Hello October!

Good Morning Fourth Grade Families,

We hope you all had a lovely weekend and were able to enjoy the rain and cooler weather. It was wonderful seeing so many of you at the Auction on Saturday night. What a fun and beautiful event it was for all!

As we enter into October, we will begin Parent-Teacher Conferences this week. Please review the date and time you signed up for. We look forward to seeing you and discussing your amazing children!

English Language Arts

Please note that this week there is no spelling words as the students are preparing for their 50 States Quiz, which is Friday, October 7th. Also, since next week has two half days, we will keep our focus on lesson 6 for the next two weeks. With that said, students will have the spelling words on the below focus wall for next week, test on Thursday, October 13th. More details to come later in the week.



We will continue to practice identifying complete sentences vs. fragments, proper nouns vs. common nouns, proper use of quotation marks, and verbs.

Students will be working on writing a Tall Tale using quotations (dialogue) correctly over the next two weeks.

Students will have a reading comprehension test and grammar test next Tuesday, October 11th.

The students did an outstanding job on their first book projects. Please remember they have a second book project to complete by October 28th. The genre they should be reading is mystery. If you child is in need an extra packet that describes the book projects please have them see me for an additional copy.

Social Studies

We will be preparing for our 50 States Quiz on Friday by playing mystery state game, Jeopardy, memory game, and a variety of songs. Students will need to correctly locate and spell the state's name for Friday's quiz.

We will also begin working on learning the abbreviations for each state.

In two weeks. students will be tested on the states and capitals together. The test date is Friday, October 21st. Last Friday, each student received a packet of flash cards that has the state name and capital.

Math

Students will be able to use place value understandingto decompose smaller units once using the standard subtraction algorithm, and apply the algorithm to solve word problems using tape diagrams. In other words, please practice subtrraction.

Please practice math x5 facts.

Science

We will be reviewing classifying things. We will be beginning the plant kingdom.

Religion

We will continue the Act of Hope. We will be discussing how to pray the Rosary.