Miss. Libert’s 3rd and 4th Grade

February 18-22, 2019

Spelling

Fourth Graders- Unit 12 core words they will be learning are; class, piece, surface, river, and common. The skills they will be working are prefixes and suffixes. A prefix is a letter or letters added to the beginning of a word. A suffix is a letter or letters added to the end of a word.

Third Graders- Unit 12 core words they will be learning are; mother, light, country, father, and let. The skill they will be working on is compound words. A compound word is a combination of two or more words.

Reading

4^th Graders will be reading Number the Stars.

3^rd Graders will continue reading Sarah Plain and Tall.

-We also are reading short stories. This week the students will the reading the tall tale Glooscap Makes the Seasons. The students are learning about story plots (background, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution).

*Each month students should read two chapter books at home. They then write a one page summary or do a verbal summary to Miss. Libert at school.

Math-

4^th Graders will be working on Unit 8- Perimeter and Area

Monday: 8.2 Scale Drawing Continued

Tuesday:   8.3 Area

Wednesday:  Area and Perimeter Activity

Thursday:  8.4 What is the Area of my Skin

Friday:   Area & Perimeter Practice

3^rd Graders will be working on Unit 8- Fractions

Monday:  8.8 Fractions in Number Stories

Tuesday:   8.8 Fractions in Number Stories Continued

Wednesday:  Review Unit 8

Thursday:  Unit 8 Test

Friday:   Fraction Practice

*Please be studying multiplication facts at home with your child

Language

3^rd  Graders Chapter 20 Subject and Object Pronoun

Monday: Subject Pronoun

Tuesday:  Object Pronoun

Wednesday:  Using I and Me

Thursday: Extra Practice and Review

Friday:   Moby Max

4^th Graders will be working on Chapter 20 More About Pronouns

Monday:  Possessive Pronouns

Tuesday:  Object Pronouns

Wednesday: Using it/it’s, your/you’re, there/their/they’re

Thursday:  Extra Practice and Review

Friday:  Moby Max

Social Studies

Monday-Wednesday: Students will be reading week 13 of North Dakota Studies Weekly. This unit focuses on Fur Trade, Early Settlement of Dakota Territory, Homestead Act of 1862, Fort Union, Small Pox, Rising Tension leading to the Arikara War and Dakota War.

*For Social Studies and Science, we will rotate them per quarter, so we can focus on one subjects material at a time (instead of dividing the time between the two each day).