Week of January 2nd-3rd and January 6th-10th

I hope everyone is having a relaxing holiday break. I can't believe 2014 is a couple days away!

I want to thank you all for a great first half of the school year. It certainly has flown by!

I have enjoyed sharing it with your child and I absolutely love fourth grade!

This week (Thursday & Friday) AND next week we will been reading
"The Great Kapok Tree".

Here are the skills/strategies for this story:

Genre: Fantasy

Comprehension Skill: Generalize

Comprehension Strategy: Story Structure

Comprehension Review Skill: Author's Purpose

Vocabulary: Word Structure

Spelling workbooks will be due next Friday, January 10th.

We will be researching rainforests and will be creating our own newscast movie about rainforests. If your child asks to bring in props, it's most likely for the project.  Also, your child may tell you they can't wear green/turquoise/yellow this week. This is because we will be recording in front of a green screen. :) We will begin our study of rainforests this week, and get more into the reading series story next week.