You can start checking Active Parent for your child's grades.  It does take me a few days to post grades, so be patient with me.  If you haven't signed up for Active Parent, check in at the office and they will let you know what you need to do.

These lesson plans are a guide to what we do in class. Please check and sign your child's agenda every day for more accurate information.  Sometimes we don't get to do exactly what is planned.  If that happens, we usually catch up the next day.  We do a lot of classwork so that the students do not have homework.  If you child misses, they will have makeup work to do the next day during school.

Academic Vocabulary for Language Arts (This is not for the reading test):

1. exaggeration

2.  footnotes

READING : 1e (context clues) DOK 2;  2a1 (line graph) DOK 2 ;  2c (summarize) DOK 2;  2e1 (fact and opinion) DOK 2

Story of the week-  "A Place Called Freedom"

Spelling words;  freed, hugged, emptied, figured, budding, carried, believed, dimmed studied, providing, shedding, sledding, magnified, wedged, roting, varied, arrived, plugging, rising, celebrated

Vocabulary words: 

1.  plantation- a large estate or farm worked by laborers who live there

2.  settlement- a small village or group of houses

3.  fretted- suffered emotional distress

4.  gourd- a rounded fruit related to the pumpkin or squash

5.  sunrise- the rising of the sun

6.  weary- very tired

Monday -Agenda check/Writing Bug check/ The students will receive a grade for their agenda and writing bug each nine weeks.  Please make sure you child is writing in their agenda and you are signing it every day. 

TTW introduce the story to the students by getting them to predict what the story will be about by looking at the pictures and the title.  TTW get the students to relate the story to real life.  TTW introduce the reading objective/skills they will be learning for the week.  TTW review the skills while the students "popcorn" read the story aloud. TTW check for comprehension during and after the story.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday- Centers (group work) 

Center 1: vocabulary definitions

Center 2: Spelling workbook pp.  83-87

Center 3: Reading practice pp.  96-102

Center 4: Write spelling words 3 times each

Center 5: Read aloud; re-read the story in your group/ read books from the green, red or blue crates that go with our story

Center 6: Find the vocabulary words in the story and write a new sentence with each one

Center 7: Spelling bee at each table

Center 8: Create a 10 question test at each table

Center 9:  Educationcity.com or SpellingCity.com Language Arts games only

****Parents, these workbook pages are graded on Fridays. The students must have them completed or they will have to sit at recess to finish them. They have Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to work on them. They are allowed to take the workbooks home if necessary. It is very important that they have the workbooks at school everyday at school.

Thursday- Also on Thursday, the students will take a trial spelling test (written). They will have to write any missed words 10 times each and take a second test on Friday.

****Excel students in Mrs. Ashby's room will take the Reading test on Thursday.

Friday- Reading test/ Spelling test if needed

English:  Review

Technology- TTW use Promethean Board for  review.

Monday- Review Unit 1-3 Test tomorrow; 1st draft "What I Want for Christmas"

Tuesday -Test Unit 1-3; Revise

Wednesday -Proofread /Edit

Thursday- Final Draft 

Friday- Final Draft

You can start checking Active Parent for your child's grades.  It does take me a few days to post grades, so be patient with me.  If you haven't signed up for Active Parent, check in at the office and they will let you know what you need to do.

These lesson plans are a guide to what we do in class. Please check and sign your child's agenda every day for more accurate information.  Sometimes we don't get to do exactly what is planned.  If that happens, we usually catch up the next day.  We do a lot of classwork so that the students do not have homework.  If you child misses, they will have makeup work to do the next day during school.

Academic Vocabulary for Language Arts (This is not for the reading test):

1. endorsement

2.  appositive

READING : 2c (summarize) DOK 2

Story of the week-  "Twisted Trails"

Spelling words:designs, artist, building, activity, museum, art, create, master, poster, statue, assemble, craft, express, arrange, professional, mold, easel, plaster, masterpiece, exhibit

Vocabulary words: 

1.  challenge- something calling for effort and the use of one's talents

2.  entertaining- interesting; amusing

3.  mazes- confusing series of pathways or passageways

4.  combine- to join

5.  requires- has need of

6.  contained- included as a part of

Monday -Agenda check/Writing Bug check/ The students will receive a grade for their agenda and writing bug each nine weeks.  Please make sure you child is writing in their agenda and you are signing it every day. 

TTW introduce the story to the students by getting them to predict what the story will be about by looking at the pictures and the title.  TTW get the students to relate the story to real life.  TTW introduce the reading objective/skills they will be learning for the week.  TTW review the skills while the students "popcorn" read the story aloud. TTW check for comprehension during and after the story.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday- Centers (group work) 

Center 1: vocabulary definitions

Center 2: Spelling workbook pp.  89-93

Center 3: Reading practice pp.  103-109

Center 4: Write spelling words 3 times each

Center 5: Read aloud; re-read the story in your group/ read books from the green, red or blue crates that go with our story

Center 6: Find the vocabulary words in the story and write a new sentence with each one

Center 7: Spelling bee at each table

Center 8: Create a 10 question test at each table

Center 9:  Educationcity.com or SpellingCity.com Language Arts games only

****Parents, these workbook pages are graded on Fridays. The students must have them completed or they will have to sit at recess to finish them. They have Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to work on them. They are allowed to take the workbooks home if necessary. It is very important that they have the workbooks at school everyday at school.

Thursday- Also on Thursday, the students will take a trial spelling test (written). They will have to write any missed words 10 times each and take a second test on Friday.

****Excel students in Mrs. Ashby's room will take the Reading test on Thursday.

Friday- Reading test/ Spelling test if needed

English:  4a5 (articles) DOK 1;  4a6 (adjectives ) DOK 1  ; 4b8 (capitalization) DOK 1;  4c4 (analyze sentences) DOK 2;  4c5 (compose sentences with adjectives ) DOK 3

Technology- TTW use Promethean Board for  review.

Monday- Unit 4 Adjectives pp 262-263; Articles pp 264-265 

Tuesday -Adjective after linking verbs pp 266-267; Proper Adjective pp 268-269

Wednesday- Mixed Review pp 270-271

Thursday- Adjectives that compare pp 272-273; Spelling pp 274-275

Friday- Comparing with more and most pp 276-277 

You can start checking Active Parent for your child's grades.  It does take me a few days to post grades, so be patient with me.  If you haven't signed up for Active Parent, check in at the office and they will let you know what you need to do.

These lesson plans are a guide to what we do in class. Please check and sign your child's agenda every day for more accurate information.  Sometimes we don't get to do exactly what is planned.  If that happens, we usually catch up the next day.  We do a lot of classwork so that the students do not have homework.  If you child misses, they will have makeup work to do the next day during school.

Academic Vocabulary for Language Arts (This is not for the reading test):

1. hyperbole

2.  independent clause

READING :2a2 (parts of a book)  DOK 2;  2d4 (author's purpose) DOK 3;   2d1 (point of view) DOK 3

Story of the week-  Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing

Spelling words: