MONDAY
Numeracy:
– Return all assessments
Science:
– Sign test and do corrections (Return Tuesday)
General:
– Bring Gingerbread house items (Tuesday)
– Bring food bag on Wednesday
Literacy, Bible, and Social Studies Objectives – December 9-13, 2019
GRAMMAR
- Identify and write past tense verbs with the helping verbs has, have, or had, with singular or plural verbs
- Proofread a poem for helping verbs with past tense verbs
- Write past tense forms of irregular verbs
- Proofread for forms of irregular verbs
- Recognize the different forms of the verb be
- Proofread for forms of be
WRITING
Grade 4 has been busy identifying and analyzing key aspects of a narrative story. This week, we will continue writing our own narrative stories with an aim to have them published by Friday.
SPELLING
Study for spelling test on Friday. Spelling words can be found on the homework post.
BIBLE
- Decode the names given to Jesus before He was born.
- Answer questions and complete sentences related to the Christmas message.
- Reflect on the name of Jesus and the reason they are significant
- NOTE: Bible Test – Christmas – on Friday.
SOCIAL STUDIES
- Students will continue to write research facts about Christmas in Brazil, Australia, and France.
HOMEWORK & ASSESSMENTS (All Subjects): December 9-13, 2019
MONDAY
Literacy:
– English – page 50
– Read – Read for at least 30 minutes
– Spelling:
Group 1
1. monster 2. complete 3. hundred 4. kitchen 5. sandwich 6. surprise 7. applause 8. although 9. conflict 10. mattress 11. purchase 12. merchant 13. pumpkin 14. angry 15. Thursday 16. ostrich 17. punctual 18. address 19. chestnut 20. luncheon
Group 2
1. lunar 2. cellar 3. collar 4. corner 5. danger 6. director 7. doctor 8. dollar 9. tinker 10. finger 11. honor 12. horror 13. labor 14. master 15. motor 16. ancestor 17. checkers 18. power 19. regular 20. sugar
Numeracy:
– Ready Math p.398 (No. 1 – 4) / p.404 (No. 1-4) / p.422 (No. 1-4) (Due Tuesday)
Bible:
Weekly Bible Verse: “Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has visited and redeemed his people.” Luke 1:68
SPECIAL REMINDERS:
Send in your canned good donations to help those less fortunate in the Cayman Islands.
TUESDAY
Literacy:
– English: page 52
– Read for at least 30 minutes
Numeracy:
– Ready Math p.398 (No. 5 – 6) / p.404 (No. 5-6) / p.422 (No. 5-6) (Due Wednesday)
– Sign 2 assessments and do corrections (Due Friday)
WEDNESDAY
Literacy:
– English: page 54
– Read for 30 minutes
Numeracy:
– Addition, subtraction and multiplication of whole numbers test
Science:
– Review Ecosystems and answer questions
THURSDAY
Literacy:
– Study Spelling Words
– Read for at least 30 minutes
Science:
– Review Ecosystems
Narrative Writing – Hey Deer
To add some Christmas fun to our writing, Grade 4 has been analyzing the animated short film by Pixar – Hey Deer. With the help of this video, we have been dissecting what goes in to making a great narrative story. From here, we will then create our own narrative, based off of this short narrative.
Give it a watch and discuss all of the key details and events with your child, reminding them that the more details added to a narrative, the more entertaining and interesting it will be for the reader.
Numeracy and Science: Objectives (12/02 – 12/06)
Numeracy
Learning objectives:
- Demonstrate fluency with multiplication facts through 12 x 12, and the corresponding division facts
- Estimate and determine sums, differences, and products of whole numbers
- Create and solve single-step and multi-step practical problems involving addition and subtraction
We move onto Fractions next week…
Focus in class:
- More addition and subtraction practice
- Multiplication of 3 digit by 2 digit
- Layout of working out
- Turtle head method for multiplication
SCIENCE
Learning Objectives:
- Interrelationships exist in populations, communities, and ecosystems;
- Food webs show the flow of energy within an ecosystem;
- Changes in an organism’s niche and habitat may occur at various stages in its life cycle; and
- Classification can be used to identify organisms.
Focus in class:
- Populations, communities and ecosystems
- Food webs
HOMEWORK & ASSESSMENTS (All Subjects): December 2-6, 2019
MONDAY
Literacy:
– Study for Verbs Assessment Part 1 tomorrow
Numeracy:
– Complete ALL Mathletics tasks (All should have been completed on Friday – please complete them by this Thursday)
– Practice 1 – 12 times tables (Test on Thursday)
– Sign 3 assessments (Due Friday)
Bible:
Weekly Bible Verse: I have seen your Salvation with my own eyes. You prepared him before all people. Luke 2:30-31
SPECIAL REMINDERS:
We’ll see you tonight at our Christmas Concert. Students are asked to meet in their classrooms at 6:20pm.
TUESDAY
Literacy:
– Read for 30 minutes and update Padlet
WEDNESDAY
Literacy:
– Study Spelling Words
– Read for 30 minutes
Numeracy:
– Read Ready Math p.17 – 18
– Complete Ready Math p.19 – 26 (Due Monday next week)
THURSDAY
Literacy:
– Study Spelling Words
– Read for 30 minutes
Numeracy:
– Times tables (0 – 12) test
Literacy, Bible, and Social Studies Objectives – December 2-6, 2019
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.