4TH GRADE PLANS FOR DEC. 8TH- DEC. 12TH, 2008

REMINDERS: 1. BRING SCHOOL SUPPLIES EACH DAY 2. ESSAY DUE ON "WHY CHRISTMAS IS SPECIAL TO ME" 3 PARAGRAPHS (18 SENTENCES MINIMUM) ON WEDNESDAY, 12/17. 3. BRING CHRISTMAS CARDS TO SCHOOL TO WRITE TO FRIENDS AND TEACHERS 4. SIGN ALL TESTS RETURNED BY MR. WOODS ON TUESDAY 12/9 AND RETURN BY THURSDAY 12/11. 5. THE SITE FOR THE ELA PRACTICE EXAMS IS POSTED ON LAST WEEK'S BLOG TESTS: 1. LANGUAGE ARTS TEST WEDS. 12/10- STUDY PAGES 1-16 2. BOOK TEST WILL BE ON FRIDAY, 1/9/09 VOCABULARY AND SPELLING WORDS ARE THE SAME AS LAST WEEK! MONDAY, 12/8 READING: AIM: TO USE WORD STRUCTURE TO DETERMINE WORD MEANING 1. REVIEW THE SUFFIXES -IST AND -IVE. 2. READ THE LETTER FROM DENALI AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE ABOVE SUFFIXES 3. THE SUFFIX -IST COULD MEAN " ONE WHO IS AN EXPERT IN" EG. NATURALIST COULD BE AN EXPERT IN NATURE. 4. THE SUFFIX - IVE CAN MAKE A WORD MEAN "TENDING OR INCLINED TO, " AS IN ACTIVE- WHICH MEANS "TENDING TO ACT." HW: READ NEW BOOK (RAMONA OR BLACKBERRIES) LANGUAGE ARTS: AIM: TO WRITE A MODEL OF A CHRISTMAS CARD 1. THE CHILDREN WILL COPY A MODEL OF A CHRISTMAS CARD IN THEIR LANG. ARTS NB. 2. THE CHILDREN WILL COPY A MODEL OF AN ADDRESSED ENVELOPE FOR A PEOPLE WITHIN THE OLQM BUILDING HW: BRING IN AT LEAST 5 CHRISTMAS CARDS WITH ENVELOPES TO BE WRITTEN IN CLASS. TUESDAY, 12/9 READING: AIM: TO REVIEW THE CLASSWORK FROM LAST WEEK WHEN CLASS WAS SPLIT UP. 1. REVIEW PRACTICE BOOK PAGES 2. REVIEW GRAMMAR BOOK PAGES LANG. ARTS: AIM: TO REVIEW FOR THE LANGUAGE ARTS TEST TOMORROW. 1. TYPES OF SENTENCES 2. CORRECT PUNCTUATION 3. CORRECT CAPITALIZATION 4. SUBJECTS/PREDICATES 5. COMPOUND SUBJECTS / PREDICATES 6. SIMPLE SUBJECTS/PREDICATES 7. COMPOUND SENTENCES JOINED BY "AND"," BUT" OR "OR" 8. CORRECT COMMA USE IN COMPOUND SENTENCES HW: REVIEW FOR TEST, READ BOOK, BRING IN CHRISTMAS CARDS WEDNESDAY, 12/10 NO READING CLASS DUE TO MASS AND CONFESSION LANGUAGE ARTS: AIM: TO TAKE THE LANGUAGE ARTS TEST HW: READ BOOK AND WORK ON THE ESSAY DUE 12/17 THURSDAY, 12/11 READING: AIM: TO WRITE CHRISTMAS CARDS TO PEOPLE ON OUR LIST 1. THE CHILDREN WILL WRITE CHRISTMAS CARDS TO MR. WOODS, FR. ALMONTE, MR. BADIA, MS. SAVILLE, AND ALBA. 2. THE CHILDREN MAY WRITE CHRISTMAS CARDS AND NOTES TO ANY FRIENDS THAT ATTEND OLQM. 3. THE LETTERS WILL BE MAILED IN THE CLASS MAILBOX AND DELIVERED NEXT WEEK LANGUAGE ARTS: AIM- 1. CONTINUE TO WRITE AND ADDRESS CHRISTMAS CARDS. 2. TO INTRODUCE COMPLEX SENTENCES USING INDEPENDENT AND DEPENDENT CLAUSES- PG. 17 IN GRAMMAR BOOK. HW: READ BOOK AND WRITE ESSAY FOR NEXT WEEK. MAKE SURE YOU WRITE A DRAFT FIRST SO IT CAN BE EDITED! FRIDAY, 12/12 READING: AIM: TO WRITE VOCABULARY WORDS AND DEFINITIONS IN NOTEBOOK HW: READ BOOK, FINISH CHRISTMAS ESSAY AND WRITE CHRISTMAS CARDS NO LANGUAGE ARTS CLASS DUE TO 11:30 DISMISSAL