Wednesday, October 8th

READING: 

Read 30+ minutes, Log, Jot! 

Monitor your goal.

Get additional "just right" resources for your NF research project if needed.

                     

WRITING:

Look at your writing plan and decide what you need to complete in order to meet your deadline for your persuasive essay. Remember, complete drafts for your persuasive essay  Make sure that you are not falling behind in the writing process. Below are the anchor charts from the classroom that you requested to assist you at home :)

Essay Bootcamp Anchor Chart

Prompts to Push Our Thinking Anchor Chart

Planning an Essay Anchor Chart

Gathering Materials for Support Anchor Chart

Organize Before Drafting Anchor Chart

Strong Leads Powerful Endings Anchor Chart

Sentence Surgery Anchor Chart

WORD STUDY:

If you need to assign yourself word study homework in order to meet your deadline of Oct 15th, please make sure to do so. You have 5 activities to complete: Resort/Write About the Sort and 4 different leveled activities.

MATH: 

Xtra Math Log  You will need to play at least 3 sessions each week at home. Due Friday.

Fall 4 Math

OTHER: 

Field Trip $$ Due Friday, October 10th

Original Drawing for Yearbook Due Friday, October 24th

Tuesday, October 7th

READING: 

Read 30+ minutes, Log, Jot! 

Monitor your goal.

Get additional "just right" resources for your NF research project if needed.

                     

WRITING:

We are moving on to Persuasive Essays... now is a time to reflect on the work we are doing as essayists and readjust goals for ourselves. Using the Fourth Grade Checklist, read your published essay through each lens highlighting  evidence of the lens you are focusing on. Each lens should be a different color. Determine if you are "Starting To", "Not Yet" or "Yes" for each lens. When you are finished set a goal for yourself on the bottom of the checklist. See resources below:

 Goal Setting Anchor Chart

4th Grade Opinion Writing Checklist

WORD STUDY:

If you need to assign yourself word study homework in order to meet your deadline of Oct 15th, please make sure to do so. You have 5 activities to complete: Resort/Write About the Sort and 4 different leveled activities.

MATH: 

 Xtra Math Log  You will need to play at least 3 sessions each week at home. Due Friday.

Fall 4 Math

OTHER: 

Field Trip $$ Due Friday, October 10th

Original Drawing for Yearbook Due Friday, October 24th

Monday, October 6th

READING: 

Read 30+ minutes, Log, Jot! 

Monitor your goal.

Get additional "just right" resources for your NF research project if needed.

                     

WRITING:

We are approaching our publishing deadline quickly! Tomorrow, our first published piece of the year is due! HOORAY! Remember, you will need to turn in your published piece along with the publishing checklist signed by you and a parent. 

Publishing Checklist 

WORD STUDY:

If you need to assign yourself word study homework in order to meet your deadline of Oct 15th, please make sure to do so. You have 5 activities to complete: Resort/Write About the Sort and 4 different leveled activities.

MATH: 

 Xtra Math Log  You will need to play at least 3 sessions each week at home. Due Friday.

Fall 4 Math

OTHER: 

Field Trip $$ Due Friday, October 10th

Original Drawing for Yearbook Due Friday, October 24th

10/3 Weekend HW

READING: 

Read 30 minutes (or more) each day over the weekend

Log!

Keep track of your thinking- This should be in the section you created in your reading notebook for your fiction reading. It should have all your thinking for each book you read!

**Push yourself to work towards the goal you set for yourself. What do you need to do as a reader in order to achieve this goal?**

                     

WRITING:

Published Essay Due, Tuesday, October 7th

Publishing Checklist

WORD STUDY:

There are several activities that you have been working on this week in word study. By Monday, you should have completed the following: 

Open Word Sort

Spelling Sentences

ABC Order

Spelling & Math

Relate It!

Parts of Speech

Dictionary Check

and a Level 4 activity

MATH: 

Share "Fall for Math" notice with your parents.

Practice your multiplication facts.

OTHER: 

Field Trip $$ Due Friday, October 10th

Original Drawing for Yearbook Due Friday, October 24th

Week in Review

September 29 - October 3

Reading Workshop JK, PF, LB, PD, KN, DD, SS

• In narrative nonfiction, we are looking to our characters and trying to figure out an important lesson or message that the book can teach us.
• We are continuing to push ourselves to set reading goals, work towards achieving them, and then set new ones!
• Today was Fiction Friday and we also wrote new goals for ourselves.
• We went to the library to get just right narrative books.
• We looked at the pros and cons of our character's decisions in order to grow big ideas about them.
• We learned to use a formula to help us grow ideas about our characters: Sombody... Wanted... But... So... This make me think _______ is the kind of person who ________ because (evidence).

