March 9 – 13, 2020

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and didn’t forget to turn the clocks forward!  🙂

MATH

Wednesday, March 11th is the test on triangles and angles.  This is a change from Monday, March 9th.  Your student has notes in their notebook to help them prepare.  Please encourage them to use the resources on the Math page of this blog and the portaportal as well.  We will start working with circles this week!  We will start with parts of a circle.  The students will apply formulas to find circumference, area, and radius and diameter measurements.  To top it all off, Friday is Pi Day!  We will do activities that highlight the magic that is the circle!  Weekly Math is due on Wednesday, March 11th.

LANGUAGE ARTS

We will continue our novel study this week.  The students will be working on tone and mood.  The students will work with a partner to write a short passage in different points of view using a magazine picture.  In writing, the students will write a creative story about a helicopter arriving at school.  This writing will be scored for their County portfolio.  We will continue writing poetry and using quotation marks.

SCIENCE

There will be a quiz on energy, force, and motion on Thursday, March 12th.  Your student has notes and a study guide in their purple folders for this unit.   Please use this site for review of all the 4th grade content: Virginia SOL Resources: Fourth Grade Science  Our next unit is Sound.  We will explore sound waves and the speed of sound through different materials.

SOCIAL STUDIES

There will be a Quick Check Quiz on the states and capitals of the Midwest Region on Tuesday, March 10th.  We will continue traveling through the Midwest Region’s states this week.  The students will begin researching a particular state for a postcard project.  There will be a Chapter 8 vocabulary quiz on Tuesday, March 17th.  Your student has these definitions in their Social Studies notebook.

IMPORTANT DATES

3/3 – Student Holiday

3/10 – Midwest Quick Check Quiz

3/11 – Triangles Test

3/12 – Force and Motion Quiz

3/30 – Student Half-day