Weekly Spotlight:*Spelling pretest on Monday.
*Magazine turn in on Tuesday. Our class is in 2nd place!!!
*Tracks and Worms are due on Tuesday.
*Math quiz on Tuesday over lessons 1-3.
*Magazine turn in on Thursday.
*Picture Day on Thursday.
*Spelling test on Friday.
*Early Dismissal on Friday, 11:00.
*PTO Dine-out at Cozzie Corner, Sept. 29-Oct. 2.
Coming Attractions:
*Monday, October 3 - 4th grade cheer clinic.
*Wednesday, October 5 - 4th grade cheer clinic.
*Friday, October 7 - 4th grade cheer clinic.
*Tuesday, October 11 - Teacher Institute. No school.
*Thursday, October 20 - Book Fair, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
*Thursday, October 27 - Early Dismissal.
*Friday, October 28 - Bingo Night, 7:00-8:30 (Mrs. Sulima will be there!!!)
*Friday, October 28 - Halloween parade and classroom party.
Homeroom Happenings:
Science - Your child needs to make a wormy race track for Tuesday. They will choose the surface of the track, width of the track, and 2 other variables (possibly variables that we tested during our worm investigations). Directions, variable planning sheet, and grading checklist are in your child's binder. Your child's track, variable planning sheet, grading checklist, and worm are due on Tuesday. We will be having a "Worm Race" in our classroom on Tuesday. May the best worm win!!!
Social Studies - We will begin our trip around the 5 regions of the United States by visiting the Northeast. This week, we will focus on the environment of the Northeast including major landforms. Children should begin studying for our first map test on the Northeast states. They will need to know the location and spelling of all the states in the Northeast. Spelling does count and a word bank will not be included. If they know the capitals, they can earn 1/4 point bonus per capital. Students should spell the capitals as best as they can. The test will be on Thursday, October 6.
Spelling - NEW SPELLING PROCEDURE!!! Our spelling pretest will be on Monday. If your child gets 95% or higher, they will become a challenge speller. They will need to choose challenge words and do challenge activities in their spelling journal throughout the week. If your child misses 2 or more, they will continue to work with the weekly list of spelling words. Workbook pages will need to be done throughout the week. Challenge activities and workbooks pages will be due on Friday before we take the test. Challenge spellers will now take a test on their challenge words. If they get 100% on their challenge test, they will earn 2 points on their pretest score. If they do not get 100% on their challenge test, they will keep their pretest score.
English - We will continue our verb unit this week. Our focus will be on subject-verb agreement, spelling present tense verbs, spelling past tense verbs, and verbs with helping verbs. The children will also continue working on enrichment projects according to their learning contract.
Reading - Students will focus on the reading strategy to determine author's viewpoint. Author's viewpoint refers to the author's opinion, ideas of what is important or attitude. The author might give their opinion directly or you might have to infer the information by reading clues or other information that the author provides. Here is a great link to practice author’s viewpoint:
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/authorsviewpointp.cfm.
**Last week we did mini-lessons on Protagonist & Antagonist. We also learned about first person, second person, and third person point of view. Ask your child to explain these concepts to you.**
Mrs. Sulima's Math:
Monday - Adding Decimals. HW: Daily Practice Sheet & WB pg. 93 (#1-15) & pg. 95 (#1-17 no rounding). Quiz tomorrow.
Tuesday - "Check your Progress" open book/notes quiz over chapter 8, lessons 1-3. Estimating Decimal Sums. HW: Daily Practice Sheet & WB pg. 94 (#1-8).
Wednesday - Subtracting Decimals. HW: Daily Practice Sheet & WB pg. 96 (#1-15) & pg. 98 (#11-20 no rounding).
Thursday - Estimating Decimal Differences. HW: Daily Practice Sheet & WB pg. 97 (#1-8) Quiz on Monday.
Friday - No math due to early dismissal. "Check your Progress" Quiz on Monday over lessons 4-6.
