Weekly Newsletter
Cross Oaks 4th Grade
Announcements
- Please send your child with a special picture this week. The picture will be taped/glued into their writing journal and used as a prompt to write about.
- Clear Creek volunteer sign up
- This past Friday we celebrated freedom for Constitution day by watching a video created by Plano West High School.
- There will be an informational meeting for Destination Imagination on September 21 from 6:30-7:30 in the Board Room for those interested in coaching.
What We're Learning
This week we'll be learning about the following topics:
- Comparing and ordering decimals using a numberline.
- Adding 3- and 4-digit numbers.
- Recording strategies and solutions.
- Justifying whether or not addition expressions are equivalent.
- Making inferences.
- Working on our SWBST summaries.
- Procedures for writer's workshop.
- How to write a powerful Hook for a piece of writing.
- Showing instead of telling in our writing.
- Using suspense to hook the reader.
- Writing a reflective conclusion.
- Continuing properties of matter.
- Mixture vs. Solution.
- Making predictions when applying heat to matter.
What We've Been Working On
Last week we learned about:
- Comparing and ordering decimals.
- Representing decimals on a number line.
- How to justify ordering decimals using a number line.
- Making inferences.
- Summary using Somebody Wanted But So Then format (SWBST).
- Procedures for writer's workshop.
- Properties of matter.
- Mixtures and solutions.
- Regions of Texas.
- Celebrate Freedom.