News from Mrs. Clouse

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News from Mrs. Clouses Room
4th Grade Reading
5th Grade Reading
Weekly Concept Seeking the Answer Essential
Question What can you do to get the information
you need? The next couple weeks our class will
focus on the different ways people can find
needed information. We will also be exploring
stories and riddles that ask us to seek
answers. Words to Know Simile- A figure of
speech that compares two things that are not
normally alike. Many similes use the words like
or as. (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a
fox ). Metaphor- A figure of speech
that describes one thing as something else.
Weekly Concept Literary Lessons Essential
Question What are some messages in animal
stories? In small groups, our class will be
focusing on stories that can be used to teach a
lesson. We will discuss the kinds of messages
that are often found in animal stories. Words to
Know Root Words A word in its own right. For
example, the word lovely consists of the word
love and the suffix -ly.
4th Grade Math
5th Grade Math
Fourth grade is continuing our chapter on
multiplying with one-digit numbers. We will spend
our next couple days working on problem-solving
and then next week we will work on multiplying
across zeros and then we will get ready for our
test.
Fifth grade has a test tomorrow, November 25th,
on our Divide by a One-Digit Divisor chapter. Our
vocabulary to know, includes dividend,
divisor, fact family, partial quotients,
quotient, remainder, unknown, and variable.
Words Their Way
Upcoming Dates
We will not be doing any spelling sorts this week
because of our short week. We will pick up our
sorts again next week.
November 26th Early Release at 1230pm November
27th-28th Thanksgiving Break December 9th-Music
Concert K-12 700pm December 10th-One hour late
start