Welcome Back! I hope you all had a great Spring Break!
Reading: This week, we will be reviewing theme and plot. If you get a chance, discuss some of your favorite books with your children and what the theme is, or perhaps discuss the theme in the book that your child is reading and help them discover the theme. Some "tricks" to determining the theme are asking, "What did the main character learn?" or "How did the main character grow or change?" or looking for "Words of the Wiser" where an older and wiser character shares words of wisdom or a life lesson with the main character. The vocabulary words for this week are: inspiration, reconstruct, ambition, manufacture, commitment, munitions, foresight, and persistence.
Spelling: The spelling words this week follow a VCCV pattern; words such as achieve and whether are on the list!
Language: This week we are working hard on our Student Treasure Books! The children are writing about what they have learned in 4th grade! What a wonderful variety of topics they have chosen to write about!
Math: We are doing a fraction menu this week! The children are solving difficult problems involving fractions as they practice finding simplest form, equivalent fractions, comparing fractions as well as adding and subtracting fractions.
Alabama History: This week, our focus is on Alabama's part in the Civil War as well as how the war ended and what happened after the war.
Science: The students are researching about magnets. They are learning more about how magnets and electricity are connected.
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