4th Grade
. . . A weekly report
Friday, November 15th, 2013
Now Thank We All Our God
Thank you for your Stuff-A-Truck contributions. The 4th grade students have brought in 34 items to put toward our classroom goal of 30. We did it! We reached our classroom goal and will reap benefits from the student council as a result. ‘Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.’ There is one week of collecting left, so if your family is able, continue to send in items all of next week too.
Thank you to those who have sent in a box of snack this week. The girls are thankful for snack breaks.
Reminder: November and December book orders are due before Thanksgiving break. Please write out checks to Scholastic, or place your orders on-line at using our classroom code: H83BN. Thanks.
God Bless Your Weekend,
Mrs. Reuter
READING–Students tested on the “Gold Rush” selection today with use of their textbooks. This selection contained a lot of information, so I felt having the book as a guided resource would be positive aid. We continue next week with the historical theme and a story entitled, “I Have Heard of a Land.” This story takes place in the 1800s and shares a pioneer woman’s description of her life in Oklahoma. The details create a picture of Oklahoma as a land of promise and possibility.
SPELLING –The Unit 10 tests were taken today and can be found in the Friday Folders next week. Unit 9 tests are in today’s Friday Folders. Please sign your child’s test, and check to see that each misspelled word is written ten times in nice neat columns on the back side of the test or on a separate sheet of paper. Return the signed tests on Monday.
Please study the following words with your child next week:
Unit 11 - Double Letters
puddingdullhammerboss
copperswelldifferentsettle
blueberrymossofferarrow
cottonpossiblysuddenmerry
fellowslippersrecesspillow
MASTERY WORDS: funny, cliff, across, odd, shell, summer
BONUS WORDS: dessert, sheriff, message, collect, beginning, common, pollution, quarrel
ENGLISH–Students were tested on the Sentences Unit today. Look for this test in Friday Folders next week. Next week, we will be writing some Turkey Tales as collaborative round-robin style stories. The Nouns Unit will be our next grammar unit.
RELIGION/–Chapter 2 was wrapped up this week with a test that was taken in a small group. We began Chapter 8 today. This chapter introduces the Ten Commandments as a whole as God’s Laws for us. Each chapter following will slowly progress through each individual commandment taking a closer look at its meaning and how we can live out the commandment in our daily lives.
SOCIAL/–Lesson 5, War and Changes was completed this week. Students created a poster that the government may have hung in the South during Reconstruction encouraging African Americans the importance of voting, and uniting again as one country, blacks and whites together. We also created a magazine collage of inventions that were made since the Civil War as more people immigrated to the U.S. to settle land and seek a better life.
As we moved into lesson 6, A Changing World, I shared the song, “Over There” that became a smash hit soon after the U.S. entered World War I. We looked at the lyrics and listened to the song to determine the attitude toward the American entry into the war that was revealed by the song.
*See Mrs. Grygo’s and Mr. Reuter’s newsletters for 4th grade math and science information.