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Sept. 19
19--23, 2016
Walnut Grove Elementary
4th Grade News
Home
of the
Wolves!
Mark Your Calendar:
Sept. 28 Picture Day
make-ups
Mark Your Calendar:
Sept. 30 PTO Chili Cook-off
6:00-8:00
pm
Sept. 1 @
Labor
Day Holiday
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
English Vocabulary:
capitalization, comma,
simple sentence, compound
sentence, run-on sentence
English Standards:
ELAGSE4L2 Sentence
structure to include sentence
variety, compound and
complex sentences.
Writing
Writing Vocabulary/
topic sentence, main idea,
supporting detail
Genre: Informational
Writing Standards:
ELAGSE4W2 Write
informative/explanatory
texts to examine a topic
and convey ideas and
information clearly.
*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, product, prime, composite
Math Standards:
MGSE4.NBT.5 Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number, multiply 2
digit by 2 digit. Illustrate and explain by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or models.
MGSE4.OA.3 Solve multistep word problems with whole numbers
MGSE4.OA.4 Recognize that a whole number is a multiple of each of its factors.
Science
Science Vocabulary: community,
population, consumer, ecosystem,
environment, producer, organism,
adaptation, camouflage, endangered,
habitat, extinct, hibernate, migration,
mimicry, carnivore, omnivore, herbivore,
decomposer, scavenger, food chain, food
web, microorganism, predator, prey,
decay
Science Standards:
S4L1a-d, S4L2b Ecosystems
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.