This document provides an overview of classroom activities and lessons for the week of December 3-7. It includes: 1) Continuing work on expository writing and revising simple and compound sentences. 2) Having a "Poetry Week" where vocabulary and spelling will focus on poetry terms and students will read poetry. 3) Finishing a math topic and taking a benchmark test on multiplication facts. 4) Important dates like an early release day and winter break.

1. DECEMBER 3—7
We will continue to work on Expository writing next
week. We will take an expository prompt all the way
through the writing process again. We will look at
1. danced 11. robbed
ways to make these even better! 2. dancing 12. robbing
Our focus for revising will be simple and compound 3. dried 13. slipped
sentences. 4. drying 14. slipping
5. happened 15. stopped
6. happening 16. watching
7. hurried 17.watched
Reading in 4th grade will look a little different this
8. hurrying 18. apprentice
week. We will have a “Poetry Week”!! The students
will still need to read the story of the week on 9. noticed 19. atmosphere
Tuesday night and study for the spelling test, but 10. noticing 20. manufacture
our vocabulary words and end of the week test will 10. groove 20. unimpressive
be geared towards poetry. I have listed most of
the terms we will be studying in class. The students
do not need to know the definitions word for word, We will finish Topic 8, “Division Number Sense” and
just an understanding and how it is used in poetry. then take a benchmark test over topics 5-8. We will
begin Topic 9, “Dividing by 1-Digit Divisors” (aka LONG
DIVISION!!) Study your multiplication facts!!
Monday—Thursday—Math homework My E-mail address : mistisanders@lorenaisd.net
Tuesday-Read The Man Who Named the Clouds
My Conference Time : 2:00-3:05
All week-Spelling on www.spellingcity.com (or
LES Phone Number : 254-857-4613
practice words in another way)
(Directions to get to the spelling list on Poetry Terms
spellingcity.com: 1. Go to website. 2. Click on the find
meter— the pattern of accents and beats used in a poem
a list tab. 3. Type in lorenaleopards 4. Choose
rhythm—the organization of sound patterns the poet has
“username” from the drop down box 5. Choose the
story of the week.) *Read AR books every night. created for pleasurable reading
rhyme—two words or lines that end in the same sound
line break—the intentional end of a line of poetry
patterns of verse—the regular or predictable arrangement
December 20 Christmas Party @ 1 p.m. of sections or lines of poetry
repetition—repeating words, lines, and even whole verses
December 21 Early Release
that enriches or emphasizes
December 22—January 7—Christmas Holidays
stanza—division of a poem composed of two or more lines
January 8 Students first day back/ characterized by meter, rhyme, and number of lines
1st day of 3rd 9 weeks Narrative Poetry—poetry that tells a story to entertain
January 16 Report Cards Lyrical Poetry—short poems expressing personal feelings and
January 25 Awards Assembly @ 9:55 am emotions that may be set to music
Free Verse—poetry composed of rhymed or unrhymed lines
that have no set patterns
imagery—words or phrases that help readers form pictures
Our Student Spotlight this week is Olivia Johnson. in their minds
She is a super hard worker and a great participant in sensory language-using words and details that uses the
class! Great job Olivia! reader’s senses