REMINDERS:
1. Please remember to cover all soft-covered books. Some children have not covered any and there are no extra copies if they rip.
2. Remember to read the purple assignment book and check the HW folder each night to know your child's homework for each day. Also, check your child’s notebooks to see what they are doing in class or if I have written you a note.
3. Your child needs to remember to bring all of their school supplies every day.
4. The children are reading The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. The notes were started in the Reading NB. The children should complete the notes on their own. The Book Test will be on Fri.1/8/10
5. Parents please make sure that your child is doing the homework. Many children did not hand in the Christmas Essay last week and therefore received a zero. It is too late to hand it in now, but in the future check the blog because I always give more than enough time to complete projects. Also the homework is not being done at all or very carelessly by some children. HW counts as a grade and that is why many children had low Language Arts and Reading Grades!!!!
Ur chill
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TESTS:
1. Book Test on Best Christmas Pageant Ever Friday, 1/8/10
2. Spelling Test- 1/8/10
VOCABULARY: no new words this week
2. Reading Vocabulary Words from Grace and the Time Machine:
excursion, invention, research, aboard, mechanical, atlas, awkward, capable, chant, miracle, reseats, vehicle, contraption, pantomime. Check the Reading NB for the meanings of these words.
SPELLING: words with /ar/ and /or/. Test will be Friday, 1/8/10.
morning, forest, garbage, form, alarm, corner, story, argue, backyard, start, partner, storm, Florida, apartment, sport, force, forward, sharp, garden, Arkansas.
Videos, teeth,
Challenge Words:
departure, margarine, informative, snorkel, carnation
LANGUAGE ARTS: We will be working on the following: Voyages Textbook pgs. 314-345 (grammar). We will also be working on writing letters, pgs. 45-81 in the Voyages Textbook.
Sentences:
Declarative- (statement) I went to the store.
Interrogative- (question) Can you read quickly?
Imperative- (commands or requests) Put the book down.
Exclamatory- (exclamations) It is freezing in here!
Subjects and Predicates – complete and simple subjects and complete
and simple predicate; compound subjects and compound predicates.
The little girl went to the park.
Complete Subject- The little girl
Simple Subject- girl
Complete Predicate- went to the park
Simple Predicate- went
Compound Subjects and Predicates- a compound subject has two or more simple subjects connected by and or or. A compound predicate has two or more simple predicates connected with and or or.
eg. My mom and I went to the store. Compound Subject
The children were drawing and painting. Compound Predicate
Direct Objects- is a noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb.
eg. The Hudson River divides the two states. (states is the direct object).
Subject Complement- follows a linking verb (am, is, are, was, were, has, have). It is usually a noun or an adjective that tells more about the subject.
eg. The storm was a tornado. (tornado is the subject complement)
Compound Sentence- When two short sentences are related to one another, they can be combined by the words and, but, or or. A comma is added before these words.
eg. Lightning flashed. Thunder boomed. (two short sentences that are related)
Lightning flashed, and thunder boomed. (compound sentence)
Run-on Sentence- when two sentences are combined but not connected correctly. It usually occurs when two sentences are separated by only a comma and no connectors (and, but, or).
eg. I went to the store, I bought milk. (run-on sentence)
I went to the store, and I bought milk. (correct)
Noun: is a word that names a person (girl), place (school), or a thing (ball).
Common noun: names any person, place, or thing.
Proper noun: names a particular person, place, or thing. Each proper noun begins with a capital letter.
eg. teacher is a common noun; Ms. Larios is a proper noun.
Singular noun: names one person (boy), place (school), or thing (ball).
Plural noun: names more than one person, place, or thing.
Add –s or –es to make most nouns plural. For nouns that end in a consonant and y, change y to I and add –es. Add –es to nouns that end in s, ss, x, ch, or sh.
eg. boy-boys, girl-girls, box-boxes, glass-glasses, lunch-lunches, dish-dishes, bus-buses, party-parties, candy-candies, holiday-holidays
Irregular plural noun- The plurals of some nouns are not formed by adding –s or –es to the singular noun. These are irregular plural nouns. These should be memorized because they do not follow any rules.
eg. ox-oxen, child-children, tooth-teeth, foot-feet, mouse-mice, woman-women, goose-geese, wolf-wolves, wife-wives, leaf-leaves, wife-wives.
Some nouns have the same singular and plural forms:
sheep-sheep, deer-deer, fish-fish, series-series, moose-moose, Chinese-Chinese.
HOMEWORK:
Read your book
Study Language Arts
Study for the Spelling Test
Start reviewing vocabulary words in the Reading NB from Sept. - Dec. for Midterm Exams in Jan.
Go online and to the New York State Education Dept. and download some of the 4th grade ELA tests from previous years and take the tests. It is good practice.
HAVE A HAPPY AND HEALTHY CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR!
NO LESSON PLANS THIS WEEK
