Weekly Highlights:
14: Jump Rope for Heart, 9:30 AM
14: Valentine's Party, 2:00 PM
14: Green Team, 3:45-4:30 PM
20: President's Day: No School
*Mrs. Sagona has challenged the school to read 1 million minutes by May 15. If the students and teachers reach the goal, each class will earn an ice cream party and an additional recess. Students should continue to read each night for 20 minutes (at least) and record this information on their reading logs. We continue to record the minutes we read each day in school on the log as well.
Math 4:
Mathematics is the study of patterns and relationships. In this unit, students explore the patterns that exist in the multiplication and division of multi-digit numbers and within the measurement system for time.
In Grade 3, students multiplied multi-digit by single digit numbers and practiced a variety of strategies for multiplication and division. Earlier in Grade 4, students developed fluency with single digit multiplication and division and applied their knowledge of factors and multiples to whole numbers and fractions. In this unit, students examine the patterns in multiples of ten and the inverse patterns that occur in division. They refine and apply the strategies learned in Grade 3 to multiply multi-digit numbers and divide multi-digit by single digit numbers. Students also recognize that the context of a division problem determines how any remainder will be used.
Grade 3 students learned to tell time to the minute and to determine elapsed time using clocks and calendars. In this unit, students tell time to the second and investigate equivalent periods of time. They determine elapsed time without the use of manipulatives and use elapsed time to determine start and end times.
THIS WEEK: Students will begin this new unit by estimating products to determine the reasonableness of answers. They will also multiply whole numbers by 2 and 3 digit factors. Be sure to continue practicing those basic facts at home!
We are using the Kahn Academy website to take individualized tutorials to practice our multiplication facts. For more information, visit
http://www.khanacademy.org/%20and%20search%20for%20basic%20multiplication.
http://www.multiplication.com/
Social Studies:
Students in fourth grade are using knowledge about human features, physical features, human characteristics and geographic characteristics learned about Native Americans, West Africans, and Western Europeans to read about Tlinget people of the Northwest Coast. This summative assessment will give students the opportunity to analyze slides of Native peoples and read articles to determine the cultural characteristics of how the Tlinget people live.
Reading:
This week we will continue to practice writing Brief Contstructed Responses. We continue to use the Writing Fix website that has great resources to practice responses:
http://writingfix.com/RICA/constructed_response.htm#passages
Our skill focus this week is summarizing. We will learn the strategies of SWBS (Somebody Wanted But So) and Synthesize to summarize information from fiction text. Students will use graphic organizers to practice these skills and then produce a piece to demonstrate a summarizer of text.
READING HOMEWORK: Students are asked to read 20 minutes each night at home and record on their reading log. This is an independent book of their choosing. They are then asked to prepare for a book talk on Fridays. They should bring the book and be able to tell us something about the book (other than just a summary).
Some examples are:
*What is your favorite part of the book? Why?
*Why did you choose to read this book?
*Who would you recommend reading this book? Why?
*What characters are you most like? Why?
*Are you going to continue to read this book or will you abandon it? Why?
*Can you share a favorite part of the story with us? Why?
*Who is your least favorite character? Why?
*Would you act the same way as the character? Why?
Writing:
Students will begin to develop writing projects for quarter 3. This week's focus from the 6 traits of writing will be sentence fluency.
A link to a website for additional information on the 6 Traits is below:
http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/concord/teacherlinks/sixtraits/sixtraits.html
Spelling:
Sort 11 will focus on the suffixes -al, -ial and -ic. These suffixes signal adjectives derived from nouns and sometimes verbs. They suggest things that are associated or relating to. For example, anything fictional is related to fiction.
Our spelling test will be taken on Friday, February 24.
A great resource we found includes other ways for students to practice their spelling, even some apps for devices. The spelling activities that we suggested in the students spelling journals are just suggestions. Please feel free to adapt as your child needs to.
http://support.weta.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=43183.0&dlv_id=48444
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