Welcome to Ms. Whitney's 4th Grade
Week of Sept. 8-12, 2008
This week's reading skills are:Compound words; main idea and details; and long e words. Our reading is about National Parks.
In Social Studies, we are learning about the 4 regions of the US and how they are different. We are also continuing our study of map skills. We will learn the difference between longitude and latitude and do mapping activities.
In Science, we will begin our study of the rock cycle. Each student will need to bring in 5 rocks to use for our study.
In Math, we are continuing with graphing, and will learn about mean. mode and median. We are also learning our 3 times tables this week.
Our writing lessons for this week will be about paragraphs and we will have our first DEW prompt this week, as well.