Week of December 3rd

Hello Families!! Here is this week's agenda:

Reading - The children will continue to read their leveled novels.  Many have completed their books already and have done very well on their AR tests! Wow!  I'm so proud of them!!  The project for this book is a character trait flip book.  I am teaching the children about various charater traits.  They have to choose 3 traits their main character showed and proof of how they showed that trait.  They will also have to write about a time they showed that same character trait as well.

Spelling - List 19 sounds of /oo/  Enriched list 19.5

English - We will put our owl research into 5 paragraph reports this week.

Math - Long Division

Science - We will make Owl Fact Books on Tuesday.  The children will need to know these facts for a test on Thursday over this information.  We will also disect owl pellets this week!!

Social Studies - The children will finish their NE Region posters this week.  They are due on Friday.  They will also have tests over the NE states' locations and capitals.  A study guide should come home on Monday.  The location test will be Thursday and the capital test will be Friday. 

Talk to your children about procrastination.  With 4 tests at the end of this week, they need to start studying on Monday.  Time management is a HUGE skill in 4th grade!! We really work on this skill when we do long term projects, read novels in a certain time frame, and have big tests to study for.  Help your child with this important skill.  If they master this skill now, it will help them tremendously in the coming years!

I will be sending home a note on Tuesday requesting gingerbread house materials.  Next Wednesday is Gingerbread House day.  Please have the supplies by Tuesday.  They need a tub of white frosting, 6 grahamn crackers, and a large bag of candy to share.  We will mix everyone's candy to give everyone a variety of candy!  Types of candy are: peppermints, Skittles, M&M's, M&M minis, pull apart Twizzlers, gum drops, small candy canes, Lifesavers, redhots, etc.. Pretzel sticks and marshmellows would be great too!

Thanks for your continued support!!