Wolf Den News (Unit 5, Week 3)

April 4 - April 8, 2016

Coming Up This Week

  • Language Arts - Unit 5 Week 3 - Smart Solutions
  • Math - Unit 10 - Reflections & Symmetry -- Test on Wednesday, 4/6)
  • Social Studies - Famous Hoosiers Research

4th Grade Field Trip to Columbus Philharmonic

Tuesday, April 5th, 9:30-11:30am

1400 25th Street

Columbus, IN

We will board school buses for the Adventure Concert at 9:30am. The concert begins at 10:10am. We return to Southside by 11:30am. Lunch will be eaten when we return to Southside.


The cost of the trip is $4 per student. Permission slips were due Friday, April 1. If your child has not submitted a permission slip, please return it ASAP!
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Walking Field Trip to Ag Expo

Thursday, April 7th, 12-2pm

1320 W 200 S

Columbus, IN

Students will eat lunch at school prior to walking to the fairgrounds. Please join us if you want to attend and have a current background check on file. We will go rain or shine.
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Click here for this week's spelling tic-tac-toe

Click here for spelling list - Unit 5 Week 3

Unit 5 Week 2 Vocabulary

shrivel - shrink or wrinkle

plunging - falling down quickly

prospector - person who looks for gold, silver, or other minerals

scoffed - expressed dislike or ridicule

settlement - place where people live when they first move to a new area

territories - large areas of land where people in a region live

withered - dried up from the heat or lack of moisture

Language Arts Focus

Comprehension Strategy - Visualize

Comprehension Skill - Character, Setting, Plot: Cause & Effect

Genre- Tall Tale

Vocabulary Strategy - Homographs

Writing - Expository (Business) Letter

Grammar - Articles (a, an, the)

Laura Wolf, 4th Grade Teacher

Laura Wolf, 4th Grade Teacher

Southside Elementary School, West 200 South, Columbus, IN, United States wolfl@bcsc.k12.in.us 812-376-4423 bcsc.k12.in.us/Domain/1047