Reading
Number the Stars – Here’s a quick summary of the utter greatness that you can expect from this book:
As the German troops begin their campaign to “relocate” all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven thousand people, across the sea to Sweden. The heroism of an entire nation reminds us that there was pride and human decency in the world even during a time of terror and war.Winner of the 1990 Newbery Medal.
Be sure to ask you child/children what they think of the book, and to summarize what we’ve read of the book each day.
Some of the learning objectives (or WALT as we refer to them in Grade 4; We Are Learning To) that we will cover while reading are:
- Describe the characters’ traits, feelings, and motivations in Number the Stars.
- Refer to the text for evidence to support answers.
- Form an opinion about a character’s trait based on the character’s actions, feelings and motivation.
- Explain how the characters’ actions contribute to the sequence of events.
- Engage in discussions sharing their ideas and listening to others.
- Use context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words or phrases in Number the Stars.
- Distinguish literal and non-literal language and determine its meaning.
- Gain information about the past.
- Build upon their background knowledge of World War II.
- Explore themes of friendship and bravery during the times that scare us the most.
Grammar
– Pronouns test on Monday
– Terra Nova Practice
Writing We’re still working through our rough drafts this week.
– Sentence Fluency – Continue to revise writing for sentence fluency, including sentences that flow and a variety of shorter and longer sentences to add impact to their writing conventions. – Students will use CUPS to go through and edit their rough drafts.
– Peer Editing – Students will review and edit each others work
Spelling
No spelling test this week due to Inter-Primary Sports Day
Numeracy Students will be finishing their graphs and class survey, then moving on to time and money! They were exposed a little in term 1 and will review and learn more this week and next!
CHALLENGE: With time and money being a focus, there are many practical ways they can practice this at home!
- Money: Go grocery shopping! Have them estimate cost of items and what the total will be of your shop. This supports their mental math skills and addition.
- Time (elapsed time): Have them keep track of various activities to understand elapsed time and how long it takes to do things. (morning routines, dinner, sports activities, tv shows)
- Predict when something will end or begin after elapsed time.
- Ex. The movie starts at 1:30 and an hour and a half long, when will it end?
- Ex. I have a soccer game at 2:30 and it’s 9am, how much time do I have till my game? when should we leave the house to be on time? how much time do I have for lunch before my game?
Science We are finishing our topic of watersheds. We are making diagrams of how watersheds work and how some ‘live downstream’, we’ve discussed how this doesn’t work in Cayman and why. Then we will continue Earth’s resources by looking at forests, soil and land. There will be an assessment next week on Earth’s resources!
Social Studies Explore Caribbean culture. Choose on aspect of Caribbean culture, create poster, and write a paragraph on it. Find out where and when it began, how it has spread through the Caribbean, and what form it takes today.
HOMEWORK
Monday – Friday: > Reading for at least 30 minutes each night. * (4B should really focus on reading to complete their AR goals!)
Tuesday – Thursday: > 3 pages of handwriting > Students should be focusing on their Science Fair projects > Some will be assigned mathletics to improve scores on some tasks. > others will be getting work on time and money
STAR testing: Tuesday and Wednesday for Numeracy
Bible Verse
God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. – Revelations 21:3