MUR - This week we will be reading the story Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat by Jennifer Armstrong. We will be working on putting the pieces of retell together. These pieces include character, setting, and plot. Along with the story we will work out of our Wordly Wise books which focus on vocabulary. This week we will continue working on Lesson 10. We will also work out of our Analytical Grammar books where we have just about finished our workbooks! We will still continue to work on identifying nouns, proper nouns, articles, adjectives, pronouns, prepositions, verbs, and adverbs within sentences. Spelling homework is due Friday.
MUM - We will continue to work on algebra this week. We will be working specifically with order of operation and number patterns.
History - This week we will continue to work on the Dynasties of China unit. The unit has a total of ten chapters and we will be spending the next two and a half weeks working through these chapters. The quiz will be on all ten chapters and will be given on Monday the 23rd. The study guide will go home on Monday the 16th.
Writing - This week we are starting a new writing project. Students will be writing autobiographies about their lives. They will be creating a final project using Power Point and will present these to the class.
Read Aloud - We are taking a break from our 4th grade Core Knowledge novels and reading the book The Twits by Roald Dahl.
