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Mrs. McClure – Fourth Grade
Posted on May 30, 2012, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
PrintWell 4th grade parents! WE MADE IT! I know it was a tough year, but we did it! I hope this year was just as enjoyable for you and your student as it was for me. Your children are true reflections of your hard work and determination for a bright future. Thank you so much for an AMAZING and ROCK’N year. I hope this summer brings you and your family a break from the chaos of the school year, and you are able to make new memories to hold onto for future years to come.
Things to keep in mind and pack into the beach bags this summer include keep up with where your students have left off with as they leave 4th grade. Please make sure that your student continues to read over the summer. This is so super important as it will help increase their reading Lexiles and allow them to continue to build onto their comprehension. Rereads of novels that we have read in class will do wonders as well. Rereading can be a great source of comprehension building. When they reread, they are familiar with the novel already, so that they will continue to build onto their fluency as well as be able to
pick up any loose ends that they might have missed during the first read through. Please continue to work on the math facts of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. This is key to the success in beginning 5th grade next year. If you are interested in keeping your student busy in Math, pick an old weekly check up and create your own. Important key concepts we touched on this year included, rounding into the hundred millions, place value, value of a number, expanded form, long hand division into the hundred thousands place, fractions with unlike denominators, improper fractions, orders of operation, multiplication of 4 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers, converting measurements of liquids, length, time, telling time, and elapsed time. Please understand that we have worked soooooo very hard on the simple concept of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Please continue to review over these basic concepts as the students will need to be VERY familiar with these concepts for next year.
Have a wonderful break, and again, thanks for a beautiful year.
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Mrs. McClure – Fourth Grade
Posted on April 12, 2012, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
PrintEnglish: We will continue to work in the
Shurley Method to refine what we have learned from the beginning of the year to the present class. Check out the parts of speech that we have just learned: subject nouns, subject pronouns, verbs, helping verbs, prepositions, objects of the prepositions, adjectives, adverbs, Article Adjectives, Interjections, Possessive nouns and pronouns, and conjunctions. We have just completed the above and have recently learned about the Compound subject and compound verbs. We are just rolling along. After we have these down, we will move on to the last two pieces of the year, direct and indirect objects as well as the adjectives that describe them. WOOHOOO!!!!
Reading: We have recently finished THE WATSON’S GO TO BIRMINGHAM! I hope your child has truly enjoyed this novel. Our novel test is this Friday, April 13, 2012. We will review during this week. All questions are available on the class website. Our next novel is MATILDA. We will begin this novel on Monday, April 16. Please have your student’s novel with them as we will begin that day in reading class. Our next class book report reading due date has recently been posted on the class website. We will begin our 4th quarter book report on Monday, May 7, 2012. This gives the students at least 4-5 weeks to read the novel they chose. The students must report on the novel I approved in class.
Religion: We have recently discussed the importance to Holy Week and the gifts that Jesus gave to us. We will continue to discuss the sacrament of Holy Communion and the major parts of the Mass. We will continue to discuss this further in detail. As we enter into May, we will discuss our Mother Mary as this is a month that we reflect and give praise to the mother of Jesus.
Science: The week of April 9th, we will wrap up the chapter over the Earth’s layers, Volcanoes, and Hurricanes. Following this chapter we will next move into Rocks and Minerals and Simple Machines.
Social Studies: We have currently wrapped up Texas becoming the 28th state in the United States. We are currently reading about the Civil War, Slavery, Share Cropping, and the movement of Native Americans into reservations. We will wrap the chapter up and continue to discuss the continued movement to the western frontier. We will next move into railroads, oil, and government. WOOHOOO!!!! We love the history!
Math: Currently, we are working with fractions. We have just completed an improper fractions piece and putting fractions into their simplest form. Please make sure that the students are studying their facts nightly as we will pick up the mad minute quizzes on Fridays. We will also continue with cumulative weekly checkups as this will help cement long term memory building blocks. The next pieces we will cover by the end of the year include: Measurement, Time and Geometry.
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Posted on April 10, 2012, by Alexis McClure, under Uncategorized.
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Mrs. McClure – Fourth Grade
Posted on March 8, 2012, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
PrintDuring the months of March and April, fourth grade will be moving in like a lion, out like a lamb!!! Please make sure you are checking the website. Here you can find all the classroom activities such as homework, due dates, and notes. I will try my best to continue to keep everyone at home updated to where we are in class.
