4th
Grade
News
October 16, 2015
Upcoming Events
H & S Shoe Drive
10/19/15-10/23/15
Spirit Day- Team Tuesday
Tuesday- 10/20/15
Spirit Day- Western Wednesday
Wednesday- 10/21/15
English Language Arts
By: Miss Vilsmeier & Houghton Mifflin
This week, we answered the question “Why might
people raise money for a cause?” In the play The Power of
W.O.W.!, students read about a group of children who helped
raise money for a worthy cause. Students also read the
informational text The Kid’s Guide to Money, about how to
use a budget to manage money.
This week’s…
Target Vocabulary: assist, burglaries, innocent, scheme,
regretfully, misjudge, suspect, favor, speculated, prior
Vocabulary Strategy: prefixes non-, mis- (prefixes mean “not”
or “badly”)
Comprehension Skill: Theme- examine the character’s
qualities and motives to recognize the theme of the play
Comprehension Strategy: Analyze/evaluate-ask questions to
analyze and evaluate the text’s meaning
Writing: Narrative Writing- prewrite: fictional narrative
Check out Think Central (online) to
view the eBook and listen to this
week’s selection.
Spirit Day- Turn It Inside Out
Thursday- 10/22/15
H & S Hoopalooza
Friday- 10/23/15
H&S Hayride Offsite @ 6:30 PM
Friday-10/23/15
H & S Family Fun Run
Saturday- 10/24/15
Math
By: Miss Cardillo (Mrs. Patel’s sub this week)
This week, the students learned new
strategies to multiply tens, hundreds and
thousands by a whole number through 10! The
students used graph paper and base ten blocks to
draw out their multiplication problems. We also
learned how to check our work and figure out if our
answers are reasonable through estimating a range.
**Blocks 2 & 4: Chapter 2 QUIZ on Wednesday**
**Block 1: Chapter 2 QUIZ on Thursday**
Contact Information
Mrs. Susan Lahneman
lahnemsm@npenn.org
215-855-4331 Ext. 5718
Mrs. Jigna Patel
pateljr12@npenn.org
215-855-4331 Ext. 4628
Miss Christie Vilsmeier
vilsmecl@npenn.org
215-855-4331 Ext. 4682
Science & S.S.
By: Mrs. Lahneman
This week we finished up the science unit with
our end of unit test, as well as cleaning up our plants
stations. The students were excited to get a chance to
bring home their plants to show off their planting
expertise. We then began Social Studies this week with
the location of Pennsylvania in the world, starting with
what hemisphere, what continent, and where exactly in
the U.S.! Our focus will be on helping the students learn
how to use directionality in both their writing and their
speech when describing where things are located. We
also discussed what states border the state of
Pennsylvania. We also focused on the Reading Target
Skills of Main Idea and Details as we read
through pages of lesson one.