4th Grade News
January 26, 2015
Science: Students have finished their
Educreation projects on simple
machines at this point. Today, they
continued to work on their New
Machine. They will demonstrate how
their new invention works to the class
this week.
Reading: Greek Mythology
kids that are about a third of
the way through already!
Please continue to encourage
your student to keep a book
handy to read at all times!
Don't forget, they can also use
books on Myon that are in
their recommended reading list
Math with Mrs. Carlton: Beginning
this week, my math class will
focus on multiplication fluency and
spirals reviews of previously
taught standards. The class will be
taught using small groups, peer
tutoring and differentiated
instruction. The goal of my math
class is to both accelerate and
remediate students as needed.
Every Friday, a daily grade will be
taken from the spiral review and
the multiplication fluency your
child is working on that week.
Writing:
We will begin our study of Greek
Mythology this week. Students will
bring home new vocabulary words
Tuesday
Thirty Book Challenge
Most students seem to be
working hard on their thirty
book challenges. I have several
January 26, 2015
Monday-Choice A-Write the
spelling words in a sentence or
Choice B-Rainbow write the
spelling
words 5 times each.
Wednesday-Choice A-Write the
spelling words in a sentence or
Choice B-Rainbow write the
spelling words 5 times each.
Wednesday-Choice A-Write the
spelling words in a sentence or
Choice B-Rainbow write the
spelling words 5 times each.
Thursday-Choice A-Write the
spelling words in a sentence or
Choice B-Rainbow write the
spelling words 5 times each.
Friday-Spelling Quiz
Spelling Words:
Sample Sentences:
1.Decided-Tyler decided to tryout
for the baseball team.
2.Contain-Our school agendas
contain the code of conduct.
3.Course-Of course, you can
always read a book before going
to sleep.
4. Reduce-Please reduce the
amount of garbage by recycling!
5.Surface-On the surface of the
ocean, you will find foamy water.
6. Produce-Work hard to produce
awesome work!
7.Stretcher-The man was put in
the ambulance on a stretcher
after falling from the tree.
8. Preacher-The preacher
greeted everyone as they walked
out the door!
9. Pressure-The pressure in the
can popped the lid off.
10.Closure-At the end of an
informative paragraph, you need
a closure sentence.
Math with Mrs. McNabb: We will
continue to work on comparing
and finding equivalent
fractions this week using various
strategies to include number lines
and benchmark fractions.
We will have a TEST Friday,
January 30th on Comparing,
Simplifying, and finding
Equivalent fractions. Students
will need to be able to draw
rectangle fraction bars,
create ONE number line
with halves, fourths, eighths,
and twelfths showing equivalent
fractions, and also ONE number
line with thirds, sixths, ninths,
and twelfths. Students should
use multiplication and division
to check their equivalency.