October 10
No School –Professional Development Day
October 20-21
DSTP Science
October 22-23
DSTP Social Studies
October 29
Ice Cream Wednesday
October 31
Fall Festival – Classroom Celebration
HOMEWORK
Reading Logs are due on Thursday! Students should be reading at least 15 min. every day.
Monday – Vowel Sound review
Page 28 and 29
Tuesday – Making Inferences
Page 45 and 46
Wednesday- Grammar Skills
Page 48 and 49
Thursday- Agenda books need to be checked by Monday. Parents should initial the week on the calendar page.
Friday- NO SCHOOL
ASSESSMENTS
There will be no reading or spelling test this week due to the short week. However, we will still be reading a selection story and working on comprehension skills.
L.A. NEWS
This week we will be reading the story “Daedalus and Icarus.” This is a Greek myth about an inventor, Dasdalus, who fashions wings of feathers and wax so that he and his son, Icarus, can escape King Minos’ tower.
Home Connection, SRA Open Court Reading
Vocabulary Words:
Comfortable – providing physical ease and well-being
Overlapping – lying in top of something and partly
extending over it.
Plunged – suddenly fell
Hurtled- moved rapidly and with great force
SOCIAL STUDIES
Tests have gone home this week. Please ask your child for their test. This week we will begin our unit on Delaware.
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September 29 – October 3, 2008
ANNOUNCEMENTS
October 3
Any Pants Day ($1)
October 6
First Trimester Reports go home.
October 10
No School –Professional Development Day
October 20-21
DSTP Science
October 22-23
DSTP Social Studies
HOMEWORK
Reading Logs are due on Friday! Students should be reading 15 min. every day.
Monday – Spelling Page 24 and 25
Tuesday – Drawing Conclusions
Page 40 and 41
Wednesday- Context Clues Page 43
Kinds of Sentence Page 44
Social Studies Test Tomorrow
Thursday- Spelling and Reading Test
Friday- Agenda books need to be checked by Monday. Parents should initial the week on the calendar page.
ASSESSMENTS
Thursday - Social Studies Test
Friday – Spelling Test
Reading Test
L.A. NEWS
This week we will be reading the story “Two Tickets to Freedom”. This is the true story of two slaves who defied punishment, and even risked death, to escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Home Connection, SRA Open Court Reading
Vocabulary Words:
Fugitives- people who run away
Sympathetic – feeling understanding for
ones hurt or sadness
Asserted- said firmly
Abolitionist – a person who wants to end slavery
Indignantly – with anger
SPELLING WORDS
The Long O and U Sound
value lose cue
bruise proof smooth
suit truce boost
true rescue crew
fruit juice issue
whose flute view
continued include
SOCIAL STUDIES
This Thursday we will be having a unit test on Map Skills. The studnets were given a review sheet today (Monday). Please see the review sheet for a list of concepts that will be assessed on the test.
HOMEWORK
Reading Logs are due on Friday! Students should be reading 15 min. every day.
Monday – Spelling -Page 20 and 21
Tuesday- Main Idea -Page 32
Using a Thesaurus -Page 35
Wednesday- What Is a Sentence – Page 36
Effective Beginnings and Endings Page 38
Thursday- Spelling and Reading Test
Friday- Agenda books need to be checked by Monday. Parents should initial the week on the calendar page.
ASSESSMENTS
Friday – Spelling Test
Reading Test
L.A. NEWS
This week we will be working with the story Mae Jemison: Space Scientist. On September 12, 1992, Mae Jamison became the first African- American woman in space. Mae’s parents encouraged her ambitions as a child, but she had to remain focused on her goals and work very hard to accomplish them.
Home Connection,
SRA Open Court Reading
Vocabulary Words:
Astronaut – a person who travels in space
Excelled- did better than others
Specialized – concentrated on one activity or subject
Simulates- imitates
Techniques- ways of handling something
SPELLING WORDS
Long I Sound
Dynamite flight knight
Pirate tighten type
Style rhyme spite
Supply pilot mile
Midnight icicle skylight
Decide science overnight
Might wired
SOCIAL STUDIES
This week we will be completing our study on map skills. A review sheet for the map skills test should be coming home later this week. Please ask your child for the sheet and begin studying with them for the test, which will be next week.
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September 15- 19, 2008
HOMEWORK
Reading Logs are due on Friday! Students should be reading 15 min. every day.
Monday – Spelling Page
Tuesday- Verbs Page 28
Wednesday- Thesis Sentence Page 29
Order of Paragraphs Page 31
Thursday- Spelling and Reading Test
Picture Day Tomorrow
Friday- Agenda books need to be checked by Monday. Parents should initial the week on the calendar page.
L.A. NEWS
This week we will be reading the story Escape. Escape is a story about a pig named Wilbur who escapes from his pen, only to find that the resulting commotion is more than he bargained for.
