Dear Families,

It has been a great first week in fourth grade!

       This week we have started our insect unit.  We have learned about insects and went out to the OLC to catch some. Then we took notes, sketched, and observed them. The read aloud book is also about insects. It’s called Project Mulberry. 

Every week we do a mentor sentence. A mentor sentence a descriptive sentence that we study the whole week. On Mondays we notice all the exciting words like vivid verbs and figurative la...