November 14-18

Weekly Highlights:
SGA elections are coming! Stay tuned for more information
November 16:  Map Project due in Social Studies
November 20: Green Team Grounds Clean Up 11:00-1:00

Math 4:
Students will continue focus on identifying factors and multiples this week.

A number may be made by multiplying two or more other numbers together. The numbers that are multiplied together are called factors of the final number. All numbers have a factor of one since one multiplied by any number equals that number. All numbers can be divided by themselves to produce the number one. Therefore, we normally ignore one and the number itself as useful factors.

A multiple in math is any number that is a product of the number. The multiples in math are found by taking the products of any counting number and that number. For example 2,4,6,8 are all multiples of 2.


We are using the Kahn Academy website to take individualized tutorials to practice our multiplication facts. For more information, visit

http://www.khanacademy.org/ and search for basic multiplication.
http://www.multiplication.com/

Social Studies:
Thank you to Mr. Allan for coming in to share information about your grandfather with our class.  Thank your for showing us his Purple Heart.  We are grateful for his service to our country.   If any other parents would like to come in to share about your family, please contact Ms. Hudson.  We would love to see you!

We will continue to study political, physical, and thematic maps this week. We will also study the grid of a map (latitude and longitude). Reminder: Map Project due November 16.
Political Maps-include boundaries for countries, states, roads, highways, capitals, cities
Physical Maps-include land elevations, lakes, rivers, etc.
Thematic Maps-include information based on one theme (farming, population, land use, etc.)


Please remember that our MAP PROJECT is due November 16.  We will begin to share these map projects on Wednesday and continue through Friday.  Please be sure to email/call/meet with Ms. Hudson if you have any questions!




Our study of maps will lead us into studying regions of the United States and how those regions impacted Native American Settlements.  Students will then begin to research the Native Americans living in each region.  Once research is compiled, students will create a PowerPoint presentation to display what they have learned to the class.

Reading:
In reading groups, we will begin to study the reading strategy making predictions.  We will focus on making predictions before and during text for three weeks.  When making predictions, students will focus on clues in the text or text features to help them predict what will happen in a text.  We will read both fiction and nonfiction to predict outcomes.
The prediction cycle:
1. Make a prediction
2. Gather evidence to support prediction
3. Confirm or change that prediction.

Writing:
This week students will continue to revise and edit their writing pieces from quarter one. Several students have made graphs on Excel and are writing research papers about the topics. Other students are writing creative stories. Others are writing poetry collections. We can't wait to share these with you!
Once students have published their first writing projects of the year, they will move on to their second project.  Stay tuned for more information.

Spelling:
Most students will begin to study suffixes for Sort 5. Our spelling test will be WEDNESDAY November 23, 2011 due to the Thanksgiving Holiday.  Be sure to see Ms. Hudson to take your test early if you will be absent that day.


The suffixes for the next two weeks are:
-y
-ly
-ily

Students will notice that adding a y to the base word creates and adjective wheras adding -ly and -ily creates an adverb.