The end of the quarter is here! We had a great time celebrating with those who met their AR goals today. We got to watch Ramona and Beezus (some of our students had read this book with their Literature Circle groups so it was really fun for them to make connections from the book to the movie!)
Reminders:
Tomorrow is a 1/2 day
Parent/Teacher conferences are next week. If you need to change your appointment time please call the office ASAP!
Report cards will be given out at Parent/Teacher conferences.
In reading this week, we will continue working on vocabulary and inferencing with out story Bunnicula. They are really enjoying this funny story about a "vampire bunny" and the crazy cat/dog pair who investigate him.
In writing this week, we are going to begin working on opinion writing. Ultimately, they will be writing an opinion piece on the 2 presidential candidates (this has made for some interesting conversations already, as you can imagine!) We will discuss using facts to support our opinions. They will present their papers on November 7th and then the whole 4th grade will vote for a president on the 8th.
In social studies, we will continue our unit on government. In this unit we'll study the 3 branches of government. We will also look at federal government vs. state government. This unit and our writing unit blend really well with the election coming up!
In spelling, we're working on the suffix -able and -ible. Please help your student study and understand their rule for this week. This will help them with their test Friday and with other words with this suffix.
In math, we will continue focusing on multiplying multidigit numbers. We will also move on to multiplying 2 digit numbers times 2 digit numbers. We teach and study the "turtlehead method." If your student is struggling with these types of multiplication problems. Here is a link to the video we watch to introduce this method. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hcKERTnNi0
Have a great week!!
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