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Webpage: msdevinesclass.com October 12, 2018
Reading/Language Arts
In Language Arts our learning targets this week have included:
Dates to Remember: *review of the letters Ww, Yy, Zz, and Qq and their beginning and ending
sounds.
Oct. 19 Book Orders Due *vowel sound “u”
Oct. 25 ½ day Parent Teacher *Sight word review
*blending sounds
Conferences, 1-4, 5-8 pm
*recognizing complete sentences! They include nouns (person, place, thing,
Oct. 30 Parent Teacher Conf. 5-8
or animal) verbs (action words), adjectives (describing words), and a capital
Oct. 31 No School for students & period!
*Background Knowledge – understanding is increased when we know
What’s New: something about what we are reading. This weeks story was about a
On the website: farmer’s market. Most kids had background knowledge because of our
*Calendar wonderful Holland Farmer’s Market!
*Spirit Week Photos Baggie Books is going well and our Mom’s/Volunteers are wonderful!
*Fun Run Photos Special Note: This week completed week 6 in our reading curriculum.
This is significant because we take a unit assessment at the end of every six
*Learning Buddy Photos
weeks on the skills learned to that point! TODAY, Friday is our first one! I
will provide you with the results at confenrences!
Science Kindness
This week in science our
4th Grade Learning Buddies – You Our building theme this month is
weather study has focused on cloud
may have heard we did 4th grade KINDNESS! We have read some
cover! It’s been a great week to
Friday! The first week we got to wonderful books about kindness,
observe sunny, partly sunny, and cloud
know each other and created written kindness notes to one
cover! We’ve seen it all! We have read
portraits of ourselves & our another in our class, and many are
about cold fronts and how rain forms writing extra notes for friends or
buddies. We will do a variety of
along cold fronts and then brings cooler family members. Hopefully, you
activities throughout the year
air! We sat outside and drew the are seeing some of their kindness
together such as reading activities,
clouds. Today we made rain gauges and learning. We are also completing a
seasonal art projects, math
have them outside to measure the 100 Acts of Kindness chart! As I
pentathlon games, and more! observe kindness I am asking
weekend rainfall! There is some
predicted! We also our making torn students to color in a heart! When
paper/painted apple tree art projects to we’ve completed the chart they
represent the tree in different seasons will receive a surprise kindness
from me!
of the year!