Hello Fabulous Fourth Grade Families!

We are going on another field trip! We will be going to the Hicksville Fire Department Headquarters on Thursday November 13th. We will also write letters of thanks and appreciation for the firefighters.

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

ELA: This week we will finish reading our class read-aloud, The Spiderwick Chronicles. We will be working on the skill of characterization. We will be starting our personal narrative writings. Our typed final drafts will be due by Thursday. Students will need to write at least 3 paragraphs. In grammar we will be starting our unit on nouns. There will be a spelling test on 11-13 based on words from The Spiderwick Chronicles.

Math: This week in Math we continue Unit 2: Multiplication and Division Problems, Module 6 and 7 have been combined. We will be learning how to divide muti digit numbers by one digit numbers. There will be a quiz on 11-12 and a test on 11-13. Helpful handouts, videos, charts, reteach pages, and the HW can all be found on Google Classroom and are excellent resources.

Religion: In religion this week we begin Unit 1-God Creates the World and Calls a Nation. We will be focusing on the book of Genesis.

Social Studies: In S.S. we begin Chapter 3, Colonial New York. We will be learning about the early New York colony. There will be a S.S. project on Colonial New York due by 11/25.

Science: This week we will begin our next unit on science, The Birth of Rocks.

Blessings,
Ms. Stainkamp