English/Spelling/Reading:
We will continue to be tested on Shurley as well as spelling, however, this is going to change to a weekly activity. Each week, the students will receive words for spelling either based on Dolch Sight Words (most frequently misspelled words), or concentrating on a specific spelling pattern . The students will have dictionary work, practice spelling work, as well as paragraph writing work weekly.
Shurley Method will continue as we work our way through the pronouns, possessives, direct objects, and lastly indirect objects. We have worked over the last 5-6 weeks on intense writing procedures. We have used a series of activities to help the students become better writers. The students should now be able to form a bubble map or other thinking maps to create an outline-like structure to help them form & organize their ideas to begin their very descriptive writing. We hope that you will enjoy the Treasure Books that will soon be ordered for publishing. Here the students wrote for the first time a story/picture book that will be published about a super hero.
Our current novel is The Watsons Go to Birmingham. We will soon leave this novel and begin on our next reading piece, Matilda. Please note that the students have been asked to do a combination of work for comprehension on this current novel. Students should have their comprehension pieces in their class binder, in the reading section. With having this information, the students are able to begin studying vocabulary and keep up with comprehension of the novel.
Math:
We will continue the weekly check-ups. This helps the students to put previous and current concepts fresh in their minds and build long term memory. We will soon move on to Fractions while still working on multiplication and division. Please continue to practice multiplication as well as addition and subtraction facts with your students. The more we practice, the quicker our response time becomes.
Science:
We just began discussing the atmosphere of the Earth. We will continue to discuss this until Spring Break. Upon on return we will review and test over this material. The next section we will move into will be the Solar System! Yippee! This is going to be out of this World!
Social Studies:
Currently we are reading and discussing what happened after the Texas Revolution. In this section we have discussed Redbacks, debt that we owed to the US., our first president of the Republic of Texas, and much more. We will continue after break to press through the years of Texas History but reading and talking about the Republic of Texas joining the United States and the continued growth of the state, the Civil War and the divide in the United States. WHOOO HOOO Texas History!
Religion:
We are currently discussing the reason for the Lenten Season leading us to Easter Sunday. During Religion, we also will continue to discuss, in detail, each of the Commandments. We do use true life experiences that relate as well as reflect living by the Ten Commandments.
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Mrs. McClure – Fourth Grade
Posted on January 27, 2012, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
PrintI hope this month finds all of you falling “head-over-heels” in love with your family and loved ones all over again. Please let me know if there is anything that I can do to help assist you and/or your student. Please continue to check the class website. You can access it through the school website by clicking on my link. There are many links and tabs that will help assist you and your student. Please remember, homework is not an option, but a tool to help build in the concepts we have discussed in class.
English/Reading: We are currently working on the last few chapters of Bud, Not Buddy. We will finish this up in the next couple of weeks and begin working on our next novel, The Watson’s Go to Birmingham. During the third quarter, fourth graders will also complete 2 IN CLASS book reports. This will help ALL students stay on track meeting expectations within their homework, such as reading daily at home for 30 minutes. The deadlines for the completed reading will be posted as soon as possible on the website. These book reports will reflect skills that students should have mastered and help the students practice key concepts such as correct punctuation, complete sentences, capitalization rules, the importance of proof reading, and much more.
Math: We just recently began working with division. We will continue to practice division skills during the lovely month of February as well as learning and using the check step to make sure we have answered the division problems correctly. We will continue the “Weekly Check-Ups”. This is very important and will connect what they children have learned from the beginning of the year as well as pull in the material that we have learned, practiced, and mastered during the week. This is a great way to bring many different concepts into the long term memory. It allows children to continue to practice mastered concepts as well as test new ones. In addition to the “Weekly Check-up, the students will receive a “Mad Minute” test over multiplication facts on Fridays. If your student is having difficulty with their multiplication facts, they are invited to the class website, where they can play games that are located on links listed on the math tab.
Social Studies: We have just recently finished discussing the first American Colony settled in Texas. We will test over the Colonization. We will watch The Alamo as a preview to help the children develop a idea of what we will be reading and discussing, followed by the reading and discussion of the fight at the Alamo and the other battles surrounding the independence of Texas from Mexico.
