Week 15 Highlights, Week 16 Printout, and CHRISTMAS GIFT EXCHANGE INFORMATION

 Dear parents and students,

Hope that you all had a wonderful week. Can you believe that Christmas will be coming up in 2 weeks? We'll be doing a gift exchange in class... If you do not wish to participate, that is totally fine! If you do, please make sure to follow the rules and instructions as shown below:

Anyways, here's what happened this week:

• For Journeys , both classes read different stories for Lesson 12. The 402 class read a story about the devastating San Francisco Earthquake that happened in 1906. The 403 class read a little bit about the history of earth's geology and we learned that the earth's crust used to be 1 large piece (the Pangea) a long long time ago! 
• For writing, both classes wrote a 3-4 paragraph persuasive essay to persuade you (parents) to let them do something! They learned how to think win win and to come up with a compromise. 
• For math, we continued to work with fractions and mixed numbers.
• We haven't gotten a chance to start science yet because we had to go watch a show at the theatre on Friday, so we missed almost all classes. However, don't worry! We'll start next week. So, take a look below to see what next week's classes will be like:

Grade 4A& 4B	Week 16	December 13th-17th
Subject	Content
Spelling & Vocab L13	Alert, display, huddle, stranded, explorer, photographer, bulky, temperature, weariness, particularly
Grammar	Unit 11: Present Simple
Reading	L13- Journeys: pp.133-131 (SC) Story: “In the Grip of Ice”
Novel	A Class Only - Cricket in Times Square – Ch. 14 B Class Only - Amber Brown Goes Fourth – Ch. 14
Math	Lesson 3.2 Improper Fractions
Science	Unit 17: Forms of Energy and their Uses
Test(s)	L13 Spelling & U11 Grammar Quiz: Thursday, December 16th
Weekly Sentences	There is a typhoon alert.  He was stranded on an island. They huddled together to keep warm. The photographer took pictures.