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Room 16 – Mr. T.
4th and 5th Grade Newsletter
Sept. 28th – Oct. 2nd
4th Grade
LANGUAGE
Unit 2, Story 1
What Joe Did:
Spelling - Adding -s and -es- Generalization Add -s to words ending in a vowel and y
and to most words: monkeys, friends. Change y to i and add -es to words ending in a
consonant and y: supplies. Add -es to words ending in sh, ch, s, ss, x: taxes.
1. monkeys
4. supplies
7. months
10. sandwiches
13. delays
16. teammates
19. batteries
2. friends
5. taxes
8. companies
11. hobbies
14. scratches
17. memories
20. donkeys
3. plays
6. holidays
9. costumes
12. daisies
15. counties
18. bunches
Challenge Words
21. eyelashes
24. secretaries
22. ambulances
25. inventories
23. trophies
Vocabulary – fouled, hoop, jersey, marveled, rim, speechless, swatted, unbelievable
Comprehension Skill - Cause and effect - A cause is why something happens. An
effect is what happens.
Grammar - Common and Proper Nouns
A noun is a word that names a person, place, or thing.
A common noun names any person, place, or thing.
A proper noun names a particular person, place, or thing. Proper
nouns begin with capital letters.
Common Nouns The game will be next week.
Proper Nouns Amy is free to play on Saturday.
Some proper nouns have more than one word, such as Boston Red
Sox. Some include titles that tell what a person is or does, such as
Ms. Gomez or Professor Chu.
4th Grade
MATH
Fractions
Standards for Mathematical Content Number and Operations – Fractions – 4.NF
Extend understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering. 1. Explain why a fraction
a/b is equivalent to a fraction (n × a)/(n × b) by using visual fraction models, with
attention to how the number and size of the parts differ even though the two fractions
themselves are the same size. Use this principle to recognize and generate equivalent
fractions. 2. Compare two fractions with different numerators and different
denominators, e.g., by creating common denominators or numerators, or by comparing
to a benchmark fraction such as 1/2. Recognize that comparisons are valid only when
the two fractions refer to the same whole. Record the results of comparisons with
symbols > or =.
Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous
understandings of operations on whole numbers. 3. Understand a fraction a/b with a
> 1 as a sum of fractions 1/b. a. Understand addition and subtraction of fractions as
joining and separating parts referring to the same whole. b. Decompose a fraction into a
sum of fractions with the same denominator in more than one way, recording each
decomposition by an equation. Justify decompositions, e.g., by using a visual fraction
model. Examples: 3/8 = 1/8 + 1/8 + 1/8 ; 3/8 = 1/8 + 2/8 ; 2 1/8 = 1 + 1 + 1/8 = 8/8 + 8/8
+ 1/8
Science 4th Grade
Unit A Life Science
Chapter 1, Plant Structure and Functions
Lesson 1, How are Plants Grouped? (A8 – A14)
Objective(s)
Students will learn what two groups into which plants can be
grouped.
Students will learn what the two groups of plants make seeds.
Students will learn what two groups of plants that do not make seeds.
Vocabulary - Reproduce – To make more of the same kind.
Classify – To sort into groups based on similarities.
Conifer – A plant that makes seeds inside cones.
Spore – A tiny cell that can grow into a new plant.
Unit A Life Science
Chapter 1, Plant Structure and Functions
Lesson 2, What are the parts of a flower? (A15 – A18)
Objective(s) Students will learn what the four parts of a flower are and do.
Students will learn how flowers with fewer than four parts produce seeds.
Vocabulary - Sepal – One of the leaf like arts that protects a flower bud and that is
usually green.
Pistil – Part of a flower that makes the eggs that grows into seeds.
Stamen – Part of a flower that makes pollen.
Pollen – Tiny grains that make seeds when combined with a flower’s egg.
Unit A Life Science
Chapter 1, Plant Structure and Functions
Lesson 3, How do flowers make seeds and fruits? (A19 – A23)
Objective(s) Students will learn how pollination and fertilization occur.
Students will explore how seeds and fruits form.
Vocabulary -Pollination – The movement of pollen from a stamen to a pistil.
Ovary – The bottom part of the pistil in which seeds form.
Ovule – The inner part of an ovary that contains an egg.
Fertilization – The combination of sperm from a pollen grain with an egg to form
a seed.
Embryo – Tiny part of a seed that can grow into a new plant.
Monocot seed – A seed that has one seed leaf and stored food outside the seed
leaf.
Dicot seed – A seed that has two seed leaves that contain stored food.
Unit A Life Science
Chapter 1, Plant Structure and Functions
Lesson 4- What is the life cycle of a flowering plant? (A26 – A28)
Objective(s)
Students will learn how plants grow from seeds.
Students will learn about the mature stages of a flowering plant’s life cycle.
Vocabulary - Dormant – The resting stage of a seed.
Stages of a Plant.
Germinating Seed
Seedling
Mature/adult plant
Dries up and dies
5th Grade
9-28 to 10-02
Language, Math, and Science
LANGUAGE
Unit 2, Story 1, Inside Out:
Spelling - Digraphs th, sh, ch, ph
Generalization Words can have two consonants together that are
pronounced as one sound: southern, shovel, chapter, hyphen.
