Ends...

- School pictures will be on October 14th. This will be an out of uniform day.

- No school on October 20-21 for MEA

- Conferences will be the evenings of the 13th, 18th, and 19th of October. Sign up will be coming soon!

This Week's Academics
MUR - This week we will be reading a fictional piece called "Charles" by Shirley Jackson. We will really be working on inferencing and retelling the story this week. Along with the story we will work out of our Wordly Wise books which focus on vocabulary and also out of our Analytical Grammar books where we have already started working with nouns, adjectives, and articles.
Spelling homework will be sent home on Monday and is due Friday. This will occur every week!

MUM - This week we will continue to work through multi-digit multiplication and start to work on long division. Long division is a HARD concept for students to learn and will take some time for students to master this skill. Most students have not mastered their facts higher than 5s. Memorizing their facts 6-9 will help them with the skills we will be working on the rest of the school year. Each student made flashcards for 6-9 in class last week that they should have brought home to work with. If you have not seen these flashcards, let me know!

Basic facts homework will be sent home on Monday and is due Friday.

Science -We will continue to work on our first science unit this week which is all about Meteorology. We will be learning specifically about tornadoes, hurricanes, thunder, lightning and forecasting.

The quiz for this unit will be on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7th. The study guide will be send home on Monday, October 3rd. All the answers can be found in their meteorology journal that we have created throughout the unit in class. There are also several handouts that students are keeping in their science folders that will help them study for the quiz.

Writing - This week we will learn about the 6+1writing trait VOICE. We will be writing a tribute poem that will demonstrate good voice by using specific words that create visual pictures for the reader and striking words and phrases that made the reader want to read more. We will continue to work in our cursive handwriting books and also review the basics of writing good sentences and paragraphs.

Read Aloud - We are reading the Core Knowledge Novel The Legend of Sleepy Hallow this week. This book contains four short stories. We will be reading The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle and then moving on to our next novel.