Mrs. Soons 4th Grade: Term 2 is Underway!

Hello Everyone,
Welcome back! I hope you had wonderful time on fall break whether you had a vacation or stay-cation! Your children shared their favorite moments from their breaks. Some highlights included: The Statue of Liberty, the beach, visiting with grandparents, cousins and friends, hiking the National Parks, exploring the National Mall in DC, visiting Nashville and sleeping in!
We kicked off our Term 2 Unit of Inquiry on Friday before break. Our UOI Central Idea this term is: Exploration leads to discovery and develops new understandings.Your child will be learning about early explorers in Social Studies, and Space (attributes of planets and stars) in Science this term. We will also begin working on multiplication, area, perimeter and solving multi-step word problems using multiplication and division. We will explore non-fiction reading and writing skills and complete a research paper on a country of choice in writing.
We will begin our 2-week long word study homework and activities this week. I will be sharing the work with your children tomorrow and we will practice sorting the words as well as working on Spelling City activities. This work will be due October 6th and your child will have a spelling test that day as well. The word study lists are tailored to your child's needs and were created based on his/her spelling inventory assessment.