This week's Morning Work: 4B only

Mountain Language - None

Scholastic News - None

Daily Grams Daily Grams Days 24-27 due Friday

Handwriting Book

Journal Entry:

FRIDAY NOON DISMISSAL - Buck a Jean/Spirit Shirt/Jersey Day. Also, red & green accessory day

HOMEWORK: December 16 - Wednesday

RELIGION: 4A & 4B Final draft of Voice activity - Nativity story. Type or cursive/Illustrate.

SCIENCE:No homework

MATH:No Homework tonight! Mrs. Tierney is proud of all the hard work students put into our multiplication unit!

<SOCIAL STUDIES:Make-up Social Studies Test on Chapter 3 Thursday if you were absent. Play Jeopardy game, please see link on Social Studies class page on Mrs. Smith's website. Email Mrs. Smith if you cannot access game, but she will put two versions, one that is compatible with Microsoft 2003. Also, practice your paragraph for essay part of test. Describe the Mississippi River. Topic sentence describing where it begins, (its source), where it ends or empties (its mouth). Three detail sentences describing how the river affects the environment around it. See pg 121 in textbook and Jeopardy game. A conclusion telling why people would want to settle on a river like this. Study guides were given out Monday. REMINDER! There is also a matching portion of the test on the 12 states & capitals of the Southeast region. This was not mentioned on study guide, so be sure to remind your child.

Chapter 3 Social Studies Jeopardy Game Review

Jeopardy Game Chapter 3 Review (compatible with Microsoft 2003)

READING: LANGUAGE ARTS: No homework

TREASURES None

SPELLING:None

Projects and other long-term assignments will be posted here under each relevant class. You will also find many links and connections where you will be able to print intructions, expectations, and criteria sheets for these longer assignments. We both like to include links to games to assist students in preparing for quizzes and tests.

Finally, be sure to look at the calendar on upper left column for other information for grade 4, school events, and reminders for days of PE, Music, Art, and Spanish.

MORNING WORK: Each week students will be assigned a variety of morning work before classes begin on Monday morning. All morning work is listed on my SmartBoard each morning until 8:10, when we begin prayer. All morning work is classwork, and every attempt should be made to complete this in the morning so your child can avoid last minute scrambles on Thursday nights, especially when other homework is assigned. Ample time is provided daily to finish this work, which we correct and collect on Fridays. See examples of some of the assigned morning work below:

Mountain Language:

Students are to complete 5 questions related to grammar concepts each morning. We review these concepts daily. Students work in cooperative learning groups and are allowed to discuss questions and answers quietly with their group members. We then correct and collect these on Fridays. For now, this counts as an 8 point classwork assignment, but starting at the end of September, these will count as a 20 point weekly quiz. Please understand that students are still learning this and although papers may come home corrrected with many mistakes, rest assured that I will not begin counting this as a quiz grade until I am certain that students are ready. More will follow on this as time goes on.

4B STUDENTS ONLY:

Journal Entries - I will assign a journal entry prompt on some Monday mornings. Students are to create a topic sentence from this prompt and then write a paragraph, using the "hamburger" method, that includes a topic sentence, at least 3 detail sentences, and a conclusion. These journal entries are worth 10 pts. I usually select a few to read aloud so that students can "hear" good examples of writing. When students hear what they write, they become much better at creating sentence fluency in their paragraphs.

Daily Grams: Daily Grams are another part of morning work that are usually assigned almost every week on Monday mornings. These include one page of quick grammar review concepts for each day. Each page is numbered "Day One", "Day Two", etc. Students are given 4 grams a week in a packet and are asked to do one gram each day, Monday through Thursday. These take approximately 5 minutes each to complete. This is another strategy both Mrs. Tierney and I assign to help reinforce all language arts and grammar skills.

Scholastic News: 4B students receive a copy of Scholastic News, usually every week, but not always. These are given to students on Monday mornings and are due on Fridays. Students are to read all articles and then take the quiz at end of newsletter. This is a reading comprehension grade. At times, I will also take a Social Studies grade for the map skills page. Please be sure your child actually reads the articles and does not just guess on the answers, or does not try to complete all at the last minute. This generally results in a poor grade.

MORE INFORMATION WILL BE POSTED DAILY. Again, thank you for your patience.