*Classroom Needs: Donations for marketplaces: prizes for our surprise wall, face paint, and art kits for our art store.    ****PLEASE NO MORE PICKLES:-)!!

**MULTIPLY, DIVIDE, MULTIPLY, DIVIDE, MULTIPLY, DIVIDE!!!!  4th grade will not spend any time reviewing the facts...

 Note: All comprehension tests are open notes/book. Expectations are to look up answers and write the page numbers in the blanks or to the right of the bubble answers. I will remind them many times to support their answers with evidence from the story.

Writing/Language 

Students are learning how to narrow the focus of their stories. Many times students will choose to write about very broad topics which makes their writing vague. To prepare for 4th grade writing goals, students are learning to narrow their view through careful planning. For example, write about your favorite place to go. The students web all their favorite places to go and choose one.  Let's say Disney. At this point many begin writing about when the got up until they go to bed there. This new strategy teaches them to plan a second time choosing a specific place at that location, maybe ...Magic Kingdom. The 3rd planning session chooses a specific place at Magic Kingdom, Space Mountain. THEN the students web space mountain in their last planning session and write about all the sensations and experiences at that ride. This narrows the focus and helps students to use strong verbs and adjectives in their writing.

Math  
Math:  Money review: saving, spending, AND making change too!   REVIEW double digit addition/subtraction with regrouping across zero's AND dbl digit multiplication AND dbl digit division until the end of the year!!

Science   

PLANTS: 

Light: and the eyeough the eye.

Social Studies : 

Market Places: wants verses needs of people

 What is an economy?

This week the students will be talking about why stores make up certain names for themselves. Product pricing and creating advertisements for a company are also objectives for the week. FUN!! They will be learning this by creating these things for their very own stores in third grade. Everyone's an employee for 1/2 the time and a shopper for the other 1/2!

WES mini mall Thursday, May 28th.  Please help donate any items that are listed.  THANK YOU!!

 Attendance Please call the attendance line each day your child is absent. (972) 350-4899 Then, when your child returns to school send their doctor's note or handwritten note to school with them.  If your child comes LATE due to an appointment please send them in with their doctor's note so they will not be counted tardy.     Thank you for your help!

 Any Questions? - Just send me an e-mail using the link at the top! ;-)

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If needed, you can phone Dr. Macke at 469-713-5989 or send an e-mail to macker@lisd.net for approval.