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Fourth Grade Teacher: Mrs. Mary Redmond (231) 627-4255 redm7911@core.com Weekly Newsletter: To see the Fourth Grade newsletter for the week of (Coming Soon!) |
What We're Working On: (As reported in the last issue of the Baraga Buzz.) Check back here during the school year to see what the kids are working on! Class Curriculum: Religion - Unit 1: Growing in Jesus Christ Faith, Beatitudes, Liturgical Seasons, Ordinary Time, Penance and Reconciliation, Mass Readings Unit 2: The Commandments Help Us to Love God - First, Second and Third Commandments, Advent and Christmas Unit 3: The Commandments Help Us to Love Others - Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth Commandments, Lent and the Triduum Unit 4: We Are Called to Holiness - The Ninth and Tenth Commandments, Easter, Altar serving and Venture Magazines Reading - Skills: Sequence, Author's Purpose, Main Idea, Cause and Effect, Fact and Opinion, Draw Conclusions, Compare and Contrast, Generalize, Setting, Graphic Sources Strategies: Word Structure, Summarize, Answer Questions, Graphic Organizers, Story Structure, Context Clues, Prior Knowledge, Dictionary/Glossary, Visualize Fluency: Modeling and practicing fluent reading Writing: Writing incorporating the Six Traits of Writing Cursive Writing - Review cursive letters and practice legible handwriting. Improving the five factors: shape, size, smoothness, spacing and slant Grammar - Sentences, Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Capitalization and Punctuation, Pronouns, Adverbs Michigan History - Geography and regions, Early people, Statehood, Civil War, Growth, Depression, World War and Recovery, Michigan Today: Government, Living and working in Michigan, Enjoying Michigan Spelling - Weekly Tests, word and sound practice, dictionary skills, Spelling Bee Science - Matter, Force and Motion; Electricity and Magnetism; Light and Sound; Measuring Weather; The Makeup of the Earth; Exploring the Oceans; Movements in the Solar System; The Digestive, Circulatory and Nervous Systems; Keeping Your Body Systems Healthy; Michigan Model Math - Review addition and subtraction, place value, time, money, measurement Emphasis on multiplication and division, fractions and decimals, geometry, word problems, charts and graphs, probability and statistics |
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