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Week
Nov. 7
7--11, 2016
Walnut Grove Elementary
4th Grade News
Home
of the
Wolves!
Mark Your Calendar:
Nov. 10 2nd Quarter Progress
Reports Issued
Mark Your Calendar:
Nov. 11 Veterans Day Holiday
Nov.
21-25
Thanksgiving
Sept.
1 Labor
Day HolidayBreak
Sept. 10 Progress Reports
Classroom Discipline
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Reading
Reading Vocabulary/
Skills: first person, second
person, narrate, narrator, point
of view, third person limited,
third person omniscient,
summary, summarize, drama,
theme, message
Reading Standards:
ELAGSE4RL2 Determine a
theme of a story, drama, or
poem from details in the text;
summarize a text.
ELAGSE4RL6 Compare and
contrast the point of view from
which different stories are
narrated, including the
difference between first- and
third-person narrations.
English
Writing
English Vocabulary:
capitalization, comma,
simple sentence, compound
sentence, run-on sentence
Writing Vocabulary/
topic sentence, main idea,
supporting detail
English Standards:
ELAGSE4L2 Sentence
structure to include sentence
variety, compound and
complex sentences.
Writing Standards:
Please send in field trip
permission slips and money
as soon as possible.
Thanks!
Genre: Persuasive/
Opinion
ELAGSE4W2 Write
persuasive/opinion paper.
Use keyboard and
technology to present the
paper.
*For more understanding of the
standards that are being
taught, please use your child’s
study guides to match the
standards to explanations and
examples of material being
learned in class.
Math
Math Vocabulary: whole number, multiply, factor, multiple, distributive property
Math Standards: MGSE4.NBT.5 Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a onedigit whole number, multiply 2 digit by 2 digit. Illustrate and explain by using equations,
rectangular arrays, and/or models.
MGSE4.OA.1 Understand that a multiplicative comparison is a situation in which one
quantity is multiplied by a specified number to get another quantity.
Science
Science Vocabulary: light, transparent,
translucent, opaque, reflection, refraction,
convex lens, concave lens, prism,
spectrum, color, rainbow
Science Standards:
S4P1 Investigate the nature of light using
tools such as mirrors, lenses, and prisms.
a Identify materials that are transparent,
opaque, and translucent.
b Investigate the reflection of light using
a mirror and a light source.
c Identify the physical attributes of a
convex lens, a concave lens, and a prism
and where each is used.
Social Studies
Social Studies Vocabulary: Northwest
(Kwakiutl), Plains (Pawnee), Plateau (Nez Perce),
Southeastern (Seminole), Southwest (Hopi), Arctic
(Inuit), Native Americans, environment, food,
clothing, shelter, agriculture, clan, irrigation,
nomad, migration, civilization, staple, Pueblo,
longhouse, teepee, surplus, climate, capital
resource, human resource, scarcity, opportunity
cost, conservation
Social Studies Standards:
SS4H1 Describe how Native American cultures
developed in North America. SS4E1 Use basic
economic concepts of trade, opportunity cost,
specialization, voluntary exchange, productivity,
and price incentives to illustrate historical events.