Science: We are currently working on our Science Fair projects. Following this we will move back into the “Water Cycle”. We will begin bringing home a lapbook for science as well. Please note, this will help the students become better prepared for section material and vocabulary building.
Religion: We currently have finished discussing the 2nd and 3rd commandment in detail in class. We will continue to discuss the Ten Commandments in detail in class. The next lesson in line is about “Respect”.
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Mrs. McClure, M.Ed.- Fourth Grade
Posted on November 30, 2011, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
PrintTis the season to be thankful, joyful, and try to hang up the stressful! 
I hope you all have a very happy and memorable Advent season. May you and yours be filled with many memories to last you until next year. Until we celebrate these very happy times, we have some work to do!
Math: We will continue to work with multiple digit multiplication. We still have not mastered this concept yet and we will continue to work with this until we can recite and work in our sleep. Please make sure that your students are practicing nightly their multiplication facts up to the 12’s as well as a few multiple digit math problems daily. Practice and memorization is key in learning this concept.
Science: We are currently reading and discussing “Matter”. As we move into the months of December and January we will begin discussing and learning about our science projects that we will complete in January. This will be an in class science experiments. Have those kiddo’s begin to search topics. We will use class time to find an experiment to complete. Keep in mind, this is NOT to be completed at home, rather in class.
Social Studies: Oh BOY!!!! We are getting to the best part of Texas History! We are currently discussing the first missions in Texas that were built near Indian villages and the movements of some Native Americans moving into those missions. Next we will begin to discuss the break of Mexico and Spain, followed by the independence of Texas from Mexico. Can we say, ALAMO! Yippee!!!
Reading: We are currently reading Bud, Not Buddy, 4th graders have fallen head over heels for this novel. Please note we are currently in between a few chapters as we are building our comprehension. Note, it is recommended that students feel free to reread chapters and preview others. This will only help them build comprehension. However, if students are doing this, please note, this is not considered their 30 minutes reading time for daily silent reading at home. They are to still be working on another novel at home for their book report that will be completed by the end of the quarter. These book reports will be completed at school for this quarter. I will send more information out as time gets closer. Our next few novel to look at purchasing will be, The Watson’s Go to Birmingham. This novel is by the same author as our currently class novel, Mr. Christopher Paul Curtis.
English: We are currently working on review of subject nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, article adjectives and have just added in prepositions and objects of the prepositions. Please note, even though we test English/ Shurley method on the odd weeks, we will work and review these parts of speech weekly. As time progresses and mastery is made, we will move into the direct and indirect objects and the adjectives that modify them. Please note, testing weeks, I ALWAYS have some type of practice for the kiddos on the website.
Religion: We will begin discussing the Corporal Works of Mercy. This is to prepare for the trip to the nursing home. We are called by Jesus to help those in need. This includes those that are hungry, those that are sick, and clothe those that are naked. Please help us bring some light to the residents of a nursing home we will be visiting on December 12, 2011. We can show our children through our giving how to help those who are less fortunate. Please check the list in the email that was sent out on November 21. Any way that you can help will be very appreciated. I will try to post a list of items we need for the nursing home on the website.
Important Information: The website is up and running and is a great resource for many things while at home. Homework is posted, spelling words, social studies notes for the full chapter, shurley questions, shurley practice, etc. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, check it out.
It is there to help you!
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Mrs. McClure-4th Grade
Posted on October 14, 2011, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
PrintEnglish:
We have lit the halls of St. E’s in the afternoon as we continue to work on the Shurley jingles. We will continue to learn the rules for punctuation and capitalization. During our labeling of sentences in Shurley, we will add on prepositions and objects of the prepositions as well as the adjectives that describe those objects. We will continue to work on these until we have mastered them. Remember, we do not move and add on until mastery is achieved. Shurley tutoring has and will continue to be on Tuesday mornings at 7:30 am.
Reading:
We have recently ended our first class novel How to Eat Fried Worms . We have started the newest novel, The Taste of Blackberries. This is a pretty short novel. We will continue to read, discuss, and complete comprehension activities and vocabulary. As these are handed back, the students will keep these in their binders. Watch the website for upcoming tests and quizzes. All students MUST be reading nightly. This is homework and should be completed nightly, no excuses. In reading at home nightly, your students practice fluency. Ask your student about their book, read with them so they can hear what a master reader sounds like. What a great activity for “special time” with your 4th grader! YIPPPPEEE!!!!
