Fourth Grade Parent Newsletter #3

This week we are reading On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura

Ingalls Wilder. It would be helful if you will reinfor!e the meaning of the
vocabulary words at home with your !hild. "lso# on this newsletter you
will $nd our spelling words for the week. %our !hild should ha&e brought
selling homework home on 'riday. Please make sure your !hild is
ra!ti!ing these words at home ea!h day. (elling homework is due on
Thursday. The words in itali!s are our !hallenge selling words. We are also
working on compete subjects and compete predicates. They are listed
below the &o!abulary. Let)s ha&e a great week*
Spelling Words+ sweet# ea!h# three# least# freedom# below#
throat# ,oat# foam# ,own# greet# season# !roak# shallow# eagle# indeed#
rainbow# grown# seaweed# hollow# Halloween, speedometer,
underneath, seacoast, cocoa
Vocabulary
Word
eaning
ru-ed frilled
badger weasel.like animal
bristled stood u
at!hed mended with ie!es of
!loth
bank land alongside a ri&er or
lake
rushes water ants
/ointed made of arts that atta!h
Parts o! Sentences"
0&ery senten!e has a subject and a predicate.
The subject is the art of the senten!e that tells whom or what the
sentence is about# "ll the words in the sub/e!t are !alled the complete
subject.
Comlete sub/e!t+ The dry earth slid under Lauras feet.
The predicate is the art of the senten!e that tells what the subject is or
does.
"ll the words in the redi!ate are !alled the complete predicate.
Comlete redi!ate+ The dry earth slid under Lauras feet.