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4th Grade Newsletter for Weeks of: November 3-7, 2014
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Please make sure your child is studying his or her notes every day! Social Studies and Science
No School November 4 Election Day
After School Clubs November 11
November 13 4th grade field trip to McArthur Farms
November 19 Progress Reports
Science Terms and Concepts:
Focus: Reasons for the Seasons
1. Earth revolves around the Sun one time each year in about
365 days.
2. Earth has seasons because Earth’s axis is tilted.
3. Because of the tilt, the number of daylight hours changes
throughout the year.
4. As Earth revolves around the Sun, different parts of Earth
get more sunlight.
5. The tilt causes the northern or southern part of Earth, to
point toward the Sun.
6. When the tilt is toward the Sun, the season is summer. When
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the tilt is away from the Sun, the season is winter.
The two hemispheres have opposite seasons.
The seasons do NOT depend on the distance of Earth from
the Sun.
Week 12
Sight words, ure
pattern,
and academic
vocabulary
1. slide
2. swings
3. goal
4. coach
5. became
6. shown
7. minutes
8. pasture
9. adventure
10.literature
11. lecture
12. mixture
13. moisture
14. puncture
15. sculpture
16.carnivore
17. herbivore
18. omnivore
19. photosynthesis
20. echolocatio
This Week in ELA
Focus: Informational Text Unit Review – Main idea, paraphrasing, inferences, summarizing,
synonyms, and antonyms.
Informational text are nonfiction books, articles, etc that provide information to the reader
Main Idea is what the text is mainly about.
Paraphrasing is taking a text and putting it in your own words
Drawing inferences requires the student to use facts from the text and information they already
know to infer why something happened.
Summarizing is picking out the main ideas in a text and writing them in your own words.
Synonyms are words that mean the same: Big – Huge
Antonyms are words that mean the opposite: Happy - Sad
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“I have always thought the actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.” ~John Locke
This week in Math
Announcements
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Please make sure your child is studying his or her notes
every day!
No School Election Day November 4
After School Clubs November 11
November 13 4th grade field trip to McArthur Farms
November 19 Progress Reports
Social Studies: Use STUDY NOTES DAILY
Focus: Explain the major political and economic factors
leading to the American Revolution, including the French
and Indian War, the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the
Intolerable Acts as well as American resistance to these acts
through boycotts, petitions, and congress.
Factor Leading up to the American Revolution
The American Revolution started with the French and
Indian War and the shots heard around the world at
Lexington and Concord.
The Stamp Act a tax imposed by the British government
on paper goods.
The Tea Act-the colonist had to buy tea from East India
company.
The Intolerable Acts-Closed Boston Harbor and
Massachusetts can no longer govern by itself.
Boston Tea Party- Lead to the Intolerable Acts
First Continental Congress boycotted all trade with Great
Britain and sent a petition to the king.
Boston Massacre-Citizens in Boston were killed after
protesting the taxes and throwing snowballs at the British.
More on notes Study!!!!
Please make sure your child is studying a section of his
or her notes nightly. This is a lot of information to
learn in 1 week.
Math: Focus: Solving multi-step word problems using
multiplication.
Solving Multi-Step Word Problems
Word problems are fun and challenging to solve because they
represent actual situations that happen in our world. Before
rushing to solve the problem, it is worth your time to slow
down and clarify your understanding. Be sure you know what
is being asked, what you already know from the problem, and
what you need to know in order to solve the question being
asked.
Steven is reading a book that has 260 pages. He read 35 pages on
Monday night, and 40 pages on Tuesday night. How many pages
does he have left to read?
260 pages tells you the total pages to be read.
35 pages is the amount read on Monday.
40 pages is the amount read on Tuesday.
How many pages does he have left to read? is the question you
are being asked.
Most students recognize that they need to add together 35 + 40
to get the pages read so far. The danger is you might think you
can stop there
Adding 35 + 40 will tell you that Steven has read 75 pages so far,
but if you go back to check the question you are being asked, you
will see that your answer does not match what you are being
asked. You will have to take another step to get there.
Steven has read 75 pages so far, but you are being asked what he
has left to read, not what he has already read. To get your final
answer, you must subtract what he has read from the total pages
to be read: 260 – 75. Steven has 185 pages left to read.
260 – 75 = 185
It’s important to clearly show that you understand what your
answer means. Instead of just writing 185, write:
Steven has 185 pages left to read.
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