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From October 16-20, we will be recognizing School Violence Awareness Week. During this week, the focus is on peace, tolerance and healthy conflict resolution, and the idea that violence is never the answer.
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We will complete 2 "sweet" labs this week! Our first lab will be on plates and boundaries! We will use delicious treats to model plate boundaries. We will also start to explore weathering using our sugar cube lab!
Vocab: boundary proprietor abolitionist plantation royal colony
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Science This week we will complete a lab! We will discuss the question: Can a volcano show up in my backyard? Here is some science vocabulary and notes!
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In reading, we will work on summarizing text. We will use the graphic organizer, "Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then" to help us eliminate extra information. A fiction summary should include key story elements including characters, setting, and plot. Our checkpoint this Thursday will be on summarizing. The students will be asked to fill out the graphic organizer used for HW, and to write a summary of a passage. They will also answer questions about the passage's characters, setting, and plot. -In writing we will discuss stretching out a scene. We will examine the importance of showing and not telling in our stories. We will also explore ways to add to the heart of the story by adding emotion through characters thoughts, words, and actions. -Our spelling test will be this Friday. The students will be required to spell and sort their words correctly. There will also be a cloze word section where students will be spelling their core words. On Wednesday this week, I will show students an example of exactly what their spelling test will look like! MATH: We will continue Topic 3: Place Value. This week the students will order numbers, work on rounding numbers, and creating an organized list to solve word problems. Need extra place value practice? Try IXL. On Friday we will have a timed math quiz on the 1-4 times tables. We will have a Topic 3 test next WEDNESDAY. Please keep your eye out for a study guide sent home this week. SCIENCE: Here are some topics we will learn about this week!
Social Studies: In Social Studies, we will identify the culture and products of New Jersey's early people. We will discuss Lenape culture and how Lenape beliefs and values were handed down over time. Vocab: nomad ancestor adapt culture longhouse oral story Week of 9/25/17 ELA:
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Social Studies: We will begin exploring the different kinds of natural resources found in New Jersey and how climate and natural resources can affect people's lives. Week of 9/18/17 It was great to meet so many parents at BTSN last week. I am looking forward to an amazing year working with the amazing fourth grade families! Please remember to check your child's planner and our HW calendar for HW and quiz announcements. ELA: We will continue to build our Reading and Workshop routines. In reading, we will explore character and character traits. We will also begin to respond to reading based on what we read in our independent reading novels. This week the students will have their first reading "checkpoint" on character traits. This will be a graded assessment. Please see the note sent home on Monday for more information on how to best prepare. In writing we will begin writing our realistic fiction narratives. We will work on determining where writers get ideas for realistic fiction stories, develop believable character traits by creating internal and external traits, and develop characters by writing about their motivations and struggles. Math We will continue to explore math through our Math Workshop rotations. We will review the distributive property and learn other helpful multiplication strategies. We will also start to explore division. On Friday we will have a timed math quiz on the 3 times tables. The students will also have their first timed math quiz. This quiz will only be on x2 facts. They will progressively receive more facts to memorize each week. Below are GREAT sites to help them prepare!
Games Science: We completed a rock study last week and identified sedimentary, metamorphic, and Igneous rocks. This week we will complete a lab where we will explore the Rock Cycle! The lab will be graded! The students will have a rock cycle reading assignment due FRIDAY. This will be given on Tuesday to complete at home and count as a quiz grade! Vocab: Sedimentary rocks are formed from particles of sand, shells, pebbles, and other fragments of material. Together, all these particles are called sediment. Gradually, the sediment accumulates in layers and over a long period of time hardens into rock. Generally, sedimentary rock is fairly soft and may break apart or crumble easily. You can often see sand, pebbles, or stones in the rock, and it is usually the only type that contains fossils. Metamorphic rocks are formed under the surface of the earth from the metamorphosis (change) that occurs due to intense heat and pressure (squeezing). The rocks that result from these processes often have ribbonlike layers and may have shiny crystals, formed by minerals growing slowly over time, on their surface. Igneous rocks are formed when magma (molten rock deep within the earth) cools and hardens. Sometimes the magma cools inside the earth, and other times it erupts onto the surface from volcanoes (in this case, it is called lava). When lava cools very quickly, no crystals form and the rock looks shiny and glasslike. Sometimes gas bubbles are trapped in the rock during the cooling process, leaving tiny holes and spaces in the rock. Social Studies We will continue our work on map skills and identify New Jersey's natural regions and its major cities. The students will use latitude and longitude to find the absolute, or exact location of places on earth. http://www.abcya.com/latitude_and_longitude_practice.htm Attachments area Preview YouTube video 2 Time Table | Multiplication Game Fun | Test & Answers | Children Love to Learn 2 Time Table | Multiplication Game Fun | Test & Answers | Children Love to Learn Week of 9/11/17 I am looking forward to seeing parents at Back to School Night on Wednesday! Thank you for a great first week of fourth grade!!! We had a lot of fun getting to know each other better. We discussed expectations and procedures through exciting activities like writing about our goals for fourth grade and the future, finding our "super powers," and discovering more about our unique learning styles. We also learned all about "Swag Stickers" and the fun rewards we can earn with them! Below are the topics we will cover this week. Make sure you follow the links for additional practice. ELA: We will discuss how to make text-to-self, text to world, and text-to-text connections in literature, begin brainstorming topics and writing narratives, discuss checking for understanding in literature, and establish "read to self" and "Individualized Daily Reading" (IDR) routines. We will also choose independent reading novels as we explore our classroom library. Link to Read Aloud A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon (Read by actor Sean Astin) MATH: We will define multiplication and review strategies to multiply fluently. We will also "launch" math workshop, an exciting small group way of learning math! Stuck on a multiplication fact? Try some of these strategies to help! SCIENCE: We will begin our unit on The Changing Earth. We will discuss structures of the Earth, and how they came to be. This week we will learn about the earth's layers. Important science vocabulary: crust: the outermost layer of the earth. This tells us the most about the history of the Earth. mantle: is the layer located directly under the crust. It is the largest layer of the Earth, 1800 miles thick. The mantle is composed of very hot, dense rock. core: it is like a ball of very hot metals. It contains an outer and inner core. The inner core is solid, while the outer core is liquid. Extend your knowledge of with this video! SOCIAL STUDIES: |
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