Home Connection,
SRA Open Court Reading
Vocabulary Words:
Racket- noise indicating confusion
Commotion – noisy disturbance
Captivity- being held and confined
Appetizing – arousing the desire for food
Reconsider – to think about again
AN AUTHOR IS COMING!
On Tuesday, October 7th at 7 PM the Borders in Newark will be hosting a book signing for Laura Numeroff’s new book, If You Give A Cat A Cupcake. This is a great opportunity for your student to meet a real published author!
September 8-12, 2008
The incorrect homework cover was sent home on Monday. Please ask your student for the updated cover.
OPEN HOUSE
Please come and learn about your child’s school year. You will be traveling through your child’s daily schedule. Homeroom begins at 6:00 on Wednesday evening! I hope to see you there! A letter from your child will be waiting for you!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
September 8 – 12
Book Fair
September 10
Back to School Night/ Open House
September 19
Picture Day
September 24
Ice Cream Wednesday
HOMEWORK
Monday – Spelling page 12 &13
Tuesday- Pronouns page 20
Book Fair Tomorrow
Wednesday- Writing page 22 and 23
Social Studies Test Tomorrow
Open House Tonight!
Thursday- Spelling and Reading Test
Friday- Agenda books need to be checked by Monday. Parents should initial the week on the calendar page.
ASSESSMENTS
Thursday – Social Studies Test – Students
should study their review sheet.
Friday – Spelling Test
Reading Test
L.A. NEWS
This week we will be working with the story Sarah Plain and Tall. Sarah Plain and Tall is set during the frontier days in the United Sates, when the western region of the country was only sparsely populated. The story is about a lonely frontier father whose wife dies several years before the story begins. Now he would like to fine a new wife and mother for his children. The family must take risks in giving up past memories to make room for new ones, and Sarah must risk leaving a home she loves to try and make a new life.
Home Connection,
SRA Open Court Reading
Vocabulary Words:
Feisty – full of energy
Energetic – having energy or spirited
Mild mannered – gentle in nature
Pesky – annoying
Troublesome – causing problems or difficulties
SPELLING WORDS
Long E Sound
steel shield
shriek seaweed thief
wreath donkey measles
hockey scream trolley
least niece yield
prairie eager seals
married sneak fleet
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September 2-5, 2008
ANNOUNCEMENTS
September 2 – 5
NWEA Testing
September 5
Any Pants Day (Bring $1)
September 8 – 12
Book Fair
September 10
Back to School Night/ Open House
September 19
Picture Day
September 24
Ice Cream Wednesday
HOMEWORK
Homework packets are due on Friday! This schedule is to help your fourth grader plan their homework schedule. This is only a suggestion of when assignments can be completed.
Tuesday- Spelling page 8 and 9
Wednesday- Compare and Contrast
Page 8 and 9
Thursday- Grammar Page 12
Study for the spelling test. No Reading test this week due to the short week.
Friday- Agenda books need to be checked by Monday. Parents should initial the week on the calendar page.
ASSESSMENTS
Friday – Spelling Test
No Reading test due to the short week.
L.A. NEWS
This week we will be working with the story Toto. Toto is the story of a young boy who is afraid to grow up and a young elephant that longs to explore forbidden territory. The boy and the elephant are brought together by chance but they help each other learn valuable lessons about themselves and the world around them.
Home Connection,
SRA Open Court Reading
Vocabulary Words:
Enviously – with jealousy
Mock – fake
Snare – a trap
Cunning - tricky
SPELLING WORDS
The Long A Sound
Neighbor Male Calm
Weigh State Sailed
Eighth Grain Brave
Crayon Tail Plains
Sway Bacon Stray
Area Erase Chamber
Female Midday
SOCIAL STUDIES
This week we will continue our unit on Map Skills. We will be learning the cardinal and intermediate directions, as well as using and applying map skills. There will be a test next week on the continents and oceans.
ASSESSMENTS
Friday
Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary and Spelling Test
L.A. NEWS
This week begins our reading unit titled, Risks and Consequences. Our first story is called, Mrs. Frisby and the Crow. This selection is a fantasy in which a small mouse risks her life in order to save a crow that is entangled in shiny silver string.
Vocabulary Words:
Prospect – something that could happen
Fierce – wild or threatening in appearance
Ineffectively – uselessly
Alarmingly – filled with a sense of danger
Treacherous – not safe because of hidden
Dangers
* Vocabulary words will be extra credit on the weekly spelling test for students who would like an extra challenge.
NOTES
If you have not filled out the following forms, please fill them out and sent them in as soon as possible.
• Blue Nurses Form
• Contact Sheet (In the purple folder of the fourth grade informational packet).
• Parent Volunteer Sheet
Thank you!
Welcome to our class! I can't wait to see you on the first day of school! Enjoy the last few days of summer and I will see you on Wednesday! We are going to have such a wonderful year. I can't wait!!!
See you soon,
Ms. Young
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