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 Welcome to Mrs. Taylor's Fourth Grade School Notes PageSecond Nine Weeks 2008Homework: October 27-31, 2008 Remember to read every night for 15 minutes and get reading log signed. Monday, 10-27 Reading Math Word Study Social Studies: Science: Tuesday, 10-28 Parental Involvement OpportunityEvery Monday we will begin a new math lesson. I would like to invite parents to come in and sit with your child as I teach the math lesson. Our Math time is 9:30 am until 11:00 am. I thought this might be a way to help bridge the gap between school and homework Calendar of Events
October 30th : Tasty Thursdays- Come eat lunch with your child October 30th First School Incentive Reward (Behavior, Homework, Classwork, No absences, tardies, or leave earlies) October 31st Friday Parent Readers October 31st Halloween Party October 31st Reading Log Awards School Wide Dates: October 20-31- Walk around the track 32 times for a mile Id Walk a Mile to Be Drug Free October 30: Interim Reports
Skills for the Second Nine Weeks Math: Multiplication and Division Your child needs to know multiplication facts 0-12 to be successful in this unit. Please practice these facts every night 4-2.3 Apply an algorithm to multiply whole numbers fluently.4-2.2 Apply divisibility rules for 2, 5, and 10. 4-2.3 Apply an algorithm to multiply whole numbers fluently. 4-2.5 Generate strategies to divide whole numbers by single-digit divisors 4-3.1 Analyze numeric, nonnumeric, and repeating patterns involving all operations and decimal patterns through hundredths. 4-3.2 Generalize a rule for numeric, nonnumeric, and repeating patterns involving all operations. 4-3.3 Use a rule to complete a sequence or a table. 4.3.4 Translate among letters, symbols, and words to represent quantities in simple mathematical expressions or equations. 4.3.5 Apply procedures to find the value of an unknown letter or symbol in a whole-number equation. Social Studies- Exploration and Colonization of the New World (America)4-1.1 Explain the political, economic, and technological factors that led to the exploration of the New World by Spain, Portugal, and England, including the competition between nation-states, the expansion of international trade, and the technological advances in shipbuilding and navigation. 4-1.2 Summarize the motivation and accomplishments of the Vikings and the Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French explorers, including Leif Eriksson, Christopher Columbus, Hernando de Soto, Ferdinand Magellan, Henry Hudson, John Cabot, and Robert LaSalle. 4-1.3 Use a map to identify the routes of various sea and land expeditions to the New World and match these to the territories claimed by different nations-including the Spanish dominance in South America and the French, Dutch, and English exploration in North America-and summarize the discoveries associated with these expeditions. 4-2.3 Identify the English, Spanish, and French colonies in North America and summarize the motivations for the settlement of these colonies, including freedom of worship, and economic opportunity. 4-2.6 Explain the impact of indentured servitude and slavery on life in the New World and the contributions of African slaves to the development of the American colonies, including farming techniques, cooking styles, and languages Science: Properties of Electricity and Light First 11 days we will focus just on Light 4-5.1: Summarize the basic properties of Light including brightness and color 4-5.2: Illustrate the fact that light as a form of energy is made up of many different colors 4-5.3: Summarize how light travels and explain what happens when it strikes an object: reflection, refraction, and absorption 4-5.4:Compare how light behaves when it strikes transparent, translucent, and opaque materials ELA Word Wall Words: These are basic words that fourth graders need to know for the second nine weeks. Please practice them each night at home. They will be tested on 5 every week. They must know how to spell and pronounce the word and know what the word means. Week 10-13 sight, interest, plenty, regular, boring, Week 10-20 proud, gold, bugs, stand, exciting, Week 10-27 certain, protect, form, fourth, wait, Week 11-3moon, answer, rainbow, freedom, shouldve, Week 11-10 tomorrow, classes, winter, huge, enter, Week 11-17 rode, admire, almost, drying, forward, Week 12-1 change, exit, isnt, themselves, hurry, Week 12-8 another, lie, other, chance, simple Word Study 4-3.1: Generate the meaning of unfamiliar and multiple meaning words by using context clues 4-3.2 Us base words and affixes to determine the meanings of words 4-3.3 Spell correctly words with prefixes week of 10- 13 non-, week of 10-20 over-, week of 10-27 port-, week of 11- 3 struct-, week of 11-10 tri- Spell correctly words with suffixes Week of 11- 17 able, Week of 12-1-ible, Week of 12-8 -al, -il, -ir Week of 12-15 -ance, Spell correctly multisyllabic words Reading: Ongoing Strategy Focus: Visualizing: Making Connections: Questioning: Determining Importance: Reading Skills Informational Text: 3 weeks Author Study: Jean Fritz Week of 10-13 Summarize evidence that supports the central idea of a given information text Week of 10-17 Analyze informational texts to draw conclusions and make inferences Week of 10-20 Anaylze informational text to locate and identify facts and opinions Ongoing review of: Use headings, subheadings, print styles, white space, captions, and chapter headings to gain informationLiterary Text: Author Study: Alma Flor Ada Week of 10-27 Main Idea Week of 11- 3 Author's Craft: Word choice, sentence structure, use of figurative language and dialogue Author's Study Janet Wong Poetry Week of 11- 10 Figurative Language- personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, and alliteration Week of 11-10 and 11-17 Poetry: stanza, rhyme, and repetitionClassify works of fiction Week of 11- 24 Tall Tales Week of 12- 1 Tall Tales Week of 12-8 Fables Week of 12- 15 folktales Writing: Over the course of the second nine weeks students will work to create responses to literary text and informational text. They will also generate and organize ideas for writing using prewriting strategies such as making a lists, having discussions, and examining literary models. Students will be asked to write a variety of sentences including simple and compound sentences and create multiple paragraph compositions. Revising is also an important part of writing. Students will use strategies to improve organization, content and the quality of voice in their writing. October Unit of Study: Informational Pieces Week of Oct. 13 Postcards Week of Oct. 17 Postcards Weeks of Oct. 20 Emails/Flyers Week of Oct. 27 Letters November Unit of Study: Written Pieces to entertain November 3-14 Skits November 17- 25 Plays Grammar: (Ongoing Skills) Conjunctions: although, while, neither, nor Pronoun antecedent agreement Editing: Capitalization: Proper Adjectives , Names of Organizations Punctuation: Quotation marks to indicate direct quotations or dialogue ( We will focus on this skill during our Authors Craft Study) Spelling Words with suffixes and prefixes(Word Study) Second 9 Weeks Vocabulary TermsMath Vocabulary: Inverse operations fact family Grouping Property of Multiplication Parenthesis expression equation variable addition subtraction multiplication division input output Social Studies charter stock cash crop indentured servant House of Burgesses Northwest Passage Pilgrim Separatist persecution Mayflower Compact Puritan fact and opinion dissenter proprietor debtor Science light wavelength reflection refraction absorption transparent translucent opaque November Dates: November 2 Daylight savings- Fall Forward November 4 Election Day- No School November 11 Veterans Day November 26-28 Thanksgiving Holidays November Birthdays: November 9 Mikenzi Walker November 11 Taylor Golden December Dates December 9 End of First Semester December 11 Report Cards December 19 Half Day December 22- January 2 Christmas Break January 5-9 Intercession December Birthdays Natali Cadena December 1 WHOSE CHILD IS THIS? |
