Fourth Grade News - September 2, 2010

September 3 - School Spirit Day and Family Back to School Night 

No School Monday September 6 - Labor Day - ENJOY!!

Binders - Please keep all papers in your child's binder.  We use the study guides and spelling lists in class.  We will clean the binder out when we finish a unit.  

Math - Please be sure you are checking your child's math homework.  This is your opportunity to study for math with your child.  Math tests are not announced but do come every 5 lessons.  They usually are given on Thursday.  Please check and sign the math homework.  It should come back to us with no mistakes.  Thanks!

Chapel - Mrs. Mowery's chapel program will be Wednesday, September 22.

Bible - The verse test for Friday, September 3, will be Psalm 103:8-9.   The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.  He will not always accuse, 
nor will he harbor his anger forever;

The verse test for Friday, September 9, will be Psalm 103:10 and the first 10 books of the old testament.  10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.

English -  The DOL sentences will always be in your child's binder.  Please keep them there.  Quizzes will be given every Tuesday on the sentences from the previous week.  It may help for you to make copies of the blank DOLs in binder to use to practice with.  This is a large part of the English grade, and it is helpful to study.  Tuesday, September 7 DOL 3  //  Tuesday, September 14 DOL 4 //  Tuesday, September 21 DOL 5  //  Tuesday, September 28 DOL 6

Reading -   Each child is required to earn 6 AR points for the first nine weeks.  The points are due Friday, October 8.  After the first nine weeks, the points will change.  The level requirements will be in the WINGS on Thursday, August 26. Your child will be required to have an AR book in class every day.

The story for the week of August 30, will be Mrs. Frisby and the Crow.  The vocab will be test Friday, September 3, over the following words: obviously, recalled, merriment, tangled, gnawing, miserable, cover, circumstances.  The story for the week of September 7, will be Langston Hughes.  The vocab will be tested Friday, September 10, over the following words: concerned, decent, stable, strive, pleading, tensely, paces, opportunities.

Spelling  - Our spelling words for each story can be found on spellingcity.com

Friday, September 3

 

angrily	basically	easily	luckily	location
promotion	attention	pollution	precision	conclusion
erosion	decision	famous	courteous	envious
gracious	memorable	solvable	usable	flammable

Friday, September 10

finished	worried	unplugged	insisted	controlled
danced	striped	stripped	bleached	curved
pleading	building	painting	opening	leaving
shedding	rating	fitting	ringing	setting

Math - Please go over your child's math home work each evening and sign it.  Be sure to spend a little time each evening reviewing multiplication flash cards.  You may want to check out a website called multiplication.com.  Your child MUST know these to be successful in 4th grade math. 

Science -  We have begun a unit about the land resources.  We have started chapter 2 in the unit on land resources, however we will not test this chapter.  We will test chapter 3.  The test date will be announced next week.