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mrlenz3	Mr. Lenz
Vinal Elementary School	3rd/4th Grade Teacher - Vinal Elementary School
http://www.norwellschools.org
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Students...Don't forget to check out the NEW activities and links below on our Life Science Units!!!!!!!

Dear Parents,

            By now I am sure you have heard about the Morning Meeting we have every morning in our class. Morning Meeting usually takes between 15 and 30 minutes. After quiet journal time, each morning, the students and I gather in a circle. We begin by greeting each other. Every day, your child hears his or her name spoken by a classmate in a friendly and cheerful manner.

            Next, a few students share some interesting news followed by a conversation with the class. This helps the students listen carefully, think about what they hear, formulate good questions, and learn about each other. When your child shares, he or she will have a chance to feel that his or her ideas are valued and that the other children care.

            After sharing, there is an activity for the whole class. We might play a numbers game, participate in an activity designed to get our “engines” ready for the day or play a game where we must work together to solve some type of puzzle. The activity time helps the class feel united as a group, reinforces academic skills, and helps the children learn how to cooperate and solve problems.

            Finally, we read the Morning Message chart, which helps students think about the day ahead. Sometimes, I use this chart as an opportunity to reinforce a lesson or skill we have been learning.

            Everyday, Morning Meeting let’s children know that school is a safe place where all children’s feelings and ideas are important. We’d love to have you visit a Morning Meeting that your child is running. Students have been assigned a date when they are responsible for running our Morning Meeting. The students must come prepared to run the meeting. If the students are not prepared, then the logical consequence is they do not get to run Morning Meeting on that day. The students must come to school on the day of their assigned date with the following:

1) A chosen greeting
2) A morning message draft written out and ready to be copied on chart paper
3) A chosen Group Activity
4) The knowledge of what sharing day we are on and who is sharing.

             In addition, running the meeting involves a level of responsibility. The rules of Morning Meeting have been modeled and discussed in full. If a student cannot handle the responsibility of running the meeting, then they will loose the privilege of running Morning Meeting. Attached and at my website, you will find the schedule for the student-run Morning Meetings. I have left a few dates open at the end of the year for make-up days if a student is sick on his/her assigned date. Our meetings start at 9:20 and run about 20 to 25 minutes. We will continue to start at 9:20 every morning. As always, if you have any questions or concerns just let me know. I look forward to enjoying the student-run Morning Meetings!

                            -Patrick Lenz

                              Morning Meeting Leader Schedule
                                           2008 – 2009
                                             Mr. Lenz
6/1 – Matt K
6/2 – Justin
6/3 – Robby
6/4 – Hike Field Trip
6/5 – Sarah B
6/8 - Meg
6/9 - Caity
6/10 - Robby
6/11 - Field Day
6/12 - Norwell Trip

                                       Our Classroom Rules

1) C.A.R.E.S.
2) Treat others the way you want to be treated
3) Respect yourself, others and our school
4) Have fun

                              Logical Consequences

1) You break it - you fix it
2) Loss of Privilege
3) Time Out


                            Computer Lab Schedule
                                        Mr. Lenz
                                      2008 2009
                                   11:15 – 12:00

June 19th – Rob Pashkowsky and Kristine Murphy

                              Guest Activity Schedule
                                        Mr. Lenz
                                     2008 – 2009

June 5th – Wendy Bawabe - 9:45

                                  Long-Term Assignment
1) Science Assessments - Life Science - Unit B
                                  - Study Guide Given - 6/1(guide below)
                                  - Assessmet Date - 6/19
2) Norwell, MA Map Skills - Study Guide Given - 5/18
                                     - Assessment Date - 6/17

                                       Study Guide
                                       Life Science
                                             Unit B
                                 Mr. Lenz 3rd/4th Grade
Essential Questions:

1) How do animals interact with each other and their environment?
2) How are ecosystems different from each other?
3) How do changes in our ecosystems change our world?

Grade-level texts

3rd Grade ONLY Purple Text:
1) Chapter 3; Lessons 1 – 4
2) Chapter 4; Lessons 1 – 4

4th Grade ONLY Blue Text:
1) Chapter 3 – Lessons 1 - 3
2) Chapter 4 – Lessons 1 – 4

Vocabulary - Students have vocabulary lists in their Life Science Folders

                         Suggestions to Help Students with Spelling:

1) Help students learn phonetic rules by quizzing them or having them quiz themselves on words that follow new and old phonetic rules.
2) Review learned rules from previous weeks every night.
3) Review red (non-phonetic) words every night from not only the week’s list, but from words on all previous lists. Students may want to use the arm-tapping strategy so that many senses are involved in helping them memorize non-phonetic words.
4) When students are writing, have them go back and edit misspelled words by applying learned phonetic rules. Don’t allow them to just guess and make up spellings for sounds. This is the reason we do word-study – so that students become better spellers in their own writing not so they get a good grade on one assessment every Friday.

