| 4th Grade Week 12 | Monday
10/27/2025 | Tuesday
10/28/2025 | Wednesday
10/29/2025 | Thurs 10/30/2025 | Friday
10/31/2025 | Co-Teacher Notes |
| Discipleship | Prudence-" For the grace of God has appeared, bringing us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age." Titus 2:11 | |
| Bible | Ruth 1 & 2 | I Samuel 1 | I Samuel 3 & 8 | I Samuel 16 | | |
| Math | Ch. 6 Quiz
Ch. 7, L1:
TB pgs. 161-164;
WB pgs. 151-153 | MFP;
Ch. 7, L2:
TB pgs. 165-167;
WB pgs. 154-156 | MFP;
Ch. 7, L3:
TB pgs. 168-170;
WB pgs. 157-158 | MFP;
Ch. 7, L4:
TB pgs. 171-172;
WB pgs. 160-161 | MFP;
Ch. 7, L5:
TB pgs. 173-175;
WB pgs. 162-163 | Knowing multiplication & division fact families is essential to understanding fractional relationships. Please continue to complete Math Fact Practice sheets at home each day & turn in each Monday for a completion grade. |
| Spelling | Step 10: Review New Teaching, Phonograms, DS 4-6 | Rewrite misspelled words 5x;
Step 10: Review Card Box, DS 7-9 pg. 64; Review phonograms ow, ou, ai, ay, ea, or, ui | Step 10 Spelling Test | Step 11: New teaching pgs. 67-70; Dictate words pg. 69 | Step 11 DS 1-3 pg.70 | |
| Grammar | Turn in homonym worksheet from last week
Ch. 10 L1
(pgs. 164-167): Grammar Time (PB pg. 9), Skill Time-Ref 31, Define vocab words (pg. 166) | Ch. 10 L2
(pgs. 168-173): Jingle Time, Grammar Time (PB 9), Skill Time, Define vocab. words (pg. 171). Complete Capitalization WS. Turn in tomorrow. | Ch. 10 L3
(pgs. 174-177): Grammar Time (PB pg. 9), Skill Time, Define vocab. words (pg. 171) and use in a sentence; Practice Time (WB pg. 70) | Ch. 10 L4
(pg. 179): Do Test Time (WB pg. 106); | Complete Grammar Worksheets sent home. | |
| Writing | L12 pg. 88:
Read, Discuss, Create KWO.
L11 FD Due. | L12 pg. 88:
Complete New Style (pg. 90), Intro. Banned Words "big, small," Style Practice (pg. 91). Begin RD. | L12 pg. 88:
Complete RD. Writer's Conference. | L12 pg. 88:
Write FD.
Due Monday. | | IEW Lesson 12 Source Text:
Swans
Pg. 88 (Always review "banned words" when writing RDs.) |
| Reading | Read Mary Poppins Ch. 9 in class; Orally discuss RJ Questions. | Read Mary Poppins Ch. 10; Answer any 5 questions in RJ (pgs. 37-38). | Read Mary Poppins Ch. 11 in class; Orally discuss RJ Questions. Create your own Penguin Poem! | Read Mary Poppins Chp. 12. | Answer any 4 questions for Ch. 12 in your RJ (pgs. 44 - 45). | Ch. 10 gives great examples of alliteration & point of view. Reading Journal will be due next Monday. |
| History | | Read SOTW Ch. 15: "The Spanish American War." Choose any 3 questions to answer in your journal. | The Spanish American War/ Moving West; Discussion and Activities. Historical Dress-up Day. Credit will be given for those who dress-up. | Read SOTW Ch. 16: "Moving West." Orally narrate key points. | | |
| Geography | Western Europe - Due 11/20 | | |
| Science | Order Diptera: Flies, Mosquitoes & Robber Flies/ Please don't forget to bring Science notebook so it can be checked for completed work. | Read TB pg. 120-123. Orally narrate key points. | | Read TB pg. 124-128, Complete any 3 WDYR questions in NB pg. 128 | Finish up Insect Collections - Due next Monday!
Please be ready to present in class. | |
| Memory Work | GEOGRAPHY: Western Europe - Test on 11/19
KEY DATES: 1-8 Test on 12/10
POEM 2: Due for Recitation on 12/3 | |
Learning about Brazil was made interesting by viewing highlights regarding it's ever-important Pantanal wetlands and by creating an interactive paper craft.
Coming Soon!
Wednesday, Oct. 29 - Historical Dress Up Day & DOGS & Spirit Day
Wednesday, Nov. 12 - Spirit Day!
Wednesday, Nov. 19 - DOGS, Spirit & Pizza Day!
Monday Nov. 24- Friday Nov. 28: Thanksgiving Break NO SCHOOL
Note: Our class is studying the time period of 1850-modern day in history. For Historical Dress-Up day, students may dress as any historical figure that lived during that timeframe of history.
Continue working on memorizing multiplication/division facts until mastered. Start each day with a Facts Practice warm-up using the math facts sheets sent home. Return two fact sheets per week.
Objectives:
1. Add and subtract fractions with like denominators.
2. Add and subtract fractions with related denominators.
3. Add a fraction and mixed numbers with related denominators.
4. Add mixed numbers with related denominators.
Spelling
Objective: Know five ways to spell the sound of /er/.
Reading
Objectives:
1. Increase reading comprehension and fluency.
2. Identify characters and their qualities.
3. Summarize the plot by identifying the rising action, climax, and resolution
Grammar
Objective: Review and practice capitalization and punctuation skills.
Objectives:
1. Practice writing a "clincher." (See note below.)
2. Introduce "adjective dress-ups"
3. Use "who/which clauses" in context
4. Use "because clause" as a dress-up
5. Correctly use new vocabulary words: majestic, graceful
Note: Students should focus on learning and/or perfecting the skill of writing topic sentences and clinchers. A topic sentence is the first sentence of a paragraph and tell what the paragraph is about. All facts should support the topic sentence. A paragraph clincher is a sentence at the end of a paragraph that repeats or reflects two-3 key words from the topic sentence and reminds the reader what the paragraph is about. The repeating/reflecting (synonym) words should be highlighted in both the topic sentence and clincher.
History
Objectives:
1. Identify characteristics of Frederick Remington's artwork.
2. Understand how newspaper owners used “yellow journalism” and artwork by Frederic Remington to stir up sentiment against Spain.
3. Know that Theodore Roosevelt helped the US gain a decisive victory in the Spanish-American War in 1898.
4. Know that the American West was changed as settlers moved west, railroads were built, Native Americans were pushed off their land, and territories became states.
Science
Objectives:
1. Identify characteristics of flies, mosquitos, robber flies and true bugs
Memory Work: Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.
Poetry: Our second quarter poem is "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening". Additional copies here.
Geography: We are continuing our study of Western Europe this week. The song and map can be found here on the main blog curricula/geography page. Students will be responsible for labeling countries on a map. A word bank is provided.
Key Dates for the 2nd quarter:
1. The War Between the States 1861-1865
2. World War I 1914-1918
3. Lenin & the Russian Revolution 1917
4. The Great Depression 1929-1939
5. World War II 1939-1945
6. The Cold War 1945-1991
7. The Formation of Israel 1948
8. Mao & the Communist Victory in China 1949
