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EXPOSITORY WRITING

Learning Objectives:

• Students will be able to write an expository writing piece “Quick Write” on an animal of their choosing

READING – INDIAN NO MORE AND ROOM ON A BROOM

Learning objectives:

• Identify how the attributes of one character are similar to or different from those of another character;
• Compare two characters within a selection or between/among two or more selections;
• Compare and contrast settings, characters, and events;

GRAMMAR

Learning objectives:

• Identify nouns in sentences
• Write sentences and identify the nouns in them
• Identify common and proper nouns
• Capitalize proper nouns correctly

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SPELLING

Spelling Mania is this Friday. Please continue earning sponsors for your spelling words.

Group 1 – Prefix pre-, mis-, in-

Group 2 – Words with Prefix + Base + Suffix

SOCIAL STUDIES

READING

We started a new class novel – Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. Before we started reading it though, we had some group discussions on some of the disabilities or illnesses that people may face. Because of Winn-Dixie addresses a few physical and mental challenges that some people face. I truly love this book and I know the class will as well. Remember to ask your child about what we have read and discussed in the classroom.

Because of Winn-Dixie – A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America’s beloved storyteller. One summer’s day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries – and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It’s because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it’s because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie. Featuring a new cover illustration by E. B. Lewis and an excerpt of Kate DiCamillo’s newest novel, Raymie Nightingale.

We’ll be covering about 5 chapters per week and then completing a quiz following.

Some of the objectives that we will be covering while reading are:

• Offer observations, make connections, react, speculate, interpret, and raise questions in response to text
• Identify and discuss book themes, characters, plots, and settings
• Connect their experiences with those of the author and/or with characters from the books
• Support predictions, interpretations, conclusions, etc. with examples from text
• Practice key reading skills and strategies (cause-and-effect, problem/solution, compare-and-contrast, summarizing, etc.)
• Monitor their own comprehension

We’re also in the process of making a Bottle Tree on our bulletin board. Feel free to pop by and have a look. Be sure to ask your child about the importance of our tree…how it connects to the book and how we related it to our own lives.

GRAMMAR

– Replace weak adjectives with exact adjectives.

– Unit 4 Adjectives Review

WRITING

Grade 4 has started a new writing unit for Quarter 3 – Opinion Writing. Last week, they finished their pre-assessments to inform me what students know about opinion writing.

This week, we’ll delve right in and discuss the age old question of:

– Should kids eat candy?

We’ll discuss, research, hold a debate, and then write an opinion piece on this topic. Stay tuned…

SPELLING

Study for spelling test on Friday. Spelling words can be found on the homework post.

BIBLE

– Define omnipotent and answer questions about God’s power.

– Examine God’s power as demonstrated in Scripture.

– Complete a dialogue related to God’s powerful love.

– Identify additional attributes of God evidences in Scripture.

– Unit 7 Assessment will be completed after our mid-term break – Wednesday, March 4th

SOCIAL STUDIES

– Discover our African connection – we will finalize our research and brochure on Granny Nanny or Thomas Clarkson. Be sure to ask your child to let you know why we’ve been studying these very important individuals in Social Studies.

– Discover our Indian and Chinese connection.

– Unit 2 Assessment – Our Ancestors

GRAMMAR:

– Review Part 1 of Verbs Assessment (pages 96-109)

– Tuesday: Unit 3 Verbs Part 1 Assessment

– Unit 3 Verbs Assessment Part 1 – Correction Session

READING:

– Fluency Assessment Monday – Tuesday (No preparation needed)

– Students will describe, in depth, parts of a text such a character, the setting, an idea or concept, or key events.

– Students will to step into the character’s shoes.

– Students will understand that authors play with words, so I ask, “Could this mean something besides the literal meaning?”

WRITING:

Grade 4 has been busy identifying and analyzing key aspects of a narrative story. This week, we will continue our narrative focus and will end the week with beginning our own narrative stories.

SPELLING:

Group 1:

1. history 2. number 3. hunger 4. company 5. window 6. welcome 7. blanket 8. perhaps 9. service 10. subject 11. thunder 12. furnish 13. jersey 14. mother 15. secret 16. harvest 17. winter 18. problem 19. chapter 20. nurses

Group 2:

1. tropical 2. animal 3. April 4. arrival 5. trample 6. bottle 7. camel 8. capital 9. couple 10. swivel 11. festival 12. gentle 13. level 14. national 15. normal 16. tremble 17. puddle 18. rebel 19. single 20. tunnel

BIBLE:

– Review Thanksgiving Unit

– Unit 13 – Thanksgiving Assessment

– Write the name of Jesus found in Isaiah 9:6

Bible verse: “I have seen your Salvation with my own eyes. You prepared him before all people.” Luke 2:30-31

NOTE: A new list of Bible verses was handed out to students today to keep in their homework folder.

SOCIAL STUDIES:

– Students will write facts about Christmas in Brazil, Australia, and France.

GRAMMAR

– DRA Assessments will be taking place over the next couple of weeks. There will be no Grammar objectives or Grammar homework this week.

WRITING

We are continuing our Expository Writing unit, focusing on the following parts:

– Students will be continue to read and take notes about their topic

READING

BIBLE

– Complete exercises to reinforce the concept that the Bible is accurate.

– Respond to questions regarding Philip’s ministry to an Ethiopian man.

– Match scriptures to fulfilled prophecy with correct statements.

– Deduce that God’s Word is for all people, for all time.

Weekly Bible Verse

“the God we serve is able to delivery us.” Daniel 3:17