Wow the year is flying by quickly!
Reading: We are continuing to read the inspiring historical fiction, Riding Freedom. Children are looking carefully at signposts and questioning the character's actions as we read. Our vocabulary words for the week are: precarious, reputation, considerate, masquerade, favored, trousers, recognition, fierce, and arouse. The students may visit http://www.studystack.com/SearchResults.jsp for a variety of games to help them study vocabulary.
Spelling: The spelling words this week are the schwa + r controlled verbs. (I did some research on this over the weekend as this term always confuses me. It is not the sound that is made but rather the name of a vowel sound, often unstressed that you find in words like chocolate, sofa, and camera.) These words are often tricky because the r controls the way the vowel sounds and they all sound similar. Students will need to focus on remembering which words have or, ar and er in them.
Writing: We will be examining persuasive writing more this week and beginning to write our own persuasive pieces.
Math: Fractions and decimals are both part of a whole number. The students will be learning more this week about exactly what a decimal is and how it relates to a fraction.
Alabama History: What happened after the Civil War? How was life different in Alabama without any slaves? What were the schools like back then? These difficult questions will be the focus of our studies this week.
Science: The students are learning how to classify animals this week. Do you know how many kingdoms there are? Do you know how many levels of classification there are in the animal kingdom? Ask your fourth grader, he/she should know!
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