4th Grade News at JCT
Week of February 8 - February 12
A Peek at Our Week
Reading
This week students are using the skill of summarizing in order to determine a theme, or message, within a fiction text. Some questions to ask your kids this week as they read their favorite books at home are: Who is telling the story? What details can you tell me about the setting? Can you explain what the problem, or conflict, is in the story? Describe the main character. What is he/she like? How do you know? Does the character change or learn a lesson by the end of the story? What message, or theme, do you think the author is trying to share with the reader? Exlpain.
Spelling/Grammar
This week, students are working on building sentence fluency by learning strategies to revise short, choppy, and repetitive sentences. In spelling students are adding the suffix -ed and using the homophones: were, we're, and where appropriately.
Writing
This week students are revising their expository pieces to improve the organization and flow. Students know that an expository piece needs to have an introduction paragraph that grabs the reader's attention and introduces the topic, a body paragraph for each main idea that is fully developed with supporting details, and a conclusion that summarizes the topic and main ideas. Students are also aware of some non-negotiables in their writing. Students must follow the conventions for capitalization, end punctuation that identifies the sentence type correctly, and use indention to seperate and identify paragraphs.
Social Studies
Students will continue to analyze the events and conditions that led up to the Texas Revolution.
Science
This week we will explore the properties of the water cycle.
Math
We will explore adding decimal fractions.
Upcoming Events
February 12th Valentine’s Day party 1:30 -2:30 & Red Out Day
February 12th Mom's & Gents Dance with the JCT Jukebox 6:30 - 8:30
February 13th 8am-10am – Waffles with your Sweetheart
February 15th Bad Weather/Staff Development Day - No School
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Class Code: KCC38536
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