Weekend!

Today we took our Homophone Spelling test. We also went on our morning field trip to see the Liberty band/orchestra perform.  

Homophone Games

Spelling Lists

Spelling City

JDRF Envelopes - Due May 2 for students who choose to participate

We read  "Dinosaurs and Dragons" this week.  We are continuing to work on dinosaur and dragon projects and descriptive writing this week.  Next week we will be reading a non-fiction text about the Grand Canyon.

eBook

Dino, Dragons, and Homophones

We will have our homophone spelling test this Friday.   These words will be used in context on the test.   On Friday we will also be going on our morning field trip to see the Liberty band/orchestra perform.  

Homophone Games

Spelling Lists

Spelling City

JDRF Envelopes - Due May 2 for students who choose to participate

We read  "Dinosaurs and Dragons" this week.  We are continuing to worki on dinosaur and dragon projects and descriptive writing this week.  

eBook

Dinos and Dragons

We will have our homophone spelling test this Friday.   These words will be used in context on the test.   On Friday we will also be going on our morning field trip to see the Liberty band/orchestra perform.  

Homophone Games

Spelling Lists

Spelling City

Special Mother's Day project - $3 for students who choose to participate - due tomorrow

JDRF Envelopes - Due May 2 for students who choose to participate

We read  "Dinosaurs and Dragons" this week.  We are working on dinosaur and dragon projects and descriptive writing this week.  

eBook

Homophones - Spelling Unit 28

We've discussed Unit 28 Spelling words, and will have our test this Friday.   These words all are homophones and must be used in context on the test.  Today we completed Spelling workbook pages 111-112.  Here are some Homophone games:

Homophone Games

Spelling Lists

Spelling City

Special Mother's Day project - $3 for students who choose to participate

JDRF Envelopes - Due May 2 for students who choose to participate

Here's the eBook for our Storytown selection this week, Dinosaurs and Dragons.  We started reading this story today and will continue tomorrow.  Tomorrow is also an LRC day, so library books are due. 

eBook

PARCC Language Arts

We are continuing PARCC testing all week.  This week we are finishing our Language Arts tests.

We've discussed Unit 27 Spelling words, and will have our test this Friday,  April 22.    These words all have Latin roots (spect, struct, graph, vis) that are used as the core of each word.

Spelling Lists

Spelling City

Special Mother's Day project - $3 for students who choose to participate

JDRF Envelopes - Due May 2 for students who choose to participat

PARCC Tests Continue

We are continuing PARCC testing all week.  This week we are finishing our Language Arts tests.

We've discussed Unit 27 Spelling words, and will have our test this Friday,  April 22.    These words all have Latin roots (spect, struct, graph, vis) that are used as the core of each word.

Spelling Lists

Spelling City

Special Mother's Day project - $3 for students who choose to participate

JDRF Envelopes - Due May 2 for students who choose to participate

PARCC TESTING

We are continuing PARCC testing all next week.  Students have been working on math tests and have seemed to do well.  We will start Language Arts testing next week.

We've discussed Unit 27 Spelling words, and will have our test this Friday,  April 22.    These words all have Latin roots (spect, struct, graph, vis) that are used as the core of each word.

Spelling Lists

Spelling City

JDRF

PARCC Testing Starts THURSDAY

We discussed Unit 27 Spelling words, but we will not have the test until April 22, due to PARCC testing beginning on Thursday of this week.    These words all have Latin roots (spect, struct, graph, vis) that are used as the core of each word.

Spelling Lists

Spelling City

Today Mrs. Edgett, our school nurse, spoke to the students about Juvenile Diabetes.  We are doing a fundraiser, Walk for a Cause, on May 18.  Students were given envelopes today to use if they choose to participate in this community service project.  

Students need headphones for PARCC testing.

We are currently reading the short, funny novel Esio Trot, by Roald Dahl.  

PARCC Testing Starts THURSDAY

We discussed Unit 27 Spelling words, but we will not have the test until April 22, due to PARCC testing beginning on Thursday of this week.  Students completed Spelling workbook page 107-108.  These words all have Latin roots (spect, struct, graph, vis) that are used as the core of each word.

