Reading: We are continuing to dive deep into the story “Home of the Brave” as we make inferences, study the author’s use of figurative language, make connections to the characters, and investigate how and why the character’s change throughout the story. We start Part 3 tomorrow, where many of the theme’s of the story are evident and we take our understanding even deeper. The kids are practicing using evidence to support their thinking.
Writing: We are practicing our use of figurative language (metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, alliteration and idioms). This week after working with plot elements, the kids will be writing their own personal or story narratives using descriptive & figurative language and dialogue. We continue to practice our daily language and grammar review skills daily.
Spelling Week 17- Spell with the variant sounds of g and c
Math: We finished testing topic 6 (Dividing with Decimals) today and we will begin adding and subtracting fractions tomorrow.
Social Studies: The kids have been working hard on their Native American Projects for the past 3 weeks. They located resources, paraphrased and took notes in Google Keep, turned their notes into a minimum of 4 well developed paragraphs with lead, body and closing sentences. They are working with their group on completing their visual, group poster and slideshow. Our presentation will be on Friday, where we will share our work with other fourth grade classes and the sixth graders!
Valentine’s Day! Don’t forget we will have a “Valentine’s celebration” On Wednesday Feb 14th! Kids can bring in Valentine’s for their friends if they want to, we just ask that they bring one in for every student in the class if they choose to bring them in.
Behavior Party! The kids earned their SECOND behavior party this year by filling up our chart on Friday!! THey have certainly earned it-they have been doing some great work on their social, behavioral and academic goals. More to come on what we decide to do when we make a decision on Wednesday.
Have a great week!