1. 4th-Grade Memos Grammar Corner Week of Dec.11th to 15th
What’s up this week: Specials
Monday 12/11 ………….Day 5
Tuesday 12/12 ………....Day 6
Wednesday 12/13……..Day 1
Thursday 12/14 …….....Day 2
Friday 12/15 ……...……Day 3
Notes from the teachers:
Don’t forget to check your son’s agenda every night!
Reminder: Please check your son’s Friday Folder, sign where indicated, and return it on Monday. Thank you!
*Field Trip deposit of $ due Friday, Dec. 1st, 2017
2/1-2/2 St. Augustine Field Trip ($295 per person)
Adverbs
An adverb is a word that describes a verb, an adjective or another adverb. It is easy to see how adverbs describe verbs, since they simply explain most about the action. The easiest way to recognize the adverb is that it usually ends with: “ly”
Some Examples: He runs quickly (tells how)
They lived happily ever after
He received his weekly allowance (tells when)
Cute Video Lesson:
Challenge: Can you list 100 adverbs?
Academic Vocabulary
Math
Language Arts
Social Studies
Science
Skills:
We are starting Unit 5 this week, Divide by One-Digit Numbers.  We will be working on Lessons this week in Go Math.  The students will learn about estimating quotients, investigating and interpreting remainders, dividing tens, hundreds, and thousands, and estimating quotients using compatible numbers.  Any classwork that does not get completed will be sent home for homework and should be returned the following day.  
Thinkcentral.com:
Lessons 4.1 through 4.5 can be found on Thinkcentral.com.  You can log into the website using lastname.firstname and franklin1. You can view and print off the lessons, practice pages, and other information.
Vocabulary:
dividend, divisor, quotient remainder, divide, compatible numbers, multiple, distributive property, estimate, expanded form, partial quotient, place value, round
iReady:
We have been reviewing the data from iReady and very few students are meeting their weekly goal.
Students need to take advantage of this wonderful tool that helps to prepare them not only for the FSA but also to develop and improve their math and reading skills.
They must complete a minimum of 45 minutes with a minimum of 2 lessons in that time frame. Going forward this will be counted as a grade. Your child will have an iReady log in their math homework folder to record the date, lesson title, time, and pass/fail.  Extra lessons have been added to iReady that cover skills and strategies students should have mastered in previous grades but have not.   
Assessments:
Wednesday 12/20: Mid Chapter Test on lessons
Text Structures: Chronology and Problem-Solution
Describing the way an author organizes events, ideas, or information will help you better understand the text.
Writers use text structures to organize their ideas.
Chronology is a text structure that describes events in the order they occur. Words such as first, next, during, and finally signal this text structure, as do dates that tell when the events happened.
A problem-solution text structure describes a problem first and then its solution. Words such as problem, solution, challenge, fixed, issue, and resolved signal a problem-solution structure.
Grammar/Writing:
Opinion/Argumentative
-Tell how you feel about something or tell why you feel that way
-state an opinion about the topic (pick a side)
-support the opinion with 3 strong reasons
-organize the information into an essay
Approach, burrow, cease, destructive, drowsy, famished, hibernate, migrate, nestle, observe, prepare, reduce, severe, venture, forecast
Vocab. Quiz & Packet due: 12/
Skills
The student will be able to understand and explain Florida’s early history. TSW create a timeline of their own history.
(For Lessons 4-6) transportation, technology, Civil War, secede, abolitionist, blockade, black codes, Constitution, sharecropping,segreation,
Projects;
Choice Board Activity due on or before Dec. 20th. Please see weebly page for directions
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The student will be able to understand and explain the composition of the Earth.
(For Lesson 3-5)
rock, igneous rock, sedimentary rock, metaphoric rock, rock cycle, fossil, resources, renewable resources, nonrenewable resources
Projects:
Mystery Rock in a Box due December 20th. Please see weebly page for directions
Assessments: Unit 3 Test: Tuesday 12/19