Transcript Words to Know

News from Mrs. Clouse’s Room
4th Grade Reading
Weekly Concept: Literary Lessons
Essential Question: What are some messages in animal
stories?
In small groups, our class will be focusing on stories that can be
stories that can be used to teach a lesson. We will discuss the
will discuss the kinds of messages that are often found in
often found in animal stories.
Words to Know:
Root Words: A word in its own right. For example, the word
lovely consists of the word love and the suffix -ly.
4th Grade Math
Fourth grade is continuing our chapter on multiplying with one-digit
numbers. We will spend our next couple days working on problemsolving and then next week we will work on multiplying across zeros
and then we will get ready for our test.
Words Their Way
We will not be doing any spelling sorts this week because of our short
week. We will pick up our sorts again next week.
5th Grade Reading
Weekly Concept: Seeking the Answer
Essential Question: What can you do to get the information
you need?
The next couple weeks our class will focus on the different ways
people can find needed information. We will also be exploring
stories and riddles that ask us to seek answers.
Words to Know:
Simile- A figure of speech that compares two things that are not
normally alike. Many similes use the words like or as. (e.g., as
brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).
Metaphor- A figure of speech that
describes one thing as something else.
5th Grade Math
Fifth grade has a test tomorrow, November 25th, on our Divide by a
One-Digit Divisor chapter. Our “vocabulary to know,” includes:
dividend, divisor, fact family, partial quotients, quotient, remainder,
unknown, and variable.
Upcoming Dates
November 26th – Early Release at 12:30pm
November 27th-28th – Thanksgiving Break
December 9th-Music Concert K-12 7:00pm
December 10th-One hour late start