Name__________________________ PLEASE LOOK OVER WITH YOUR CHILD, SIGN AND RETURN. 4th Grade Newsletter week of September 2-5, 2014 “You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.” ~Anthony J. D'Angelo ELA Terms and Concepts: Focus: Predictions and Inferences Inference- figuring out something that wasn’t explained in the story by using the clues given to make a good guess. Predictions: Using clues from the story together with past experiences to figure out what will happen next. Conclusions: a decision about what may happen or about the result of an event. This week in Math Focus: Place Value Vocabulary 1. period – each group of three digits separated by 2. millions – the period after the thousands Example: 123,421,008 (the underlined digits are the millions) 3. billions – the period after the millions Example: 49,210,538,101 (the underlined digits are the billions) Objective: Each number represents 10 times what it represents in the place to its right Social Studies: Focus: Compare the everyday life, physical environment, and culture of the Eastern Woodlands Native Americans, Southwestern Native Americans, and Pacific Northwestern Native Americans. and Southeastern tribes. Eastern Woodlands- lived in the eastern part of North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River including the Great Lakes region. The forest provided food, shelter, clothing, weapons, and tools. Lived in villages by lakes and streams Lived in wigwams and longhouses Hunted, fished, and gathered fruits, berries and nuts Farmed corn, beans, and squash (three sisters) Clothing made of animal skins Plains Native Americans- Lived on the Great Plains of central North America from north of what is today the Canadian border to present day Texas. Lived in teepees, migrated from place to place, and hunted or grew their food. Southwestern Native Americans-lived in the region that included what is today Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, and Utah. They hunted mammoths, deer, small game, birds. They harvested fruits, nuts, and seeds of wild plants. They lived in Adobe houses. Pacific Northwestern Native Americans- lived in the region that extended along the Pacific coast from what is today southern Alaska to northern California. They lived in permanent villages in long houses. They hunted and fished. They also had totem poles. Science Terms and Concepts: Focus: The three types of clouds and how they are formed Cumulus Puffy, lumpy-looking clouds often with a flat bottom. When cumulus clouds are dark they usually bring rain; white cumulus clouds do not bring rain. Cirrus High, thin, wispy clouds. They are formed mostly of ice crystals. Cirrus clouds are most often associated with fair weather. Stratus Layers of clouds that spread out covering a large area. Stratus clouds are often lower in the sky. The formation of clouds happens when water vapor in the air Directions: Place the commas in the correct place. Underline rises, cools and condenses (or moves from a warm place to a cool the ones/units period in blue, the thousands in yellow, the place and condenses), forming the water droplets that make up a millions in red, billions in green cloud. A cloud is a collection of tiny, liquid water droplets not 34129012300 water1.vapor gas. Great Basin-Located where today’s Nevada and Utah, western Colorado and Wyoming, southern Idaho, southeastern Oregon, and parts of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Montana. Directions: Write the following number in word and expanded form. Parent Signature X_________________ 34,011 ______________________________________ ______________________________________ 2. 909999251