Weekly Glimpse
From Fourth Grade
Language Arts
Students started our new book, Out of My Mind, this week. Ask about the main character, Melody, and the type of struggles she experiences. I'm sure your child will be eager to share what they've learned about Melody.
Reading skills we focused on this week:
- use new vocabulary
- recognizing figurative language in text and how that "shows" more than "tells" (our novel is full of figurative language)
- inference
- predictions
Parts of speech:
- possessive nouns and pronouns
Next week:
We'll continue with our novel and discussion on what it means to be compassionate and patient with people who are different than ourselves. And, our judgments of others are sometimes way off!
Beginning a writing piece on "What I Like About Fall".
Woodland Indian Villages
In social studies we're studying about the early people of the Northeast. American Indians lived in longhouses and wigwams.
Woodland Indian Villages
Both classes are designing and creating village scenes on foam board. One longhouse and one wigwam village.
They were very excited to begin this project.
Historical Fiction Book Talk Projects
Teacher's Note
- Students are off for Monday, Columbus Day
- Conferences are coming up the end of the month and you will be able to schedule your own times on PCR beginning October 16th.
- Thank you for the pencils! :)