Sept. 23rd

Mrs.Alvarado’s Class News Friday, Sept.23rd We have had a fun week! The class seems to be settling in and they are learning how to be 4th graders. I am proud to see them taking ownership over their own learning! Take a look at what we worked on this week and what next week brings. Science/Social Studies- We will finish our Science unit with a test on Monday. I will be sending home a study guide Friday with corrected answers to study. I will be sure to send home Science books as well. Then we switch to Social Studies. We will be working on Chapter 3 in Social Studies next. We will be learning about the early explorers. In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue…… Math- We finished up Chapters 3 & 4 with a test Thursday. Chapter 5 is a review of basic multiplication facts. Since basic facts are a third grade skill, I will only be covering multiplication properties and how multiplication and division relate to one another. That is lesson 5.1 and 5.2. No test on Chapter 5. Then we will move on to Chapter 6. Chapter 6 works with expressions, solving for variables, and the order of operations. Spelling- Sort 7 has words with au, aw, and al in accented syllables. Reading- We will be finishing up Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. I have graded some excellent comprehension papers this week! I am pleased with the progress I am seeing with sentence structure and comprehending. Next week we will be working on summarizing, comprehension, vocabulary, inferencing, and skimming for information. Writer’s Workshop- We are finishing up the unit on “Ideas”. We will be starting the trait of “organization”. We will begin with using transition words in writing. Grammar- We will be finishing up our verb unit next week. We will work on spelling verbs correctly in each tense and prefixes. Thursday and Friday they will work on review work to show me what they have learned. Have a fabulous fall weekend! Mrs.Alvarado