News: 11/28/11

I hope your Thanksgiving was enjoyable!

Spelling words for the week: Words with the /ar/ sound (like car)

carved, garden, harm, farther, barked alarm, chart, starved, harder, parked smartest, charge, guard, argument, hardware, garbage, harsh, parts, radar, harbor. Challenge words: alarmingly, departure

We continue to work on division in Math and are working with fact families to help become stronger with the basic facts.

The students will be goinng outside when the weather permits...please be sure your child is dressing appropriately for the weather (coats, hats, gloves). I'd like to be able to take the students out for some fresh air for as long as we are able before it becomes too cold!

Thanks!

We are Thankful

This week in 4th grade we are learning about being thankful through paragraph planning and writing!  Your students should be bringing home their I am Thankful paragraphs before Thanksgiving.

We are currently working on division in Math.  We have learned about fact families and inverse operations!

We had our Spelling test today and the students did a great job!  I think having a couple of extra days was helpful. We will be back to our regular spelling routine next week.

Check it out!
To the right are a couple of new links!  Multiplication Games, Spelling City, and a couple of other fun things for your students to check out if they need something to do! 

As always, contact with me if you have any questions.

Have a great Thanksgiving!

News

This week has flown by.  Students have been working very hard.  We have been working on forming juicy detail sentences for our descriptive paragraphs about a room in our house.  It is really interesting to see the transformation as students revise and edit their work!

We have continued on in multiplication.  Recently we have learned about 4 properties that apply to multiplying. Ask your child about:

~Zero Property of Multiplication
~Identity Property of Multiplication
~Commutative Property of Multiplication
~Distributive Property

I'm looking forward to meeting with parents during conferences!  Hope to see you there!