4th Grade Newsletter
Week of August 31, 2015
Look What We’re Learning . . .
Language Arts – Students will complete individual
reading inventory for reading level. Students will read
and respond in class.
Writing-Students will complete narrative preassessment. Students will communicate a clear
message using focused ideas and information in their
writing. Students will review adjectives, adverbs and
prepositional phrases.
Spelling-Students will learn the six syllable types and
learn to spell compound words using Vocabulary
Building Blocks.
Social Studies –Students will identify and describe the
regions in Texas.
Math –This week students will use a problem solving
model to analyze information, formulate a plan,
determine a solution, justify the solution and evaluate
for reasonableness. Students will also round numbers
to the nearest ten, hundred, thousand and ten
thousand; understand place value to 1,000,000,000;
and read and represent decimals in tenths and
hundredths.
Science –This week students will explore tools for
measuring and identify physical properties of matter.
Math
Monday-Investigations Unit 5 page 13AB
Tuesday-Problem Solver #6
Wednesday-Investigations Unit 5 page
51D
Thursday-Problem Solver “Value of the
Bills”
Reading
Monday-Book of Choice 20-30
minutes
Tuesday- Book of Choice 20-30
minutes
Wednesday- Book of Choice
20-30 minutes
Thursday-Book of Choice 20-30
minutes
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Mark your Calendar
September 7th—No School Labor Day
September 8th-11th ---Fall Book Fair. Students will
shop on Thursday
September 9th—Grandparent’s Breakfast 7:157:50 (watch for a note in Friday Folders for more
info)
September 16th—PTA Meeting and Watchdog
Pizza Night (watch for a note in Friday Folders for
more info)