Reading - "The Life and Times of the Ant" (4.RI.1 / 4.L.4)
This week, students will continue to read the expository text, "The Life and Times of the Ant." Students will generate questions and identify the text structure description. When readers generate questions, they can ask themselves literal questions about details they missed or interpretive or evaluative questions about the meaning or importance of the information. Generating questions while reading helps readers to focus and remember the most important details about the text. Description is a text structure that authors use to define or classify information by describing qualities or characteristics. Students will also determine facts and opinions within the text.
Weekly Vocabulary Terms -
Students will continue to work daily in their learning centers to focus on reading comprehension, word work for spelling and vocabulary, writing, and reading non-fiction text on the program, Kidbiz3000.
Grammar - Pronouns (4.L.1)
This week, students will continue to learn about pronouns. A pronoun is a word that takes place of one or more nouns. A pronoun must match the noun it refers to. There are subject and object pronouns.
Math - Problem Solving (MD.2)
This week, students will continue to problem solve measurement using multi-step word problems.
Homework
Students will have 4.MD.2 homework each night and a MD.2 quick check on Friday, 1/16.
Please check out the "links for learning" page for fun and interactive learning games!
Spelling - Changing y to i (4.L.2)
This week students are identifying and spelling words with inflectional endings that change y to i. Here is the list of words this week: funnier, families, pennies, worried, worried, replied, varied, marries, carries, easily, silliest, jumpier, emptier, merrier, applied, cozily, sorriest, prettily, lazier, happiest, dizziest, scaring, tasting, handily, factories.
Students will be assessed on their spelling words on Friday, 1/16.
A homework page is assigned each night for spelling practice and word recognition.
Social Studies - Southeast Region (RI.1)
This week, students will finish creating their ABC book of information they learned about the Southeast region of the United States.
Science - Electricity (RI.1)
This week students will learn about electricity. Students will identify atoms and how they relate to static electricity. Students will also learn about current electricity and how to make and identify different types of circuits. Students will need to know the following vocabulary terms related to this unit: electricity, static electricity, current electricity, atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons, attract, repel, parallel circuit, series circuit, magnetism, insulator, and conductor.
REMINDERS
This week, students will continue to read the expository text, "The Life and Times of the Ant." Students will generate questions and identify the text structure description. When readers generate questions, they can ask themselves literal questions about details they missed or interpretive or evaluative questions about the meaning or importance of the information. Generating questions while reading helps readers to focus and remember the most important details about the text. Description is a text structure that authors use to define or classify information by describing qualities or characteristics. Students will also determine facts and opinions within the text.
Weekly Vocabulary Terms -
- territory
- prehistoric
- investigates
- nutrients
- solitary
- communication
Students will continue to work daily in their learning centers to focus on reading comprehension, word work for spelling and vocabulary, writing, and reading non-fiction text on the program, Kidbiz3000.
Grammar - Pronouns (4.L.1)
This week, students will continue to learn about pronouns. A pronoun is a word that takes place of one or more nouns. A pronoun must match the noun it refers to. There are subject and object pronouns.
Math - Problem Solving (MD.2)
This week, students will continue to problem solve measurement using multi-step word problems.
Homework
Students will have 4.MD.2 homework each night and a MD.2 quick check on Friday, 1/16.
Please check out the "links for learning" page for fun and interactive learning games!
Spelling - Changing y to i (4.L.2)
This week students are identifying and spelling words with inflectional endings that change y to i. Here is the list of words this week: funnier, families, pennies, worried, worried, replied, varied, marries, carries, easily, silliest, jumpier, emptier, merrier, applied, cozily, sorriest, prettily, lazier, happiest, dizziest, scaring, tasting, handily, factories.
Students will be assessed on their spelling words on Friday, 1/16.
A homework page is assigned each night for spelling practice and word recognition.
Social Studies - Southeast Region (RI.1)
This week, students will finish creating their ABC book of information they learned about the Southeast region of the United States.
Science - Electricity (RI.1)
This week students will learn about electricity. Students will identify atoms and how they relate to static electricity. Students will also learn about current electricity and how to make and identify different types of circuits. Students will need to know the following vocabulary terms related to this unit: electricity, static electricity, current electricity, atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons, attract, repel, parallel circuit, series circuit, magnetism, insulator, and conductor.
REMINDERS
- Dress Warm!!
- 1/16 - Chorus Field Trip
- 1/19 - No School, Martin Luther King Day