Fourth Grade Parent Newsletter #3

This week we are reading On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura

Ingalls Wilder. It would be helpful if you will reinforce the meaning of the
vocabulary words at home with your child. Also, on this newsletter you
will find our spelling words for the week. Your child should have brought
spelling homework home on Friday. Please make sure your child is
practicing these words at home each day. The words in italics are our
challenge spelling words. We are also working on compete subjects and
compete predicates. They are listed below the vocabulary. Lets have a
great week!

Spelling Words: sweet, each, three, least, freedom, below,

throat, float, foam, flown, greet, season, croak, shallow, eagle, indeed,
rainbow, grown, seaweed, hollow, Halloween, speedometer,
underneath, seacoast, cocoa

Vocabulary
Word

Meaning

ruffled
badger
bristled
patched

frilled
weasel-like animal
stood up
mended with pieces of
cloth
land alongside a river or
lake
water pants
made of parts that attach

bank
rushes
jointed

Parts of Sentences:
Every sentence has a subject and a predicate.
The subject is the part of the sentence that tells whom or what the
sentence is about. All the words in the subject are called the complete
subject.
Complete subject: The dry earth slid under Lauras feet.

The predicate is the part of the sentence that tells what the subject is or
does.
All the words in the predicate are called the complete predicate.
Complete predicate: The dry earth slid under Lauras feet.