UPCOMING EVENTS
October 7…………….SLES Literacy Night, 5:30-7:30PM
October 15……………No School (MSTA Convention)
October 29…………..Two-Hour Early Dismissal
November 2………….No School (Staff Development)
November 5………….School Photo Make-Up Day
Report Cards Distributed
November 11………..Parent Conference Day
READING
We are reading Informational text this week. Students are analyzing portions of texts to determine the main idea and supporting details.
LANGUAGE
We are learning how to write quotations correctly. Students will incorporate dialogue in the personal narrative they’re writing. We are also analyzing literature for “voice” (writing in a way that conveys the writer’s personality to the reader) in order to revise our narratives for this particular trait.
We are also reviewing paragraph structure, to complement our reading for the main idea and supporting details.
SOCIAL STUDIES
We are beginning a new unit on the Native Americans of Early Maryland. We will explore their culture as we explore the answers to this question: How did the Native American Peoples of Southern Maryland modify, adapt to, and impact the natural environment?
SCIENCE
We will continue to learn about how landforms are always changing, due to weathering and erosion. Students will do an experiment to investigate how weathering wears down the Earth’s surface. They will also do an experiment to investigate how erosion shapes and reshapes the Earth’s surface as it moves earth materials from one place to another.
MATH
We will test our unit on Adding and Subtracting Greater Numbers (with regrouping.)
Our next unit will be on Multiplication. Students will learn about factors and multiples of numbers, so please continue to work with your child on memorizing the multiplication/division fact families. They should use the triangular flash cards we made in class. Thank you! Fourth grade math becomes more complicated, and students who have memorized multiplication/division fact families (and addition/subtraction families) will have a much easier time learning new concepts (ie. long division, multiplying/dividing fractions, and adding/subtracting fractions with different denominators.)