Enrichment Spelling/OK fact due date

Sorry I didn't get the enrichment words on the blog yesterday. The children did have access to them in the classroom yesterday though. Here they are:

binocular challenging flaunted brilliant kinsfolk languages indulge disinfectant justice hastiness genuine neighbor cafeteria appreciation embellish

I have extended the due date for the OK fact to Wednesday, October 3rd. Please don't forget. We will be copying them onto our actual book pages on Thursday. That afternoon, I will send home the book page with your child so that you can write the recipe on the bottom.

Can't wait to try all the recipes!!

Week of 9-24

This week in reading, the children will read The Cricket in Times Square and take a comprehension test over it. We will also work on the skill of making judgments while reading. The children checked out nonfiction books as well, and we will do a reading response activity with them. Nonfiction books are great for increasing vocabulary! In spelling we will cover long and short u's. We learned what idioms are today and did an activity with "Who let the cat out of the bag?" We will also talk more about idioms on Thursday, and do another activity with some common idioms. Ask your child what an idiom is. In math this week, we will work on telling time, time terminology, and elapsed time. In social studies today, we talked about the Native Americans being displaced and the Homestead Act. The children also made tipis. Also this week in social studies, we will talk in more detail about the land run, and Oklahoma's statehood.

The new long term project is an easy one. I know you are thinking yeah! We are going to publish a class book celebrating Oklahoma's centennial! I want each child to find one important piece of Oklahoma trivia or fact. This fact is due on Monday of next week. Parents or grandparents, you have homework too! Please submit one favorite recipe from your family to add to our Oklahoma book. What I am going to do is: Have each child write his/her fact on a book page and have his/her parent/grandparent write the recipe on the bottom of that same page. I will do a page and send a copy of it home this week to show you. The book will be entitled Fun Facts and Food from Oklahoma. It will also have your child's illustrations in the book. It should hopefully turn out to be pretty special. Our class will receive one book to share, but books will be available for purchase. I will send home more information on that later.

I will be gone tomorrow, September 25, to a workshop in Edmond. I will explain the book project to the kids on Wednesday. If you have any questions, let me know! Happy trivia and recipe hunting!

Long term reading project due!

Don't forget that the reading assignments that go with the fiction book are due on Monday! Look in earlier posts if you forgot what to do. We went over it a lot in class, I showed you examples, and I gave you the venn diagram and pyramid cutouts, so you should know what is expected.

Friday Center Time!

KIDS!

On our desks for Arizona Quiet Ball at the end of the day!! We took a picture break. There will be more pictures in the future!

Go Sooners!

Isn't this car cool!

Spelling Enrichment Words

cinnamon descent generous batteries judgment overwhelm
featured nominated immediate pentagon emotional languages
majority hesitantly average

These words are also displayed in the classroom every Wednesday morning through Friday for the kids to write down and practice.

Week of 9-17

Can you believe it's time for midterm grades this week?! Boy time flies!! Look for midterms to go out on Wednesday or Thursday. This week in reading, we will read Addie in Charge, and work on vocabulary, comprehension, character, and theme. Today in math, we worked on addition properties. Also this week we will study equations and input/output. Thursday will be a special math day! I need everybody to bring a bag of 20 pennies by that day. In social studies we will be making an Oklahoma biographical dictionary. It can be used as a study guide for our test on Oklahoma People. The test will be on Friday. The children also learned about the Trail of Tears today. We do English everyday through daily English as well as through journals. Specific concepts taught this week in English though, will be changing nouns ending in "y" to plural form and recognizing action verbs. The children will be tested on homophones this week in spelling. After we finish up our Oklahoma unit in 2 to 3 weeks, we will do a geology unit for science.

Don't forget to send 20 pennies in a bag by Thursday. Thanks!

**Remember** The long term reading project is due next Monday!

Long Term Rdg. Project/Spelling Enrichment

I explained to the children today the long term reading project. I gave them the paperwork and went over the directions for it. 1. Character comparison - compare yourself to a main character in your story. Tell 3 ways you are different and 3 ways you are like the main character. Fill in the venn diagram and then turn that information into 1 or 2 paragraphs on a separate sheet of paper. 2. Make a 3 sided pyramid that includes the following information from your book - (a) Setting - describe a scene in the story....tell about it and illustrate it (b) Characters - draw the main characters and write who they are (c) Conflict - describe a conflict that occured in the story and illustrate it. Remember, this project is due on September 24th. There will be some time to work on this in class, but not a lot.

The spelling enrichment words for this week are: 1. legislature
2. facade 3. kaleidoscope
4. technique 5. particular 6. identical 7. graduation 8. sediment
9. mathematical
10. quarrel 11. hilarious 12. naive 13. jealousness 14. opponent
15. recuperate

Good luck on both the project and the enrichment (if you choose to do the enrichment).

What's Up!

This week we will study the early people of Oklahoma and the many famous people that came later! We will web the different Indian groups and make a book of the Oklahoma People. In math we will practice subtracting across zeros, problem solve, and work on algebraic expressions. Our reading story for the week is Family Pictures. We will talk about author's purpose and fact and opinion. I also had the children check out a fictional chapter book. They will do 2 assignments after completing their book. This is our new long term project. The story and assignments need to be completed by September 24. I will give more information later in the week on the 2 assignments.

The children did a wonderful job on their Oklahoma dough maps. This week they will paint them and take them home. Their animal reports were terrific as well!

Animal Reports Due!

4th Grade is a big year for learning responsibility and accountability! Friday several children had to sit out of free centers because their reptile packet was not finished. The children had 2 weeks to complete the packet and some waited until the last minute to work on it and didn't get it done. They hopefully learned a lesson on responsibility. We will have more long term projects in the future to practice this important skill. Tomorrow, Monday, the animal reports are due. Several children have already turned their report in early! Good Job!! Hopefully, we will have everyone turn in their report on time. We went over what a report is and how to turn facts into sentences. I told the children that each topic needed to have 3 sentences covering it, except for the topic "How the animal protects itself". That topic could be one sentence. Many of the students found enough information from the book they checked out, but some kids found more information over the internet. Remember, mom, dad, or grandma can type the report, but please include the rough draft when turning it in.

Tomorrow, I will post an update of what is going on this week!

My email address

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Book Orders Due

Book orders are due Tuesday, September 11.

Week of September 4th

Hope you enjoyed your Labor Day weekend! The kids are doing great and working hard. This week in math we are finishing up the concept of rounding! The kids are "wowing" me with their understanding of it! Today we read a story called Yingtau's New Friend and took a comprehension test on it. We will also finish up our reports on an animal. I will give class time for this on Thursday, but if it is not finished in class, it will need to be done at home by Monday. Remember that it can be rewritten neatly or typed. In science, the children have been working on a reptile/amphibian work packet. These are due on Friday. This week begins our unit on Oklahoma! We started out today by finding Oklahoma on the globe using latitude and longitude as well as learning who Oklahoma shares its borders with. Tomorrow we will look at all the landforms in Oklahoma and then make a dough map carving out all those landforms. Don't forget to send 1 cup of flour mixed with 1/2 cup of salt in a ziplock bag to school tomorrow! This week begins enriched spelling. See the list of words at the bottom of this post. This is an optional activity in addition to regular spelling. I will give the words every Wednesday and the test every Friday. I count points for this spelling and reward every 10 points! Let me know if you have any questions about anything!

Enriched Spelling: 1. wreckage 2. distinction 3. commotion
4. alphabetical
5. breathing 6. umbrella 7. mythical 8. inconsistent 9. separately
10. quiver 11. longevity
12. exaggerated 13. heirloom 14. fuchsia 15. vengeance