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Tests

Students have been working on history vocabulary. The sheet with all the vocabulary went home on Tuesday; the students will be tested next Wednesday, November 3 over the vocabulary.

Tuesday, November 2 Wordly Wise Test #6

SPELLING TEST NEXT TUESDAY

Fourth grade completed a unit on Tall Tales in Language Arts. Next week the students will be creating tall tales of their own. Thus far the favorites are John Henry and Paul Bunyan; Pecos Bill and Thundering Sue not so much.

In history we are working on our regions of Texas and the salt relief maps turned out beautiful! I am not sending them home just yet because we are going to label cities and landmarks with flagged toothpicks.

In math the students are picking up quickly on the long division cycle: Divide, multiply, subtract, drop! D*M*S*D Keep working on those multiplication/division flash cards!

I know you all curious to know what we're learning in Judaics. I am sending the books home with them today, so you can see what we've been working on. PLEASE MAKE SURE THE BOOKS MAKE IT BACK TO SCHOOL BY MONDAY!! So far, we've been working primarily in the text books. We spent a lot of time last week learning some of the skills we'll be needing to learn Torah, including how to use the commentary and the word lists. We also started to do some translation with class discussion. We haven't used our workbooks that much yet. I hope to send the books home every two weeks, so you can see our progress and hopefully, you'll be able to see more and more of the work we're doing. As always please let me know if there are any questions.

I tend to not give homework in Judaics, as we do a lot of partner work and class discussion. However, if students aren't using class time wisely, they may need to finish their work at home or during recess. I will also assign reading practice and review for homework.

Fourth grade started the week with a mess! Each student followed a recipe 4 times to make four lumps of colored dough and through the week we will be creating Texas salt dough relief maps. The room was a bomb of flour, salt and water afterwards, but it was fun!

Tomorrow is WW#5 Test. I will then hand out the next week's spelling list. We are continuing writing using outlines. We have been going through a variety of expository prompts. This last week I gave the students a choice of what they would like to write about and Tamar Cohen gave a great suggestion of writing an expository paper on Laura Ingalls Wilder since I have been reading the Little House on the Prairie books. It was a fantastic idea and they wrote an expository 5 paragraph biography! Great work!

In science we are moving forward onto animal adaptions.

In math we are moving into long division so be practicing those multiplication/division facts!

Notes from the Music Room

Fourth and Fifth Grades will be performing "On the Mayflower," a humorous song, on the Thanksgiving Program. Auditions for the speaking parts will be next Thursday, October 21. Each student was given a copy of the song. I would like everyone to audition (try). You may want to help them with their British accents. :)

Notes from the Music Room

During October and November we will be preparing for our annual Thanksgiving Program.
Save the date: November 23, 2010 @2:00