4th Grade Spanish Immersion with Maestra Damsteegt

What We Learned this Week: Bible:  This week, we studied David's sins. We learned the importance of truly repenting and turning to God for His help in our most vulnerable moments.  On Friday, January 10, the students will be taking the chapter 8 test. I am providing the links to the English study guide so the parents can support their students and the Spanish study guide for the students. The students will get their hard copy on January 6. In addition, I am providing some links to Blooket games that the students can play. The links should be good from now through January 10. Tower Defense 2 Monster Brawl Tower of Doom Tower Defense Factory Crazy Kingdom Cafe Math:  We have just finished up our division unit! We will be finishing up the testing of this unit after the break. Reading:  We are taking some time to identify main ideas and supporting details of texts.  Spelling:  Here is the link to the spelling list for the week of January 6 to 10! The spellin...

What We Have Learned this Week: Bible:  This week, we learned about King David's dream to build God a temple. God ultimately told David no, but informed David that He would establish His throne through David. In this Christmas season, we see how God's promise has to to fruition. Jesus, David's descendant, was sent to the earth, ministered to us, and took up a sinner's death. He reigns forever and shall return. Hallelujah! Math:  This week, we worked on long division problems that have "0's" in the quotients. We won't let that trick us! We have also been working on using rounding and estimation to check the reasonableness of our quotients.  Reading:  We have started our brand-new nonfiction unit. The students can now read Spanish nonfiction books at home to count towards their Reading Log Homework if they would like to. We have been working on identifying nonfiction elements in our texts and using them to help us predict what the sections and entire tex...

What We Have Learned this Week: Bible:  We have studied how David become King of Israel in addition to the movement of the ark of the covenant to the City of David- Jerusalem. This was one of his first acts as king.  Math:  The students have been practicing the three different methods to do long division. We are becoming quite good at this! Reading:  We talked about how strong characters in our chapter books have to face a great difficulty and overcome it. Next week, we will be starting a brand-new unit on non-fiction. If students would like, they can read Spanish non-fiction books at home to count towards their reading log homework.  Spelling:   Here is next week's spelling list! From the Spanish Department: Spanish Immersion Christmas Program Details: Tuesday, Dec. 10th 6:30-7:30pm Please arrive at  6:10pm through door D  of Holland Christian High school. The entrance to this door is BEHIND the high school, entering off of 40th s...