Hello Fabulous Fourth Grade Families!

Below you will find what we will be doing for each subject this week:

ELA: This week we are continuing to read The Spiderwick Chronicles Book 2: The Seeing Stone by Tony DiTerlizo and Holly Black. We will also be continuing our unit of argumentative writing. Students will begin their next argumentative essay answering the question, should students have more recess each day? In grammar we will continue our study of verbs. We will also be reading the short stories, Attack of the Killer Hornets and Fighting Back. We will be focusing on text features and connecting texts. There will be a vocabulary and comprehension test on Friday 2/6.

Math: This week in Math we begin Module 11: Fractions Equivalence and Comparison. We will be focusing on the skill of cross multiplying to compare fractions. There will be a quiz for Module 11 on 2/5, and a test on 2/6.

Religion: In religion we will be starting our study of the book of Exodus.

Social Studies: In S.S. we continue Chapter 4, New York in the Revolution. We will start learning about the battles in the revolution as well as key leaders in the revolution.

Science: This week we will be continuing our unit of science, animal and plant adaptations. We will be answering the question, why don’t the same trees grow everywhere.

Blessings,
Ms. Stainkamp