Math:
As we move through the months of the school year, we move closer to the more difficult math. We CAN NOT move on to this work until we have mastered the concept of regrouping with multiple digit numbers in both adding and subtracting. This is a key building block that students will use in both multiplication and division of multiple digit numbers. I ask nightly for students to practice multiple digit numbers, both adding and subtracting. They must also use the check-step to check their answers. Again, math tutoring is Mondays at 7:30am. Every Friday we will have a weekly check-up that will include all the concepts worked on that current week as well as previous weeks to the beginning of school.
Social Studies:
We are still currently building up to the beginning of the “meat” for the ACTIVE and more interesting pieces of Texas history for the year. We have recently discussed the landforms and regions of the United States as well as the United States. We have just wrapped up the political regions, economic regions and the population regions. The next step we will begin involves the 1st people of Texas followed by the Spanish entering Mexico. Yippee! So much love for our Texas history and how it has shaped us as a state.
Science:
We will finish up adaptations of animals and we will be moving into the human body! Watch the website for the next individual project that we will be working on. Head and shoulders, knees, and toes!
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Mrs. McClure – Fourth Grade
Posted on September 19, 2011, by Alexis McClure, under First Grade.
PrintHi there fantastic 4th grade parents! We are off and running so far this year. Here is what we have been working on and what is coming soon!
We will continue working in the Shurley Method on punctuation and capitalization skills and learning the rules for the above. We will also continue working with sentences and how they would be labeled. We will be adding these parts of speech: Prepositions and objects of the prepositions. Along with these, the students will continue to locate the simple and complete subject and predicate of a written sentence. YIIIPPPPPEEEE! I love Shurley! Don’t forget Shurley tutoring on Tuesday mornings at 7:30am!
We will continue to read How to Eat Fried Worms during our reading block. Students should make sure that they keep ALL comprehension questions and vocabulary sheets for these chapters in their binders. We will use these to study for our test at the end of the novel, which is quickly approaching. Please note, I will give a study guide as well as a week’s notice for the test. Watch emails and class website for this information to be released. Every student should be reading 30 minutes Monday-Thursday. This is standard homework for the 4th grade that does not change. The first book report grade has been released, posted on the website as well as in several emails. This date is October 14, 2011.
In Science we have just completed Vascular Plants and their parts. We are just working our way into our last booklet of Nancy Larson. We will be reading and learning about amphibians and reptiles. Along with this, the students will have a research project on one of the above animals they chose in class. Again, this due date has been published in emails as well as on the website. This material is to be completed by the student at home and returned by September 15th, 2011.
In Social Studies, we continue to discuss the climate, landforms and regions of the United States as well as in Texas. This is to prepare us for the upcoming lessons of the first people in America as well as in Texas. THE FUN IS JUST STARTING!!
In Religion we have discussed a variety of material including faith, sin, and what the Gospel teaches about how one corrects. God creates only good; however, it is a bad choice or decision that leads someone down a path of destruction, and much more. We will continue to discuss these topics; i.e. What happens to my relationship when I sin? How should I handle being angry with another person. How would God expect me to act and is it always easy to do what Jesus would want me to do. Who is speaking to me when I make certain decisions?
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Mrs. McClure – Fourth Grade
Posted on April 18, 2011, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
PrintEnglish:
4th Grade will continue to work on Shurley Method techniques. We are currently working on our Direct Objects and the adjectives that describe them. We have also started to work on negatives in a sentence as well as conjunctions and labeling sentences as the following; sentence, fragment, sentence with a compound subject, sentence with a compound verb and lastly sentences with conjunctions. We will continue to work on this as well as adding in the last few pieces for the year, indirect objects and their adjectives that describe.
Reading:
We are currently finishing up the chapter “Onions” in Esperanza Rising. There will be a quiz coming up the week after Easter break. Your student has all the comprehension questions and vocabulary. This test will be on the Wednesday following Easter break, April 27, 2011. We will review in class. Students should be studying ALL material that is located in the comprehension questions and vocabulary sheets for each chapter up to chapter 8.
