11/17-11/21

Our week was a little mixed up due to the lovely first snow this year!  I hope everyone was able to spend some time relaxing or catching up on their extra day off.  Please take the time to check your child's agenda to see if they made it to the PATH reward today.  If they have late work, please help them make a plan to get caught up as the end of the trimester is quickly approaching!

Language Arts:

New reading logs went home today and are due next Friday, November 21st.
There will be no word list until after the Thanksgiving break.  Students who scored poorly on today's test will re-do this week's word list.  Check Dojo to see if this pertains to your child.

Comprehension: This week we will be focusing on the sequence of event in a fiction story.

Writing: We will continue through the writing process with our historical fiction I Survived stories.  By the end of next week, final drafts should be done by Thanksgiving break.  They are looking AMAZING so far!  We have some very tainted writers in 4th grade:)

Vocabulary: Our words of the week are wreck, possess, construct, debris.  We will also be working on stressed and un stressed syllables.

Grammar: Conjuctions

Reading Goal Update:
Your child must reach their 10 book reading goal by November 25th in order to participate in the Reading Reward Party that day.  I do not accept more than one book a day.  They should be completing their response journals as they finish books.  We have had some trouble with students only reading a couple of pages and then trying to do responses.  This is dishonest and will not be accepted!  Their responses also need to be at least 5 complete sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation.  As fourth graders, this is the standard for all of their writing.  Please contact me with any questions you may have on this.  Many 4th graders are already at or past 10 books!! Congrats to them:)

Math

We will be taking a final addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division test in the next two weeks that will determine your facts test grade on your report card.  Please be prepared to do your best on these four minute, fifty question tests! The tests will be graded in the following manner;

Trimester One

Above Grade Level  (A)

Addition   0-20  100%

Subtraction 0-20  100%

Multiplication 0-10  90%

Division  0-10  90%

     All under 4 minutes

At Grade Level  (G)

Addition   0-20  95%

Subtraction 0-20  95%

Multiplication 0-10  80%

Division  0-10  80%

    All under 4 minutes

Below Grade Level  (B)

Addition   0-20  < 95%

Subtraction 0-20  < 95%

Multiplication 0-10  < 80%

Division  0-10  < 80%

    All under 4 minutes

Second Trimester includes 0-12's

Third Trimester includes 0-12's and the percentages increase