Parent Conferences
I look forward to meeting with you to discuss your child’s progress in fourth grade. I will be sending home a preconference form on Tuesday. I would appreciate it if you would take a few moments to answer the questions to help me in preparing for our conference.
If you have yet not signed-up for parent conferences on November 12, please go to this link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0444a8ab2ea75-parent5
Wish List
We are in need of wipes. (Clorox type)
Subject Update
Language Arts
We are working on opinion writing, and the students read a debate piece entitled “Should Everyone Get a Prize” and will work in small groups to discuss their opinions and decide which reasons would make for a strong argument. They will plan and begin writing this piece depending on their point of view this week. I am looking forward to a lively debate once they have finished writing!
During the past weeks, students have been continuing to practice underlining, highlighting and note-taking skills while reading both fiction and non-fiction materials. These strategies help the students as we continue to practice answering multiple-choice and text-based questions. We are following the “Problem Solving Steps” of Understand, Represent, Answer and Look Back to help us in answering questions.
Mathematics
We are continuing in Chapter Three, Whole Number Multiplication and Division. Students have learned how to complete 1-digit by 4-digit and 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication algorithms, and have learned a number of strategies to solve these problems. Students have used the traditional algorithm, partial products and area models to solve these multiplication problems. We are currently practicing dividing a 4-digit number by a 1-digit number. Most students are using the traditional algorithm to solve these problems. The have learned a mnemonic device
Does Mom Serve BrownRice, OR Divide, Multiply,Subtract, Bring down, Repeat. We are also working on multi-step problem solving involving multiplication and division. We are coming to the end of this chapter and will be reviewing and testing at the end of the week. Although we are completing this chapter we will continue to work on multiplication and division as we move into the next chapters. It will be important for students to continue to practice their multiplication and division facts as this is the foundation for the upcoming skills.
Social Studies
Students will be learning about various types of regions. The features regions share, how boundaries and borders can define regions, how a place can be a part of more than one type of region, and how people can use regions to make decisions or solve problems. They will also be learning to distinguish between weather and climate, identify factors that affect climate, and identify how climate regions and weather extremes impact economic activity and how people in a region live. We will also be applying the knowledge about regions to the Eastern Region of our country. Students will be learning to identify the states in the eastern region and came home today with some maps and flash cards to help them learn the map of the east. We will have a map quiz on Friday.
Science
During the past two weeks, the students observed 2 different types of erosion (wind and water) and came to a decision about which type of erosion caused the most damage (or greatest change) based on our observations and measurements. This was the Wind Castle and Drip Castle experiment that we posted on Seesaw. Students also made stream tables and observed the erosion and deposition of a landform. These pictures were also posted on Seesaw. We will continue to explore and discuss how our investigations relate to our environment. The students have learned a song/rhyme to help them remember weathering, erosion, and deposition. “Weathering breaks it, erosion takes it, deposition drops it. “
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