Ms. Luedtke's Fourth Grade

HAPPENINGS for the week of November 9-13 

Monday: 

Tuesday:         Vocabulary Quiz Unit 5

                       *Picture Re-take Day*

Wednesday:      

Thursday:    

Friday:    Religion Test Chapter 5

Math:  In Chapter 4 we will learn about decimals and their uses.  Keep practicing those Times Facts!   

Science:  In the unit Life Science, we will discover and learn about changes in ecosystems, how energy from plants works, and the systems of the human body. 

Social Studies:  We are starting the  year in S.S. learning about Wisconsin's history and people.  Each day the students will have a trivia question regarding a Wisconsin fact to research at home. 

Language Arts:  Language Arts includes Grammar, Writing, D.O.L. (Daily Oral Language) and Spelling.  The students should have a challenge list of Spelling words to study for this week.  The Spelling tests will be every Friday.  We are working this year with 6 Traits Writing.  The students work on one paragraph per week focusing on one of the traits.  The first part of November we will be working on revising some of the paragraphs we have already written, with focus on topic sentences and improving the "flow" of the paragraph.    

Reading:  We return to our Reading textbooks in November.  We will be reading The Cricket in Times Square and the story I Love Guinea Pigs.  

Book Report:  The genre for November is fantasy.  The students will be completing the book report IN CLASS on Wednesday, November 25th.   

Websites to check out....

MATH

 http://www.aplusmath.com/

http://www.coolmath-games.com/

LANGUAGE ARTS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/4_11/literacy.shtml

http://www.grammarbook.com/

http://www.worldreading.org/searchbooks.php

SCIENCE

http://www.owlkids.com/owl/

http://school.discovery.com/