BON DIA WEEK 11!
November 14, 2011
Bon Dia, Good Day!
I am sorry for the late post. Sick kids at home!
This week there will be no homework packet so that the students can spend time working on their State poster boards. We spent some time yesterday on the computers and I hope to give them all one more day in class to work as well.
We will begin to collect Food for the Food Bank. Our class will be collecting Pasta and Sauce. I know we will do a great job since we collected so many soap bars to take to our One Saturday! BRING IN SOME PASTA AND SAUCES!!!!
READERS/WRITERS WORKSHOP – We continue with our ‘Slice of Life’ stories. These stories are still personal narratives, but with a kick, hoping to raise the quality of narrative writing.
Last week we started the Stone Fox book. We will continue with this book. The students will show comprehension skills, vocabulary, character relations and connections.
MATH – I have decided to divide my 4th grade students up into 2 different math groups. I was very happy with the results of the first Unit test by many of my students. I am hoping the triangle group will be ready to take their test early next week so that they can catch up with the Hexagons as we started our fraction/decimal unit yesterday.
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RELIGION – This week we will be reading in our Religion books, Chapter 4 on Prayer. We will also continue with our Steps to Respect and Anti-Bully Plan.
SPELLING – (NOT FOR MSL STUDENTS, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN WORK) each week a new list of spelling words is given. Monday is a pre-test and spelling assignment. Tuesday and Wednesday they are writing spelling sentences. Thursday is an additional spelling worksheet. Fridays we have our spelling test, turn in all of our spelling from the week, and then are able to play word games. Each day an assignment is assigned to work on in class. If they are unable to complete the assignment, they need to complete it at home. At the end of the week all of the spelling work is neatly put together, stapled and turned in.
SOCIAL STUDIES – Please read through the Homework packet with your student. The students will be researching their ‘state’ from home and at school. All of the information they need for this project they have in their binders. I do not think I can post it on the blog since it is so many pages long. This week we will also take a visual tour of the Mayflower. We will be keeping journals as if we all were on the Mayflower.
SCIENCE – Last week we started a science
Experiment, “What happens to a pumpkin after Halloween?” We are watching pumpkins with different variables (air, water, cold, and heat, dirt…) to see what happens to them over time. We will also continue with the Metric System Foss Kit. We continue our Metric Unit. We enjoyed a Metric experiment last week as well.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!
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