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4th Grade Newsletter
Week of: January 25 - 29
The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.
- Alice Kingsleig - September
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Language/Spelling
Spelling List:
- nation
- creation
- tradition
- official
- special
- vacation
- gracious
- solution
- lotion
- tension
- extension
- suspension
- mansion
- especially
- addition
- politician
- precious
- motion
- caution
- portion
Reading Skills:
Compare and Contrast first- and third-person narrations across different stories; Identify elements of poetryReading Vocabulary:
- alert - (adj) paying attention and ready to act; (noun) an alarm; (verb) to warn or make aware of
- ancestor - (noun) a family member who lived at an earlier time
- arrest - (verb) to take someone and hold them for breaking the law
- ascend - (verb) to move upward
- descend - (verb) to go or come down
- destructive - (adj) causing harm or damage
- frontier - (noun) the outer edge of something, in which whatever is beyond that edge is wild or unknown
- proceed - (verb) to start or continue in an orderly way
- surface - (noun) the outside layer; the top
- tradition - (noun) a belief, custom, or usual way of doing things, handed down within families or other groups
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Math
Math Skills:
Homework: Homework Sheet Homework Sheet
Math Vocabulary
Mrs. Walters's Class:
- convert - to write an equivalent measurement using a different unit
- customary system - the measurement system commonly used in the United States that measures length in inches, feet, yards, and miles; liquid volume in cups, pints, quarts, and gallons; and weight in ounces and pounds
- metric system - the measurement system that measures length based on meters, liquid volume based on liters, and mass based on grams
- length - a measure of how long an object is
- liquid volume - the amount of space occupied by a liquid at rest or their containers
- weight - the measure of how heavy an object is in standard customary units
- mass - a measure of how much matter is in an object in the metric system
Mrs. Rhodes's Class - (Lessons 17 and 18)
- denominator - the number below the line in a fraction that tells the number of equal parts in the whole
- equivalent fraction - two or more different fractions that name the same part of a whole or the same point on a number line
- fraction - a number that names equal parts of a whole or a point on a number line
- numerator - the number above the line in a fraction that tells the number of equal parts that are being dscribed
- unit fraction - a fraction with a numerator of 1. Other fractions are built from these fractions
- benchmark fraction - a common fraction that you might compare other fractions to
- common denominator - a number that is a common multiple of the denominators of two or more fractions
- compare - to decide if numbers, amounts, or sizes are greater than, less than, or equal to each other
- greater than symbol (>) - a symbol used to compare two numbers when the first is greater than the second
- less than symbol (<) - a symbol used to compare two numbers when the first is less than the second
Science
Skills: Energy Sources
Vocabulary:
- coal - a solid fossil fuel that is formed from the concentrated remains of plants over very long periods of time
- compare - to consider the similarities and differences among things
- energy - what is needed to do work or cause change
- impact - to directly affect or change
- needs - requirements for the well-being of an organism
- nonrenewable resource - materials from Earth that cannot be replaced within a reasonable amount of time; for example: oil, coal, and natural gas
Health
- Taste Buds
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Important Dates:
- Spelling homework is due every Thursday.
- Spelling Test will be every Thursday.
- Reading Skills Daily Grade - January 21
- Reading Flocabulary Vocabulary Test - January 27
- Reading Comprehension Test - January 28
- Science Vocabulary Test - January 29
- Math Vocabulary Quiz (Walters) -
- Math Test (Walters) -
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