Fourth Grade Parent Newsletter Sailing Home

This week we are reading Smokejumpers-Life Fighting Fires.

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: reaction, prerecorded, incorrectly, incredibly,
disobedient, disagreeable, refreshment, unbreakable,
declaration, retirement, misdialed, undefined, unhappily,
watchfully, gleefully, sportsmanship, repayment, questionable,
displacement, midshipman, multicultural, universally,
understatement, outlandish, inflammable

Vocabulary Word
concentrating
dedication
essential
method
parachute
steer
underbrush
wind

Meaning
paying close attention
the act of giving time and energy to something
necessary
a way of doing something
umbrella-shaped device made of fabric; it allows
people to fall slowly from an airplane
to guide
bushes and small trees growing under large trees
air that moves

Adjectives and Articles

Adjectives are words that describe persons, places, or things.
For example: smoky; charred; damaged.
Proper adjectives are adjectives made from proper nouns. They are
always capitalized.
For example: American, Mexican, English.

Articles: a, and and the. Articles come before nouns, and

sometimes before adjectives.