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Mrs. Palisin’s Shining Stars

Email: mpalisin@horrycountyschools.net
melissa@stageforlearning.com

Coming Attractions
Sept. 14 Open House at 5:30-6:30

Sept. 28 Interims Distributed

Reading: Poetry
We will be reviewing features of nonfiction text
We will continue to use the genre of poetry to Sept. 29 School Beautification Day
distinguish among devices of figurative language
(including simile, metaphor, personification and
hyperbole) and sound devices (including onomatopoeia
and alliteration).
Teacher’s
Writing: Personal Narratives Corner
Over the next six weeks students will be writing about
personal experiences. We will also focus on writing
complete sentences and begin to review the process of
paragraph writing. Open House Is September 14th and I hope that
you take the time to come and learn about what
Math: Numbers and Operations
your child’s 4th grade year will look like. I will
We will be reviewing strategies to help us problem be going over curriculum and other pertinent
solve as well as reviewing skills related to place value events that will lead to a successful year for
and data and analysis. your child. So, please make it a point to visit
our classroom from 5:30-6:30 that day.
SS: Land Bridge Theory and Native Americans
I will begin testing for multiplication fluency
We will be discussing the land bridge theory that states
that the Native Americans migrated from Asia to North this coming week. I will be taking their 3
America across a land bridge during the ice age. highest scores into my grade book. Please
make sure that you are studying math facts
We will also learn about the everyday lives of Native with your child nightly, even if it isn’t a choice
Americans and how the regions in which they lived
determined how they interacted with the physical
from our homework menu. Fluency in this area
environment. should have been reached by the end of their
3rd grade year. This means that we are behind
We will learn that N. Americans had cultural practices the game in this area. Let’s work together to
and a method for governing themselves. bridge the gap.

Lights, Camera, Action!

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