2. Math: Complete both sides of the worksheet
3. Read and sign Field Trip permission for Monday, January 27th's field trip to The Santa Lucia Preserve. Students should wear layered clothing, long pants, and closed-toed shoes. Permission Slip
1. Study spelling bee words. Preliminary Bee tomorrow 23 January.
2. Math: Complete both sides of the worksheet 3. Read and sign Field Trip permission for Monday, January 27th's field trip to The Santa Lucia Preserve. Students should wear layered clothing, long pants, and closed-toed shoes. Permission Slip
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English: Complete your "word" brochure Day of Service: Beach Clean Up
What to wear: 1. Blue, black, white, or gray jeans (NO COLORED PANTS) 2. Any grey or green Stevenson shirts ( These are OK: any Stevenson shirt purchased from the student store or any uniform shirt. These are NOT OK: any performance shirts old or new) 3. Any Stevenson jacket or sweatshirt What to bring: 1. Lunch in lunch box or Aqua Terra paper bag lunch. All lunches must be carried in backpacks to avoid poaching by sea birds 2. Recycled plastic bags, like the one's from Target, if you have them 3. Garden gloves, if you have them 1. Less common long e sort
2. Perseus and Medusa. Read, mark, and write down one solid annotation to share during Harkness tomorrow. Spelling, Activity B on both page 50 and 51. Study for tomorrow's test on the lesson 11 words.
Math: Exercise 10- page 57
Reading: Cupid and Psyche. Read and mark. Be ready to discuss. Reminder: please bring in shoe boxes. We also would like to borrow FOUR blow dryers. Read and Mark all three poems. Write ONE solid annotation.
Read and Mark Artemis, Orion and the Seven Sisters AND Demeter and Persphone (translation of Homer's Poem)
1. Math: page 53 in the workbook
2. Spelling: page 43, activity B. Review for spelling test 3. Bring in stuffy for classification activity (see yesterday's HW) 1. Science Reading Read pages 28-31. Annotated on "post-its" since the textbooks cannot be written in. Have all reading and post-it annotations completed by Thursday. We will discuss this reading on Thursday. 2. Greek Mythology Research a. Parent signature needed for participation on Edmodo. b. Write top three research choices on the back of the permission slip (students have a hard copy in their backpacks). List of Greek Mythological Characters 1. Complete Spelling activities A,B, and C on page 37.
2. Read and mark Journey to London. Be prepared to discuss tomorrow. We read Mary Oliver's Stones at the beach today, and left our favorite lines etched in the sand for others to enjoy. Use colored pencil or pen to write the letter pairs: kn and qu. Make sure you do the challenge words, too.
1. Review lesson 5 Spelling words for tomorrow's quiz.
2. Read "Dream Catching" from The BFG circling five interesting verbs, five interesting adjectives, and writing two annotations on two different passages within the text. Examples of each are on page 81. Be prepared to discuss chapters tomorrow in class. Tonight's homework is on Spelling City. Complete the entire Word Fall activity for ou and ow. Follow this link: http://www.spellingcity.com/kkoontz61/
Write down all spelling words using color on the ou and ow vowel partners. On the review word "beginning," use color for the double n. Words are found on page 20 of your spelling book.
Practice this week's spelling and vocabulary lists on Spelling City. Note that the assignment simply called "Vocabulary Practice" is a workboard assignment. You do not have to do it Complete these FOUR assignments on Spelling City. Spelling Quiz TOMORROW
Practice these THREE lists on http://www.spellingcity.com/kkoontz61/
TEST ON FRIDAY P.S. Some of you have not completed last week's BFG list. Try to complete it by Friday. Robert Frost said, "All the fun's in how you say a thing," and in this spirit, we begin our Grade 4 studies in English. Greek & Latin Roots, Magic 3, poetry, anagrams, and something called "Balderdash," round out our literary inquiry for the next two weeks. We welcome you to join in with your child in playful practice as we explore the delights of the English language.
Roots Latin prefixes: sub/below and trans/across Greek prefixes: gen/origin Sufix: ous/like or characterized by ( example: perilous) Magic 3 A method of elaboration using three examples in a series used to create a poetic rhythm or at least provide support for a point, especially when the three items have their own modifiers. Example: I love playing hide-and-seek with my friends in our woods, jumping rope on the school playground, and swinging on the old tire at Grandma's. Poetry We are experimenting with a method termed "Call of words" where a poem is read and words that speak to the reader are noted and then used to create an original poem. Anagrams An anagram is a word or phrase that uses the exact same letters to produce another word, for example, the letters in the name Mary can be rearranged to make the word army. Anagrams can be used in parody as well. Here's an example: William Shakespeare/ I am a weakish speller. Balderdash Using a variety of reference materials, students determine if a statement is correct, impossible, possible, or probable. Students then explain their reasoning in complete sentences, documenting sources in their answers. Examples: 1. Laura Ingalls Wilder bought a television set. 2. The small douroucouli climbed on the elephant's back. |
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