Hi Parents and Families!
Welcome back to another week in 4th grade!
This week in math, we're continuing to work on multiplication strategies. Today, students learned the "old-school" method (we call it multiplication with regrouping) that all of you parents probably learned when you were in school! Homework tonight is page 175 in the textbook. Students may elect to try out the new strategy they learned today or may use another strategy that works better for them. We'll be finishing up Chapter 3 this week, will have a review on Friday, and then will have the Chapter 3 test on Monday. If your student is still shakey on his/her multiplication facts, please work on these at home.
In Language Arts this week, we're continuing to work on using context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words, figuring out an author's purpose for writing a given piece, and using text evidence to answer text-dependent questions. Students are also continuing to work toward publishing their personal narratives. Please ask your child where he/she is in the writing process. Personal narratives will be due next week. Additionally, in grammar, students will be practicing with regular and irregular verbs.
In Science, we're continuing to work on our Weather unit. This week, students will learn about weather instruments and will get the chance to collect some weather data with our own assistant principal, who was once a weather forecaster in the Air Force. Next week, we'll transition to Social Studies and begin our study of Native American tribes.
Finally, don't forget that next week is ony a 3 day week. Thursday and Friday (10/27 and 10/28) are teacher workdays, so we hope you get to enjoy that extra long weekend!
Have a wonderful evening!
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