Reminder: Saturday’s Play Practice Cancelled
The play practice scheduled for Saturday, March 16th has been cancelled.
Posts from the ‘Grade 4’ Category
Mar 15
Mar 11
Ms. Moore’s Math Assessment
Don’t forget review packets are due tomorrow (Tuesday, March 12)! We will take the timed section of the test tomorrow and the rest of the assessment on Tuesday.
Mar 11
Elementary School Spanish & Music – Week of 3/11
Here’s what is planned for Elementary Spanish and Music Classes this week:
Pre-K: In Music we will continue working on singing a melody and following the directions of a conductor. In Spanish, we will review the vocabulary we have learned so far by singing our songs on colors, numbers, and parts of the body.
Kindergarten: In Music we will begin working on moving our bodies to a specific rhythm. We will learn basic dance steps, and clap our hands to the rhythm of the music. In Spanish, we will read If I Had a Dragon… in Spanish, and look for cognates, context clues, and words we know to help us decipher the story.
1st Grade: In Spanish, we will continue reading El Mar/The Ocean, as we pretend to be Spanish detectives, listening for words we already know within the text of the story. In Music, we are using portions of the movie “The Sound of Music” to listen and interpret the style and mood of music through performance.
2nd Grade: In Spanish, we will play color bingo for one more week to reinforce our color words. In Music, we are using portions of the movie “The Sound of Music” to listen and interpret the style and mood of music through performance.
3rd Grade: In Music, we are using the San Francisco Symphony’s website for kids to practice music performance. Each student uses the computer to perform a piece of music of their choice. In Spanish, we will begin discussing verbs, and learn some common infinitives.
4th Grade: In Music, we will be discussing the concepts of a chord vs. single line of melody, repetition, and variation. In Spanish, we will complete Lesson 4 in our textbooks on currency in Spanish-speaking countries, and begin Lesson 5 on the days of the week in Spanish. We will also discuss the countries of Guatemala and Honduras.
Mar 6
Grade 4: This Week at a Glance, March 18 – 22
MATH
Lessons planned this week for students include the following: subtracting two digit numbers using mental computation; identifying and solving larger, smaller, difference story problems; multiplying and dividing to solve word problems; naming shapes, angles, and diagonals; identifying missing addends for a sum of 1000; using the guess and check method to solve word problems; square feet and square inches and how to find the number of square inches or feet in a shape; finding the area of a shape using a grid; drawing a shape with a given area; finding the area of a rectangle. Mixed in with all that will be timed multiplication and subtraction problems. There will be a review on Thursday for certain concepts that have already been taught, with an assessment scheduled for Friday. As always, students advance to new concepts as they show understanding for what has been previously taught.
READING
Students started a new story at the beginning of the week. It is a biography titled “Benjamin Banneker:Pioneering Scientist.” Concepts planned to be taught include discussing the comprehension strategy of rereading and adjusting your reading speed to clarify and self-monitor comprehension, drawing conclusions, writing a summary, and main idea, theme, and supporting details. Questions about the story will be assigned and are to be used as a study guide for a test on Friday. Vocabulary words that may be on the test include astronomy, positions, skill, colonies, site, and capital. Spelling words this week were collective nouns, and there will be a final test on them on Friday.
LANGUAGE ARTS
This week students will be learning about adjectives that make comparisons using the words “more and most” and “good and bad”, and they will be using adjectives to combine sentences. Additionally, they will be writing a business letter, exploring print materials such as newspapers, pamphlets, magazines, announcements, messages, and instructions; finally they will begin to study pronouns.
RELIGION
This week students are studying chapter 22, titled “The Perfect Sacrifice.” What, why, and how sacrifices were done in the Old Testament are touched on, leading to the last sacrifice , Jesus Christ, giving His blood for the forgiveness of our sins. Students also will be learning about the two main parts of Mass: the Liturgy of the Word, and the Liturgy of the Eucharist. There will be a review of the chapter in class on Thursday , and an open book test on Friday.
SCIENCE
This week students will be defining and identifying main characteristics of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks, and describing how each is formed. Also, they will define characteristics and properties of minerals, identify different types of weathering and the subsequent effects on land and rocks, and identify chief causes of water pollution and describe chief methods to prevent water pollution.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Students will review the Bill of Rights and how they relate to human rights. Students will also learn about the Mayflower Compact.
