For those of you that attended BINGO Night, I hope you had a fun time! The place was packed and everyone was so engaged with their cards, making it hard for me to see what students were actually there.
My math class will not test this week on any topics. We have moved on to decimals, and will probably test close to the end of next week. I will be able to gage this better by the end of this week.
In social studies, we are continuing our studies of chapter 10, which deals with Government (Constitution, Bill of Rights, Branches of Government, and more). We will probably test on this mid to late next week, also.
As you can tell, that puts two major tests at about the same time. You can help your child by reading parts of the Social Studies each night. The test will come from chapter ten. Remember, the link to the online textbook is on the school's website, so your child does not have to take their SS book home.
In language arts, we will be moving on to adverbs, which we have actually talked about some in class already.
In reading, we will continue our studies of figurative language, as we work on personification and idioms.
Is your child taking their time on spelling? I have had to have many kids redo their sentences and paragraph due to lack of effort. I do not give an incredible amount of homework, so the homework I do give needs to have 100% effort. I have discussed this with the class. When writing sentences, they should be '4th grade sentences'. For example, they should not say something like this: He walked down the street. A '4th grade sentence' gives many more details, and might look like this: Johnny walked quickly down Elm Street because he was being chased by a furious dog. Because this is a home assignment, please look over your child's work to make sure they are doing exactly that. All paragraphs and sentences should have capitalization and proper punctuation.
For spelling tests, your child gets their Greek and Latin word root words on Monday (sometimes Tuesday) of each week. They need to be studying these each night. We spend each morning doing a minilesson on the meanings of the prefix and breaking down the words to find meaning. They are expected to know these by Friday. This part of the test counts as a daily grade, and the dictated sentences count as their weekly spelling test grade.
We had our Fun Friday movie day this past Friday. The kids had popcorn and applejuice boxes. Everyone was able to participate, which means we had great classroom behavior all month long!! Wow!
Have an enjoyable week.
My math class will not test this week on any topics. We have moved on to decimals, and will probably test close to the end of next week. I will be able to gage this better by the end of this week.
In social studies, we are continuing our studies of chapter 10, which deals with Government (Constitution, Bill of Rights, Branches of Government, and more). We will probably test on this mid to late next week, also.
As you can tell, that puts two major tests at about the same time. You can help your child by reading parts of the Social Studies each night. The test will come from chapter ten. Remember, the link to the online textbook is on the school's website, so your child does not have to take their SS book home.
In language arts, we will be moving on to adverbs, which we have actually talked about some in class already.
In reading, we will continue our studies of figurative language, as we work on personification and idioms.
Is your child taking their time on spelling? I have had to have many kids redo their sentences and paragraph due to lack of effort. I do not give an incredible amount of homework, so the homework I do give needs to have 100% effort. I have discussed this with the class. When writing sentences, they should be '4th grade sentences'. For example, they should not say something like this: He walked down the street. A '4th grade sentence' gives many more details, and might look like this: Johnny walked quickly down Elm Street because he was being chased by a furious dog. Because this is a home assignment, please look over your child's work to make sure they are doing exactly that. All paragraphs and sentences should have capitalization and proper punctuation.
For spelling tests, your child gets their Greek and Latin word root words on Monday (sometimes Tuesday) of each week. They need to be studying these each night. We spend each morning doing a minilesson on the meanings of the prefix and breaking down the words to find meaning. They are expected to know these by Friday. This part of the test counts as a daily grade, and the dictated sentences count as their weekly spelling test grade.
We had our Fun Friday movie day this past Friday. The kids had popcorn and applejuice boxes. Everyone was able to participate, which means we had great classroom behavior all month long!! Wow!
Have an enjoyable week.
