It's so hard to believe it is April already! We are so proud of our students and their hard work and determination as they completed the FSA reading assessment. Thank you parents for your continued support as they take their math FSA on April 18th and 19th. Test scores will not be available until late May.
Wednesday, April 5 is early release. It is the only early release in April.
No school on Friday, April 14 and Friday, April 28.
Resources this week:
Cox:
Tuesday: PE
Wednesday: art
Thursday: art and media... Please return all library books!
Kluge:
Monday: music
Wednesday: art and media... Please return all library books!
Thursday: art
ELA: We finished Peter Pan last week! We compared the novel to the 1953 movie version and we were shocked at the many differences. We discussed similarities and differences during the movie. We also completed our Freaky Frog Trading Cards which were a result of researching two resources about one type of frog.
Our new unit will focus on the importance of clean freshwater around the world. Our central text will be One Well: The Story of Water on Earth written by Rochelle Strauss.
In unit one of our final module, we will continue to build geography and map-reading skills by studying where water is found on earth. We will write informational paragraphs to explain this. We will also examine the water cycle and watersheds and will compare how different texts present similar information about these two topics. This will be excellent preparation for fourth grade writing.
This week, we will discover how all water on earth is connected and has been here since the beginning of time. The text will provide some surprising facts about water on earth as well.
Some important new vocabulary will be found in the following sentence:
"All water on Earth is connected, so there is just one source of water -- one global well -- from which we all draw our water."
These words would be great to discuss at home this week!
In writing, we will start to learn about two types of writing prompts which will be a big part of fourth grade. The type of prompt determines how a writer organizes his/her piece.
Opinion prompt: "After reading the text, would you support having uniforms in school or not having uniforms in school? Give information from the text to support your opinion."
Informative prompt: "The text discusses the practice of recycling. Write an informative piece explaining how recycling is a positive thing for a community. Use evidence from the text to support your answer."
Our first assessment will be an on-demand paragraph answering the question, Where is Water on Earth? Students will explain using specific facts, definitions and details from the texts they have read in their informative paragraphs. They will use a familiar graphic organizer we have used all year.
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Math: This week in math the students will continue to compare and
classify polygons, quadrilaterals, and draw polygons with specified attributes to
solve problems. They will decompose
quadrilaterals to understand perimeter as the boundary of a shape. The students will explore perimeter as an
attribute of plane figures and solve problems.
They will measure side lengths in whole number units to determine the
perimeter of polygons. The students will determine the perimeter of regular
polygons and rectangles when whole number measurements are missing.
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Example problem for missing measurement in perimeter
problem:
Homework:
Module 7 Lesson 6
Module 7 Lesson 10
Module 7 Lesson 12
Module 7 Lesson 13
Things
to practice and review at home:
Practice identifying number patterns using multiplication,
addition or subtraction strategies.
Continue to review multiplication and division facts 2 to 10
Practice solving two step word problems involving all four
operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).
Practice identifying equivalent fractions using number lines
and/or fraction strip models.
Science: We will continue
describing structures in plants and their roles in food production, support,
water and nutrient transport, and reproduction.
The students will learn how plants respond to heat, light and gravity.
