Week of Jan. 18th -22nd

EARLY DISMISSAL:
Thursday is early dismissal. School will end at 11am for students, but they are expected to return home and complete online lessons posted here on the blog for the subjects that they will miss that afternoon.

VOG CHARLA:
Thursday is the VOG Charla for 4th grade. This will take place at 11:30am in the Secondary Conference Room. This is a special conference/presentation for parents. Notices went home to parents. Please send back your RSVP so that they know how much pizza to order.

MATH:
Over the last week we have covered the following lessons in Math:
-Multiplying Tens
-Exploring Multiplication Patterns
-Estimating Products
Tomorrow (Tuesday) will be a multiplication quiz on these concepts.
Wednesday we will start multiplying two-digit numbers. Thursday will be multiplying three-digit numbers. Friday we'll review both 2 and 3-digit numbers, then a test on these problems will be the following Monday (next week).
Timed Test: This Thursday, because the 10s and 11s are both easy factors, we will automatically skip to 10 and 11 together. Next week we will focus on 12 as a factor, then will be switching to division timed tests the week after (two weeks from now).

SCIENCE:
We are continuing with our Weather unit. Tomorrow will be the quiz on wind and wild wind. This will include how wind is created, the convection current, wild winds, and hurricanes and tornadoes.
Wednesday and Thursday we will be discussing "Clouds". Friday will be a quiz on clouds.

LITERACY:
Read Aloud

The Bus Ride that Changed History, by Pamela Duncan Edwars, focus on using picture clues to enhance comprehension.

I've Seen the Promised Land, by Walter Dean Myers, focus on identifying the main idea.

Read aloud for fun!! The BFG, focus on a variety of strategies!

Shared Reading:

Chronology of Civil Rights Movements and a Timeline: Rosa Parks-Dates to Remember, focus on reading and understanding information resources.
The Story Behind the Bus, focus on important and unimporatnt information.


Interactive Writing:
Finish the plural possessive chart from last week.
For our first assignment of this week, students will be writing a descriptive paragraph about "The Story behind the Bus."
For our secBnd assignment, we will be using Martin Luther King's Chronology of the Civil Rights Movement to write 2-3 paragraphs about his life.


Independent Wri ting:
Students will finish writing the sequence of events about Freedom Box, last week's read aloud.
They will write about Martin Luther King on one samples and will describe "The Story Behind the Bus" using their own words for another assignment.

Students will also participate in Centers, Writng Cycle, and Independent Reading.