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Kennedy February 3, 2012

By Kathy Kennedy | Published: February 3, 2012

RELIGION

The students will continue with Chapter 15 learning about how to live out the Fourth Commandment. The test on Chapter 15 will be Thursday, 2-9. Then in Chapter 16, the students will learn what it means to live the Fifth Commandment by respecting all human life.

MATH

The students will continue working with division this week. They will learn to interpret remainders, regroup to find two digit quotients, and estimate quotients. The test on Chapter 8 will be the week of 2-13.

READING

We will review on Monday for the Because of Winn Dixie test and the test will be on Tuesday 2-7. Next we will be working on our Underground Railroad Unit for Black History Month.

LANGUAGE ARTS

The students will continue to work on their poetry unit. I continue to remind the students that they should be completing their final poem at home whether it is going to be handwritten or word processed. The due date on the poetry book is Wednesday, 2-22. The poetry presentation is on Thursday, 2-23 at 2PM.

SCIENCE

We will be review on Wednesday and Thursday for the Chapter 13 test, and the test will be on Friday, 2-10. In Chapter 14, the students will be learning about light and heat. They will learn how light behaves, how heat can be transferred and how is heat produced and used.

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KENNEDY January 27, 2012

By Kathy Kennedy | Published: January 27, 2012

RELIGION

We will begin Chapter 15 where the students will learn that the Fourth Commandment teaches us to respect and honor our parents, guardians, and all people in authority.

READING

We will continue reading the novel, Because of Winn Dixie. The students will continue to respond to blogs on the internet and working on specific skills associated with the novel. The test will be the week of 2-6.

MATH

The students will begin learning division in Chapter 8. They will learn how to regroup in division, find two digit quotients with and without remainders, determine what to do with remainders, and estimate quotients. The test on Chapter 8 will be the week of 2-6.

LANGUAGE ARTS

The students will continue working on their poetry book for the next two weeks.

SCIENCE

In Chapter 13, the students are learning about the properties of sound, how sound waves travel, and learn how the human ear functions. The test on Chapter 13 will be the week of 2-6.

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KENNEDY 1-13-11

By Kathy Kennedy | Published: January 13, 2012

Happy New Year to the families of all my students. I would like to thank everyone who donated to the teacher’s Christmas fund and for all of the wonderful gifts I received. Your generosity is much appreciated.

RELIGION

We completed Chapter 11 and the test on that chapter will be on Wednesday, 1-18. We will next begin Chapter 12 where we will focus on the Eucharist and will learn that receiving the Body and Blood of Christ nurtures and strengthens us to be active followers of Christ.

MATH

We are beginning Chapter 7 where the students will learn to multiply two-digit numbers by three, four, and five-digit numbers. They will also learn how to decide whether the answer to a problem is reasonable. The test on Chapter 7 will be the week of 1-23.

READING

We will begin reading the novel, Because of Winn Dixie, this week. We are going to try something new with this novel. Instead of a packet, the students will be required to respond to questions through a secure blog that has been set up with Mrs. Flickinger. The students have been instructed on how to access this blog. The test on the story will be when we finish the book.

LANGUAGE ARTS/SPELLING

In Shurley English, we will be reviewing for the Chapter 5 test which will be on Thursday, 1-19. In Chapter 6, the students will be learning about interjections, possessive nouns, clauses and subordinate conjunctions, and complex sentences. SPELLING – We will begin Unit 7 – the five new words for this unit are oh, person, hot, anything, and hold. In this unit we will also be working with compound words and reviewing suffixes. The test on Unit 7 will be the week of 1-23.

SCIENCE

We will review for the Chapter 12 test next week which will be on Friday, 1-20. In Chapter 13, the students will be learning about sound and its properties. They will learn how sound waves travel and how our hearing works.

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KENNEDY December 9, 2011

By Kathy Kennedy | Published: December 9, 2011

RELIGION

We will begin Chapter 10 where the students will learn that we follow the Second Commandment by respecting and honoring the name of God. The test for Chapter 10 will be Tuesday, 12-20. We will then start Chapter 14 where the students will learn that during the Christmas season, we celebrate the Son of God’s coming into the world.

READING

We will finish reading the novel Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing the week of 12-12 and the test will be on Friday, 12-16. The week of 12-19, we will read from the reading text the story “Leah’s Pony.” We will be reviewing the skills of cause and effect and sequence of events. The test for this story will be on Thursday, 12-22.

MATH

We are continuing with Chapter 6 for the next two weeks. The students will be estimating products, regrouping ones or tens to multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by one-digit numbers, and learning the strategy of guess and check to solve a problem. The test for Chapter 6 will not be until we return from our Christmas break.

LANGUAGE ARTS/SPELLING

The student will be writing a narrative essay for the next two weeks. Spelling – We will begin Unit 6 – five new core words – special, ran, full, town, complete. The students will learn spelling patterns for /ou/, learn about silent letters in words, and work with suffixes.

