Weekly Highlights:

9- Laytonsville Town Tree Lighting Ceremony (chorus performs) 7:00 PM
Students do not need to wear their chorus t-shirts but should dress warmly to perform outside.

13-Science Assembly, 10:15
13-Ms. Hudson's class visits the Holiday Shop at lunch
15 & 16- Ms. Hudson's is out for two days.

Student Highlights:
*Mark has qualified to compete in the Tom Dolan Invitational swim competition this weekend.  You can watch him compete on the following website:  http://www.cubu.org/

*Catherine will be performing at the Elipse Friday, 12/9 and again at Lakeforest Mall on 12/10 at noon. 

*All chorus members are invited to perform at the Laytonsville Treelighting 12/9 at 7:00 PM



Request for Volunteers
We are looking for a volunteer to copy materials every other week. If interseted, please email Ms. Hudson or Mrs. Dynda.


Math 4:
This week we will be working on divisibilty rules and reviewing for our unit 2 assessment.
Our assessment will take place December 20 & 21.
A reviw packet was sent home 12/6 and due on 12/19 where we will discuss to prepare for our assessment.
Ms. Hudson will host a lunch study session on December 13 to go over any questions students are having before they complete the packet.


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:
Our study of maps has led 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. Our research is due to class on December 21. This is an in-class project but students may gather research at home as well. Our presentations will begin on approximately January 19.



Reading:
We will study the reading strategy makingconnections. We will focus on making three different kinds of connections: text to self, text to world, and text to text. We will read fiction stories this week to apply what we have learned about connections from nonfiction to fiction.  We will read the Jr. Great Books story "Fresh."


Text to self: connections you can make to yourself about what you are reading.

Text to world: connections you can make to your background knowledge about what you know about the world around you.

Text to text: connections you can make to another text you have read


Writing:
Students have been working on their writing piece for quarter 2 and will begin to draft their piece. We have talked about taking notes, making element of a story maps, and working on the organization of a piece of writing.

Most students have decided to write stories for the second quarter. Students must complete one writing project per quarter. We can't wait to share these with you!

Here is a sample of what is happening in class:
*Jason, Anjali and Ethan are creating journals.
*Kaley, Melanie, Ryan, and Zaria are writing stories.
*Brian is surveying the class about our favorite candies.
*Hannah is reseraching wolves.

Spelling:
We will study noun suffixes for Sort 7. Our spelling test will be Thursday December 22 due to the chorus performance. Please remember that all students are given TWO copies of their spelling lists: one for class and one for home. They must have their list with them in order to take their spelling test (all students have different lists).


The suffixes for the two weeks are:
-er, -or, -ian, -ist

These suffixes indicate agents, something or someone that does, or is related to the base word. The suffixes -er and -or are often added to a verb to create a noun that is a "doer."  The suffix -ian has several sounds and we will continue to explore throughout other sorts.