Mrs. Cowan's 4th Grade News

Monday, November 9, 2009

Happy Monday!

Many students were not respectful today, and they had to move their cards. This is why students have so much homework tonight.
I challenge students tomorrow to come to school ready and prepared for class especially with all their homework completed.
Sorry, there is no newsletter for the week, because I had a meeting at lunch.
I sent home graded papers today. Please take a look at your student's work. Also, do not forget that there is No School on Wed. Nov 11...
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Re-read Emerald's Egg pg 265-271 (No Questions) with someone
Math-Ls 42 pg 140 (student choice on even or odds)
Science- Questions pg B15 and B19

Focus Skill

Fact and Opinion

A Fact is a statement that can be proved.
An Opinion is a statement of feeling or belief tha cannnot be proved.

Tip:
Some words tha signal an opinion are should, must, best, worst, I think, and I believe

Draw Conclusions

Readers use information from the story along with what they know from real life.

Drawing conclusion helps readers understand what happens in a story, and why.

Tip: As you read, ask yourself, What has the author told me?
What do I need to figure out for myself? What do I know about people to help me understand each of the character's actions.

Grammar

Subject and Object Pronouns
Subject pronouns take place of one or more nouns in the subject of a sentence.
EX: singular- I, you, he, she , it / Plural- we, you, they
Object pronouns must be used after the action verb or after the preposition
EX:singular-me, you, him, her, it/ Plural- us, you , them

Possessive Pronouns
A word that take place of a possessive noun.

Pronouns
- a word that takes the palce of one or more nouns.

An antecedent is the noun or nouns to which the pronoun refers.

Possessive Nouns
Singular possessive-
>add 's
ex. boat-boat's
Plural possessive-
>No s add 's
bex. oys- boys'
>ends with an s , form possesive by s'
ex. geese- geeses's

Singular and Plural Nouns

Common and Proper Nouns

Dependent and Independent Clauses
Independent clauses can stand alone with both a subject and verb.
Dependent clause can not stand on it's own. It does not express a complete thought.
Ex: although, becasue, that, when, which

Prepositional Phrases
Shows how a noun or pronoun is related to another word int eh sentence.
Ex: by, to, from, in for, at after, over, under, with, on, across, and through

Object of a preposition
It is the noun or pronoun that follows the prepositon.

Prepositional Phrase
It is made up a preposition, teh object of the presposition, and any any other words in between

Simple and Compound Sentence
A simple sentence is a group of words that describes one thought.
A compound sentence is two or more simple sentences connected by a comma and a conjunction
and, or, but, or for
Ex: We can go to the mall, or we can go to the movies.

Mrs. Cowan's 4th Grade News

Monday, November 9, 2009

Vocabulary Words

Focus Skill

Spelling

Grammar