Mrs. Pisciotta's 4th Grade Class

Specials:
Monday: GYM
Tuesday: STEM AND ART
Wednesday: GYM
Thursday: ITALIAN
Friday: ITALIAN
 

REMINDERS:

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ATTEND MASS ON SUNDAY.  IF YOU GO TO A DIFFERENT CHURCH, FATHER PETER ASKS THAT THE PRIEST SIGN A BULLETIN AND TO BRING IT TO CLASS ON TUESDAY.


Some of you still have not brought back your Chocolate Money.  It is now past due.  I don't know if we still have a chance to win popcorn party for 1st class to bring in chocolate sales, but money is due so please send it in  by Tuesday, October 12th.
Thank You.  

 If anyone is interested in helping support  the candy for AOLG's Trunk and Treat on Friday, October 29th, there is a box where you can drop it off at the Main Entrance to the School.  And remember, no candy with nuts.  Thanking you in advance.

Also- Students can dress in their Halloween Costumes on Friday, October 29th.  Students need to wear their covid masks and no weapons with costumes permitted in school.




           

October 22nd Dress Up Day - School Spirit
October 29 - Trunk or Treat
October 30- Halloween Party- 2:30 to 4:30 for grade 4

                          

 TEST THIS WEEK: OCT. 18th

Reading- Monday, October 18th, Test on Vocabulary from "Lewis, Clark and Me" and reading skills - Author's Purpose and Cause and Effect, and 5 parts of a plot

Religion- Tuesday October 19, Test on Chapter 2

 

Week of October 18th

Math- subtracting whole numbers, subtracting whole numbers with zeros, problem solving  Check my Progress  

Reading -Monday, October 18th- Test on Lewis, Clark and Me.  See above on what to study  Introduce the use of context clues to help find meaning of words and begin reading "The Horned Toad"

Language Arts- organizing writing- note taking strategies, using time words, main ideas and supporting details when writing paragraphs, and understanding important features in a personal narrative. Write draft of a personal narrative, edit and revise 1st draft.

Religion -Test Tuesday, October 19th on chapter 2 Kingdom of God  Introduce chapter 3  about sin and how God gives everyone freewill.

Science  skeletal and muscular system, examine different bones in the body, and manipulation of bones and muscles used to raise and lower arms.
Lab- Students will demonstrate how a lower arm is raised when a bisep contract ( making a muscle)

Social Studies-Introduce unit 2 - Two Worlds Meet - Conflicts between Europeans and Native Americans, problems that arose between Great Britian and the Colonists, and how taxes and protest led to War.

Spelling - Introduce unit 4 - words having long e sound.

Handwriting -introduce and practice writing letters that have the undercurve and downcurve strokes, and overcurve and slant strokes.  Write all lower case letters.