As March gets under way, I am planning some fun activities throughout the month with relation to the NCAA College Basketball Tournament. Students will be researching colleges in Computer class and making pennants with the information that they gather. We will be looking at game scores and incorporating math operations and fractions to make graphs of team records. As a class, we will read about the history of the sport of basketball and the students will write a report about the changes in the game throughout the years. Of course we will also be following the college teams on their journey through the tournament until the championship game on April 8th. This month is always fun in the 4th grade!
WEEK: March 11-15
SPELLING: million, collect, lumber, pepper, plastic, borrow, support, thirty, perfect, attend, canyon, traffic, fortune, danger, soccer, engine, picture, survive, seldom, effort Challenge words: occur, venture, challenge, rascal, splendid
READING: “Sacagawea”; Vocabulary: territory, accompany, proposed, interpreter, duty, supplies, route, corps, clumsy, landmark
GRAMMAR: abbreviations for people, places, mailing addresses, time, and measurement
WRITING: history of basketball
MATH: subtracting fractions with renaming; review for test next week
SOCIAL STUDIES: Test on Chapter 7
SCIENCE: Unit 7 Lesson 1 Explorations 1-3 Rocks and Fossils
TESTS this week:
- Thursday: Memory quiz; Social Studies Chapter 7
- Friday: Spelling, Reading, Grammar
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- Friday is a free school-wide dress down day for students to wear GREEN in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day next weekend.
- The second trimester ends on Wednesday, March 20th.
This week’s prayer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cGmp1aC2J8