- As always thank you for your support and if you have any questions or concerns just let me know.
-Patrick Lenz

                                  Third Grade Spelling/Word Study

Previous Week

Green Words; Rule of the Week: r-controlled vowels er, ir and ur. These three vowel sounds are known as bossy – r’s. The spelling er is the most frequently used of the three bossy – r’s. It should be the first choice when making an educated guess.

Green Words – ur (as in burn)

1) fur
2) blur
3) burn
4) turn
5) hurt
6) lurk
7) spur
8) churl
9) churn
10) church
11) blurt
12) curb
13) burst

Red Words:

1) Fahrenheit
2) Celsius
3) imagine
4) engine
5) medicine

Current Week
Green Words; Rule of the Week – Diphthongs ow and ou. A diphthong is a vowel sound. It is created when two letters make one new vowel sound together. This week our diphthongs ow and ou both say /ou/.

ow (as in clown) ou (as on cloud)
1) owl
2) bow
3) how
4) down
5) town
6) gown
7) plow
8) scowl
9) growl
10) frown
11) crown
12) brown
13) crowd
14) prowl
15) power
16) tower
17) towel
18) vowel
19) flower
20) prowler

1) couch
2) pouch
3) loud
4) mouth
5) slouch
6) proud
7) scout
8) sprout
9) shout
10) grouch
11) found
12) mound
13) pound
14) round
15) hound
16) trouser
17) wound
18) ouch
19) sound
20) count

Red Words

1) easy
2) woman
3) women
4) above
5) canoe

                                  Fourth Grade Word Study:

1) Syllabication
2) Patterns and Generalizations
3) Sight Words
4) Word Structure

Previous Week

Unit 12
Double – vowel syllable
Grapheme Choice
Review Concepts:
1) Review six types of syllables (open, closed, silent-e, bossy-r, consonant-le)
2) Review four syllabication rules (vc/cv, v/cv, vc/v, and c-le)
3) Prefixes and Suffixes (rules and meanings)

New Concept
1) Grapheme choice – letter a

A grapheme is a written representation of a sound. Let’s focus on the long a sound…see attached!!!!!!

Red Words:
1) today
2) tomorrow
3) special
4) beautiful
5) always

Current Week - Review concepts and red words

1) imagine
2) engine
3) medicine
4) disease
5) vacuum
6) squirrel
7) mosquito
8) restaurant
9) library
10) guarantee
11) route
12) flood
13) blood
14) heart
15) tongue
16) cordial
17) cereal
18) recipe
19) yacht
20) scissors
21) soldier
22) sergeant
23) lieutenant
24) colonel
25) bureau
26) didn’t
27) doesn’t
28) write
29) Massachusetts
30) learned
31) whether
32) language
33) build
34) idea
35) please
36) spaghetti
37) chocolate
38) nuisance
39) capitol
40) senior
41) straight
42) calm
43) palm
44) ache
45) iron
46) terrible
47) which
48) happily
49) important
50) probably
51) against
52) answer
53) picture
54) usually
55) does
56) million
57) billion
58) Wednesday
59) February
60) Fahrenheit
61) Celsius
62) boulder
63) altogether
64) especially
65) special

My Quia activities and quizzes

Matching numbers

http://www.quia.com/jg/572510.html

Match the numbers to the words. Helps you with place value and reading large and small numbers.

Multiplication Tables

http://www.quia.com/jg/572517.html

Multiplication Problems for numbers one through 12.

Multiplication Madness

http://www.quia.com/jg/572518.html

Flash Cards with Multiplication Tables

Multiplication Facts Review

http://www.quia.com/jg/572519.html

This is a review of all 100 facts from 1 x 1 to 10 x 10

Place Value Playoff!

http://www.quia.com/jg/1483691.html

Place-vaslue practice

Mean, Median, Mode and Range

http://www.quia.com/rr/384167.html

practice these terms while playing a fun game

Introduction to Angles

http://www.quia.com/jg/1483721.html

angle practice

Addition, sums 10 to 18

http://www.quia.com/jg/1483735.html

Geometric Terms

http://www.quia.com/jg/1483693.html

Division Facts

http://www.quia.com/jg/1483722.html

Everyday Math Hangman

http://www.quia.com/hm/451111.html

Addition Battleship

http://www.quia.com/ba/213596.html

Map Vocabulary

http://www.quia.com/jg/1483725.html

50 States and Capitals & Abbreviations

http://www.quia.com/jg/1483726.html

ALL 50 STATE CAPITALS

http://www.quia.com/jg/1483791.html

Geographic terms

http://www.quia.com/jg/1483864.html

Cities and Regions

http://www.quia.com/rr/384172.html

States and Capitols

http://www.quia.com/rr/384173.html

Physical Or Chemical Change?

