September 26-30

Miss Rickabaugh’s 4^th grade

Weekly News

September 26-30

Language Arts: The week's focus is on paragraphs. In fourth grade paragraphs should be within the 5-7 sentence range and their focus sentence and conclusion should be strong!  The students are in our novel studies "Island of the Blue Dolphin". They will need to start their final project this week! We will be taking our second quiz this week. We are also focusing our writing on editing their first narrative writing piece.

Math: We are finishing Chapter 2. Chapter 2 includes adding and subtracting whole numbers and money. The students are enjoying this chapter and learning quickly. They need to always SHOW THEIR WORK!

Bible: Daily we do a devotional, take prayer requests and pray. 

Second lesson of the year is God's promises coming true.

1 Cor 13:6-7 ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

History/Social Studies: The lesson is how is how have California’s landforms and water affect settlement and how California’s communities are alike and different.

Science:  Our unit consists of plant and animal cells as well as finishing up classification.

Spelling: Spelling List #5

Long o

1.    goalie

2.    floating

3.    closer

4.    stove

5.    chosen

6.    poled

7.    slowly

8.    soaked

9.    mold

10. toll

11. groaned

12. motionless

13. foaming

14. coaster

15. roasting

16. lower

17. lonely

18. blown

19. whole

20. quote

bonus:

21. obeyed

Dates to remember:

THIS FRIDAY: September 30: Minimum Day: Dismissal is at noon. Crosswalk is open till 6pm. Teacher In-service day.

October 6: Character Trait Chapel at 2:15-3pm. Everyone is welcome and invited to attend.  There will be six students honored from our class at this chapel. (There are four character trait chapels during the year. Your student will be honored at one of these four.)