Spelling Lists

Spelling City

We also started reading Roald Dahl's funny book Esio Trot.  We will be using this book as our short novel study during the week(s) of PARCC testing.  There will NOT be a Tuesday night homework assignment this week.

Students should be sure that they have headphones for PARCC testing.

PARCC Tests Start THURSDAY

Today we took our spelling test over silent letter words.  We will NOT have a spelling test this upcoming Friday (April 15) due to PARCC testing, but the words have been provided to help prepare for our next test, the week of April 22.  PARCC testing begins on THURSDAY.  Students do NEED HEADPHONES for the PARCC test, as it is taken on the computer. Tests will be taken with their Block 2 (homeroom).  Tests will continue in to the week of April 18th.  Students are prepared and will do well if they work hard and used their time wisely.

Spelling Lists

Spelling City

Today we had our "Growing Up" talks!  Don't forget to return the permission slip for the orchestra field trip at the end of the month.

Spelling Test Tomorrow

We are practicing for our Spelling Unit 26  test on Friday.  These words are silent letter spellings. We completed workbook page 105-106.  

Spelling Lists

Spelling City

Friday we will have our "Growing Up" video and presentation.  

We are working on our "New Destination" oral presentation and poster that will describe a favorite location in New Lenox.  The students are working very hard on this, and they are enjoying it greatly!  They will be "presenting" their news show tomorrow.  

Fourth grade PARCC tests begin on THURSDAY.  Students are prepared and will do well, as long as they put forth a good effort.  

New Destinations New Lenox

Today we re-read "Welcome to Chinatown and took the story test.  Here's the link to the ebook.  This story is the last story in Theme 5.  We are also working on creating our own "New Destination" reports about special places in New Lenox.  We are creating posters and writing a plan for our oral presentations.  The students are enjoying this activity.  

In Block 1 we finished reading Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.  The class really enjoyed this true story.  It is quite a tearjerker.  

Block 2 is finishing Hank Zipper and the Zippity Zinger.  
eBook


Chinese New Year Videos for Kids:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u-R-aIq3_E - Story of the Zodiac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5aY11MpvsI - Short Zodiac Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIThvekI_u0 -  Chinese New Year Photos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZPIQ-jw_mc - San Francisco Chinatown Parade

We are practicing for our Spelling Unit 26  test on Friday.  These words are silent letter spellings.  

Spelling Lists

Spelling City

Friday we will have our "Growing Up" video and presentation.  Permission reminder slips are going home today. 

Welcome to Chinatown

Today we read "Welcome to Chinatown."  Rereading this Readers Theatre story will be tonight's homework assignment.  We practiced our vocabulary words and completed our Practice Workbook page 113 to review these words.  Our story comprehension test and vocabulary test will be tomorrow.  Here's the link to the ebook.  This story is the last story in Theme 5. 

eBook


Chinese New Year Videos for Kids:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u-R-aIq3_E - Story of the Zodiac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5aY11MpvsI - Short Zodiac Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIThvekI_u0 -  Chinese New Year Photos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZPIQ-jw_mc - San Francisco Chinatown Parade

We are practicing for our Spelling Unit 26  test on Friday.  These words are silent letter spellings.  We completed workbook page 103-104 yesterday and practiced visualizing the silent letters to help us spell them properly.  

Spelling Lists

Spelling City

Friday we will have our "Growing Up" video and presentation.  Permission reminder slips are going home today. 

Back to School, Back to the Routine!

Today we went over our Spelling Unit 26 words for our test on Friday.  These words are silent letter spellings.  We completed workbook page 103-104 and practiced visualizing the silent letters to help us spell them properly.  Spelling Lists

 We also worked on Irregular Verbs and completed Grammar workbook pages 91-92.

Tomorrow we will be reading "Welcome to Chinatown."  Rereading this Readers Theatre story will be Tuesday's homework assignment.

Friday we will have our "Growing Up" video and presentation.  Permission reminder slips are going home today.

Chinese New Year Videos for Kids:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u-R-aIq3_E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5aY11MpvsI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIThvekI_u0