We will finish out this novel, and the last novel to read this year will be Matilda. Please make sure that you have a copy for your student. I have a couple to loan during the time we are working on that novel.
Social Studies:
We are currently wrapping up the Civil War. The students have truly enjoyed this chapter in hearing about auctions, plantations, the Union and the Confederate states as well as the assassination of President Lincoln. We will continue to move through this chapter on the Civil War in the next week. Returning after the Easter Holiday, we will begin to move into the 20th century where we will discuss the railroad, the cattle kingdom, and WWII.
Make sure you are checking emails and the web-page. As new dates come up, we will have them posted in the announcement box. Fourth Quarter book report dates have been posted online. CHECK OUT THE DATES!!!
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Mrs. McClure – 4th Grade
Posted on March 7, 2011, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
PrintHOWDY PARENTS! I hope you are all doing well! This is what is going on in ELA and Social Studies for the end of February and March.
ELA
In Shurley Method, the students will continue to work on all the parts of speech from subject nouns to interjections. We began a new part of speech in the middle of February. This new piece was for the Direct Object. We will continue to work on these and later take a quiz to see if we have mastered this new piece. Our next piece in Shurley method will be the indirect object. This will not be introduced until we are all on the same page.
In Reading, we will continue to work in small groups for reading as well as whole group. We will be finishing our current novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham by the end of this month or early March. I will be sending home all the questions and the review as the time approaches as well as the next novel we will read.
During the month of March we will also begin working on our treasure books. We will begin choosing the journals we would like to include in our book and begin editing Friday, February 18th. We will send out more information as the time comes to order extra copies of your student’s own personal published book.
Social Studies:
As we move from February into March, we will continue to discuss the divide or break between Texas as a Republic and Mexico. We are currently reading and talking about the the first president of Texas that was voted in by the people as well as how the Texas Revolution was funded and the first battle of this revolution. We will continue in the next chapter by reading, discussing, learning and later watching THE ALAMO! The kids are really enjoying this part of Texas History! As the Texans demonstrated in the first battle of this revolution on the cannon in Gonzales, “COME AND TAKE IT!”
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Mrs. McClure- 4th Grade
Posted on January 18, 2011, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
PrintWelcome back! I hope this year brings us many happy times here in the halls of St. E’s.
During January in 4A ELA we will continue to work on grammar with the Shurley Method as well as in our grammar text book. In the next month, we will be adding direct and indirect objects as well as 3-point paragraphs. These pieces will be introduced in small pieces as the children are ready for the new information. We are currently reading the novel No Talking! We will test over the novel by the end of the month and begin our next novel, The Watson’s Go to Birmingham. Please make sure that your child is reading nightly. This is most important in continuing to build their reading fluency. I have just received all lexile scores and will be Dibbles Testing the students during class. The children will be increasing their reading time to 30 minutes nightly beginning 3rd quarter. This is to prepare them for the following year with Miss. Vercillo. Please also take note that all book reports should be given on the novel that your child is reading at home and logging on their reading log. Each student is given notice of the next book report due for that quarter. We have discussed in class as well as in emails that have been sent home this year about certain books that can not be used for a book report. All book reports should be based on books that are on your child’s reading level; comic novels do not count as book report material. However, if your child does read and complete one of these comic novels and wants to do an extra book report, s/he may do so for an extra prize at the end of the semester.
The fourth graders have just started discussing and reading about the American Revolution. We will continue to discuss the need for freedom and independence in America, starting with the first 13 colonies in America to their will to want to explore westward. This will include adding states to the United States of America and eventually begin to lead to the battle of the Alamo where Texas breaks free from Spain/Mexico. Please take notice that during the Alamo section, 4th graders will watch the movie, Alamo. I will be sending home an email alerting you of a permission slip that has been sent home for you to sign. This will be written consent that your child will or will not be permitted to view the movie.
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Mrs. McClure-Fourth Grade
Posted on December 8, 2010, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
PrintHi there Mommas and Papas! It’s amazing how time has just blown right by us this year. As we bring November to a close we do the same with our current novel The Taste of Blackberries . All novel material as well as the study packet will have come home by November the 19th, 2010, and we will have our novel test on Tuesday November 30th, 2010.
