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Miss C. Schenk

4th Grade

February 09, 2012

Dear Parents,

This week we finished our novel Number the Stars. I hope your child enjoyed it as much as I did. We will be taking a break from novels for about a month. During this time, we will be reading out of our anthology book. Our next novel will be Island of the Blue Dolphins.

Next Tuesday is Valentine’s Day! Please remember that if students bring valentines, they should bring them for each member of the class. Here is a list of names: Cesar, Michael, Bella, Yaireth, Mik, Cory, Katie, Corey, Dean, Raul, Jessa, Denver, Brian, Natalie, Rebecca, Priscilla, Emily, and Ivana. Thank you for signing up to bring ingredients for our ice cream sundaes.

Our Sacramento trip is coming up in a few weeks. Those of you going on the trip will receive a packet of information about it in next week’s Friday folder. If your child is not going, please let me know if they will be in school those days, March 1st and 2nd. I will find another class for them to be with if they are here.

The spelling list for next week is list 20. The test is on Thursday as usual.

We will have a language quiz on Monday. It will cover the subjective, objective, and possessive forms of nouns. There is a chart on p. 159 of the language book. Students will need to be able to fill in blanks on a chart just like that. They will also need to pick the correct pronoun to fill in a sentence. We had a surprise language quiz Wednesday, and the class did great! We had all A’s and B’s with 10 A+ scores! Way to go! The next language test is next Thursday the 16th. It will cover plural vs. singular pronouns, the spelling of possessive pronouns (there is NEVER an apostrophe), the pronoun chart on p. 159, using pronouns correctly in a sentence, and plural nouns.

Tuesday is our history test on chapter 6. Students should know the following: what happened to most Native Americans after the missions closed, the name for the land Mexico gave away, the nationality of most vaqueros, the main export from California, and the definition of Manifest Destiny. You should also know the following people: John C. Fremont, Jose Figueroa, Miguel Hidalgo, Jedediah Strong Smith, and Bernarda Ruiz. There will also be a section on reading a time line. The two short answer questions are: 1) What country threatened the rancheros, and why was Vallejo worried? 2) Explain why the U.S. went to war with Mexico, how the Mexican War affected California, and why the Californios lost to the U.S.

Don’t forget that the coffee can report is due on Wednesday, February 22nd!

Keep working on our memory verse, 1 Samuel 15:22. It will be on the next unit test on Thursday, February 23rd.

Remember that Monday, February 20th is a holiday.

God bless,

Miss Schenk