NOON DISMISSAL on Thursday, April 7 and Friday, April 8. If you will need to change your child's transportation those two days, please send a handwritten note each day. Thanks!
LANGUAGE ARTS
READING- Author's Purpose will be our work this week. We will discuss how Author's Purpose can be as easy as PIE (Persuade, Inform, Entertain). Around the table at home, discuss things you have read or seen on TV and what the purpose might be for those texts. You can also check out the sites listed on Language Arts Websites and scroll down until you see Author's Purpose.
WRITING- Studies engaged in great discussion last week as they read other people's narratives and decided if they were good or bad examples. We learned that text structure can really make or break a story. This week, we will create a class critera chart for a good narrative and begin making some of our own.
SPELLING- Words went home last week. Spelling Test 4/6. Application grade 4/7-4/12.
SOCIAL STUDIES- We are knee deep in economics. A few of our new concepts and vocabulary words are free enterprise, consumers, supply, demand, budget, wants, needs, spending and saving. Remember to have your child use his or her log in on studiesweekly.com to review and preview concepts. Our economics unit covers weeks 19-23.
MATH-On Monday, we talking about congruent figures and we learned that congruent figures must be the same size and the same shape. On Tuesday and Wednesday, we will be learning about 3D Shapes. We will classify the shapes on Tuesday by curved surfaces, prisms, and pyramids. On Wednesday, we will learn about faces, vertices, and edges.
This is how we identify faces, vertices, and edges
Prisms and Pyramids
Curved Surfaces
On Thursday and Friday, we will be discussing lines of symmetry. On Thursday, we will learn about shapes with just one line of symmetry. On Friday, our students will work with shapes that have more than one line of symmetry.
This week, your child will have review homework for area, perimeter, and a mixed review. The problem of the week will be due on Friday and the fast facts quiz will be taken on Friday. On Thursday, your child will be quizzed over 2D shapes. In class each day, we will review the 2D shapes with a game. Please spend time at home learning about these polygons.
SCIENCE- In Science, we are starting our space unit! The kids love this time of year! In the beginning of the week we will study the sun and all its wonder. The kids will discover these very important facts:
1. The sun is only a medium sized star.
2. The sun looks so big because its our closest star.
3. Other stars look so small because they are so far away.
4. The sun is made of hydrogen and helium.
5. The temperatures of the inner core and surface of the sun.
6. The sun is 4.6 billion years old and halfway through its life.
7. The sun gives us heat and light.
8. The sun drives the water cycle.
9. The sun gives us gravity and keeps us and all the other planets in orbit.
Tuesday and Wednesday we will learn about the moon. The last part of the week we will discover the intricate relationship of the sun, moon, and earth.
