WEEK OF APRIL 27,2009 4TH GRADE

REMINDERS: 1.Remember to bring all school supplies everyday, including the homework. 2. Please check your child’s purple assignment book every night for HW and notes. 3. A new book, Harriet the Spy will be given out this week. Please make sure that your child reads for 30 mins. everyday and make notes. The notes will be started in the back of the Reading NB. There will be a test on this book on this Friday, 5/22. 4.A Mother's Day Draft will be due on Weds, 5/6 in the Lang. Arts NB. It should be 3 paragraphs long. When it is corrected it will be re-written or typed and you will need to make a cover for it. It is titled "My Mom Is Special". TESTS: 1. LANGUAGE ARTS TEST THURS, MAY 8. REVIEW PP. 21-40 IN THE GRAMMAR BOOK. 2. SPELLING TEST FRIDAY, 5/8. WORDS ARE ON P.41 IN THE SPELLING BOOK. 3. READING TEST UNIT 2 THURSDAY, MAY 7. STUDY ALL VOCABULARY FROM WHAT DID JO DO, COYOTE SCHOOL NEWS, GRACE AND THE TIME MACHINE, MARVEN OF THE GREAT NORTH WOODS, SO YOU WANT TO BE PRESIDENT. 4. COMMERCIAL DUE ON THURS. APRIL 30. BRING ALL MATERIALS TO PRESENT THE COMMERCIAL TO THE CLASS. VOCABULARY: MARVEN OF THE GREAT NORTH WOODS business, resourceful, team, trustworthy, cord, dismay, grizzly (bear), immense, payroll, lumberjack, silhouettes VOCABULARY: SO YOU WANT TO BE PRESIDENT? capital, capitol, clerks, Constitution, howling, humble, politics, responsibility, solemnly, vain, execute, oath, priority SPELLING: (adding –ed and -ing) watched, watching, danced, dancing, studied, studying, stopped, stopping, dried, drying, happened, happening, noticed, noticing, robbed, robbing, slipped, slipping, hurried, hurrying CHALLENGE WORDS: answered, answering, magnified, magnifying, interfered, interfering READING MONDAY: April 27 Aim: To complete a book test on Stuart Little and Spelling Test (not given Friday) HW: see assignment book. TUESDAY: April 28 NO CLASS DUE TO STATE SCIENCE EXAM WEDNESDAY: APRIL 29- NO CLASS DUE TO STATE SCIENCE EXAM THURSDAY: APRIL 30 AIM: To present commercials to the class LESSON: 1. The children will present their commercials to the class. HW: review for Reading and Spelling Tests next week FRIDAY: MAY 1 NO CLASS DUE TO FACULTY CONFERENCE DAY LANGUAGE ARTS MONDAY, April 27 AIM: To present advertisements to the class LESSON: 1. The children will finish presenting their advertisements from last week. 2. The children will update their Reading Vocabulary in the Reading NB HW: work on commercials TUESDAY, APRIL 28 AIM: To review all nouns LESSON: The children will review pp. 21- 40 in Grammar Book HW: work on commercial and study for next week’s tests WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 NO CLASS DUE TO NYSESLAT TESTING HW: work on commercial and study for next week’s test THURSDAY, APRIL 30 AIM: To continue with the presentation of commercials HW: study for next week’s tests and read book. FRIDAY, MAY 1-NO CLASS DUE TO FACULTY CONFERENCE DAY HAVE A GOOD WEEK!