4th Grade News  November UpdatesReading and WritingThis month we will continue our second Houghton Mifflin reading theme entitled, "American Stories". Reading skills taught include: making inferences, noting details, evaluating, summarizing, and sequencing events.
Word work will focus on contractions, word roots, suffixes, and antonyms. Spelling skills this month include: vowel diphthongs, and r-controlled vowel sounds. Encourage your child to think about the meaning of each spelling word. Think of other words that are similar in sound, pattern, and meaning.
We will continue to work on cursive writing skills. This month we will study the upper case letters. The students are excited that we are getting closer to completely transitioning to cursive writing.!
MathThis month we begin a new math instructional that will focus on multiplication and division of larger numbers. Real world math problems are integrated within our math units. Students need to read, study, and think about what each word problem is asking them to do. Problem solving strategies that assist in this area include: draw a picture, guess and check, find a pattern, and write an equation. |
