Spelling Lists #11

Here are the links to this week's spelling words. There are 3 different lists for students, according to their needs. The list your child brings home each week should say at the bottom the name of the list. You can also access the words on these links as well as games for students to study with.

Frogs 11: https://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=34468021

Sharks 11: https://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=34468022

Tigers 11: https://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=34468074

November 28th -December 2nd

Dear Parents,

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! This is going to be a great week where students can show me how much they have improved with their math word problems, opinion writing, and with memorizing their counties. I’m so excited to see how they all do!

Here is what we are doing in class this week:

Reading: This week we will be focusing on the point of view of the author in Literature. We will talk about who is telling the story, a first person or third person, as well as their perspective on the events in the story. Our spelling is list #11 with r-controlled vowels. Students should be spending 20 minutes studying their words this week. They should also be reading 20 minutes a night and filling out their reading logs.

Math: This week we will be finishing our Word Problems Unit. We will review how to do multiple step problems and review all the different kinds of word problems we have talked about. We will be taking our test on Thursday, so students should be bringing home their pretest as a study guide on Wednesday. In Target Time we will continue reviewing long division.

Writing: This week we are continuing our opinion writing by writing about if we think white lies are ok to tell or if we should never tell lies. This is due on Friday  December 2^nd. Students will still be receiving guidance from me as they write, but this essay will mostly be on their own. We will focus on developing good reasons and details using an article to help us. Students will type this and put it into myaccess.com for a score. They should know how to do this. They have their username and password glued into their planner.

Science: This week we will learn and review the different kinds of sedimentary rocks. We will also focus on rock vocabulary words by playing BINGO. We will continue to work on understanding the 3 main types of rocks: metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary. 

Social Studies: This week in social studies we will be taking our first counties test on Thursday and Friday. Again, students are welcome to use the study guides/answer keys on my blog to help them study: http://mrswheatleysfourthgrade.blogspot.com/2016/11/county-study-guides.html. We will also continue to work on our Recreation Project in class. We will be presenting these to the class next week.

This week’s homework:

Read 20 mins each day and fill out a pink reading log

Spelling #11– 20 minutes of study and list signed by parent

Lesson 2.2-P25, 3.7-P63, 13.1-P247, 13.2-P249

Study Counties and County Seats – Quiz 1 is Thursday

*Math, reading, and spelling are due on Friday

Thanks!

Mrs. Wheatley

County Study Guides

Since next week students will be starting their county quizzes and the following week they will take their county test, I thought I would show you a copy of what they are expected to know and do. The first date on each is for my class and the second for Mrs. Ditto's class. Students need to memorize where the counties are and match what their county seat is. The names of counties don't have to be memorized. Here are copies of the answer key/study guides for all of the quizzes and the test. Good luck studying!

Study guide for County Test given on December 19th and 20th.

North Central Region Quiz given on December 1st and 2nd.

Central Region Quiz given on December 1st and 2nd.

Southwest Region Quiz given on December 7th and 8th.

East and Southeast Region Quiz given on December 7th and 8th.

Eastern Region Quiz given on December 13th  and 14th.

 Northern Region Quiz given on December 13th  and 14th

Counties and County Seat Links

Here are some links to help study counties and county seats.

http://www.purposegames.com/game/county-seats-of-utah-quiz

http://www.onlineutah.com/quiz05a.shtml

http://www.onlineutah.com/quiz05b.shtml

http://quizlet.com/3023915/utah-counties-and-county-seats-flash-cards/

http://www.uen.org/counties/index.shtml

November 21-22nd

Dear Parents,

It is a very short week this week! I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving!

Here is what we are doing in class this week:

Reading: This week we will be taking our next test. On Monday we will take our test and on Tuesday we will go over the test. It will focus mainly on Main Ideas and Key Details as well as some language concepts we have learned. There will be no spelling or reading log for this week. Students are still encouraged to read every day this week though!

Math: This week we will be continuing our Word Problems Unit. We will focus on multiple step division problems and will review estimating. We will have no math homework for the week!

Writing: This week we are finishing our opinion writing by writing about if we should eat turkeys for Thanksgiving or not. This is due on Tuesday November 22^nd, the last day before Thanksgiving Break. Students will type this and put it into myaccess.com for a score. They should know how to do this. They have their username and password glued into their planner.

Science: With a substitute, the students will watch a Bill Nye the Science Guy video about Rocks and Soil. They will also review a little bit about the water cycle.

Social Studies: This week in social studies we will continue to talk about recreation in Utah. We will work on our PowerPoint presentation of our favorite recreational activity in Utah. We will also study our Counties. Our first County Quiz will be on December 1^st and 2^nd. Quiz 2 will be December 7^th and 8^th. Quiz 3 will be December 13^th and 14^th. The final test will be on December 19^th for my class and December 20^th for Mrs. Ditto’s class. Answer keys for each of these quizzes and tests will be posted on my blog as well as links to help students study for them: http://mrswheatleysfourthgrade.blogspot.com/

This week’s homework:

Study Counties and County Seats

Thanks!