SCIENCE

We will finish our study of mass and matter and the test on Chapter 11 will be on Wednesday, 12-21.

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KENNEDY NEWSLETTER 11-28-11

By Kathy Kennedy | Published: November 28, 2011

RELIGION

The students will learn that in Advent we prepare for the coming of the Lord. We will then begin Chapter 9. This chapter will present the First Commandment which teaches us that there is but one true God. The test on Chapter 9 will be the week of December 5^th.

READING

We are going to begin reading the novel, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing this week. The students will have a packet with questions to complete while we are reading the novel as well as activities such as creating a commercial, writing a news article, and writing a how to speech. This will all be done in the classroom. There will be a test at the end of the novel.

MATH

We are continuing with Chapter 5 where the students will write equations to represent and solve problems and relate equations to function tables. The test for Chapter 5 will be on Friday, 12-2. In Chapter 6, the students will be multiplying two and three-digit numbers by one-digit numbers with regrouping.

LANGUAGE ARTS/SPELLING

In Shurley English, we will be learning about subject pronouns and possessive pronouns. We will also learn about coordinate conjunctions and compound parts of sentences and review homonyms. The test on chapter 4 will be the week of December 5^th. SPELLING – We will begin unit 5 this week. The five new core words are fire, ready, green, yes, and built. In this unit the students will learn the frequent spelling patterns for /j/ and review prefixes and suffixes. The Unit 5 test will be the week of 12-12.

SCIENCE

The students will present their planet projects this week. We will also begin our study of physical science where the students will learn that energy causes changes in the states of matter. In Chapter 11, they will learn that the physical properties of matter can be used to identify it even if it has changed states or been mixed with other matter.

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KENNEDY 10-28-11

By Kathy Kennedy | Published: October 28, 2011

RELIGION

We will finish Chapter 5 this week and the test will be on Wednesday. Next the students will be learning about the Church’s liturgical year and how in ordinary time we celebrate the life and teachings of Jesus. Then we will begin learning about God’s law and His covenant with Moses and the Israelites.

READING

In the last newsletter, I stated that there would be a test on Skinny Bones. We will not have a test on this novel. The grade will be based on the packet that the students will be completing while we are reading the novel. We are continuing with reading the novel for the next two weeks.

LANGUAGE ARTS/SPELLING

In Shurley English, we will be learning about prepositions, objects of prepositions, and prepositional phrases. We will also be learning the subject/verb agreement rules and learn to identify complete subjects and predicates in sentences. SPELLING – We will begin Unit 4 – the five new core words are rest, perhaps, certain, six, and feel. In this unit we will learn frequent spelling patterns for /s/, how a vowel followed by r stands for a new sound, and review prefixes and suffixes.

MATH

We will continue to work on Chapter 4 where the students will learn to multiply 3 digits and divide with a remainder. The test for Chapter 4 will be on Friday, 11-4. In Chapter 5, the students will use the order of operations to simplify expressions, use variables to write expressions, compare expressions, and write and solve equations.

SCIENCE

We will begin Chapter 10 where the students will learn how the Earth and its moon move. We will explore why seasons exist, learn how the Earth’s tilt affects the seasons, and identify planets and other objects in the sky. With this chapter, the students will be working on a project where they will create a travel poster or a power point presentation of a brand-new vacation resort on a planet in the solar system or a planet’s moon. They will be receiving directions for this project the week of October 31^st. The test for Chapter 10 will be the week of November 7^th.

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KENNEDY October 13, 2011

By Kathy Kennedy | Published: October 14, 2011

The Fourth grade classes will be attending the 8 AM mass on Friday, October 21st.

RELIGION

We are continuing with Chapter 3 the week of 10-17. The test on Chapter 3 will be on Thursday, 10-20. Next we will be learning about the peace and unity that comes from receiving God’s love and forgiveness through the Sacrament of Penance and reconciliation in Chapter 4.

READING

We are going to be reading the novel Skinny Bones for the next two weeks. We will be covering skills such as inference, character traits, setting, and genre. The students will complete a project for this novel that they will be able to choose. Look for the sheet with their choices sometime the week of 10-24. The test on this novel will be the week of 10-31.

MATH

The test for Chapter 3 will be on Tuesday, 10-18. In Chapter 4, the students will begin with learning the multiplication properties and division rules. They will also use a multiplication table to discover patterns in multiplication and division and learn different ways to multiply and divide.

LANGUAGE ARTS/SPELLING

We are finally beginning to write expository paragraphs the week of 10-17. We will also begin learning about prepositions, objects of prepositions and prepositional phrases in Shurley English. SPELLING – We are beginning Unit 3 – the five new core words for this unit are able, dog, shown, mean, and English. We will be learning frequent spelling patterns for long /e/ and how when h follows certain consonants, it stands for a new sound. The test on Unit 3 will be the week of 10-24.