1. shovel
4. chapter
7. establish
10. approach
13. shatter
16. pharmacy
19. attach
2. southern
5. hyphen
8. although
11. astonish
14. ethnic
17. charity
20. ostrich
3. northern
6. chosen
9. challenge
12. python
15. shiver
18. china
Challenge Words
21. emphasis
24. phenomenal
22. sophomore
25. chimpanzee
23. athlete
Vocabulary – caterpillar, cocoon, disrespect
, emerge, migrant,
sketched, unscrewed
Comprehension Skill - Compare and Contrast
To compare and contrast two or more things is to show how things are alike and different.
• Some clue words are: as, like, but and however.
• Sometimes writers do not use clue words when they compare and contrast things..
Grammar - Regular and Irregular Plural Nouns
Plural nouns name more than one person, place, or thing.
• Add -s to form the plural of most nouns. picture/pictures
wing/wings
pattern/patterns
• Add -es to nouns ending in ch, sh, x, z, s, and ss.
bunch/bunches
wish/wishes
box/boxes
class/classes
• If a noun ends in a vowel and y, add -s.
day/days
boy/boys
• If a noun ends in a consonant and y, change y to i and add -es.
city/cities
lady/ladies
• Some nouns have irregular plural forms. They change spelling.
man/men
mouse/mice
goose/geese
foot/feet
child/children
• For most nouns that end in f or fe, change f to v and add -es.
leaf/leaves
knife/knives
calf/calves
• Some nouns have the same singular and plural forms. sheep
moose
headquarters
series
deer
MATH - Measurement and Data continued
Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication
and to addition.
3. Recognize volume as an attribute of solid figures and understand concepts of volume measurement.
a. A cube with side length 1 unit, called a “unit cube,” is said to have “one cubic unit” of volume, and
can be used to measure volume. b. A solid figure which can be packed without gaps or overlaps using
n unit cubes is said to have a volume of n cubic units.
4. Measure volumes by counting unit cubes, using cubic cm, cubic in, cubic ft, and improvised units.
5. Relate volume to the operations of multiplication and addition and solve real world and
mathematical problems involving volume. a. Find the volume of a right rectangular prism with wholenumber side lengths by packing it with unit cubes, and show that the volume is the same as would be
found by multiplying the edge lengths, equivalently by multiplying the height by the area of the base.
Represent threefold whole-number products as volumes, e.g., to represent the associative property of
multiplication. b. Apply the formulas V = l × w × h and V = b × h for rectangular prisms to find
volumes of right rectangular prisms with whole number edge lengths in the context of solving real
world and mathematical problems. c. Recognize volume as additive. Find volumes of solid figures
composed of two non-overlapping right rectangular prisms by adding the volumes of the nonoverlapping parts, applying this technique to solve real world problems.
Science
Unit A Life Science
Chapter 1, Comparing Living Things
Lesson 1, Is it Living or Nonliving? (A8 – A15)
Objective(s) Students will learn what the life processes are.
Students will learn what cells are.
Students will learn what tissues, organs, and systems are.
Vocabulary - Virus- A tiny particle that can reproduce only inside the cells of living things.
Bacteria - Tiny one-celled organisms, some of which can cause diseases.
Cell - The basic unit of a living organism.
Cell Membrane - A thin layer that makes up the outside of the cell and controls what enters and
leaves it.
Nucleus - The cell part that controls the cell's activities.
Cytoplasm - Jellylike material that fills most of a cell.
Cell Wall - A tiff outer layer that helps keep plant cells firm.
Chloroplast - The green cell part in plant cells that traps and uses light energy.
Unit A Life Science
Chapter 1, Comparing Living Things
Lesson 2, How are Living Things Classified? (A16 – A21)
Objective(s) Students will learn how scientist classify living things.
Students will learn what the five kingdoms are.
Students will learn how scientist divide the kingdoms up.
Students will learn how ideas about classifying organisms can change.
Vocabulary - Classify - To arrange in groups using a system.
Kingdom - The largest group into which and organism is classified.
Genus - A group of similar species.
Species - A group of organisms of only one kind that can interbreed in mature
Unit A Life Science
Chapter 1, Comparing Living Things
Lesson 3, How are Animals Classified? (A24 – A27)
Objective(s) Students will learn what invertebrates are.
Students will learn what vertebrates are.
Vocabulary - Invertebrates - An animal that has no backbone.
Vertebrate - An animal with a backbone.
Mammal - An animal that has hair or fur and feeds its young with milk produced by the
mother.
Unit A Life Science
Chapter 1, Comparing Living Things
Lesson 4, How are Animals Classified? (A28 – A33)
Objective(s) Students will learn how scientist classify plants.
Students will learn what mosses are.
Students will learn what ferns are.
Students will learn what conifers are.
Students will learn what flowering plants are.
Vocabulary -Vascular Plants - A plant with long tubes inside that carry food and water to all the parts
of the plant.
Egg Cell - A cell that can join with a sperm cell to form a new individual.
Sperm Cell - A cell that can join with and egg cell to form a new individual.