Mrs. Stemm's 4th Grade ELA/SS

Week of November 27th - December 1st Important Dates Wednesday, December 6th: 2 hr delay Professional development Friday, December 8th: Movie Night - Flyers coming home on Monday, 11/27 Thursday, December 21st: Last day of classes for the second quarter Friday, December 22nd: Winter break begins ELA/Reading  This week, we will be finishing our book  Hatchet  by Gary Paulsen. As we have been reading, we have been completing a plot line of all of the major events of the book. So far we have covered the beginning and rising actions of the book, but this Tuesday, we will reach the climax of our book! Wednesday, we will complete the falling action as well as the resolution of our plot line. Below is a picture of what we have completed so far:)  Throughout our reading, we will be focusing on the following questions: What does a deeper exploration of Brian’s thoughts and actions in chapters 13 and 14 reveal in this text?  What is happening in cha...

Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours! I wish you all a safe and enjoyable long break celebrating this wonderful season:)    ELA/Reading  As we continue through Module 2, students will continue reading  Hatchet  by Gary Paulsen. In this novel, the main character, Brian, is flying from New York to Canada to visit his father when something goes terribly wrong. The pilot has a massive heart attack and Brian is left to fly the plane himself. He eventually runs out of fuel and lands the plane. Unable to get a hold of anyone prior to his crash landing, Brian is alive but needs to survive until he is able to find help.  We will be covering chapters 13-16 this week, focusing on the following questions:  What does a deeper exploration of Brian’s thoughts and actions in chapters 13 and 14 reveal in this text?  What is happening in chapters 15 and 16?  We will be using the 4 strategies we have learned to r...

ELA/Reading  As we continue through Module 2, students will continue reading Hatchet  by Gary Paulsen. In this novel, the main character, Brian, is flying from New York to Canada to visit his father when something goes terribly wrong. The pilot has a massive heart attack and Brian is left to fly the plane himself. He eventually runs out of fuel and lands the plane. Unable to get a hold of anyone prior to his crash landing, Brian is alive but needs to survive until he is able to find help.  Our focusing questions this week are as follows: What does a deeper exploration of Brian's thoughts and actions reveal about his ability to adapt and survive?  What do Brian's thoughts and actions reveal about Brian in chapters 6-11 of Hatchet ? What does a deeper exploration of Brian's thoughts and actions in chapters 8, 9, and 10 reveal about how Brian is learning and changing in the wilderness?  Social Studies  This week students will be presen...

ELA/Reading  As we continue through Module 2, students will be using their knowledge of how setting affects characters actions by understanding extreme settings. We will continue working with two new books titled  Mountains  and  SAS Survival Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere . Our overall goal this week is to understand what makes a mountainous environment extreme. We will need this knowledge so we can further understand what types of challenges Brian, our main character in Hatchet,  faces in the story. We will be starting Hatchet  on Thursday!  Our focusing questions this week are as follows: What does a deeper exploration of the main ideas and details reveal in Mountains?  What makes a mountainous environment extreme?  How does setting influence character and plot development?  Social Studies  This week we will be finishing our posters on the different Ancient Indian groups. Groups will...