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1539191.html

Matter Battleship

http://www.quia.com/ba/213599.html

Matter Battleship

http://www.quia.com/ba/213570.html

Simple Machines Test

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1539195.html

Number the Presidents

http://www.quia.com/rd/124785.html

Geography and Map Skills Handbook (Pop-up)

http://www.quia.com/cz/191746.html

4th Geography Skills

http://www.quia.com/jg/1499181.html

Continents and Oceans

http://www.quia.com/rr/390776.html

Continents and Oceans

http://www.quia.com/hm/456719.html

Continents and Oceans

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1558242.html

Continents and Oceans

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1558243.html

Continents and Oceans

http://www.quia.com/rr/390785.html

Match the Synonyms (Games for 2nd Grade +)

http://www.quia.com/jg/1499209.html

Synonyms I

http://www.quia.com/ba/218887.html

Synonyms Rags to Riches

http://www.quia.com/rr/390786.html

antonyms

http://www.quia.com/ba/218888.html

Synonyms and Antonyms Unit 4

http://www.quia.com/rr/390787.html

Verb Tense Battleship Game

http://www.quia.com/ba/218900.html

Know Your Nouns

http://www.quia.com/cb/374074.html

Plural Nouns

http://www.quia.com/hm/456702.html

Find the Nouns

http://www.quia.com/ba/218889.html

Multiplication Madness

http://www.quia.com/rr/390777.html

Subtraction Facts

http://www.quia.com/jg/1499210.html

Subtraction Battleship

http://www.quia.com/ba/218901.html

Division facts 1÷1 to 100÷10

http://www.quia.com/jg/1499211.html

Division Quiz

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1558254.html

A Feast of Homonyms

http://www.quia.com/jg/1499212.html

Homonyms (29 - 42)

http://www.quia.com/ba/218890.html

Words to Know Millionaire

http://www.quia.com/rr/390779.html

Battleship homophones

http://www.quia.com/ba/218891.html

Homophones

http://www.quia.com/pop/258637.html

Literary Elements

http://www.quia.com/jg/1499238.html

Homophones

http://www.quia.com/jg/1499215.html

Geometry Basic Terms Hangman

http://www.quia.com/hm/456732.html

Metric Measurement

http://www.quia.com/rr/390821.html

Introduction to Matter - Multiple Choice

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1558283.html

GEOMETRY VOCABULARY QUIZ - 2

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1558288.html

Review Math Game (+/- , multiply/divide decimals & whole numbers, compare decimals& decimal place value)

http://www.quia.com/rr/401257.html

Adding Decimals

http://www.quia.com/rr/401239.html

Math: Ordering Decimals

http://www.quia.com/pp/146211.html

Place Value Jeopardy

http://www.quia.com/cb/388644.html

Place Value (difficult)

http://www.quia.com/rr/401261.html

Decimal Basics

http://www.quia.com/rr/401258.html

Technology Education Challenge Game

http://www.quia.com/cb/388663.html

Chapter 3 New England region

http://www.quia.com/cb/388645.html

Name That State!

http://www.quia.com/cb/388664.html

Name That State!

http://www.quia.com/cb/388646.html

Sentences, Spelling and Words

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1589034.html

Spelling Bee

http://www.quia.com/pop/267282.html

Grammar 3rd Grade

http://www.quia.com/cb/388665.html

CAN YOU SPOT IT: GRAMMAR

http://www.quia.com/rr/401282.html

Grammar and Phonics

http://www.quia.com/ba/227317.html

Multiplication Practice

http://www.quia.com/ba/232482.html

Weathering and Soil Formation Vocabulary

http://www.quia.com/jg/1610710.html

ROCKS Battleship Review

http://www.quia.com/ba/264265.html

All About Rocks

http://www.quia.com/rr/442976.html

Level B Our Earth

http://www.quia.com/cz/241623.html

Simile, Metaphor, or Personification?

http://www.quia.com/pop/314004.html

Adding Fractions

http://www.quia.com/hm/502172.html

Adding and Subtracting Fractions

http://www.quia.com/cm/324787.html

Science adaptations

http://www.quia.com/cb/462419.html

Life Science-Adaptations

http://www.quia.com/rr/468313.html

Adaptations (4th Gr. Science Ch. 3)

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1828685.html

Adaptation

http://www.quia.com/rr/468295.html

Life science battleship

http://www.quia.com/ba/286241.html

Useful links

Last updated 2009/06/10 13:31:03 EDT

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