Parents F.Y.I.
Weekly Newsletter for Mr. McRae's 4th Grade & 4th Grade Reading
Class
Week of September 10—14
SPELLING WORDS
brush juice fruit tube
lunch crumb few true
truth done suit pump
due dull tune blew
trunk sum glue threw
VOCABULARY /
CHALLENGE /
REVIEW WORDS /
INUPIAQ
plaques newscast chew -(r) tuNa
survivors commute blue
voyage continue
rub
shipwreck attitude shut
unsinkable slumber June
wreckage
• Spelling Homework (OPTIONAL!!)
Monday: Write each Spelling Word 3X
Tuesday: Use each Spelling Word in a sentence
Wednesday: Write
a short definition for each Spelling Word
Thursday: Use each Vocabulary Word in a
sentence
• Houghton Mifflin Reading, Theme 1,
Lesson 3
Reading
Selection: " Finding the
Titanic,"
Theme:
"Journeys"
Comprehension
Strategy: Monitor / Clarify
Comprehension
Skill: Text Organization
Spelling:
/u/,/yoo/, and /oo/
Structural
Analysis: Syllabification
Grammar: Compound
sentences
Writing: Writing
Answers to Questions
HOMEWORK
CHANGE!
After
due consideration, I have decided to streamline our Reading Homework
requirements. From now on, only the Reading Comprehension
is required. Spelling
homework is optional. We will cover
the spelling words in class.
Students can still receive
an extra raffle
ticket for doing the weekly spelling homework, but it won't be
strictly required.
Also:
• Homework is not part of student
grades. However, homework is
checked daily. Participation in class raffle
each day requires homework
completion.
• Incomplete homework is accepted.
• Substitutions can be made if homework
is lost or forgotten:
Math: a multiplication "times
table"
Reading: 25 minutes of free reading, with a
signed note from parent
• Minimum Day on Wednesday, September
12. Fourth graders are
dismissed at 1:30 p.m. We still
have school lunch on minimum days.
The purpose of the minimum day is for teachers to collaborate to ensure
student success. Please make sure
your child knows where to go on Wednesday for the minimum day.
• Mr. McRae's Classroom Blog
www.laughingravenpress.blogspot.com
1. I am working on posting
some student work on the blog
2. I will try to post homework nightl
• EDITOR'S CHOICE sentences from last week
When
I was surrounded, I was bewildered.
I
was surrounded by dogs.
I
longed to go back to Anchorage.
I
loved those ripe kiwis.
My
baby sister grinds her teeth.
When
I feed Emma, I have to grind what I give her.
I'm
an inch taller than Colin.
We
built this city on rock and roll.
Sheesh,
is it a crime to text when you're sitting next to me?
• Math progress
We
have finished Houghton-Mifflin Chapter 1 on "Place Value." We will go on straight on to Chapter 2,
"Compare, Order, and Round Whole Numbers and Money," (omitting the
lesson on counting change). We are
also concurrently studying multiplication and division each morning with a
"Fact Family" lesson, as well as "speed test" to promote
fluency in basic math facts. Help
your child memorize the multiplication tables by quizzing him or her whenever
the opportunity arises.
Writing
progress
Students
are hard at work on their "Personal Narratives." The assignment: Write a personal narrative
about one thing you've done or that has happened to you. We are writing the rough drafts on
the computers using Apple's word processing program Text Edit. Students are learning much about
writing and editing, as well as learning how to manage, format, and send
documents on the computer network.
One thing that will help your 4th grader is to have them tell you the
story behind their Personal Narratives orally— as family members, you just
might
be main characters in these narratives!
Reading
progress
In
reading, we pretty much follow the Houghton-Mifflin curriculum. See above for this week's HM learning
targets in reading.
• Mr. McRae's contact
home: 443 2999 classroom: 443 8968 cell: 434 0455 email:
imcrae@nomeschools.com
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