Thursday 4/28

Thursday's homework
Spelling:Write words 3 times each
Read: Read for 30 minutes ( no reading logs because of short week)
Math: Homework practice 9-1
Extra: Please don' forget to turn in the Earth Day permission slip tomorrow if you haven't already done so. ( the date on he slip says "May 29 HOWEVER it is supposed to read APRIL 29th.) We are walking at 1230pm to the Earth Day field trip on Friday (tomorrow). Please show up at he front office to walk with us if you would like to join us walking over.

Field Trip Dates

*******. I made a mistake on the permission slip form. The date of the Earrh Day trip is APRIL 29th not MAY 29th. WE ARE ALSO WALKING THERE.**********Earth Day field trip: April 29th Time: TBA. Location: parking lot of building 602 corner of 5th and Barstow Road
(if you want to walk with us please come! We are leaving at 1230. So if you want to walk with us, you may stop by the front office and let them know you are here to walk with us.)
Discovery Center: May 5th Time: 630am to 530pm

JPL NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: May 24th Time: 830am to 630pm

Homework (4/27)

Wednesday's Homework:
Spelling: Write words in alphabetical order.
Reading: Read for 30 minutes.
Math: Homework Practice 9-5
EXTRA: Turn in permission slips for a last minute "Earth Day Field Trip" that we will go on this Friday. The Earth Day field trip destination is somewhere at Fort Irwin. (The permission slip will have more details.) We are walking there from school, so if you would like to walk with us and come along please meet in the office before 1230pm because that is when we are walking over. We will walk back AR approximately 2pm.

Spelling/Vocabulary words for 4/27-4/29

Spelling Words (4/27-4/29)

(Due to another short week, we have 10 spelling words.)

1.      misplace

2.     nonsense

3.      reread

4.      repack

5.      misfortune

6.      remove

7.      mishandle

8.       nonstop

9.      recover

10.  reseal

Vocabulary (Vocabulary taken from the story Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path by Joseph Bruchac)

1.       board-ing school school with buildings where the students live during the school term

2.       dor-mi-to-ry a building with many rooms in which people sleep. Many colleges have dormitories for students whose homes are elsewhere

3.       en-dur-ance power to last and to withstand hard wear

4.       man-u-al done with hands

5.       res-er-va-tion land set aside by the government for a special purpose

6.       so-ci-e-ty the people of any particular time or place

Wednesday (4/21)

Wednesday Information:

Some students are taking home progress reports--some are not. The students who received a progress report have an academic concern in one or more areas (They have a "Basic" or "Below Basic" score). If a student did not receive a progress report, that means they are mainly "Proficient" in the different subject areas.

Tuesday (4/19)

Tuesday's Homework
Spelling: Write Spelling words 3 times each
Reading: Read for 30 minutes
Math: Homework Practice 8-7

Monday (4/18) Homework

Monday's Homework:
Spelling: Write spelling words in alphabetical order.
Read: Read for 30 minutes.
Math: Homework Practice 8-4

Spelling and Vocabulary words to be tested this week (4/18)

Spelling Words
1. stomach
2. memory
3. Canada
4. element
5. mystery
6. science
7. remember
8. forget
9. suppose
10. iron

Vocabulary Words

an-ces-stors: people from whom you are descended, such as your great-grandparents
a-void-ed: kept away from; kept out of the way of
gen-e-ra-tions: periods of about thirty years, or the time from the birth of one generation to the birth of the next generation
min-is-ster: member of the clergy; spiritual guide; pastor
nu-mer-ours: very many
pul-pit: platform or raised structure in a church from which the minister preachers
shield-ing: protecting; defending

Field Trip TOMORROW!

Hello parents,

We have a field trip tomorrow morning (Monday, April 18). We leave from our school at 8:30am on the bus to Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex. We return around 11:45am.

To the parents who wanted to chaperone, you can follow the bus there.

