4th Grade Weekly Newsletter 2/16

Weekly Newsletter

A look at next week:

Religion: Chapter 17 The Sixth Commandment

Language Arts: Lesson 3.15

4th Grade Weekly Spelling Homework (The spelling words can be found by clicking on the Lesson 3.15 link above.)

4th Grade Reading Log

Math: Chapter 5 Divide by One Digit

Please memorize multiplication tables.  Click here for a great practice sheet!

Social Studies: Chapter 5 Gold Rush

Students will:

  • Describe the discovery of gold and how the news of it spread.
  • Discuss the California Gold Rush and the routes by which people arrived.
  • Explain how gold was mined and effects of mining on the environment.
  • Describe daily life in the goldfields and mining camps.

Science: Energy and Electric Currents

Please click here to donate supplies for next week’s exciting lab activities!

Students will learn the following concepts:

  • Energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
  • Devices can be used to convert energy from one form to another.

Upcoming Important Dates:

2/19 Monday: No School, Presidents’ Day

2/21 Wednesday: 8am Mass (Formal uniform required)

2/22 Thursday: P.E., Social Studies Chapter 5 Test

2/23 Friday: Religion Chapter 17 Test, Spelling/L.A. 3.15 Tests, 1:45pm Stations of the Cross in the Church

2/25 Sunday: 9am School Mass led by 4th Grade