A Look Ahead....

Reading

This week in reading we will be working on drawing conclusions as our reading skill.  Drawing conclusions is using information from the text along with prior knowledge to make a decision about what is happening or has happened in the story. Here is the example we used this morning:  I am the only one at the bus stop where there are usually several kids also waiting for the bus. I wait a few minutes and am still the only kid there.  Then I see my friend riding his bike to the park.  The conclusion I can draw from this is that there is no school today. 

The grammar skill that will be focused on this week is changing singular nouns to plural.  We will only be working with regular plural nouns which are words that can be made plural by simply adding -S, -ES, or -IES.

The spelling pattern will be irregular plurals.  These are words that need spelling changed to become plural.  An example is the plural form of, tooth.  We would say teeth not tooths. Click here for a link to Spelling Words.

Math

This week in math we will continue work on multiplication.  Every student will be switching from addition Rocket Math to multiplication.  It is very important that students memorize all the basic multiplication facts.  They are more likely to do so if they practice at home.  This could be as simple as having a parent quiz them for a few minutes a day.

Science

Tuesday of this week we will be switching Science/Social Studies classes.  Mr. Brim's class will be going to Miss Martzahn for the next 7 weeks for Social Studies.  Mrs. Anderson's class will be coming to Mr. Brim for 7 weeks of Science.  At the end of the 7 weeks everyone will rotate again.  At the end of the year each student will have had time with each 4th grade teacher for either science or social studies.