4th Grade Newsletter October 31st-Nov. 4th,2016

Teacher Contact Information

Looki ng Back at Last Week:

Reading – The students were able to identify and utilize text features within a nonfiction text.

Writing – The students wrote an expository composition using the Giant T strategy.

Language Arts – The students used the CUPS strategy to edit capitalization, punctuation,

commas, and apostrophe errors within a paragraph.

Math – The students used manipulative to solve basic division problems. The students used their multiplication facts to solve basic division problems.

Science – The students learned about forces and motion.

Looking Ahead at Next Week:

Weekly Learning Objectives:

Reading: Genre: Expository

- Non- Fiction Texts

- Text Structures- Sequencing

Writing: Expository Writing - Writing Process- Analyzing Compositions

Language Arts: FANBOYS/Dictation

Math: Division

- Modeling with base ten blocks

- Long Division algorithm

Science : :Properties of Soil

Important Weekly Events:

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday: Success Assembly 8:30am Early Release at 11:30

Friday: DictationQuiz #3 Early Release at 11:30

Ms. Nguyen trnugyen@lcisd.org Mrs. Priego pcarrillopriego@lcisd.org Mrs. Gesink hgesink@lcisd.org Mrs. McGrath patricia.mcgrath@lcisd.org

Mrs. Taylor ctaylor02@lcisd.orgMrs. Salazar jsalazar04@lcisd.org

-Capacity to retain water-plants support based on soil type

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Math:

- Fact Fluency Log (Monday-Friday)

- Monday-Thursday: Math worksheet

o Monday – Go Math pg. 312 (Draw a model to solve)

o Tuesday – Dividing with Base Ten Models

o Wednesday – Base Ten Models (word problems)

o Thursday – Multiplication and Division Models

**Please do NOT work ahead! It is important for students to have daily practice.

Reading:

Spelling:

- Monday- Dictation Sentences 1-5.

- Tuesday- Dictation Senentces 1-5.

- Wednesday- Dictation Sentences 1-5.

- Thursday- Dictation Sentences 1-5.

You can sign up and edit your contact information in Family Access. (This is where you

can access your child’s grades.) Please visit http://www.lcisd.org/students-parents/family-

access for more information.

November 3- Success Assembly @ 8:30- 9:00 AM

November 3-4 – Early Release at 11:30am November 4– Veteran’s Day RSVP form due

November 11 – Veteran’s Day Program @ 8:15AM

November 21-25– Thanksgiving Break

–= There is a flyer attached with more information.

- Monday-Friday: Read for 20 minutes & get a parent’s signature on the Reading Log.

- Monday and Wednesday: Reader’s Response over what they read. Follow the guidelines for writing a response. Use BME for nonfiction texts. Use SWBST for

fiction texts. (See attached anchor charts for examples.)- Tuesday and Thursday: Reading Menu

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Nonfiction Text Features

Asking Questions Before, During, and After Reading

FICTION SUMMARY FOR READER’S RESPONSE

NONFICTION SUMMARY FOR READER’S RESPONSE