Friday, October 13, 2017

We are half way through the trimester.  Please make sure you check your son or daughters grades in Option C.

Please look for Field Trip form in the Monday folder.  We will be viewing the play Peter and the Starcatcher at Dominican High School on  November 3.

Mark your calendars:  Conferences are on Thursday, October 26 from 1:00-7:00 and on Friday, October 27 from 10:00-6:00.  Soon there will be a sign-up Genius going out to parents.  Some parents will have a request from the teachers for a group conference.  If you do not receive a group request, please sign up for a conference with a specific teacher.


A note from the Office:  A reminder that all cold lunches that arrive later in the day need to be taken to Donaivan Hall.  Students should look for them at that location.


4A Mr. Bradford
This week, I will try calling
each of you to see how 4th grade is going after our first month of school.  I have found this to be a great opportunity to hear and learn about your child.   Please let me know if there is a good or better time to call in the evening.

Reading  
Journeys:  Tall Tale Stormalong and Folktale Hoderi the Fisherman.  Comprehension skill:  Understanding characters and point of view/hyperbole. 
Target Strategy:  Infer/predict
Fluency:  Using expression

Spelling lesson 5 Homophones:  No pretest this week, just practice all the homophones in sentence form.  Final test Friday is on all 20 words.

Science
We are working on creating new matter and will start creating hot air balloons to show how gases work.

Although we will continue with some matter experiments, we will have a test next Friday the 20th.

Social Studies

This week we discussed and took notes on the Paleo and Archaic people. Next week we will continue in the chapter with the Woodland, Mississippian, and Oneota.


Math

We continue in Chapter 3.  We will evaluate how to use the Distributive Property to solve multiplication problems.  We will then move into double by single digit multiplication.

Language Arts/Writing
We will continue to write about summer fun, and start on adjectives. 

Religion

We are still holding the doors on most days as we continue to become our back door greeters.  In class, we are looking at Virtues.  They are  Faith, Hope, Charity, Fortitude, Justice, TemperancePrudence.

4B Mrs. Kuhnmuench




Reading

Spelling lesson 5 Homophones:  No pretest this week, just practice all the homophones in sentence form.  Final test Friday is on all 20 words.
We are working on completion of the Witches unit this week.  Writing:  We will bring writing a scary story to culminate the finale of our Witches unit using 5 elements of a story in reading and writing.  Kids will need a protagonist and antagonist clearly identified in their story!

Science.
We are working on creating new matter and will start creating hot air balloons to show how gases work.

Although we will continue with some matter experiments, we will have a test next Friday the 20th.

Social Studies
This week we discussed and took notes on the Paleo and Archaic people. Next week we will continue in the chapter with the Woodland, Mississippian, and Oneota.

Math
We continue in Chapter 3.  We will evaluate how to use the Distributive Property to solve multiplication problems.  We will then move into double by single digit multiplication.


Language Arts/Writing
Vocabulary: Beginning unit 5.
Please feel free to go on the vocabulary website to download flashcards and play any games to reinforce these skills.  We will practice using this site in computer class. 

vocabularyworkshop.com/orange
Grammar:  Simple predicates and more compound sentences.

Religion
Fr. Andrew came to visit last week.  He had a great discussion with the kids and even sent an email answering any of the kids unanswered questions.
Virtues:  How can we live them out in our daily lives?
Sessions 4 and 5 Assessment this week:  Making the Right Choices and Living as Disciples.  Students will use their books for this. 

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