Wednesday, September 26

Reading:  Read for 1/ 2 hour

Math: Math worksheet on writing the word form of numbers.

Spelling: Third page of Unit 3

Writing: Keep adding to writer's notebook about the first time you have done something! We generated a great list in class today! 

September 26

Spelling: Unit 3 ~ 2nd page if you haven't finished ~ Long a sound (a, ai, ay)

Reading: Read for 1/2 hour

Math: Work on at least 2 pages that are not complete through lessons 1.4~ If you are stuck on a problem wait to see me tomorrow or go to the interactive student edition or math trainer in GoMath.

Math

Place Value and the value of a digit
https://www.onlinemathlearning.com/place-value-chart.html

Math by Standards + games
https://www.mathgames.com/standards/

1.5 Reteach Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcdKl5gYrmg

September 24

Exciting News!!  Students were given free passes to enter our National Parks. This pass is good for the student, as well as their family, and may be used until the end of August 2019.

Students are also going to be researching a National Park of their choice, and they are excited to get started.

Reading: Finish extended response you started in class. How has Jack's feelings towards poetry changed?  Make sure to have two examples of evidence for the beginning and two examples of evidence for later on in the process of reading and writing.

Read for 1/2 hour

Spelling: Unit 3 ~ First page (Many students have finished)

September 20

We will be having reading NWEA's tomorrow morning.


Social Studies: Study for quiz. Students have made multiple maps with these features on them, and should have one of them in their take home folder. (Landforms and water bodies in the United States.)

Reading: read for 1/2 hour

Writing: Some students need to add more to their writer's notebook. Listing people in their lives and small moment stories underneath their name. (small moment story- just a sentence telling what the event was.) They should have at least 4 people.

Spelling: Quiz tomorrow on Unit 2 spelling words!  

September 19

We will be taking reading NWEA's on Friday!  Get a good night sleep on Thursday!
Read: Read for 1/2 hour 

Spelling: Study words
Writing: Add to animal poem you are writing ~ Think about the poem we read by Valerie Worth and Jack's poem about his dog
By Valerie Worth
       Dog
Under a maple tree
The dog lies down,
Lolls his limp
Tongue, yawns, 
Rests his long chin
Carefully between
Front paws, 
Looks up, alert; 
Chops, with heavy 
Jaws, at a slow fly, 
Blinks, rolls 
On his side, 
Sighs, closes 
His eyes: sleeps
All afternoon
In his loose skin.

Social Studies: Study important landforms and bodies of water of the United States. (landforms we have studying are Appalachian Mountains, Rocky Mountains, Central Plains, Bodies of water include the great lakes: Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, and Lake Heron, Atlantic & Pacific Oceans, and the Gulf of Mexico.   (The Mississippi River, Missouri River, & Rio Grand River)

  

September 18

Writing: Students need to add to their writer's notebook. Many students have completed this in class, but if they need more time then can work on it for homework.  They are listing people that are important to them, and underneath that person they are to list 3 to 5 short moment stories. This is a sentence explaining what could possibly lead to a story they want to write about. They don't have to write the story!!!!


Spelling: Unit 2 ~ Second page

Reading: Read for 1/2 hour

September 17

In science students worked in groups to make bridges! They were engineers at work! The objective was to be working collaboratively by building off of anther student's ideas.  The new science program is all about teamwork and discussing what they notice and analyzing the outcome of an investigation.

Reading: Read for 1/2 hour

Spelling: We started a new unit today- words with long vowel sounds with a vowel - consonant vowel ~ a-consonant -e
~ i -consonant -e
~ a-consonant -e
~ u-consonant -e
Students could begin studying the words.
wise, huge, case, alone, rise, cube, fame, beside, blame, chose, tire, became, awhile, spoke, wife, drove, surprise, scale, alive, invite

September 13

Spelling:
Study Unit 1 words

Reading: Read for 1/2 hour (independent reading book or poetry book)
Be ready with an independent reading book for tomorrow!

Writing: Add to your poem in your poetry notebook

September 12

I am so proud of our 4th graders! They have been showing so many acts of kindness! 

Homework:
Spelling:
Students are working on Unit 1 in spelling. Spelling words are: crust, pass, else, skill, brag, zipper, began, collar, drag, smell, brick, felt, spill, button, held, trust, kept, trick, shell, begin

Reading: Read for 1/2 hour from independent reading book or poetry book

Writing: If there is a computer at home, check to see if you can log into your google account

Social Studies: Check out  the interactive links on the blog that are about the geographical features of the United States! Let's see if we can ace the game!

September 11

There was a teachers' meeting after school so I didn't get homework on the blog after school.

Reading: Read for 1/2 hour

Spelling: Study words


Links to landforms and major bodies of water in the United States ~

https://www.learner.org/interactives/historymap/sea-game/

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/USA_Geography/USA-georegion.html

September 10

A lot of students are really showing acts of kindness! Keep up the great effort and making our class and school shine! Grade 4 rocks!!

Reading: Read for 1/2 hour from independent reading book

Math: math worksheet 1.3 comparing numbers

Thursday, September 6

Math:  Worksheet Model Place Value Relationships 1-21 (only front page)

Wednesday, September 5

Homework:
Math - Reteach 1 - 23 Place Value practice

Reading: Read from your poetry book for 1/2 hour

Let's Look at the relationship between digits using the place value chart

https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/7426-understand-relationships-between-digits-and-their-place-value/

Where to put commas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S0XCrzXvgw