Report Cards went home on Friday.  Please sign the envelope and return it to school on Monday.  The Report Card is your to keep.

Mark your Calendars:  The annual Christmas concert will take place on Wednesday, December 20.  Students need to dress nicely and appropriately:  for example, girls may wear a nice dress, skirt, or dress pants.  Please consider walking on and off risers when choosing shoes!  Boys may wear dress pants and either a shirt and tie or a nice sweater.  On the night of the concert, please make sure that your child arrives in their homeroom at 6:15 p.m.  Do not leave anything with your child or in the room, since they will not be returning to the classroom after the concert.  The procession will begin promptly at 6:30.


4A Mr. Bradford

Reading 
WILD WEATHER WEEK!
Journey's non-fiction stories Hurricanes and Twisters.
We will also read a historical fiction text, The Earth Awakens, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.  Students will use graphic organizers to document sequence of events and text and graphic features. Leveled readers will focus on other wild weather.  This will take us into next week too.
Spelling lesson 12-words ending with -ed or -ing and when to drop or double a consonant at the base word. 


Science
Time Mag. 25 best inventions and Mr. Bradford stocking stuffers is due on the 12th.
We continue to expand our circuits adding more elements to the chain.  Remeber do not throw out those old Christmas lights.  Many students are taking them home to create their own light show.

Social Studies
We will finish chapter 4 on Monday, and I will pass out a study guide then. The test on chapter 4 will be on Friday, Dec. 15


Math
In preparation for fractions, we will take a look at the Divisibility Rules.  Then we will move into Prime and Composite Numbers.


Language Arts/Writing
Verbs take action and help express more details in our writing. Vocab unit #7 next week.  We have also written our 12 days of St. Monica Christmas.  I hope to go caroling next week with some of their songs.

Religion

We are preparing for both comings of Christ during this Advent season.  One we celebrate, the other we await.

We periodically listen to or watch a video on the Parish's website, Formed.com 

4B Mrs. Kuhnmuench
A reminder that we will pick our Secret Santa on Thursday and have just a couple school days to leave a little message or small item before our Christmas party December 20th.  

Reading

WILD WEATHER WEEK!
Journey's non-fiction stories Hurricanes and Twisters.
We will also read a historical fiction text, The Earth Awakens, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.  Students will use graphic organizers to document sequence of events and text and graphic features. Leveled readers will focus on other wild weather.  This will take us into next week too.
Spelling lesson 12-words ending with -ed or -ing and when to drop or double a consonant at the base word. 

Science.

Time Mag. 25 best inventions and Mr. Bradford stocking stuffers is due on the 12th.
We continue to expand our circuits adding more elements to the chain.  Remeber do not throw out those old Christmas lights.  Many students are taking them home to create their own light show.

Social Studies
We will finish chapter 4 on Monday, and I will pass out a study guide then. The test will be on Friday, Dec. 15.

Math
In preparation for fractions, we will take a look at the Divisibility Rules.  Then we will move into Prime and Composite Numbers.

Language Arts/Writing

Grammar: We need some more time for grammar this coming week.  Our test will be delayed. 
Writing:  Christmas writing and Saint reports! 

Religion/Writing

On Tuesday the kids rough drafts are due.  I will then go over them and edit with the kids on Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for the final drafts.  They did a great job researching in class.  This isn't easy researching on line and documenting as you go.  Some of the information needed more background knowledge.  Luckily Mrs. Bremmer was here to help.

We are also preparing our hearts for Advent and Christmas with some special activities and our book unit too.

This Monday we will receive Reconciliation.  Students brought home a little review for it.  We will also review before we go to Church.  We have asked kids to examine their conscience and prepare for this as we make our way into the Advent Season.

Report cards will be sent home Friday, December 8.  Please keep the report card but send back the signed envelope.

There is a presentation on the Dark Side of Cyberspace December 6 from 6-8 pm in Donovan Hall.  This presentation is for parents only.  There will be a modified version for students, grades 4-8, during school on that same day.

4A Mr. Bradford

Reading 

Having completed The Witches we are mapping out the plot and completing comprehension work on it.
This week we will read Jose, Born to Dance, a biography.  We will study author's purpose and details in a story.  We will also read corresponding poetry. 
Skill:  multi-syllable words, simile and metaphor
Selling lesson 11-Compound words 
Reading Logs due Monday, December 4th, Tuesday latest or points lost.

Science

We continue to look at circuits and what those electrons are capable of.  Time Mag. 25 best inventions and Mr. Bradford stocking stuffers is due on the 12th.

Social Studies
We will continue with chapter 4 and briefly study what caused the French and Indian War and the War of  1812 and how they affected the fur trade in Wisconsin.


Math
We continue with long division by learning how to check the answers with multiplication.  In addition, we will evaluate word problems and decipher the meaning of the quotient including remainders.  If all goes well, we will have a pretest on Thursday, with a test on Friday.


Language Arts/Writing
Verbs take action and help express more details in our writing. Vocab unit #6 next week.

Religion

Our relationship with God is ever changing. Asking for forgiveness is something we do all the time when we mess up with others.  We can take a moment to do the same with GOD.

We periodically listen to or watch a video on the Parish's website, Formed.com 

4B Mrs. Kuhnmuench

Reading

This week we will read Jose, Born to Dance, a biography.  We will study author's purpose and details in a story.  We will also read corresponding poetry. 
Skill:  multi-syllable words, simile and metaphor
Selling lesson 11-Compound words 
Reading Logs due Monday, December 4th, Tuesday latest or points lost.

Science.

This Monday we will receive Reconciliation.  Students will  prepare before going to Church.  We have asked kids to examine their conscience as we make our way into the Advent Season.

Social Studies
We will continue working in chapter 4 and briefly study what caused the French & Indian War and the War of 1812 and how they affected the fur trade in Wisconsin.

Math
We continue with long division by learning how to check the answers with multiplication.  In addition, we will evaluate word problems and decipher the meaning of the quotient including remainders.  If all goes well, we will have a pretest on Thursday, with a test on Friday.

Language Arts/Writing
Vocabulary Unit 7 Test Friday, December 8th.

Grammar: Possessive and Irregular Plural Nouns.  We will complete unit 2 in our grammar books this week and a test will be given by next Tuesday.  A review will go home to study. 

Religion/Writing

As we study the Beatitudes we are talking about Saints who live these Beatitudes.  We have discussed what saint they would like to choose to research for a saint report.  By Tuesday I will like them to choose their saint so we can begin research and working on the report format in class.  There are many great websites we will use for younger ages too.