News From Mrs. Cavoto's Room August 29- September 2

Welcome to Fourth Grade!

We have had a very busy three-day week last week, and we are off to a great start.  We organized our materials, learned about classroom procedures and participated in activities to help us get to know each other and our classroom.

Dates to Remember:
Tuesday, August 30 - Curriculum Night 6:30 - 7:30
Monday, September 5, No School, Labor Day

Math for Mrs. Cavoto's Class: This week the students will understand what our math class should look like and sound like throughout the year. We are a community of learners, and in math class we are all mathematicians who will be thinking, talking, and asking questions about math.  Our first module is Models for Multiplication and Division. The students will  learn how to interpret products of whole numbers using number lines, ratio tables, and rectangular rays.  There will be a nightly homework assignment.

Reading -   In reading this week we will work on Close reading   Close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a piece of text and one of the cornerstones of the Common Core State Standards.  We will read the poem, "Casey at the Bat". The students will read and reread this poem, dissecting it to gain an understanding  of the author's words. They will also compare it to other texts  and try to understand the author's perspective. 

Spelling: This week we will be working with words that have the prefixes un, non, and dis.  There are 5 vocabulary words and 11 spelling words that they will need to know.  The students will have a packet of work throughout the week that will help them to learn the pattern and skills for that week.  Each evening they will be given an assignment to complete in  the packet which will need to be turned in the next day.  There will be a test on Friday of this week.  The students will need to know the meanings of the vocabulary words and how to spell them along with knowing how to spell the other words on the list.

Social Studies: This year we will be touring the regions of the United States.  The first region we will visit is the Northeast Region.  The students will be given an assignment to fill in and color a map of the Northeast following a rubric.  This will be due on Wednesday of this week. They will have a map test on Thursday of this week.  They should be able to label the states and other landforms from their colored map on a map correctly. Spelling does not count, but I need to be able to recognize the name of the state and or landform's name.