Dear 4A Parents:

We are over halfway through the quarter. It is going by fast. Your child brought home graded work on Friday and will have until Tuesday to correct it. Please go through it together to see if you need to sign anything and if your child needs to correct anything. Thank you. 

• Wednesday, 2/14 - Great Hearts Day - please see the blog from January 28th for information about this event (an email will go out asking for supplies for our activities for this event)
• Monday, 2/19 - Presidents' Day - no school

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Academics this week:

In ELA this week, we will focus on transition words and cause and effect. We will write the plot of one of the chapters in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and use it to work on editing skills. In grammar, the focus will be progressive verb tense and diagramming. On Friday, the students will recite the poem "Fog" by Carl Sandburg.

This week in math, we will start to study the four operations of decimals. We will spend most of the week practicing adding decimals, then move on to subtraction by Friday.

We will learn about mass and volume and how they relate to density. We will study the periodic table and learn some common elements we use everyday. We will learn about solutions and do an experiment to create crystals from a solution.

In history this week we will review the 5 regions of the United States for our quiz on Tuesday. After our quiz we will begin our study of Arizona's 3 regions. Students will be able to identify the 3 regions and the main features, rivers and lakes of each. Later in the week we will turn our attention to how we learn about history and the differences between primary and secondary sources.  On Friday students will begin their Arizona landmark essay. 

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Please bring in Box Tops, if you have been collecting them. 

Have a great week!
Mrs. Gore