Weekly Highlights
Students will have chorus Monday from 12:30-1:20.
The Book Fair preview for fourth graders will be Wednesday from 10:30-11:20.
Bingo Night is also Wednesday.
Early Release Days for parent conferences are Thursday & Friday. Please contact your child's teacher if you have not received a conference time.
Math 4:
We will continue to learn patterns of multiplication this week. Students are expected to practice their facts (0-12) each night at home. There will be a quiz on the 15 facts to memorize on Thursday. These facts came home last Friday so that students could practice them 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/ and search for basic multiplication.
Social Studies:
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.)
Due to the early release schedule, we will have social stuides on Wednesday only this week.
Reading:
We will use retelling strategies to search for the gist of each paragraph/page as we read. We will continue to use the book After the Earthquakes to make inferences about nonfiction text. Literature Circle work for the Purple Monkeys and Vampire Bunnies is due on November 10.
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!
Spelling:
Most students will continue the prefix pattern for Sort 4. Our spelling test will be THURSDAY, November 10, 2011.
Our prefixes are:
pre- under
com- with
pro- for
en- cause
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