Week Seven!
(9.21-9.25)
Announcements:
Remember that tonight is the deadline to return late and missing work for partial credit.
For Brick and Mortar families:
Note for girls: Please wear shorts underneath skirts. Bracelets, rings, and necklaces are not allowed unless they are worn for religious purposes.
Please check your scholars planners and sign them every night to verify that you have seen the work they are responsible for bringing the next day. If your scholar comes home with a test or quiz, please sign after they have made corrections to verify that you have seen their score. Please dictate Spalding homework to your scholar Monday - Thursday. They should come home with a sheet for that every day.
Read on for a quick update on our class subjects!
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ELA:
This week our scholars continued their work in memorizing “The Tyger” by William Blake. They’ve also reached the half-way mark of King Arthur. As the fourth grade develops their literary scholarship, they balance it with their writing practice. This week our scholars solidified their knowledge of helping verbs and adverbs by creating their own sentences to express each part of speech. Great job, 4th Grade!
Math:
This past week, scholars pushed themselves and showed perseverance on their first Unit Test! Scholars have impressed us with their ability to problem solve and apply their knowledge. We look forward to helping scholars understand the Four Operations. We will continue to explore mental math strategies and discover how place value provides a foundation for our standard algorithms. We encourage scholars to use any strategy that works for them, but we invite them to try some of the strategies we teach. They may be difficult at first, but these exercises will improve their number sense. Please continue encouraging your scholar to practice math facts!
History:
This past week for History, we continued our studies of the Middle Ages. Scholars discovered the three main socioeconomic classes during medieval times: nobility, clergy, and peasants. This coming week we will be taking a closer look at the actual lives of some of these classes. We hope your scholars are excited to learn about lords, ladies, and knights!
Science:
For science this week, our scholars took a quiz on the five natural hazards we have been learning about and then started a brief unit on meteorology. We talked about the water cycle and considered where most of the earth’s water is and water existing in the air around us! We finished out the week with a lesson on light, shadows, and moon cycles. Next week, we’ll take a look at weather and practice analyzing weather and climate together.