ALSO, I was sent an email from the principal the other day that the district office will expedite fingerprint processing requests to accommodate parents to ride the bus to a couple of our field trips to Santa Ana and Pasadena. Parents just need to come to the front desk during school time hours and ask the secretary for forms to be fingerprinted so you can ride the bus on field trips. If you do this you will be able to ride the bus to JPL on May 24th and hopefully they will have the fingerprints processed for the May 5th field trip as well.

Have a good day,


Mr. Higgins

Thursday (4/14)

Thursday's Homework:


Go to this think and practice some MATH STAR Test prep questions (We test MATH on Thursday AND Friday):

http://starsamplequestions.org/starRTQ/search.jsp

Read: Read for 30 minutes.


Field Trips Reminder: Please remember to turn in field trip permission slips as soon as possible because our first field trip is this coming Monday. (If you do not want your child participating in one or all of the field trips, that is perfectly okay, and they will be shuffled into one of the other fourth grade classes on that day we are on a field trip.)
I will give out extra forms today to students who lost their field trip permission slip forms.

Wednesday 4/13

Wednesday's Homework:


Go to this think and practice some MATH STAR Test prep questions (We test MATH on Thursday AND Friday):

http://starsamplequestions.org/starRTQ/search.jsp

Read: Read for 30 minutes.


Field Trips Reminder: Please remember to turn in field trip permission slips as soon as possible because our first field trip is this coming Monday. (If you do not want your child participating in one or all of the field trips, that is perfectly okay, and they will be shuffled into one of the other fourth grade classes on that day we are on a field trip.)
I will give out extra forms today to students who lost their field trip permission slip forms.

Tuesday (4/12)

Tuesday's Homework

Go to this think and practice some Language Arts STAR Test prep questions:

http://starsamplequestions.org/starRTQ/search.jsp

Read: Read for 30 minutes.


Field Trips Reminder: Please remember to turn in field trip permission slips as soon as possible because our first field trip is this coming Monday. (If you do not want your child participating in one or all of the field trips, that is perfectly okay, and they will be shuffled into one of the other fourth grade classes on that day we are on a field trip.)

Week (4/10-4/14)

There will be no spelling words this week due to STAR test preparation and testing.
We will test this week Tuesday through Thursday on the STAR test. Language Arts is being tested Tuesday and Wednesday. Math is being tested on Thursday. If you want to see some sample questions for the STAR test you can go to the following website:

http://starsamplequestions.org/starRTQ/search.jsp

Also, we are doing 3 field trips and I need the permission slips back as soon as possible.

The following dates of the field trips are:

1. Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex: Monday, April 18th
2. Discovery Science Center: May 5th
3. Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: (JPL): May 24th

All the students brought home fliers that further describe the different field trips.

Thursday (4/7)

Thursday's Homework:
Spelling- Write spelling words 3 times each.
Reading- Read for 30 minutes and turn in reading logs.
Math- Homework practice 9-9

Wednesday (4/6)

Wednesday's Homework
Vocabulary: Vocabulary Worksheet
Reading: Read for 30 minutes
Math: 9-1 Homework Practice

Tuesday (4/9)

Tuesday's homework:
Spelling: 10 sentences with the spelling words.
Reading: Read for 30 minutes.
Math:  Homework practice 8-7

Spelling and Vocabulary Words to be Tested (4/4-4/8)

Spelling Words (4/4-4/8)
1. Incorrectly          11. Sportsmanship
2. Symphony           12. Microphone
3. Predict                 13. Tripod
4. Unbreakable        14. Olive
5. Saxophone          15. Locally
6. Pleasant              16. Dragon
7. Imagine               17. Spinach
8. Breathe               18. Donate
9. Microchip           19. Compose
10. Location           20. Vacant

Vocabulary
Thicket- a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees
Trudged- a laborious or tiring walk
Depart- to go away from; leave
Shaft- a vertical or sloping passageway leading to the surface.
Essential- absolutely necessary; indispensable
Gradually- Taking place, changing, moving, etc., by small degrees or little by little