Important Dates to Remember:
Friday, May 18 - Early Dismissal 11:00
Monday, May 28 Memorial Day No School
Thursday, May 31 - 4th grade Bowling Permission slips should be in ASAP
Tuesday, June 5 - Last day of school
Math- This week in math we will begin division with remainders. The students will work with counters to understand the concept of remainders. Then they will learn to divide two digit by 1 digit numbers using long division.
Spelling - This week the students will be working with words that have final schwa sounds. These ares sounds that have a lazy a sound as in final or middle. They also are words that have ar, er, and or t the end. The workbook pages this week will be stapled together in their binder. - Pages 237-239 will be due this week.
Reading - In reading this week, the students will practice making inferences. Readers must make inferences, or "read between the lines," when an author does not tell the reader everything. Readers read between the lines by applying what they already know to story clues given by the author.
English - In English this week, the students will continue their work with pronouns. They will practice using possessive pronouns such as their, his, hers, and its. They will also work with pronouns that are contractions.
Science - This week there will be a test on Wednesday over Simple Machines chapter 17. The students should know:
All vocabulary
All key concepts from the book
Scientists meaning for work
Understand how a wheel and axle works to be a simple machine
Understand how each simple machines work and what they are made up of.
Understand a fulcrum in relation to a a person holding a fishing pole
Understand how a pulley works
Understand how and why simple machines used in everyday life?
Social Studies There will be a test in social studies this week over chapter 12, the land and climate of the West Region. The students should know.
All vocabulary
All key concepts from the lessons
Know what the Rocky Mountains are and how they relate to other mountain systems. What are their characteristics.
What are the mountain ranges in the West Region
Which state has the coldest temperatures, wettest
Understand the climate in the Great Basin
What are the main resources that come from Idaho and Hawaii
How are Alaska and Hawaii alike
What product is provided do we get from the timber industrty
Which state in the West Region would they like to live in and why? Give 3 reasons for why you would like to live in that state that are related to the land and climate.
