Math
We are continuing to extend multiplication computation. The standard is for your fourth grader to be able to multiply 2 digit by 2 digit numbers using a variety of methods. You may see partial products and area model homework practice coming home. Please remember how important being fluent in your multiplication facts is to this process! Practice, practice, practice!
Science
We've completed the water cycle, and are now working on weather forecasting and weather instruments. We plan on making a weather map and creating our own weather forecast as a culminating activity. Have your child start watching the weather report on the news with you daily to get some ideas!
Writing
How do I know if my writing is good? This week we finished rewriting a Haunted House story, making sure to include an engaging beginning, complex characters, descriptive language to establish a setting, and a sense of closure. This piece of writing will be graded. We also wrote a "Diary of a Water Drop" as part of our Science curriculum. Next week we will continue narrative writing with a new project, as well as doing a pre-assessment on our next genre - Response to Literature. We are currently reading aloud a very amusing book called Stuart's Capeto base this piece of writing on.
Reading
Guided reading groups will be reading weather books, and practicing using text features to locate information, and using strategies to locate the answers to our questions.
Grammar
Complext subjects and predicates, varying our sentence lengths when we write using compound instead of simple sentences. Next week we'll begin a Shurley English unit on prepositions.
Spelling/Vocab
This week we will have a test Wed over the words in Vocabulary Unit 4, and reviewing Units 1-4. Thursday we'll begin studying the words in Sitton Spelling Units 7/8, with a test planned for Friday, Oct. 31st!! Visit the Sitton Spelling website (link on right) to preview the words.
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