Nov. 9th, 2020

Grade 4, Room 11

 

Special Points of Interest:

• Monday – math test
• Tuesday – grammar quiz
• Tuesday - conferences
• Thursday – Spelling test
• Friday – Mid-Atlantic quiz 2

 

Language Arts

 

We will be reading chapters 4, 5 and 6 in “Lassie Come-Home.”  We will be reviewing nominative verbs in Grammar. Our next book report is non-fiction books.

Our spelling unit is working with vowel pairs.  We will be working with ie/ei.  This is a difficult unit for the kids.

 

Spelling Lesson 10

achieve

*believe

*brief

conceive

deceit

deceived

*eighty

*either

freight

grief

infield

neither

*niece

*pieces

*received

review

shield

*thief

*vein

*yield

 

Review words

gnawing

faucet

naughty

daughter

 

Challenge words

Pennsylvania

Delaware

two

nominative (because I cannot spell this)

 

Science and Geography

 

 

We will be learning more about matter.  Some of this will be an overlap with math.  We will be learning how to measure in metrics.

We will be starting North Africa, especially Libya and Tunisia.  We will be learning about fur traders.

 

MATH

We will be testing on capacity and cups, pints, quarts and gallons. Our next short unit is on graphing.  Keep studying those multiplication facts.

 

 

Religion

We will be going to Adoration on Monday.  We will be learning about St. Leo the Great.  We will also be starting to work on a play on Joseph, Israel’s son. 

 

Oct. 26th, 2020

Grade 4, Room 11

 

Special Points of Interest:

• Monday – Literature test
• Monday – box for ecosystem
• Wednesday – Grammar quiz
• Wednesday – Middle East test
• Thursday and Friday – no school

 

Language Arts

 

We are finished with our book, “Cricket in Times Square”.   We will have a test on Monday.  Our next story will be “Lassie Come-Home.”  We will be reviewing verbs and direct objects.  We are all done with our cursive review.  We are going to start doing some of our work in cursive. Our next book report is on a saint and is due on Nov.3.

Our spelling unit is working with vowel pairs.  We will be starting the unit today (10/23) and finishing it when we come back after Halloween.

 

Spelling Lesson 9

author

awfully

awkward

caution

daughter

drawer

exhaust

faucet

gnawing

hauled

hawk

lawyer

naughty

pause

saucers

squawk

strawberries

unlawful

vault

withdraw

 

challenge words

famous

Massachusetts

Connecticut

New Hampshire

 

 

Science and Geography

 

 

We will be learning about more ecosystems. We will be starting our dioramas based on the food web they made.  Shoe boxes are needed for Monday.  It does not have to be a shoe box, but a box around that size.

We will also reviewing for our Middle East test.  We will also learn about early explorers of Wisconsin

 

MATH

We will be learning about capacity, especially liters and milliliters. Keep studying those multiplication facts.

 

 

Religion

We should be going to Adoration on Monday. We will also be learning about St. Simon and Jude.  We will be learning more about Jacob.  I am going to try to get some Protective Behavior lessons in also.

 

Oct. 19th, 2020

Grade 4, Room 11

 

Special Points of Interest:

• Monday – Grammar quiz
• Wednesday – Literature quiz
• Thursday – spelling test
• Thursday – Middle East quiz 2
• Friday –Pacific states quiz
• Friday – Math test

 

Language Arts

 

We will be reviewing our book, “Cricket in Times Square”.   We will have a quiz on chapters 8-15.  Then we will get ready for the test. We will be starting our review on verbs and direct objects.  We are all done with our cursive review.  We are going to start doing some of our work in cursive. Our next book report will be on a saint.

Our spelling unit is working with vowel pairs.  We will be doing ee and ea.

 

Lesson 8

agreement

breathe

creature

feather

healthy

keeping

leather

meadows

needles

northeast

pleasure

preacher

speech

steady

succeed

sweater

sweeter

treasure

underneath

wealth

 

Challenge

Pakistan

Afghanistan

Tehran

Riyadh

 

 

Science and Geography

 

 

We will be learning about more ecosystems, food chains and food webs.

We will be reviewing the Pacific States.  We will also reviewing for our Middle East quizzes and tests.

 

MATH

We will be learning about pounds and ounces and reviewing for our test.  Keep studying those multiplication facts.

 

 

Religion

We should be going to Adoration on Monday. We will also be learning about St. John Paul II.  We will be learning about Jacob and Esau.

 

Sept 14th, 2020

Grade 4, Room 11

 

Special Points of Interest:

• Tuesday – Grammar quiz
• Thursday – spelling test
• Thursday – math test
• Friday – Mid Atlantic Quiz

 

Language Arts

 

We will be reading chapters 5, 6, and 7 in our book, “Cricket in Times Square”.  Then we will be getting ready for our quiz on Chapters 1-7. We will be reviewing adverbs and learning how to diagram sentences in grammar.  We will also be reviewing cursive g/h and i/j from last year.

Our spelling unit is on /f/ sounds.  Some students will have Challenge words this week and some will have review.  I am on Spelling City, which is an online tool that helps students practice.

 

Spelling week 3

atmosphere

autographs

dolphins

effort

enough

flawless

frightened

geography

hyphen

laughter

paragraph

photography

physical

suffer

symphony

telephone

tough

triumph

typhoid

typhoon

 

Challenge words

stamen

Haen

pistil

sepal

 

Review words

gadget

graduate

certain

coupon

 

 

 

 

 

Science and Geography

 

 

We will be finishing up our unit on plants.  We will be starting to review for our test next week.  I will be sending a study guide.

We will be reviewing the Great Lake States.  We will also learn a little about the Middle East, especially Syria and Lebanon.  We will be learning more about the regions of Wisconsin.

 

MATH

We will be reviewing mental math.  Our test will be on either Thursday or Friday.  Our timed tests will be switching to multiplication.  We started doing a little work with that and some are rusty.

 

 

 

Religion

We will be learning about Cain and Abel.  We should be going to Adoration on Monday. We will also be learning about Saint Joseph Cupertino.

Aug. 31st, 2020

Grade 4, Room 11

 

Special Points of Interest:

• Thursday – spelling test
• Friday – New England Quiz

 

 

Language Arts

 

We will be starting to read our book, “Cricket in Times Square”.  We will be reviewing the four types of sentences in grammar, subjects and predicates.  We will also be reviewing cursive a and b from last year.

Our spelling unit is on /k/ and /n/ sounds.

 

Spelling Week 1

aches

character

earthquake

inquire

jacket

kneeling

knocked

knothole

knowing

mechanic

orchestra

quarrel

quarter

questions

quickly

quiet

require

sequence

shake

speaker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Science and Geography

 

 

We will be learning about classifying plants.

We will be reviewing the United States geography from last year starting with the New England states.  We will also learn a little about the Middle East.  We will be learning where Wisconsin is located in the world.

 

MATH

We will be reviewing addition and subtraction. We will be working on mental math.  We will briefly review these facts.

 

 

 

Religion

We will be learning about the stories of creation.  We will be using our Bibles.  We will also be learning about Saint Adrian.  I am not sure about Adoration on Mondays.  If we are able to go, we will be there.