Classroom Update

Good evening 4^th graders and family members!

I hope you had a fabulous weekend. I am so sorry that I wasn’t able to post last week. I was out of town for the weekend, and got back much later than I thought I would. Hopefully that will be the only time that happens.

Here is our look at our week. Like always, if you have any questions whatsoever, please feel free to email me at lnelsen@west-fargo.k12.nd.us

Peek at the Week

Specials this Week:

Monday – Art and Health

Tuesday – NO SCHOOL

Wednesday – Library Skills and PE

Thursday – Music and PE

Friday – Music and PE

Math: This week we will continue working with decimals. At the end of the week, our focus will shift to dealing with metric units of length. I am excited for the hands on activities that will accompany this.

Reading: We are working on a new reading strategy this week! We are going to start talking about connecting to text. Our first stage of connecting to text is seeing how we can connect texts that we are reading to experiences that we have in our life. We do this to help us build our understanding of what we are reading, to predict what might happen, to empathize with characters, and so much more! Eventually we will also work on connecting different texts and text to the world/media/etc. Even though we are working a new strategy, we will still continue to work on our summarizing strategy in small groups. In Word Study, we will start working on long and short o patterns in accented syllables.

Writing: In writing this week, we will continue to work on building the paragraph. Our class has gotten pretty great at identifying weak paragraphs in writing. From this, we have also grown in being able to take those weak paragraphs and transform them into strong paragraphs that are more exciting to read. We will also continue to work on writing our personal narratives.

Science: Measuring temperature will continue to be our main focus in science this week. Once we finish this measurement investigation, we will have the opportunity to read some really great science articles to practice our summarizing with. J

Need to Knows:

~We have library on Monday, November 10.

~Our next counselor  lesson will take place on Wednesday of this week.

~On Monday we will have a fun guest speaker. My husband, Scott, is coming into our class for about 20 minutes to talk about Veteran’s day. He is really nervous about coming to speak, but I know that our class is so excited to hear from him.

Terrific Tidbits:

I do not have any extra resources for you this week. Feel free to browse previous blog posts for links. 

Remember to keep checking the blog and your email as the week goes on! 

~Mrs. Becklund :)