📝 This Week in 4th Grade🏁

👋 Hello families,

Here’s a look at what’s happening in 4th grade reading this week.

WEEK 2.2

Our Focus:

1. Cause and Effect

2. Text Evidence

3. Look at important inventions and ask "How have some inventions changed our lives?"

This week, students are building skills across subjects while practicing collaboration, problem-solving, and clear communication.

Here’s a snapshot of our learning:

• Reading: Explain how events in a historical text are connected by using text details.

• Writing: Writing a response to a prompt about a passage.

• Big Focus: Explaining and defending our thinking using complete sentences and evidence

Chemical:any substance that is made of the exact same "stuff" every single time

Communication:the way we give, receive, and share information, ideas, or feelings with other people

Develop:the way we give, receive, and share information, ideas, or feelings with other people

Device:a tool, machine, or piece of equipment made to do a specific job or help you finish a task

Method: the way something is done

Photographs: a picture that you make by using a camera

Telegrams: an old fashioned text message

RI.4.3 Explain events, ideas, or concepts in a historical text, including what happened and why, based on specific

information in the text.

This means your fourth grader will be able to read non-fiction text (such as historical, scientific, or technical writing) and clearly explain what happened and why it happened, using direct facts and details from the text.

• Explain - To tell how it happened
• Cause and Effect - What happened and Why it Happened
• Character - who or what the story is about
• Describe - to tell about; when writing or explaining, you must paint a detailed picture of a person, place, or event using specific facts and evidence
• Theme - the big idea, hidden message, or life lesson that the author wants the reader to understand
• Summarize - to tell the main idea and only the most important parts of a story or article in your own words, making it much shorter
• Inference - a smart guess you make by combining clues from a story with things you already know
• Main Idea - the most important point an author makes about a topic, telling what a story or paragraph is mostly about in one sentence
• Key Details - the most important facts, examples, or events in a text that support, prove, or explain the main idea.
• Determine - to figure something out, find out the truth, or make a firm decision after looking at the facts.

Lesson 6: The Balanced Brain

Summary

In this week’s lesson, your child will learn that our brain works best when the logic and emotion centers are balanced and working together.

Try This at Home

Tell your child about a time when a strong emotion made it hard for you to learn something new or caused you to say or do something that hurt someone’s feelings. Discuss why it’s important to learn to manage strong emotions.

Here are a few important dates:

• OCTOBER 21ST: UNITY DAY (WEAR ORANGE)
• OCTOBER 23RD: PRIDE CART
• OCTOBER 26TH - OCTOBER 30T: RED RIBBON WEEK & SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR
• OCTOBER 27TH: LITERACY NIGHT/ PTO FALL FESTIVAL

Please feel free to reach out with any questions. We are in this together!