4th Grade Newsletter Jan. 18-22
Ms. Hampton's 4th Grade Class
What's Happening!
Curriculum News for the Week of
January18-22, 2016
Reading/LA: Testing on Mondays for Team 1 Hampton/Looney & Friday for Team 2 Crutcher/Keeton/Tate
Reading/Language Arts:
Story of the Week: Paul Bunyan
Skills: Generalization and Inferencing
Grammar: Irregular Verbs/Suffixes
Novel Study: Maniac Magee (Team 1-Hampton & Looney)
Amazing Words of the Week:
temperature, hydrogen, pressure, sediment, geography, agriculture, logging, sawmill, erosion, arch
Challenge Spelling Words:
country’s countries’ witness’s witnesses’ laboratory’s
laboratories’
Spelling Words
it's
ours
mine
yours
family’s
families’
man’s
men’s
girl’s
girls’
hers
theirs
brother’s
brothers’
teacher’s
teachers’
aunt’s
aunts’
boy’s
boys’
Vocabulary Words
announcement
feature
harness
lumberjacks
requirements
thaw
unnatural
untamed
What’s going on in 4th Grade?
Math: Chapter 6 Test Thursday; Begin Chapter 7: Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Looney: Rock and Roll Fraction Project due Friday, January 22nd.
History: Social and Economic Changes in Alabama Education and Culture
Science: Motion and Design Unit
Spelling: Homework (Crutcher)- Mon. ABC order (1-20), Tue. Define (1-10 only), Wed. Writing Prompt using at least 10 spelling words Thur. three times each (1-20) and Fri. Spelling Test (Hampton) Mon. 1-10 Definitions, Tues. 11-21 Sentences, Wed. 5-10 Words for Short Story, Thurs. Pretest (Low grade=write words 5 times each) Fri. Test
Important Happenings
January 18, 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Day/NO
School
January 19, 2016 PTO Night/Math Night
January 25, 2016 Husky Time Out with Principal
January 29, 2016 Spirit Night at 32 Degrees