Fourth Grade News
October 2023
Upcoming Dates
October 2- 6 WHS Homecoming Dress Up
Days (flier attached in email)
October 4 - Walk/Bike to School
(Donuts served 7:30-7:55 am)
October 9 - NO SCHOOL (Native American
Day Observance)
October 10 - NO SCHOOL-Teacher
Inservice, P/T Conferences 12-7PM,
Bookfair, PTA Meeting 6-7PM
October 12 - P/T Conferences 3-7PM,
Bookfair
October 26 - End of 1st Quarter
October 31 - Fall Party: No Costumes
Reminders
-Remember to dress for the weather.
-Family Response Journal (FRJ):
Remember to have a family member
write a short response back for the
student to read. Please try to have your
child return their notebook every
Monday.
Spelling
Week 5 Spelling Test - October 6
Week 6 Spelling Test - October 20
Week 7 Spelling Test - October 27
“Today a Reader,
Tomorrow a LEADER !”-
~Margaret Fuller
A Peek at our Month
Reading
In Reading, students will complete their first Reading
Assessment Prep to start working on strategies for test taking
in preparation for the SD Assessments in the spring. Students
will use their schema to articulate how we think about a
topic and create “I Wonder” statements before we read the
topic. Next we will change those statements into questions to
help us make sense of texts. Students will also work on asking
questions while they are reading to keep their brain engaged
with our text and to help them better comprehend.
Math
In October we will continue with Unit 2 on collecting data,
organizing it into a graph, and making statements about our
findings. Our next unit is on multiple towers and cluster
problems. Students will discover that they can break apart
big arrays into smaller ones to find the answer to a
multiplication problem. This month they will also study how
multiplication and division are related and what to do in
different situations with remainders.
Science
In science we are finishing our first unit on Energy
Conversions. Students are analyzing why systems fail. They
are then preparing and writing a design argument to
improve the system for the town of Ergstown to prevent
further blackouts using the information they have learned
from this unit.
Writing
The focus for our writing for October is fiction stories. Part
of their story can be real and part from their imaginations.
We will use mentor texts to study the settings of outdoor
spaces and far away places and how to incorporate that into
our stories.
Social Studies
In S.S. students will be learning about the geography of S.D.
including major cities, rivers, landmarks, interstates, and
reservations and their capitals.