Upcoming Events
4th
Grade
News
November 20, 2015
School Closed
11/25/15 to 11/27/15
End of the 1st Trimester
Wednesday- 12/2/15
25 Book Small Goal Reward
English Language Arts
By: Miss Vilsmeier & Houghton Mifflin
This week, we asked ourselves “How are movies a
form of communication?” We read the informational text
Coming Distractions: Questioning Movies, about
methods filmmakers use to express ideas and influence the
audience. We will also read How Do They Do That?, an
informational text about the use of special effects in movies.
*This week’s stories + skills and strategies will be carried into
instruction next week.*
Friday- 12/4/15
4th
Visits the Holiday Gift Shop
Friday- 12/4/15
Report Cards Issued
Monday- 12/21/15
Holiday Hump Day Spirit Day
AND Early Dismissal @ 12:35 PM
Wednesday- 12/23/15
This week’s…
Target Vocabulary: entertaining, promote, focus, advertise,
jolts, critics, target, thrilling, angles, generated
Vocabulary Strategy: Greek and Latin word parts- phon,
photo, graph, and auto
Comprehension Skill: Fact and Opinion
Comprehension Strategy: Summarizing
Writing: Informative Writing- informational paragraph
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week’s selection.
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
Math
By: Mrs. Patel
The students have been very busy this week practicing
using partial products to solve multi-digit multiplication
problems. The students were assessed on their
knowledge of lessons 3.1, 3.2, and 3.4. As we come close
to Thanksgiving Break, the students will be introduced to
the regrouping (traditional) method of multiplication for
multi-digit numbers. We will continue to practice both
the partial products and regrouping methods after the
break. I hope to give the students their first unit test
(covering chapters 1, 2, and 3) on Friday, December 4th.
Social Studies
By: Mrs. Lahneman
We could not have done it without your support! A great big THANK
YOU to all 4th parents who volunteered to help the fourth grade with their Salt Dough
Maps. It was a real success, the students had a great time, and they have learned a lot
about the state they live in!! The rest of the week, we continued to focus on how to
read a content area text, how to find information in a text, and how to complete a true
and false worksheet by looking for the page number of where the information is located
in the textbook. The students are beginning to understand how the structure of a
content area text can help them find information, as well as help them practice text
dependent types of questions. The focus has been, and will continue to be, on the
5 Natural Regions of Pennsylvania: the Atlantic Coastal Plain Region, the Piedmont,
South Mountain, and Reading Prong Region, the Ridge and Valley Region, the
Allegheny Plateau Region, and the Erie Lowland Region.