Fourth Graders get to experience the "Splash Lab". This is a traveling lab that enables students to study pollution and the environment.
Reading Selection: We are reading Marven of the Great North Woods. Summary: To escape a flu epidemic, Marven is sent to a logging camp populated by French Canadian lumberjacks. He copes with language and cultural differences, learns his bookkeeping job, and makes a wonderful friend.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Purposes
- Strategy focus: evaluate
- Comprehension skill: problem solving
Math:
Word Work: We are examining the prefixes re- which means “again”, mis- which means “wrong” or “badly”, and ex- which means “to leave” or “to go out of.”.
Our spelling words follow the rule for final long e in words. It is spelled most commonly –y, -ey. Less common is the –ie spelling for the long e sound.
Beauty ugly lazy marry ready sorry empty honey valley movie duty hungry lonely alley body twenty turkey hockey fifty monkey fiery envy mercy chimney imaginary
Test will be on Tuesday, February 7.
Grammar: We are learning about irregular verbs that show past action that don’t end with ed. These are verbs like begin, give, grow.
Writing: Our Native California reports are due to be finished this week.
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