Hello Fabulous Fourth Grade Families! 

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

ELA: This week we will begin reading our class read-aloud,  I Survived the California Wildfires by Lauren Tarshis. There will be a spelling and comprehension test on 11/25. We will be working on the skill of characterization. We will be starting our fictional narrative writings. Students will need to write at least 3 paragraphs. In grammar we will be continuing our unit on nouns. 

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 test on 11-18.  We will also begin module 8: 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication. There will be a quiz and test following the Thanksgiving break. 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 continue 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 continue in our unit The Birth of Rocks. We will be answering the question, could a volcano pop up where you live? 

Blessings, 

Ms. Stainkamp