News From Mrs. Cavoto's Room April 11-15

Things to Remember: April 14 - Prairieview Open House/Book Fair - 6:30-8:00 p.m. April 21 - Early Dismissal - 11:00 a.m. April 22 - No school April 12 - all fourth grade students will be taking the OLSAT (Otis-Lennon School Ability Test) test. This test is designed to measure abstract thinking and reasoning ability. Please make sure that your child eats breakfast & comes to school well rested that day.

Math - On Wednesday, April 13, there will be a test on chapter 23 perimeter, area, and volume. There are many papers in their folder that they can use as study tools. The students should review these skills at home. We will also review possible outcomes. They will express probability as a fraction and find all possible combinations and arrangements in probability situations.

Spelling: This week in spelling the pattern continues words with the Vowel Consonant Vowel pattern. (VCV). The assigned workbook pages for the week are pages 175-177. Those students who pass the pretest with no more than 1 wrong will do the assigned activities for the week. (They do not have to do the workbook pages.) They can earn extra points on their grade if they take the test on their new words at the end. Reading: This week in reading our class will also be reading Earthquake Terror By Peg Kehret. We will practice the reading strategies that have been learned since the beginning of the year. We will also focus on understanding different genres, specifically pourquoi tales. Pourquoi is a French word meaning "why". Pourquoi tales are stories that tell how, long ago, something in nature came to be. Often times these tales contain animals or natural forces that speak or have personalities. English The students will continue to work with expository writing. They will focus on organizing their writing and using different kinds of supporting details to elaborate their ideas with. They will finish working with a partner to write an expository essay on what they would do with a robot if they had one. They will then write an essay on their own telling about their own personal hero. Science Science projects are due on Tuesday of this week. They should be prepared to give an oral presentation of their invention. We will go over how to do that in class, but they need to prepare and practice it at home They will be given an oral presentation grade in English on it. We will be writing Social Studies We will begin our tour of the Southwest. The focus will be on the Grand Canyon. The students will learn how the Grand Canyon was carved out by erosion caused by the Colorado River.