4th Grade Newsletter
November 9, 2021
Language Arts
What are we learning?
- Read and write poetry
- Students exhibit creativity as they experiment with figurative language
- Interpreting figurative language through similes and metaphors in their reading and learning to use them in their own writing
- Students will recognize: simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, alliteration, hyperbole and personification as examples of figurative language
Home/School Connection
- What is this poem mostly about?
- What are lines ____ mostly about?
- Which sentence would be best to include in a summary of the poem?
- What was the main conflict the speaker of the poem faced?
- How was the conflict resolved?
- What are you visualizing (picturing in your mind)?
- What are you feeling?
- How do poetic tools or organization contribute to the deeper meaning?
Math
What are we learning?
- Multiplication and division facts
- Estimate and find products of 1x1 digit numbers and 1x 2 digit numbers
- Estimate and find quotients with and without remainders
- Solve practical multiplication and division problems
AAP
- Multiply 2 x 2 digit numbers
- Divide 3 x 2 digit numbers
Home/School Connection
- Skip count by 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, etc.
- Determine products in real life situations
- Determine quotients in real life situations
AAP
- Play Challenge 24
- Draw playing cards and estimate the products or quotients before solving
Science
What are we learning?
- See that green plants produce their own food through photosynthesis, enabling plants to trap energy from the sun and convert it into sugar that can be used by organisms
- Discover that the amount of sunlight a plant receives affects the plant’s growth
- Investigate most plants reproduce with seeds which are formed in the reproductive process of flowering plants
- Find that pollination can occur as a result of wind, water, or animals
- Investigate plant characteristics used for attracting pollinators
Home/School Connection
- Cut open fruit and flowers to see the parts
- Compare fallen leaves based on color
- Grow a plant from seed, give some more light or water than others. WHat do you notice?
- Creating and explaining a model of a flower illustrating the parts and its
reproductive process
Social Studies
What are we learning?
- Evaluate the reasons for English colonization in America by exploring the perspectives and experiences of multiple culture groups.
- Compare and contrast the ways that Native peoples and English settlers interacted with the geographic features of Jamestown; Examining changes over time to the daily lives of Africans, English, and Native peoples in Jamestown.
- Identifying the roles of culture and power in the changing relationship between the Powhatan and the English settlers.
Home/School Connection
- Create a diorama of the Jamestown settlement or Native American village
- Construct a Yahekan model of sticks and grasses
- Research at Native American art and dances