Welcome to Mrs. Duffy’s 4th grade Web Page!!
Upcoming Dates for the Week of February 27th:
* Ash Wednesday Mass is 3/1 at 9am at St. Alphonsus Church. Please join us if you can.
*Lenten Prayer Service will be in the gym at 8:50am every Wednesday during Lent. Please join us if you can.
ELA: We will be finishing up the biography on Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind by Margaret Davidson. We will be working on vocabulary, comprehension skills, reading skills, especially summarizing and learning the traits of a biography. We will be going back into our reading textbook for a story on Democracy and our government which goes along with our current social studies unit. We are also going to be working on St.Patrick’s Day story writing which will go up in the hallway.
Math: We are going to be starting Chapter 6: Perimeter and Area. We will be working on Perimeter this week, will have a quiz on Less 1 and 2, then begin Area. This is a short chapter so I think we will be ready for our Chapter 6 test by next Thursday. Have your child continue to practice 15min of IXL a night to review the skills we are learning in class.
Social Studies Grade 4: We started Chapter 6: A New Nation, learning about the Articles of Confederation and we will be getting into the US Constitution and Bill of Rights this week.
Social Studies Grade 5: We will begin Unit #4 which is in the second social studies book. Unit #4 is on Latin America and we will be learning the sub regions this week and completing a map and looking at time zones.
Social Studies Grade 3: We are enjoying our time in South America!! We are going to be learning about the rainforest and government this week and should wrap up by the end of the week with our booklet on South America. Next destination is our final continent: Europe.