In Grammar, we have continued to work both in the Shurley Method as well as our grammar book in the classroom. We are currently working on prepositions and their locations in the sentences and the number of prepositions that we can have in sentence. We continue to practice labeling subject nouns, verbs, helping verbs, prepositions, etc. We have also extended the simple predicate to include not only the main verbs, but the helping verbs as well. This will better prepare the students for Ms. Vercillo next year in 5th grade.
In the month of December, we will continue to work with the above information; however, we will work with conjunctions in sentences as well as compound subjects and compound predicates. We will add new pieces as the students become ready.
In Social Studies, we have moved to the unclaimed land of North America. We have started to discuss the explorers, the reason they came to America, the developing of new colonies and how they are claimed and ruled/governed. Lastly, we have discussed the movement of the Spanish and the fight with the Aztecs in Mexico that turned all power of the country over to Spain. We will next move into the Spanish and French in Texas. We will begin to discuss the raising up of missionaries and presidios and early towns in Texas. Along with this, we will talk and read about the explorers from both France and Spain who explored through parts of Texas and their battles with Native Americans in the the state. As I tell the children in class, we are just getting into the fun and interesting things that happened in history. They mostly like this piece of our year because we are reaching a part of Texas history where colonies are beginning to form and take shape, and the fight at the Alamo is ahead. As the Texans wrote on the Mexican cannon they received as a gift, “COME AND TAKE IT!” These are the fun times in Texas history in 4th grade.
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Mrs. McClure – Fourth Grade
Posted on October 28, 2010, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
PrintHappy Halloween from 4th Grade!
ELA:
We are currently finishing up our 2nd novel for the year which is How to Eat Fried Worms. We will complete the last set of chapters and begin to prepare for the test beginning the week of October 18th. Our novel test will be on October 28th. We will watch the movie, How to Eat Fried Worms on Friday, October 29th. Test corrections will be due on Friday, the 29th of October, as well. Our third novel for the year will be A Taste of Blackberries. I do have a class set of this novel. Please make sure that your children are reading daily at home. This is a requirement for 4th grade and a class expectation.
SOCIAL STUDIES:
In social studies, we are beginning to move into the beginning of TEXAS. During this month, we will begin discussing the people of the Western Hemisphere, people of the Coastal Plain, People of the central and Great Plains as well as the Mountains and the Basins. We will go into detail about the earliest Texans and civilization of Texas. Lap books are an important key in studying nightly. All notes and material in these booklets are important for tests and quizzes. Please make sure your child is studying nightly.
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Mrs. McClure – Fourth Grade
Posted on September 29, 2010, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
PrintHAPPY OCTOBER, MOMMA’S AND PAPA’S !!!!
ELA
During the month of September, we worked on Shurley Method material, adding in possessive nouns, pronouns and continuing to work on Prepositions and Objects of the Prepositions. We will also begin working out of our other grammar book. Our 4th grade writers are doing pretty swell in their daily journal writing. We published our first piece to be presented outside the class room.
SOCIAL STUDIES
We will continue to work on our lap books for chapter 1. We have completed sections 1 and 2 which are discussing hemispheres, lines of latitude and longitude and more, and we are moving on to climate and Texas plants and animals. We will have a quiz coming up for sections 3 and 4 followed by a chapter 1 test. Be looking for dates to be posted on class website as well as planners and emails.
FOURTH GRADE TO-DO LIST
Make sure that all spelling homework that is not workbook material is to be done in the spelling comp book. Each student should be reading EVERY night at least 20 minutes, and Lap books should be studied even if we have quizzed over the first set of sections. This is key in being as prepared as possible for class in social studies. Last but not least, please make sure you are checking the class web page. It is updated daily with homework and important dates and reminders.
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Mrs. McClure – Fourth Grade
Posted on March 11, 2010, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
PrintEnglish
During the month of March we will continue to work in English with our Shurley Method labeling. The students have come a long way. We will continue to label as well as hit key areas in our class English book. We are zipping through and the kids are loving every minute of it. Remember English tutoring is at 3:00pm on Wednesdays.
