Here's What's Happening in Mrs. McBrady's Classroom

January 3, 2018

Literacy

Congratulations to Natalie, Josephine, Cailin, and Justin for winning our Battle of the Books!!

Reading – Author Study on Chris Van Allsburg - Almost Done!
Next book - Jaguar by Roland Smith 
Knots on a Counting Rope - Similies, Metaphors, Personification

Literacy -  First Person Point of View Writing (Autobiography)

 I received the following information about a writing contest from our Bookmobile guy:

I want to bring to your attention to something forwarded to me that may have relevance to your students for this year or future years. It is an annual writing contest called Letters About Literature for Minnesota students in grades 4-12.

The contest asks students to write a letter to an author describing how an author has touched their life in a personal way.  The deadline is January 12^th 2018.

Students may submit individual entries or teachers may submit several entries from a classroom. Samples from past winners can be found at https://thefriends.org/letters-about-literature-past-winners/ .

For more info go to www.thefriends.org/letters and the entry forms can be found at https://thefriends.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/LAL-National-Modified-Flyer.pdf.

Entry forms have been handed out to interested students.  I do have more available.

Independent Reading – AR goal for January - 5 points to meet the goal
Please remind your child to read at home. 4th graders should read at least 20 minutes per evening.


Spelling

Lesson 14 (This Week)
Pretest on Tuesday  
Final Test on Friday

(Next Week)
Maintenance Test
Tuesday - 25 random words selected from Lessons 8, 9, and 10

Thursday - 25 random words selected from Lessons 11, 12,and 13

Math

Unit 4 - Multi-digit Multiplication
(This Week)
I can multiply 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers using the U.S. Traditional method
I can multiply multi-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers using the U.S. Traditional method
I can use the Traditional method to multiply 2-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers
I can play multiplication wrestling using the basic principles of multiplication with multi-digit numbers

(Next Week)
Review Unit 4
Test Unit 4
Unit 5 - Fraction and Mixed Number Computation, Measurement
I can decompose fractions into sums of fractions with the same denominator
I can find the whole when given a fractional part of a region


Social Studies

U.S. Geography - Northeast Region, study map, puzzle, and capitals
January and July Birthdays!


July 1 - Hudson
July 10 - Zander
January 12 - Natalie
January 19 - Josephine

Coming Up!

Jan. 4 - Art with Grandma Cookie
Jan. 19 - Last day of Quarter 2
Jan. 22 - No School - Teacher Workshop