It's hard to believe that the 1st quarter is coming to an end of Friday. Students have worked hard learning the routines along with adding examples and references from their reading when answering questions.
Next week we will begin a biography unit. Students will be given guidelines to follow when choosing a biography to read. Along with reading there will be a product, reading logs, questions relating to our nonfiction objectives. This unit will be due on November 22nd. If you will be out of town, your child will need to hand in his/her assignments before leaving for the Thanksgiving break.
Homework is due Tuesday, November 1st. Remember that students are off for a Teacher Workday on Monday.
Open syllable and Social Studies test will be on Wednesday, November 2nd.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Week of October 17th
Students are receiving a North Carolina Studies Weekly newspaper to read for homework most weeks. This newspaper is to be read at home. Students will take a test on Wednesdays and are able to use the newspaper as a resource during the test. They must bring their own paper back with them in order to have the resource. We ordered one copy for each student in 4th grade (not extras). Students who don't have the newspaper on test day can choose to take the test during study hall (on the same day) and borrow a newspaper from a classmate or take the test without it. Yesterday I gave students ideas of what to pay particular attention to in their reading for the test today. The majority of students choose to take notes on my suggestions. I went through all the information that they would need for the test. It was recommended that students highlight the information that we spoke about yesterday.
Homework is due Tuesday, October 25th. There will be a closed syllable and Social Studies test on Wednesday, October 26th.
Homework is due Tuesday, October 25th. There will be a closed syllable and Social Studies test on Wednesday, October 26th.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Week of October 10th
Students received a homework packet on Monday. The directions should read as follows (I removed the second sentence).
1. Make 2 columns on a piece of lined paper. Write the words below in the left column. Rewrite each word in the right hand column and scoop between the syllables.
2. Read a book of your choice for 30 minutes daily. List the title of the book and the page number where you stopped to complete the CROP-QV. Remember to use examples from the book to justify your answers. You must stop reading at 3 different sittings and complete a CROP-QV’s at each stopping point. You must fill in the entire CROP-QV at each stopping point.
3. All written answers must be in complete sentences.
4. Read the attached Social Studies Weekly newspaper. You will have a quiz on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 on your reading.
5. Homework is due on Tuesday, October 18, 2011.
6. Study for syllable & Social Studies test to be given on 10/19/11.
Students will need to bring their Social Studies Weekly newspaper back to school with them to use for the test on Wednesday. They can use the newspaper to help answer the questions, but I do not have any extra copies to to hand out on test day. Therefore, if they do not bring their copy back, they will have to take the test without the newspaper as a resource.
1. Make 2 columns on a piece of lined paper. Write the words below in the left column. Rewrite each word in the right hand column and scoop between the syllables.
2. Read a book of your choice for 30 minutes daily. List the title of the book and the page number where you stopped to complete the CROP-QV. Remember to use examples from the book to justify your answers. You must stop reading at 3 different sittings and complete a CROP-QV’s at each stopping point. You must fill in the entire CROP-QV at each stopping point.
3. All written answers must be in complete sentences.
4. Read the attached Social Studies Weekly newspaper. You will have a quiz on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 on your reading.
5. Homework is due on Tuesday, October 18, 2011.
6. Study for syllable & Social Studies test to be given on 10/19/11.
Students will need to bring their Social Studies Weekly newspaper back to school with them to use for the test on Wednesday. They can use the newspaper to help answer the questions, but I do not have any extra copies to to hand out on test day. Therefore, if they do not bring their copy back, they will have to take the test without the newspaper as a resource.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Week of October 3rd
For those of you who missed it on the blog last week, there's no homework due tomorrow.
We finished up on CROP-QV today! Reading strategies used to help us with our comprehension. Connections, reactions, opinions, prediction, questions and visualizing. We use all of these skills before, during, and after reading.
Homework was given today that is due next Tuesday, October 11th. They are working on contractions and document based questions. Document based questions include reading a passage, looking at a related document, and answering questions. The questions incorporate different levels of understanding based on Bloom's Taxonomy. We worked on an example as a class today which should be in their big binder for future reference. The homework has an explanation of how to answer each question. Students must write in complete sentences and justify their answers with examples from the passage.
There will be a contraction test on October 12th.
We finished up on CROP-QV today! Reading strategies used to help us with our comprehension. Connections, reactions, opinions, prediction, questions and visualizing. We use all of these skills before, during, and after reading.
Homework was given today that is due next Tuesday, October 11th. They are working on contractions and document based questions. Document based questions include reading a passage, looking at a related document, and answering questions. The questions incorporate different levels of understanding based on Bloom's Taxonomy. We worked on an example as a class today which should be in their big binder for future reference. The homework has an explanation of how to answer each question. Students must write in complete sentences and justify their answers with examples from the passage.
There will be a contraction test on October 12th.
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