4th Grade Girls Weekly News
October 9th-13th
Important Dates
Spirit Week is this week!!!! Please show your school spirit and participate in our daily themes. It is imperative that your child is at school and on time each day! Classes begin at 7:45 promptly.
Are you a little bit country or a little bit rock-and-roll?
10/10- Blue vs. Yellow
Show your school spirit. Cheer on your Math Relay team! Go Blue! Go Yellow! (Mrs.Cantrell and Mrs. Castillo are on the BLUE team; Ms. Angelone is on the yellow team)
10/11- International Day
A whole day devoted to the celebration of language and culture in our school. Children come to school in National dress of colors of their culture or country flag.
10/12- Hero vs. Villain
Dress up as your favorite character. Get creative with your Super Hero or Villain! Allowed: Costumes and face painting
10/13- Past vs. Future
Blast from the past or focused on the future???? Dress like a decade from the past or in the dress of your future career!
Conferences
Sign Ups
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0f4da8aa2ba6ff2-fall1
****Please note that if you are signing up for the 12:00-12:40 slot, that is our planning period (when the students are at specials). There are times where meetings are called by administration or the ESE coordinator that are beyond our control. If we need to reschedule a conference, we will delete the time slot you signed up for and send you a message to reschedule. We already accounted for our regularly scheduled meeting times, but please understand situations do arise that may cause the need to change a scheduled time.
Mrs. Cantrell
Mrs. Castillo
Ms. Angelone
ELA
What are we doing this week?
Reading:
Summarizing Literary Texts
Identifying the most important events and details in a story or play helps you summarize and better understand what you read.
When you summarize a literary text, you briefly retell story details and events in your own words.
Grammar:
Synonyms/Antonyms
Words in English can have meanings that are similar or different. If you know how two words are related, you can sometimes use the meaning of a word you already know to understand the meaning of an unfamiliar word. If you find yourself using the same word again and again, replace the repeated word with a synonym. This will make your writing more interesting.
A synonym is a word that has the same or almost the same meaning as another word. For example, the words select and choose are synonyms.
An antonym is a word that has the opposite meaning of another word. For example, the words forget and remember are antonyms.
Writing:
Type: Opinion/Argumentative
-Tell how you feel about something or tell why you feel that way
-state an opinion about the topic (pick a side)
-support the opinion with 3 strong reasons
-organize the information into an essay
-focusing on the R (reasons) paragraphs
-how to add details to our body paragraphs
Spelling:
Spelling List A: clown, round, bow, cloud, power, crown, thousand, crowd, sound, count, powder, blouse, frown, pound (mid/end third grade words)
Spelling List B: aloud, bald, hawk, south, faucet, proud, claw, tower, stalk, couple, howl, false, dawn, allow, drown, pause, fault, cause, amount, cloudier (beginning fourth grade words)
Spelling List C: event, humor, rapid, music, relief, planet, detail, unite, frozen, figure, siren, polite, hotel, protest, punish, defend, relay, habit, student, moment (mid fourth grade words)
Spelling List D: earth, peer, twirl, burnt, smear, further, appear, worthwhile, nerve, pier, squirm, weary, alert, murmur, one-third, reverse, worship, career, research, volunteer (beginning fifth grade words)
Vocabulary Words: affect, calculate, climate, column, decay, exceed, forbid, grove, limb, mammoth, mature, permit, resist, scorch, tower (definitions are on study guide and students get a packet with practice items each week called "Wordly Wise".
Weekly Study Guide: Study guide will be posted on our weebly and students will get a hard copy of it on Monday with their spelling list written on the top. Please check their binder behind the "Reading" tab. Also, please leave their study guides in their binders every week. We refer back to them during the week and when they don't have them, they are without a resource that I am allowing them to use. The girls often tell me that they lost their study guide or that a parent took it out. If you would like an extra copy, please feel free to print it out from our weebly. https://fa-4thgradegirls.weebly.com/uploads/7/5/1/8/75186667/week_8_study_guide.pdf
Students will take their spelling quiz on the following Monday (10/16) as I will have a substitute this Friday (10/13) and unable to do my small group spelling quizzes.
MATH
What are we doing this week?
- Lesson 8: comparative Relational Thinking Problems: Addition and Subtraction
- Review for Unit 2 USA
Unit 3: Factors, Multiples, And Patterns
- Lesson 1: Finding Factors
- Lesson 2: Factors and Divisibility
Assessments
- Monday- 7s multiplication quiz
- Tuesday- 8s multiplication quiz
- Wednesday- Unit 2 USA Test
- Thursday- 9s multiplication quiz
- Friday- 10s and 11s multiplication quiz
*Remember to practice your multiplication facts daily!*
Science/Social Studies
What are we doing this week?
Science:
Unit 2- Earth's Place in Space
- Lesson 1: How Does Earth Rotate and Revolve in Space?
- Vocabulary: axis, orbit, constellation
ASSESSMENT: Unit 2 Lesson 1 Quiz 10/13
Social Studies:
Unit 1- Florida's Land and Early People
- Lesson 1: Using Maps
- Vocabulary: map legend, cardinal directions, intermediate directions, compass rose, indicate, map scale, latitude, longitude
- Lesson 2: Florida's Physical and Cultural Geography
- Vocabulary: geography, affect, strait, region, landform, tourist
ASSESSMENT: Throughout the week, we will be working on a map of Florida project. The students will have plenty of time in school to work on it. It needs to be completed and handed in by Monday 10/16.