Important News:
May 21st – All School Concert
May 25th – Memorial Day
May 29th – Fourth Graders Bowl in the afternoon
Students receive pictures at the end of the year for their memory book. If any parent is willing to develop a roll of film for this cause, please let me know. Thank you!
**My reading party will be on Friday of this week. All reading folders are due on Thursday. This is part of your grade, so please get them turned in if you want full credit for your independent reading.
Spelling- The unit this week is on words that end with the letters tion. There will be a test on Friday of this week.
Reading- This week we will continue our work with poetry. The new genre this week will be fantasy, and we will be reading many of Chris VanAllsburg books. We will review many strategies and skills that have been taught since the beginning of the year.
English We will continue our work with expository writing. The students will write an essay describing their favorite part about school. We will also begin a short unit on adverbs. The students will identify adverbs in sentences and recognize whether an adverb tells how, when, or where abou the verb.
Social Studies- This week the students will explain how cattle raising helped the economy of the Southwest develop. They will describe the roles of cowboys and cowgirls in the Southwest. The will identify the route of the Chisholm Trails and explain the role it played in the cattle trade. They will also contrast ranching in the Southwest in the past with ranching in the present.
A test over chapter 11 will be on Friday of this week.
The children should:
review and study the papers that are in their binders
know all vocabulary
know the main ideas and review questions from each lesson
know Navajo homes - what & how built
Long Walk
Spanish Missions - purpose
Spanish influence on the Southwest
understand the jobs of the cowboys
understand irrigation and how it changed Arizona
understand the affect of air conditioning on the Southwest
Science This week we will begin a new unit. The students will study some of the Earth's landforms. They will identify and describe major landforms and explain how these landforms develop. The will learn the what causes changes to the Earth's landforms.
