Week 16 Highlights, Week 17 Printout

Dear parents and students,

Here's what happened this week:

• Both classes read about Ernest Shackleton and his crew's expedition to the Antarctic. We were all amazed by their persistence and bravery.
• For grammar, we finished Unit 11 about the present simple tense. The trickiest part of this grammar tense is subject and verb agreement. Remember, if the noun is singular (except for the pronoun 'you,') you must make the verb plural!
• For math, we continued solve problems with fractions and mixed numbers. 
• For science, we started unit 17 about the different forms of energy.

If you are interested in doing the gift exchange, please make sure to prepare your gift soon because the part will be on next Friday!

Here's what we will be learning next week:

Grade 4A& 4B	Week 17	December 20th- 24th
Subject	Content
Spelling & Vocab L14	Excess, scarce, social, storage, transport, thousands, information, drone, nectar, production
Grammar	Review Units 10~11
Reading	A Class Only L14 - Journeys: pp. 406-435 (HC) Story: “The Life & Times of the Ant”  B Class Only L14 - Journeys: pp. 132-141 (SC) Story: “Busy Bees”
Novel	A Class Only - Cricket in Times Square – Ch. 15 B Class Only - Amber Brown Goes Fourth – Ch. 15
Math	Lesson 3.3 & 3.4 Addition/Subtraction of Fractions (p. 53-60)
Science	Unit 17: Forms of Energy and their Uses
Test(s)	L14 Spelling Thursday, December 23rd
Weekly Sentences	Pollution affects us. The lizard lives in a desert habitat. There were traces of blood.