April 29

Reading: Students read two chapters in My Side of the Mountain today.
Chapters: In Which I learn to Season My Food (pages 50 - 54)
and How a Door came to Me (pages 54 - 58) 

They were supposed to draw a visual as they were reading. (3 pictures for each chapter and a write a sentence explaining what his happening in their picture) Not all students finished it.

A few students have not finished their fantasy writing. So they should continue if they are not done.  We are starting a poetry writing unit at this point!  Stay tuned to some poetry by 4th grade!

Spelling: Unit 29 ~ First page
Days and months of the year remembering to capitalize each word.

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and the Word: calendar

 10 Word List: Months of the year

April 26

Circus Tomorrow!!!
We are going to the circus tomorrow and will be leaving the school at 1:30. If you are chaperoning please be here by 1:25, and you will also need $10 for a ticket!

The show starts at 3:00 and we will be back to school by 6:30!


Thank you all for chaperoning, and we are looking forward to a great time!

Fantasy writings are due tomorrow, April 27.  We worked hard this week making revisions and editing!! 

Spelling: Unit 28 ~ Spelling Quiz tomorrow

Reading: Independent Reading ~ Please bring any books you may have to conference on! We are working on reading goals so all your pages will go towards your reading goal! 

April 25

Writing: Students should be finishing fictional writings. The rough drafts were due the Friday before vacation, and this week we are working on editing and any revisions they may need.

Spelling: Unit 28 ~ Third page

Reading: Read for 1/2 hour and if they have finished reading up through chapter in My Side of the Mountain if they have finished.

Read for 1/2 hour from independent reading book working on reading goal!
Bring books on Friday to conference on!

April 23

Students were given dental clinic forms that the nurse would like to have back.  She said if you don't want your child to participate in the dental clinic just indicate that on the form. There is a special treat for the class that brings back the most forms.

Spelling: Unit 28 ~ first page
10 word list~ useful, peaceful, powerful, careful, thoughtful, thankless, helpless, restless, careless, and useless

Extra 10 words: joyful, restful, thankful, helpful, wasteful, cheerful, playful, hopeless, cloudless, powerless

Writing: Students need to finish fantasy story if they haven't yet. This week we are working on editing their writing and learning when to start a new paragraph.

Students need to edit for:
COPS
Capitalization ~ of proper nouns and the first letter of a sentence
 Punctuation ~ such as periods, commas
Organization ~ We are learning when to start a new paragraph - New time period or new setting
Spelling ~ use spell check and check for homophones

Reading: Read for 1/2 hour

April 22

Let's watch a video about the American Revolution
http://www.scholastic.com/beyondthebattlefield/


American Revolution Topics

http://revolution.mrdonn.org/battles.html

https://www.kidinfo.com/american_history/american_revolution.html

https://www.historyisfun.org/learn/learning-center/colonial-america-american-revolution-learning-resources/american-revolution-essays-timelines-images/

http://www.masshist.org/revolution/topics.php

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/revolutionarywartimeline.htm

Timeline of American Revolution
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/rev-prel.htm

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/revolutionarywartimeline.htm

April 12

Spelling: Unit 26 Study those words! Quiz tomorrow!

Reading: Students should have read up through chapter 8 in My Side of the Mountain. We had time to read in class today!

Bring your independent reading book and also bring books you have finished so you can conference over them!

April 11

Writing: Students should have a rough draft of their fictional writing by Friday. 

Reading: Read to meet your independent reading goal.  Don't forget to bring books to conference on for Friday.

Spelling: Study words and complete page 2 if you haven't finished yet.

April 10

Writing: We are working on a fantasy story in writing class. Students should have rough draft  by the end of the week. For tonight they should have at least 3 paragraphs.

Spelling: Unit 26 - Second page
Working on words with prefixes: un, re, and and pre 
Un means not, re means do again, and pre means before

I have listed the words on a previous post.