Word Study CB, RH, KN, JC

• We got to choose a level 4 activity: we can draw comics, write letters, create a commercial, or write a creative story.
• We have four different level activities to complete and we get different points for each level.
• We are going to get our new word study words and groups on Monday.
• We did more activities than usual this week because we were learning all the trickier activities.

Gym BD, LB. LA, CB, DD, KN

• We ran the mile!
• Our whole class reached the fitness level!
• There were two groups, one group was running the other groups was not. If you weren't running you wrote down your partners score.
• We played soccer.
• We did exercises to warm up for the mile run.
• We did the practice push up test in groups.

Math LB, JK, LA, JC, TN, CB, DD, AM

• In math, we are solving a problem that has to do with an amusement park and tickets. The music department has been thinking about taking a field trip.
• We made math proofs this week!
• We started playing xtra math at home this week. Our first math logs were due today!
• We have been learning how to solve division using arrays and dealing out.
• We played a game called Fill the Machine.
• We played Four Corners the "The Grown Up" version. Ask us about it!
• We are continuing to practice our multiplication cards and boost our fact fluency!
• We made a poster of things we can do as mathematicians when we are "done" with math. 
• We have been working on math strings.

Writing Workshop AR, PD, DD, RH, JB

• We started publishing our essays today!
• We edited our essays using a checklist.
• We made strong leads and endings for our essays.
• We revised and made sure we had all the important details we needed to prove our thesis.
• We did sentence surgery to make sure we did not have any run-ons or fragments in our writing.
• Our published piece is due Tuesday!

Science OC, JW, CB

• We learned about magnets and what they stick to.
• We learned that steel and iron stick to magnets and search for them in the classroom.
• We found out that only one of our classroom doors has iron/steel in it.

Thursday, October 2, 2014

READING: 

Read 30 minutes (or more).

Log!

Keep track of your thinking- This should be in the section you created in your reading notebook for your fiction reading. It should have all your thinking for each book you read!

**Push yourself to work towards the goal you set for yourself. What do you need to do as a reader in order to achieve this goal?**

                     

WRITING:

We are approaching the finish line quickly in writing! Tomorrow, we will begin publishing our first essays of the year! In order to publish you need to make sure that you have completed all parts of drafting. Tonight, spend more time editing your piece making sure that it is the best it can be. Use the checklist to help you!

Essay Editing Checklist

WORD STUDY:

There are several activities that you have been working on this week in word study. By Monday, you should have completed the following: 

Open Word Sort

Spelling Sentences

ABC Order

Spelling & Math

Relate It!

Parts of Speech

Dictionary Check

and a Level 4 activity

MATH: 

X-tra Math Log- Starting today, we will be using a math log to keep track of the time we play on 

X-tra Math throughout the week. You will need to play at least 3 sessions each week at home. You need  to date each time you play and get a parent signature to confirm your played that day. Logs are due every Friday.

Xtra-Math Log: Xtra Math Log

Practice your multiplication facts.

OTHER: 

Field Trip $$ Due Friday, October 10th

Original Drawing for Yearbook Due Friday, October 24th

Wednesday, October 1st

READING: 

Read 30 minutes (or more).

Log!

Keep track of your thinking- This should be in the section you created in your reading notebook for your fiction reading. It should have all your thinking for each book you read!

**Push yourself to work towards the goal you set for yourself. What do you need to do as a reader in order to achieve this goal?**

                     

WRITING:

Writer's we are moving along in the writing process and tomorrow we will be editing our drafts! Today in writing workshop we worked on drafting possible leads and endings.  Tonight, choose your strongest lead and ending. Put a star next to "the one" and bring them in tomorrow.  If you need to spend some time drafting more leads or endings, please do so.

MATH: 

X-tra Math Log- Starting today, we will be using a math log to keep track of the time we play on 

X-tra Math throughout the week. You will need to play at least 3 sessions each week at home. You need  to date each time you play and get a parent signature to confirm your played that day. Logs are due every Friday.

Xtra-Math Log: Xtra Math Log

Practice your multiplication facts.

OTHER: 

Field Trip $$ Due Friday, October 10th

Original Drawing for Yearbook Due Friday, October 24th