Mrs. Wheatley

Spelling Lists #10

Here are the links to this week's spelling words. There are 3 different lists for students, according to their needs. The list your child brings home each week should say at the bottom the name of the list. You can also access the words on these links as well as games for students to study with.

Frogs 10: https://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=34468003

Sharks 10: https://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=34468008

Tigers 10: https://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=34468034

November 14-18th

Dear Parents,

We have been working so hard on our double-digit multiplication and our long division! I am so proud of everyone! We have been understanding both, doing well on both, and making huge improvements from where we started from! Also, I would like to do book orders from Scholastic this month. I have 1 student that has ordered a book, but I need more to make a full order. If you are interested it getting books this month through book orders, please look for the fliers coming home this week in white envelopes. There are instructions on the white envelope for how to order books online or you can send your student with the order form and a check to me. I want to order books by Monday November 28^th, so please have them ordered online by then or brought back to me by then.

Here is what we are doing in class this week:

Reading: This week we will be focusing on poetry. We will read poems, learn about meter, rhyme, and figurative language in poems. Our spelling is list #10 with suffixes. Students should be spending 20 minutes studying their words this week. They should also be reading 20 minutes a night and filling out their reading logs.

Math: This week we will be working on our Word Problems Unit. We will do multiplication, division, area and perimeter, and estimating word problems. In Target Time we will review long division.

Writing: This week we are continuing our opinion writing by writing about if we should eat turkeys for Thanksgiving or not. This is due on Tuesday November 22^nd, the last day before Thanksgiving Break. Students will type this and put it into myaccess.com for a score. They should know how to do this. They have their username and password glued into their planner.

Science: This week in science we will work on our new vocabulary words about rocks. We will also review weathering and erosion. We have a new “rock” song that we will start learning this week about the 3 kinds of rocks. We will specifically focus on sedimentary rocks this week and discuss what they are and examples of sedimentary rocks.

Social Studies: This week in social studies we will be talking first about environmental issues in Utah. Then we will talk about recreation in Utah. We will begin a project where we share with a PowerPoint presentation of our favorite recreational activity in Utah.

This week’s homework:

Read 20 mins each day and fill out a pink reading log

Spelling #10– 20 minutes of study and list signed by parent

Lesson 4.10-P87, 4.11-P89, Chapter 4 Extra Practice P93-94

Study Counties and County Seats

*Math, reading, and spelling are due on Friday

Thanks!

Mrs. Wheatley

Lesson 4 Math Pages

Follow this link to get to all homework pages for Lesson 4 from Go Math, pages
P69-94.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0iBzpOrobJZaUR1OXQ3UXdPOFE/view?usp=sharing

Spelling Lists #9

Here are the links to this week's spelling words. There are 3 different lists for students, according to their needs. The list your child brings home each week should say at the bottom the name of the list. You can also access the words on these links as well as games for students to study with.

Frogs 9: https://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=34467984

Sharks 9: https://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=34467979

Tigers 9: https://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=34467991

November 7-11th

Dear Parents,

I’m so proud of how students have been picking up multiplication! The class did excellent on our multiplication test a little while ago, and for the past week during Target Time, they have been doing even better at it! Also, long division is coming along really well!

Here is what we are doing in class this week:

Reading: This week we will be continuing to work identifying main ideas and writing summaries of non-fiction texts. Our spelling is list #9 with r-controlled vowels. Students should be spending 20 minutes studying their words this week. They should also be reading 20 minutes a night and filling out their reading logs.

Math: This week we will be finishing long division. We will review and do lots of practice on the algorithm in class and we will take our test on Thursday. Wednesday, students should bring home their pre-test as a study guide. Please go over this with your student to make sure they know how to do long division before our test! In Target Time we will be continuing double digit and 4 digit by 1 digit multiplication. Their homework will be reviewing division this week.

Writing: This week we are continuing our opinion writing. We will finish our Ben Franklin writing together and we will revise and type our essays. We will be putting our opinion essays in an online grading program called My Access. Students this week will learn how to do this and will be able to instantly see how they did on their essay.

Science: To start our rock unit off, we will be comparing and contrasting weathering and erosion. We will learn an erosion dance and a saying to help differentiate between the two. We will also watch a video that explains erosion more in depth. The students overall did well on their science weather tests. They will have an opportunity to do a make-up assignment at home to add points onto their score. This assignment is due by Friday, November 11th. These makeup points will only be available to those who got below a 90% on their science test.

Social Studies: This week in social studies we will be talking about how humans change their environment. We will also pretend to develop a city in the middle of nowhere and figure out what we would need to do to the environment to build the city. We will also study our counties in class. Students should also be practicing memorizing their counties at home.

This week’s homework:

Read 20 mins each day and fill out a pink reading log

Spelling #9– 20 minutes of study and list signed by parent

Lesson 4.2-P71, 4.4-P75, 4.6- P79, 4.9-P85

Study Counties and County Seats

*Math, reading, and spelling are due on Friday

Thanks!

Mrs. Wheatley