Reading: Students should have read up through chapter 6 in My Side of the Mountain 

puncuating dialogue

In case you forget how to punctuate check out this video!
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbnt&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbnt&hspart=adk&p=dialogue+practice+punctuation+video#id=2&vid=655b2e73fe682ca2ec2a23ff9a1c0e45&action=click



http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/punctuation.htm

April 9

Spelling: Unit 26
10 Word List
unlucky, review, preschool, unfair, prepay, untie, recover, preview, unhappy

20 Word List
unlucky, review, preschool, unfair, prepay, untie, recover, preview, unhappy,
rewrite, pretest, rebuild, uncover, recheck, unlock, preheat, unsafe, reread, unpack

Reading: Read for 1/2 hour;  Students are reading My Side of the Mountain and in class we read chapter 5 & 6.

Writing: Students are working on a fictional writing. We are shooting to have rough drafts completed by Friday.

Social Studies - West

Lolo Pass -

http://www.dangerousroads.org/north-america/usa/4660-lolo-pass.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolo_Pass_(Idaho%E2%80%93Montana)



Yellowstone National Park Video
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbnt&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbnt&hspart=adk&p=Old+faithful+%2B+geyser+%2B+video#id=107&vid=ab915cd1f41cd65c0bca1ade7ccdb68f&action=view

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbnt&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbnt&hspart=adk&p=video+of+Geyser+in+Yellow+Stone+National+Park#id=56&vid=7ad4267af6bbc819d6f775f2ae3e470b&action=view


Leadville, Colorado
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g33520-Activities-Leadville_Colorado.html

National Park Service
https://www.nps.gov/yell/index.htm

Louisiana Purchase

Video:
https://www.history.com/topics/louisiana-purchase

https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/louisiana-purchase

April 5

We are going on a field trip to the University of Maine in Machais for a Job Fair. It is a great opportunity for our students to talk to people who are in certain fields of work. They will get a chance to talk to reporters, game wardens, police officers, nurses, beauticians, surveyors, and many more!

Students need to bring a bag lunch and a drink!

Reading: Read for 1/2 from independent reading book

Writing: Students are starting a new writing. Most are on their first or second paragraph.

Writing:
Mr. Nickerson's class has had a little more time to work on their writings in class, so we are shooting for them to be due next Friday. Some are writing longer stories so they may need more time to finish.

 We have been reading fantasy stories in class in order to build some background knowledge and to help generate ideas for their writing. Most students can't wait to get to writing time!

April 4

Just a reminder: Students are going the University of Maine at Machias for a job fair! It is a great opportunity for our 4th graders. They will need a bag lunch!

Reading: Read for 1/2 hour
Students should have read up through chapter 3 in My Side of the Mountain.  They also have questions to go along with the chapters. 

Writing: We are working on our fictional story in writing class. We are aiming to finish them before April Vacation.  They we will share our writings with the lower grades like we did with the informational writings. 

Social Studies: We are in Chapter 12 in the TCI Social Studies books learning about the West!  We are off to a good start! First stop is Wyoming and we are going to Yellow Stone National Park! 

Creative Writing Prompts

https://www.alexbrands.com/get-kids-writing-20-writing-prompts-for-kids/

April 3

Spelling words: Unit 25 ~ goose, geese, woman, women, calf, calves, fish, mouse, mice, leaf, leaves, child, children, self, selves, ox, oxen,  elf, elves

10 word list: goose, geese, mouse, mice, leaf, leaves, self, selves, elf, elves

Spelling: Students need to finish the second page if they did not complete in class

Reading: Read for 1/2 hour ~ Independent 

Mr. Nickerson's class need to finish reading chapter 2 in My Side of the Mountain and finish comprehension questions if they didn't finish in class
Mrs. Sprague's class needs to finish reading chapter 3 in My Side of the Mountain and finish comprehension questions

April 2

I had a meeting after school so I am late getting homework and information on the blog. (Almost 5:00 sorry!)

On Friday, students will be going to the University of Maine at Machias. Every year Mrs. Stettler organizes this trip, and students get a chance to interview people about their career.

Students were given permission slips today. They will need to bring a bag lunch and a drink.

If a student is consistently being disruptive and off task in class, they may jeopardize the opportunity of going on the trip. 

Spelling: Unit 25 - We are working with words learning the singular and plural form.
I will post the words tomorrow.

Writing: Students have been learning about fictional writing. Students should have at least a paragraph at this point. They need to start off by describing the setting and protagonist or main character.