Week of November 29 – December 3

This Week’s Objectives:

Reading: The fourth graders will continue to read non-fiction and fiction text to pick out the specific text features: subtitles, titles captions, bold words, photographs, etc to help them understand what is important in the story. We will create a Topic/Detail/ Response chart in order to come up with the main idea of each selection. The topic is what the section is about; the details are the specific facts that support the topic; and the response is what our readers are thinking. Students will also review charts and graphs and recall the important information. For example what the chart/graphs are comparing or specific questions regarding the data of the charts/graphs.   Major Grade: Determine Importance Test Thursday, December 2.

Science: Students will differentiate among forms of energy, including mechanical, sound, electrical, light, and heat/thermal (electricity); they will also demonstrate that electricity travels in a closed path, creating an electrical circuit.  

Social Studies:  Students will investigate and discuss the government of Texas. 

Writing: Students will be introduced to figurative language. Students will create flip books to introduce and teach similes (comparing 2 or more things using like or as), metaphors (comparing 2 or more things without like or as), personification (giving human traits to non-living objects), and idioms (an expression that has a meaning apart from its original wording). We will discuss how using figurative language adds voice and specific details to your writing. On Friday, students will have a quiz on whether they are able to recognize the definition and an example of each form of figurative language. We will also have a grammar quiz on Thursday covering punctuation, capitalization, and complete sentence rules.

Math: Students will identify and describe parallel and intersecting lines; they will also use essential attributes to define two-dimensional geometric figures.