SCIENCE

The students will be learning how temperature and landforms affect the water cycle. They will also understand what air masses are and how they move and learn to recognize what symbols on a weather map represent. The test for Chapter 9 will be the week of 10-24.

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KENNEDY 9-30-11

By Kathy Kennedy | Published: September 30, 2011

RELIGION

We will finish Chapter 3 this week and the test will be on Wednesday, Oct. 5^th. The week of October 11^th, we will then begin Chapter 4 where the students will learn about conscience and the way it helps them make good choices and brings them closer to God and others.

READING

For the next two weeks we will be reading stories from the reading textbook. The first week, it will be “Amelia’s Road” which is a story about a little girl who moves from place to place with her migrant family. The skills that will be covered are problem and solution and making inferences. The next week we will be reading “Sarah, Plain and Tall” which is a story about a mail-order bride who leaves Maine to start a new life on the prairie. We will be reviewing story elements with this story. The tests for both stories will be on Friday of the week we are reading it.

MATH

We will continue Chapter 3 where the students will use rounded numbers to estimate sums and differences, decide whether an estimated or an exact answer is needed to solve a problem, add numbers using regrouping, subtract whole numbers with five and six digits, and subtract when some numbers are zeros. The test for Chapter 3 will be the week of October 11^th.

LANGUAGE ARTS/SPELLING

Shurley English – The Chapter 2 test will be on Tuesday, 10-4. We will be doing expository writing for the next two weeks. We will be going through the processes of pre-writing, writing a rough draft, editing, and publishing final paper. The students will receive the directions for their first book report on Monday, 10-3. The book report is due on October 17^th. SPELLING – We will be identify and using the frequent spelling patterns for /k/ and using syllables to help spell words. The Unit 2 test and skill lesson test will be on Thursday, 10-6. Then we will begin Unit 3. The five new core words for unit 3 are able, dog, shown, mean, and English. We will also identify and use frequent spelling patterns for long e.

SCIENCE

The students will also be presenting their scientist’s scrapbook to their class. We will also begin Chapter 9 where the students will learn about the water cycle. They will learn about how the water cycle is related to weather, how land features affect the water cycle and how weather can be predicted. The test for Chapter 9 test will be the week of October 17^th.

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Mrs. Grusecki : Newsletter Sept. 30,2011

By lgrusecki | Published: September 29, 2011

Religion: In Chapter 3 the students learned about free will. In Chapter 4 we are learning about conscience and how it helps us make good choices.Friday,Oct.7 the children will have an Open text Review(p.66) On Tuesday, Oct. 11 they will have a test on Chapter 4.

Reading: Next week we will begin our study of Skinny Bones . We will be working on comprehension skills,analyzing character, setting, and plot.The children will work in literature circles. Our study will last about two weeks.

Math: Next week we will begin our study of Operations and Algebraic Reasoning. Chapter 3 focuses on adding and subtracting whole numbers. The children will learn about the commutative a, associative, and zero properties of numbers.

Social Studies: The children are working on Chapter 3 Earning and Learning. The focus is on the economy and free enterprise. The test will be the week of October 10. Please make sure your child understands not only what the terms mean but the main ideas and how they relate to each other. The packets on each lesson should be used as a study guide. The workbook pages are also useful for review. If your child is finding Social Studies difficult I would suggest reviewing daily. There is too much material to wait until the night before a test to study.

Language Arts: We are continuing our study of punctuation and grammar rules. The students should know how to pick out nouns( common and proper) in a sentence. We use Daily Oral Language in the classroom every day. Editing a sentence with proper capitalization and punctuation should come easily.

The new spelling words areable, dog, shown, mean, and English. Don’t forget all previous words are continually repeated. Your child should already know all the priority words-words given out at the beginning of the school year.

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Kennedy newsletter 9-16-11

By Kathy Kennedy | Published: September 18, 2011

FYI: The fourth grade classes will be attending the 8 AM mass on Tuesday, 9-20. Please have your child go directly to church with their backpacks.

RELIGION

We will continue Chapter 2 this week where the students are
learning how to live out the Beatitudes as a disciple of Jesus. The chapter 2 test will be on Friday,
9-23. We will then begin Chapter 3 to learn that God gives us
the freedom to choose to love and follow Him. The students will also learn that
choices that lead us away from God are called sins.

READING

We are going to continue to read the novel Frindle
this week. The students received the directions for the end of the book project
which is a character profile. This
project is due on Sept. 26th. The
test for Frindle
will be the week of September 26th.

