Mrs. Halley Grade 4

Monday: January 31^st: VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION DAY! School Uniform for all students

Tuesday: February 1: Celebrate Vocation and Community- Dress up as your future self, role model, inspirational person etc.

Wednesday: February 2^nd  Celebrate Staff- Dress up like a teacher day

Thursday: February 3 Celebrate All Nations and Cultures. We will honor Ashley, our unbound friend from Costa Rica. Students may dress in cultural outfits, or in red, white and blue, the colors of the US and Costa Rican Flag. Students are asked to bring in some money towards our sponsorship of Ashley. 

Friday: February 4^th: Celebrate Students. PURPLE AND GOLD DAY! FREE hot lunch for all! (French toast)

Religion: St. Elizabeth Seton Project 

Reading: Informational Text: Text Structure and Author’s Purpose. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.5 Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.

Grammar: Sentences and Fragments

Math: The kids learned about Factors and Multiples last week. We will discuss Prime numbers on Monday. Then we will move into Fractions. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.A.1

Writing: Share animal report CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.7 Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic

Science: 3-5-ETS1 Engineering Design. Kids will be tasked with solving an engineering challenge and learn that failurecan result in discovery.

Religion: The Examen
Math:The class is moving on to Chapter 5 Factors, Multiples and Patterns. We will continue reviewing long division using word problems.

Reading:RI.4.5 Informational Text: Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text. Literature: Read AloudFront Deskby Kelly Yang RL.4.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

Writing:We continue to edit and refine our Informational Essay on animals. Students will also be invited to create a visual!

Science: Answer the question: What is engineering and what do engineers do anyway?

Religion: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Second Step Goal Setting

Reading: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.5
Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.

Math:  We will continue learning division strategies 
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NBT.B.6 Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models

Science: Engineering

Grammar: Commas in a series

Writing: Animal Report  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.7 Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.