Reading
We are currently reading the novel The Watson’s Go to Birmingham. I have started keeping the students review questions in my classroom in individual folders so we do not misplace these papers when time comes to study for the test. I have recorded these grades and the children have the chance to look the papers over before they are placed in their safety folders. We should be completing this novel when we come back from break. We will then watch the movie that goes along with the story we have read and will have an assignment that will follow this activity. As always, I will send out a study guide when we complete the questions for the last chapter of the novel. If you have any questions, please let me know.
BOOK REPORTS ARE DUE ON MARCH 26, 2010
Social Studies
We will be completing Chapter 8 which is discussing the Civil War and the end of Slavery in America. We will begin our next chapter for the year which is the discussion of the Turn of the Century. Here we will be discussing Oil, the Depression, Ranching and much more in Texas History. We will have a test this Friday, March 12, over Chapter 8.
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Mrs. McClure – Fourth Grade
Posted on December 10, 2009, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
PrintELA
We will continue to read Esperanza Rising. We will review when we come back from break. We will then pick up and continue to read the story. We will be working on vocabulary, comprehension, setting, and characters. In English we will continue to work on helping verbs as well as our recently learned direct and indirect objects. Our work will be both out of our English books as well as from the Shurley Method.
Social Studies
We are currently working on Colonization in Texas. We will have a quiz over sections 3 and 4 this Thursday and a chapter test over sections 1, 2, 3, & 4 on Thursday, December 17th, 2009. Please make sure that your students are studying nightly over ALL sections of their lap book. As you know, this is a nightly assignment and helps them bring the information into their long term memory. When we return in January we will begin discussing the Texas Revolution.
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Mrs. McClure – Fourth Grade
Posted on November 11, 2009, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
PrintEnglish Literature Arts
We will continue working on the 3-point persuasive paragraphs in English as well as Shurley Method labeling. In Reading we will be finishing up our current novel Henry on the Paper Route. The upcoming test date for this novel will be coming home along with your student’s study guide. We will begin Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz-Ryan following the test. Please make sure you have a copy for your student. Please make sure your student is reading daily for 20 minutes and logging their times daily.
Social Studies
We will complete our lapbooks for the chapter “New Settlers in Texas” this week and we will be moving on to discuss “Colonies and Independence.” We will have a chapter test over the material in our lapbook. Students are asked to study this material as well as their quizzes for Chapter 4. This chapter test will be held next Tuesday, November 16, 2009. We do have weekly vocab and key concept quizzes at the end of each week. Please make sure your student is studying their lapbook nightly.
We are planning our trip to St. Joseph’s Nursing Home this year as a Corporal Work of Mercy. Please check with Mrs. Campos in the office to make sure you are up-to-date with your Safe Environment. We would love for all of you to attend. Have a very warm and blessed Thanksgiving filled with many colorful memories.
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Mrs. McClure – Fourth Grade
Posted on September 24, 2009, by Alexis McClure, under Fourth Grade.
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We are closing out of our first chapter of the year!!! We have been discussing elevation, sea level, continents, landforms, plants and animals of Texas. For the month of October, we will begin to discuss People of Texas. We will read and learn about political region, population and look at line graphs, as well as economy, agriculture and land use. Following this chapter we will move on to the Earliest Texans beginning with Texas Indian Myths and legends.
English
We are currently wrapping up our re-cap session of basic grammar skills. We have reviewed the following: subject nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, object of the prepositions, prepositional phrases, possessive nouns, possessive pronouns, subject pronouns, synonyms, antonyms, correcting punctuation and capitalization, and beginning subject verb agreement. We will push on and begin to add in new pieces this month including the 3-point paragraph. WOOHOOO, we are ROCKING the Shurley Method out!
Reading
Ramona’s World has just been completed. What a great book to begin our 4th grade year. The children have seemed to love this classic. We will have a test over this class novel next Tuesday, September 29, 2009. We will do a review in class to help the students prepare for the test, which will be based on past chapter questions and vocabulary.Thank you to those who have sent a personal dictionary with your student; however there are still some students who have not done so. This is very important as the dictionaries I have do not always have the words that we are in search of. Remember ALL 4th grade students should be reading nightly. This is very important in keeping up their reading levels as well as their comprehension. Reading logs are due to me every other Friday. Your student’s next reading log will be due on October 2, 2009. We will begin our next class novel beginning next week. WOOOOHOOOOO!!!
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