MATH

We have been learning how to order and compare numbers and money.
This week the students will learn how to round numbers and money amounts and
how to create and read a bar graph. The
test for Chapter 2 will be on Thursday, 9-22. In Chapter 3, the
students will be learning how to use the addition properties and subtraction
rules to solve algebraic problems. We will also be adding and subtracting large
numbers so it is very important that the students know their addition and
subtraction facts. Please practice the facts with them if they do not know them.

LANGUAGE
ARTS/SPELLING

In Shurley English, we will be reviewing the five parts that make
a complete sentence, identifying and using adjectives and article adjectives in
sentences, and reviewing the four types of sentences. We will also be learning how to revise
sentences to make them better. The test on Chapter 2 will be the week of
September 26^th. The
students will then begin expository writing using the three-point format. SPELLING-
We will begin Unit 2 this week. Make
sure to check your child’s spelling notebook for the five new core words for
this unit. Also, continue to review the
words misspelled on the Unit 1 test which can be found at the back of the
notebook. In unit 2 we will be looking
at the frequent spelling patterns for long /i/, working with homographs,
reviewing breaking words into syllables to help with spelling, and looking at
the frequent spelling patterns for the /k/ sound.

SCIENCE

We are beginning Chapter 8 this week where the students will learn
that Earth’s surface has landforms that have changed and continue to
change. They will learn about the
different types of landforms on Earth, what causes changes to Earth’s
landforms, and about fossils and the fossil record. This
is a short chapter and the test for Chapter 2 will be the week of September 26^th.

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Religion Students are learning about the Fourth Commandment. The test on Chapter 15 will be on Thursday, Jan. 19th.

Social Studies We are finishing up Chapter 8 Water and Land of The Midwest. We will review on Tuesday, Jan.17 , and the test will be on Wednesday, Jan.18th.

Reading The students are reading the novel Hatchet. They are working in small groups. Skills tested are comprehension,making inferences,predicting outcomes,cause/effect relationships, and analyzing setting, character, and plot.

Math In math we are working on multiplying by two digit numbers. Please review with your child the necessary steps. Next week the children will complete the Quick Check on p. 183. A timed test on eights will also be next week.

Shurley English Next week the children will complete Practice 16 in their Shurley English books. It will be the last Language grade taken. Please review with your child.

Important dates: The end of the quarter is Jan. 20th. Open House is January 29th.

Thanks to all who donated tissue for the class. We are almost out again. We are also in need of baby wipes.

Religion In Chapter 12 we are focusing on the Eucharist and how it strengthens us to be active followers of Christ. We will have a test next Thursday, Dec.15th.

Math In Chapter 6 we are focusing on multiplying two digit numbers by one digit numbers. It is very important that your child knows all of his/her multiplication tables up to the 12′s.I have been stressing this since the first week of school.

Social Studies We are finishing up out study of the Southeast. The test on Chapter 7 will be next Wednesday, Dec. 14th.

Reading Today we began our novel study of Henry Huggins.The students are working together in literature circles.They will be analyzing character, plot, and summary. They will also define new vocabulary.

Spelling The new words for Unit 6 are: special, ran, full, town, and complete. Please make sure your child reviews all the words they’ve had so far as it is a spiral program and they will appear again.

Thanks to those who provided baby wipes this week. We still need tissu. We are on our last box.

Please remember to bring in stamps and food for the Christmas baskets.

Religion Review “open book” Chapter 8 on Monday.Test on Ch. 8 is Tuesday. Next week will begin the study of the First Commandment.

Reading We are reading the novel, Dear Mr. Henshaw.The students will work in small groups analyzing text,defining new words, and making inferences. Students will be assessed through quizzes, projects, and written tests.

Social Studies In Chapter 5 we are studying The People of the Northeast. Students will learn about the Narragansett Indians. They will learn what goods the Europeans and the Native Americans trade. The children will also learn about the Iroquois Confederacy.

Language Arts Students will continue to learn the parts of speech,and rules of punctuation. They have learned the noun,verb, and sentence jingles.

This week we will begin Unit 4 in Spelling.

Math We have begun our chapter on multiplication and division. Please make sure your child practices for at least 10 minutes per night on their facts.Next week we will begin quizzes on the facts.

Reminders Halloween parties will begin at 1:50 p.m. Students may not wear masks or bring props to school. Please refain from bringing candy to school.

Religion: In Chapter 3 the students learned about free will. In Chapter 4 we are learning about conscience and how it helps us make good choices.Friday,Oct.7 the children will have an Open text Review(p.66) On Tuesday, Oct. 11 they will have a test on Chapter 4.

Reading: Next week we will begin our study of Skinny Bones . We will be working on comprehension skills,analyzing character, setting, and plot.The children will work in literature circles. Our study will last about two weeks.

Math: Next week we will begin our study of Operations and Algebraic Reasoning. Chapter 3 focuses on adding and subtracting whole numbers. The children will learn about the commutative a, associative, and zero properties of numbers.

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