WEEK OF MAY 4, 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 last 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". The finished project needs to be turned in on Friday, May 8. TESTS: 1. LANGUAGE ARTS TEST TUESDAY, MAY 12. 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 WEDS, MAY 13. 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. 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: May 4 Aim: To continue presenting the commercials HW: see assignment book. TUESDAY: May 5 NYSESLAT READING TEST HW: study for Reading and Spelling Test WEDNESDAY: May 6 NYSESLAT LISTENING TEST HW: study for Reading and Spelling Test THURSDAY: May 7 AIM: To take a Reading Vocabulary and Comprehension Test HW: review for Spelling Test FRIDAY: May 8 AIM: To take a Spelling Test and Language Arts Test LANGUAGE ARTS MONDAY, May 4 AIM: To present commercials to the class LESSON:1. The children will finish presenting their commercials from last week. HW: study for Lang. Arts Test TUESDAY, May 5 NYSESLAT WRITING TEST HW: study for Lang. Arts Test Friday WEDNESDAY, May 6 NYSESLAT LISTENING TEST (CONT) HW: study for Lang. Arts Test THURSDAY, May 7 AIM: To review for test HW: study for test FRIDAY, May 8 No class due to 2:30 dismissal HW: Read book and take notes HAVE A GOOD WEEK!