English- 

Grammar:

We will be working on homophones and paragraph editing this week. Students will be working through a paragraph editing packet that will be taken for a daily grade and sent home Friday.

Writing:

This week, we will be drafting our third personal narrative!

Spelling-

We will be working through our week 16 spelling words this week. The spelling packet will be due Friday for a daily grade. We will also have a spelling quiz Friday.

Here are our spelling words for this week:

front country wonder cover rough cousin

double month touchdown couple tough

money young dozen monkey shovel

Review words:

designing

hymn

Challenge words:

among

company

Reading -

 We will continue our novel study over The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane on Monday. 

These are the reading skills we will be reviewing:

-Cause and effect

-Inferencing

-Main idea

Students are continuing to work on endurance during independent reading time. Students will "stop & jot" their thoughts about their books as well as specific prompts from the teacher. 

⭐ We are accepting lightly used chapter books for the classroom library! 

If you have any books that your child has already read just sitting around the house, we will gladly take them! 

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Novel Studies:

• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane  By Kate DiCamillo <-- Please have this book in class January 8th. 

ISBN 10: 0763647837    ISBN 13: 9780763647834

• Bud, Not Buddy By Christopher Paul Curtis 

          ISBN 10: 0440413281           ISBN 13: 9780440413288

**Please purchase the paperback version of each book. It is challenging to have class discussions with different page numbers. These books will belong to the student. Click on the Amazon links above. Please do NOT have your student read ahead.**

Cursive-

The students will be practicing letters in class everyday.  

Math- Fractions

LINKS of Videos Below:

Review Fractions from 3rd Grade and Vocabulary

Equivalent Fractions with Models

Equivalent Fractions without Models

Simplifying Fractions

OLD SCHOOL DIVISION VIDEO LINK      NEW WAY DIVISION VIDEO LINK

VIDEO OF ALL THE STEPS WITH DIVISION

Math Practice: Please study these songs to practice your math facts. These are the songs we use in class.

• Skip Counting Videos (Click Here)

• Free multiplication Games (Click here)

• Prodigygame.com (Click here)

Bible 

Paul and the Thessalonians

Memory Verse: "But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in yoy.(And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of God living in them do not belong to Him at all.) Romans 8:9

We will study this verse next week and take the Bible Memory Verse Jan. 22nd.

Chapel Leaders:

Stanley HR - Katherine

Bielamowicz HR - Eli

Doiron HR - Caden

*Fill in the blank, with a word bank* 

Blooket Review for Bible TEST Jan, 22nd:Link  

Deep Roots Student Login - Students can use this link and their Deep Roots logins to access the Unit we are studying or to access content for makeup work. Students have log in information in their planners. 

Science 

Student will be learning about the moon phases

This week we will be covering the moon phases and how it affects our planet.

Blooket link: Test Wednesday 21st Link coming soon 

Texas History

Tuesday - Manafest Destiny/President James Polk

Wednesday - The War with Mexico

Thursday -  Review Blooket 14-15

Friday - Texas is growing/ A new state

Election process continues: This weekend please have your child pick a law, consequence, and Bible verse for their poster. They will be given a poster Board Tues., Jan.20th. There name, slogan, Law, and Bible verse should be on the poster. It can be decorated how they want. Have them work on a speech to give to the students in their class. I am giving kids until the Jan. 20th thru Jan. 25th to complete these items. We will do elections the last week in January. I am looking at Jan. 27th for block elections and Jan. 30th for class wide election. Please think about a small inexpensive item to bring when they do there speech. Example a piece of Extra gum. Vote for me I'll go the EXTRA mile for you.

This Test will be over Lessons 14-16. We will be reviewing every lesson as we go. A Blooket will also be available for each lesson and a lesson review test for the three lessons combine. Jan, 30th is the test over Units  14-16

Blooket Link: Unit 14 Review Link 

Texas Studies Weekly Login - Students have log in information in their planners for Texas Studies Weekly to review at anytime or to complete make up work if they do not have their newspapers with them.