I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families. I loved hearing all that the children did and just how much they enjoyed being with their families and of course enjoyed all of the delicious food!
In the Tuesday Communicator tomorrow, you will find a print out of your child's AR tests for this nine weeks. I just thought it was a good time that you and your child look over how much and what all your child has read over the last six weeks and planned what else he/she needs to read over the next three weeks.
December is a very busy month for us at school as I know it is for you as well! I do hope you will join us next Thursday night, December the 12th for the 4th Grade Musical. The kids are doing a great job in practices and I'm excited to see the final production. Also in the Tuesday Communicator, you will find information about how your child can help to ring the bell for the Salvation Army next Saturday.
Reading - This week we are continuing to read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as we continue to make inferences about the main characters. We will also be talking about the importance of understanding sequence in a story. Our vocabulary words this week are: dreadful, decoy, prophecy, treacherous, shuddered, turrets, gloomy, gloating, jeering, threshold and skidding.
Spelling - All of the words this week have ing or ed endings. The children are learning if they need to drop the silent e at the end or double the final consonant of the root word.
Language - We are continuing to work on subject and predicate this week. We will have a test on Thursday. I will post another blog with some study "opportunities" to help the children with this topic. I'm so glad so many of them used the verb blog to help them study for the last language test.
Math - This week we are mastering 2 digit by 2 digit numbers and hopefully learning more about 3 digit by 3 digit multiplication as well.
Alabama History - We finished discussing the American Revolution and will be looking at what happened after America became a country. We will focus this week on the Creek War. We only have a couple more topics to cover in this unit, so on Thursday I will send home information about the final project for this unit.
Science - This week we are learning all about energy, specifically rubber band energy. The students thoroughly enjoyed investigating how rubber bands could make the cars move. Ask your child to tell you more about kinetic and potential energy!
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