News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room Oct. 24-28

Important Dates to Remember:
Oct. 26- Early Dismissal-11:30
October 31- Halloween party-Students may bring their costumes to school.  We will put them on after lunch 12:50. The party will begin at 1:10-2:10. The parade will begin at 2:10.

Math- There will be a check pt. review on Tuesday. The students have a study guide to help them know what will be quizzed. The students will also work with ratio tables to see relationships between the numbers and solve word problems using estimation and the strategies they have learned to solve for more difficult numbers.

Spelling -  Unit 9 -Words on this week's list will include the prefixes pre- re- and mis-. We will study the definitions of these prefixes and how they change the meaning of the root word that they are attached to. The final TEST is scheduled for Friday, 10/28.

Reading- In reading this week, the students will independently respond to a question relating courage which is shown in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s  "I Have a Dream Speech" and the story of Happy Birthday, Dr. King.  They will also read passages about Jackie Robinson and Malala comparing the two.  We will discuss how  they showed courage?  They should be thinking: Can courage be shown in more than just one way?

English- There will be a test over unit 5 Capitalization and Punctuation on Friday of this week.  The students will be given assignments to help them review the skills.  They should also bring their book home and use the review pages at the end of the unit pages 194-202 to help them study as well.  

Science- The students will use what they have learned about the scientific method to create a scientific experiment at home. They will then share this with the class.  A note will come home explaining the project.  We will be sharing 2 experiments a week.  So I will have the students sign up for the week they would like. 

We will begin a unit on classifying animals.  The students will understand that scientists classify animals into two main groups. (vertebrates and invertebrates).  This week the students will learn about the characteristics of vertebrates.  

News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room October 17-21

Important Dates to Remember:
Oct. 26- Early Dismissal-11:30
October 31- Halloween party-Students may bring their costumes to school.  We will put them on after lunch 12:50. The party will begin at 1:10-2:10. The parade will begin at 2:10.


Math- The students will multiply 2 digit whole numbers by a 1 or 2-digit whole number using strategies based on place value.  They will use rectangular arrays to explain strategies for multiplying with multi-digit numbers and apply the area formula to solve problems.
 The students will practice reading and writing larger numbers.We will review that in a multi-digit number each digit represents 10 times than the place to its right. We will also work with rectangular arrays and

Spelling -  Unit 8
This week's spelling/vocabulary list will include a variety of words that are appropriate for 4th-grade students. Instead of studying a spelling rule, we will focus on the definition of these words and how they might be used in reading and writing. Part of this week's lesson will also highlight how to use reference materials such as a dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, and encyclopedia. The final TEST is scheduled for Friday, 10/21.

Reading- This week we will close read an excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech".  The students will answer text-dependent questions from his speech.  There will be a quiz on Happy Birthday, Dr. King and this excerpt on Friday.  The students will be able to use their text and the speech to answer questions. They should be thinking about the question: How are the lessons that Jamal learned from his family and the lessons about courage from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. alike and different? They should bring their book home to reread the story and the excerpt to help them prepare for the quiz.

English- This week the students will review uses for commas in sentences.  They will also use quotation marks correctly in sentences with dialog.

Science - This week the students will continue to study the Scientific Method.  They will follow the steps of the scientific method as they conduct experiments throughout the week.  A quiz will be given on the steps of the Scientific Method on Friday of this week.  They should understand what each step means in the Scientific Method and be able to identify examples of the steps.  They should understand the main purpose of the Scientific Method (to test ideas).  They should understand what we do when we test a hypothesis ( Design an experiment) What is a hypothesis? (It is a prediction, that can be tested. It is not a guess.) What are we testing when we use the Scientific Method? We are testing a hypothesis.

News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room Oct.10-14

Important Dates:
Oct. 10-- No School Columbus Day
Oct. 13 --Book Fair

A note from Mrs. Cushing: If you child would like to be part of the Prairieview PE Bulletin board, please take an "action" picture of your child showing some type of PHYSICAL ACTIVITY that they are involved in outside of school.  Please get these in as soon as possible.  I will accept pictures as they come in.  Any questions?  Please contact me at tcushing@ccsd66.org  Thanks!

Math:  In math this week we will begin Unit Two, Module One, Building Multiplication Arrays. Students should be practicing their multiplication facts nightly to help prepare for this chapter.  Students will determine the area of base ten pieces in square centimeters and discuss the idea that the area of each piece represents its place value.  They will understand that each place value is 10 greater than the place before it.

Reading: We will continue our Courage theme. There will be a  vocabulary QUIZ on the words from Happy Birthday Dr. King on Thursday 10/13. The resources for preparing for the quiz are found in Reading section of Google Classroom and include a Quizlet and their word work pages. Then, we will be digging into an excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech".
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English: The students will write understand and write abbreviations of titles, months, days and addresses correctly.  They will have a quiz on this on Friday of this week.

Spelling:  Unit 7 - "Suffixes "-ness", "-less",  and "-en"
This week's spelling/vocabulary list will include words with the suffixes -ness, -less, and-en.  We will study the definitions of these suffixes and how to determine the meaning of unknown words by breaking the words into base words and suffixes and by using context clues. The final test is scheduled for Friday, 10/14.

Science:   We will continue the introduction chapter of "Getting Ready for Science".  The students have been working in groups to construct  a model building with the use of straws, tape and paper clips. This week we will predict how many pennies their straw model can support. We will learn how the scientific method helps scientist gain knowledge.