The Flying Rockstar News
2-5-2016, Level Creek Elementary School, 4th grade
Friday folders
Student Led Conferences
You can still opt to not have a conference at this time if you chose. Your child can still share his/her Thinglink presentation with you at home.
I can't Hear you!
Quality Work Check-organization, reading, and Following Directions!
Big 20s...They will count as grades now
General Class information
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Next Week's Important Events
You can find a homeroom special's schedule on our class website.
Week of February 8th:
Monday Day 5,
Tuesday Day 6
Wednesday Day 1 (PE)
Thursday Day 2, Spelling test
Friday Day 3, Mentor Quiz, LA eClass Post due, TenMarks due, Midterms
Revolution Hero Project is Due February 19th. (All parts)
This week in Language Arts...
Language Arts - Parents, Genre Bingo Cards were checked this week for progress. Sadly, many students had nothing recorded on their card so far for the 3rd quarter. This puts them in jeopardy of not reaching the 5 box minimum required this quarter. I need parents to check the card weekly. Also, the date that a book is finished should be accurate. Students have to guess when they fail to record the titles as they complete the book. Please do not initial, however, until your child has correctly written the title, pages or chapters, date finished in the box. Your attention to this is greatly appreciated!
I can....
- select books from a variety of genres to read at home and meet 4th grade reading requirements. (Genre Bingo Card)
- participate in discussions to express my own ideas or build on others’ ideas clearly.
- use correct spelling, capitalization, & punctuation in all of my writing.
This week in Math...Fractions
We have begun our unit on Decimals and Patterning. By the end of the second unit you child will be able to
"I Can"....
Write a fraction with denominator 10 as an equivalent fraction with denominator 10
Write and express fractions with denominators 10 or 100 as decimals
Read, write, order, and compare place value of decimals to hundredths
Compare decimals using <, >, or = by reasoning about their size and prove my work by using a visual model
Make a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule.
Identify and explain apparent features of the pattern that were not explicit in the rule itself and use these observations to determine the next terms of the pattern.
Use equivalent fractions to add two fractions with respective denominators 10 and 100
This week in Science and Social Studies...
By the end of these units....your student should be able to...
Science: Forces and Simple Machines (a 2 part unit)
"I Can"...
- identify the nature of work
- identify and demonstrate forces such as push and pull
- observe how force and friction affect speed and motion using different sized objects
- explain what happens to the speed or direction of an object when a greater force than the original force is applied
- demonstrate the effect of gravitational force on the motion of an object
- identify and compare simple machines (lever, pulley, wedge, inclined plane, screw, wheel and axle) and their uses
- understand and explain the following vocabulary terms: force, motion, work, inertia, speed, energy, friction, gravity
Social Studies: Revolutionary War!
- compare the strengths and weaknesses of colonial America during the American Revolution.
- explain how the Americans and the British attempted to use the physical geography of each battle site to its benefit
- compare the Americans' strategy of guerrilla warfare to traditional battlefields.
- determine the importance of the following events in helping to impact the outcome of the American Revolution
· Battles of Lexington and Concord
· Battle of Bunker Hill
· Valley Forge
· Battle of Trenton
· Battle of Saratoga
· Battle of Yorktown
· Battle of Kettle Creek
- locate major man-made features to include New York City, NY; Boston, MA; Philadelphia, PA.
- explain why Cornwallis was forced to surrender at Yorktown
- explain the how and why the Declaration of Independence was written by identifying
· who wrote it
· when it was written
· how it was written
· why it was necessary
· how it was a response to tyranny and the abuse of power
- identify the natural rights as found in the Declaration of Independence ex. the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
- define independence and revolution
- determine the role and importance of
· King George III
· George Washington
· Benjamin Franklin
· Thomas Jefferson
· Benedict Arnold
· Patrick Henry
· John Adams
· Lafayette
· Paul Revere
· Minutemen
· Thomas Paine
· Lord Cornwallis
· Samuel Adams
- explain how price incentives affect people's behavior and choices such as colonial decisions about what crops to grow and products to produce.
- name positive character traits of key historic figures and government leaders (honesty, patriotism, courage, trustworthiness) associated with the American Revolution.
- describe and explain how specialization and voluntary exchange improves standards of living such as how specific economies in the three colonial regions developed.
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