March 13- 17th

Miss Rickabaugh’s 4^th grade

Weekly News

March 13^th-17

Language Arts: We are reading “Animals Come Home to Our National Parks”. The focus this week is on summarizing and using a dictionary.

Book Club: This book is titled “Patty Reed’s Doll”, the story of the Donner Party, by Rachel K. Laurgaard.

We are working on vocabulary words, diary summaries and comprehension questions and games as the characters travel West.

Please have your student take AR quizzes at home when they complete a book. To get to the AR party student must meet 150% of their goal. Please see your student's homework folder for more information. We are at the half way mark and I personally met with each student last to talk about their books and how they are meeting their goal. In their homework folder last week, they were given their academic goal, AR party goal and how much they have completed.

Spelling:

With this week’s spelling words, the students will tackle vowel teams and word meanings.

Week 27

Vowel teams

1.    airfare

2.    staircase

3.    billionaire

4.    persuasion

5.    discounted

6.    compound

7.    beneath

8.    sleepless

9.    oatmeal

10. eighteen

11. baboon

12. mermaid

13. trainer

14. repeating

15. approach

16. afloat

17. defeat

18. revealing

19. increase

20. shoelace

21. referee

Math: In math, we ALWAYS show our work. Each week the class participates in whole group instruction, independent practice, in small groups and completes center rotations twice a week.

We are finishing Chapter 9 this week. This chapter dives into decimals. We will be looking at how decimals relate to place value, number lines, multiple step problems, rounding, adding and subtracting decimals.

CHAPTER 9 TEST is on FRIDAY!

Bible: Daily we do a devotional, take prayer requests and pray. The focus in Bible this week is disciples’ reaction after the resurrection.

This week’s memory verse is John 1:5-6

John 1:5-6

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome^[a]it.

⁶ There was a man sent from God whose name was John.

The students are now writing their entire verse! No more fill in the blank. Your student is getting prepared for next year’s requirement. They can do it! Their verse is also a great venue to practice their handwriting and cursive. Keep up the good work.

History/Social Studies:

The class is beginning Unit 4 in Social Studies. This unit is the growth and development of California since 1850. This week’s focus is on how the gold rush changed California’s economy and the affect the different people added to California as our state.

Science:

We are in Chapter 6: Learning about the Earth. The class has learned and outlined their vocabulary words and now discovering “dirt”. What is in the dirt? Why do we need dirt? What are the different layers?

Dates to Remember:

March 15^th: 4^th grade field trip to Pinnacles 8:30am-3pm. Hiking shoes, jacket, water bottle, packed lunch.

March 17^th: Minimum day: Student dismissal at noon. Crosswalk open till 6pm. Happy St. Patty’s day

March 24^th: end of 3^rd Quarter

April 7-13: Terra Nova Testing

April 14^th: Good Friday Minimum day: Student dismissal at noon.

April 17-21: Spring Break: No School. Happy Easter!