We will continue with our read aloud of Charlotte's Web with a focus on author's craft.
In our traditional tales unit, students will read fractured fairy tales and write their own. We will also read fables and compare their story elements.
Students will begin drafting a multi-paragraph personal narrative. We will focus on paragraph structure, figurative language, using correct punctuation, and writing with voice.
In writing groups, we will write about what we've read in Charlotte's Web. We'll practice how to use evidence from the text to support our thinking about literary elements. Then students will write independently about literary elements in their book club book, City of Ember.
Science
We will begin the week by wrapping up our rotation/revolution work. Then we'll learn more about the moon, the lunar cycle, and tides. We end the week learning more about gravity and mass. (Your child will need to know his/her weight to do Friday's mass lesson.) If students can bring their flashlights again on Tuesday, that would be great!
- This week in science we're answering the question: "Why doesn't the Moon always look round?" We’ll talk about how the moon reflects the light of the sun, learn the phases of the moon, and experiment to figure out what causes the change in the moon’s appearance.If you spot the moon in the sky, point it out to your child. If you have binoculars, let your child use them to look at the moon. The best time for moon-gazing is when the moon is half-bright/half-dark. The line that divides the dark (night side) of the moon from the bright (day side) of the moon is called the terminator. Along the terminator, shadows make it easier to see craters and mountains. If you feel like comparing what you see to a map of the moon, there’s a great map of the most visible craters here and a map of the dark gray areas known as seas here. If your child asks, the moon’s seas are dry flat plains created billions of year ago by flowing lava. But early astronomers thought these dark gray areas might be filled with water and called them seas or maria (Latin for seas), and the name stuck.
We will continue our work on measuring angles by tackling real-world problems in collaborative groups. Students will also practice more geometry skills at their own levels using Front Row. If you would like additional geometry practice, please use these links to print practice pages:
Homework
We corrected homework in class, and students who did additional work were awarded bonuses. Look in your child's homework folder for this week's homework, which is due on Thursday, April 21st (since there is no school on Friday next week).
Field Trip
If you still need to register your child for our last field trip, here are the directions:
FIELD TRIP LINK:
https://dcsdk12.revtrak.net/
1) Click on "Registration"
2) Click on "Field Trips"
3) Find "PCE-Gr 4 - Museum of Nature and Science - Click on Teacher to Register" - underneath that, you'll see all 4th Grade teacher names...click on Ms. Tucker.
4) Then in the right box click "Register for this class" and then you either login or set up a new account.
If you have questions/problems with the online registration/payment, please contact:
RegWorks directly at 1-888-848-2194 or Kathy in our office at 303-387-8200 or Kathy.If you are having trouble with the link - we have found that it works best in the GOOGLE CHROME BROWSER. Other browsers were not working consistently.
School News
The Hardware Hustle is on Thursday, April 21st during our specials time (1-1:40). Don't forget it's Crazy Hair Day for our class to show additional spirit. Thank you for your support.
No School Friday, April 22nd
The fifth grade classrooms are on a mission to help find our PE teacher a kidney as part of their living systems studies. Molly Wright has suffered kidney failure due to a complication while delivering her son last May. She is currently on the kidney transplant list and going to dialysis 3 times per week. Please check out the PCE website for more information.
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