Fourth Grade Parent Newsletter #18

This week we are reading Navajo Code Talkers by Margaret Slattery. We will
focus on some vocabulary words in this story. It would be helpful if you will reinforce
the meaning of these words at home with your child. Also, on this newsletter you will
find our spelling words for the week. Please practice these words at home as well. The
words in italics are our challenge spelling words. Lets have a great week!
Spelling Words: nation, special, lotion, mansion, precious, creation, vacation,
tension, especially, motion, tradition, gracious, extension, addition, caution,
official, solution, suspension, politician, portion, comprehension, physician,
artificial, contraction, competition

Vocabulary Word

Meaning

advance
developed
exhausting
headquarters

Ahead of time or to move forward

Brought into being
Very tiring
Place from which the chief or commanding officer of an army
or police for sends out orders
Not possible
Very much; very great; very strong; extreme
Words or ideas sent from one person to another

impossible
intense
messages
Reveal

Make known

Pronouns and Antecedents

A pronoun is a word that can replace nouns.
The antecedent is the noun or nouns to which the pronoun refers.
For example: The soldier said he was hungry.
He is the pronoun and soldier is the antecedent.
Pronouns may be singular or plural.
If the antecedent is plural, then the pronoun that refers to it is plural.
For example: The politicians say they are grateful.
Politicians is plural, so the pronoun that refers to them must also be
plural (they).