I hope you all had a wonderful time with your families over the last few days and made it back safely if you traveled! As always, please feel free to send me any photos of your fourth grader from the holiday weekend! We have three great weeks ahead of us filled with lots of learning!
This week in...
Science: We will begin our weather unit this week by learning about weather instruments and their functions. Students will have a quiz on these five weather instruments (anemometer, thermometer, weather vane, barometer, and rain gauge) on Thursday, December 3rd. The weather unit will last the three weeks in December and a study guide will go home with your child tomorrow. The unit test date has not been determined as yet, but will be the week of December 14th.
Virginia Studies: The Jamestown forts have been built and presented and the unit is over! Students will begin learning about Colonial Life in Virginia and will be expected to complete their VA Studies Weekly by Friday, December 4th. They will have an open-note VA Studies Weekly quiz on Friday, December 4th as well.
Writing: Students will receive new Word Study Words tomorrow, 100 points are due by Friday. Students will begin to work through the writing process as they write an informational essay. The Word Study test will be next Friday, December 13th.
Reading: Students will be working on differentiating between supporting details and the main idea in nonfiction this week, as well as identifying problem and solution statements and recognizing problems and solutions within informational text. Students, as always, are expected to read a minimum of 20 minutes nightly and record the amount of pages read, and the minutes read in their reading log. I will distribute new reading logs on Tuesday! I will be sending home several Scholastic News Book Flyers this month, if you are ordering books as presents and would like me to withhold the books, please let me know!
Math: As always, students should be on Reflex Math at least twice a week unless told otherwise by your student's math teacher.
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