News from Room 40
Week of 1/23 - 1/27
News at a glance...
Sorry for the long delay in Newsletters! They have returned for good.
- We are halfway through 4th grade already!!!
- This week we will be taking our Math, Reading and Journey's benchmark tests (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday). Scores will be sent home with the weekly test reports.
- We have completed learning fractions (now just practicing) and are moving onto decimals.
- We started our PA History unit in Social Studies
Field Trip: Farm Show
What We're Learning This Week...
Journey's
This week’s…
- Target Vocabulary: reward, graduate, symbol, foster, disobey, confidence, patiently, confesses, ceremony, performs
- Vocabulary Strategy: Suffixes -ion, -ation, -ition
- Comprehension Skill: Sequence of events—understand how the order of events contributes to the text
- Comprehension Strategy: Summarize— put the most important ideas into your own words
- Writing Focus: Narrative paragraphs
Math: Decimals
This week we are transitioning from fractions to decimals. With this, we are understanding how decimals are also a part of a whole number just like fractions. This week we are focusing on identifying, naming and writing decimals that use the tenths and hundredths place. We will have our quiz on Friday for this skill.
Helpful videos:
- https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/arith-decimals/arith-review-decimals-intro/v/introduction-to-decimals
- https://www.brainpop.com/math/numbersandoperations/decimals/
Fluency:
This week our fluency quiz will cover our 0-7 division facts. The class will have 3 minutes to answer 50 facts from all the families.
Homework:
Homework this week will be a packet that will go home today (Monday). There is one page per day with no homework on Friday. Homework will be checked and reviewed daily. Students are more than welcome to complete pages ahead of time.
Social Studies: Pennsylvania History
Writing: Narrative Paragraphs
Read Aloud: Poppy Mayberry
Poppy Mayberry is written by Jennie K. Brown, a Palmyra native! We are hoping she'll be able to make an author visit sometime this year.
Snow Day Make-Up Day
Friday, Feb 17, 2017, 09:00 PM
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No School for Students
Monday, Feb 20, 2017, 09:00 PM
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Benchmark Testing
Study Island Benchmarks
All benchmark grades will be sent home with the weekly test report on Friday.
We will take our Math benchmark on Monday, and Reading on Tuesday.
Journey's Benchmark
Mrs. LeBlanc
Email: ellen_leblanc@pasd.us
Twitter: @mrsleblanc4th