Monday's Homework

Math: Homework Practice 7-6. #'s 1-12
Read: Read for 30 minutes and fill out the reading log.
Spelling: Choose spelling activity.
****Special note: We have a field trip in the morning to Goldstone. The bus leaves at 8:45, and we return at noon. Please sign the permission slip form, and return it.

Spelling and Vocabulary Words for 10/31-11/4

Spelling Words for 10/31-11/4 (Words with ending –ed and –ing)

1.      watched    11. happened

2.      watching   12. happening

3.      danced       13. noticed

4.      dancing      14. noticing

5.      studied       15. robbed

6.      studying     16. robbing

7.      stopped      17. slipped

8.      stopping     18. slipping

9.      dried           19. hurried

10.  drying         20. Hurrying

Vocabulary words (Taken from this week’s story, The Stranger.)

draft: current of air
etched: engraved; a design or drawing on a metal or glass plate
fascinated: interested greatly; attracted very strongly; charmed
frost: moisture frozen on or in surface; feathery crystals of ice formed when water vapor in the air condenses at a temperature below freezing
parlor: formerly, a room for receiving or entertaining guests; sitting room
terror: great fear
timid: easily frightened; shy

Week Synopsis of the Week

     This Thursday we have a field trip to Goldstone. Goldstone is the area where there are the big radio telescopes. The bus leaves at 8:45 sharp, so be sure your child is on time. We return around 11:45am.
     This week in math, we are learning about multi digit multiplication. For example, 1,356 X 4. We are scheduled to have a test on this on Friday this week. Refer to the internet website ca.gr4math.com for assistance.
     For language arts, this week we are learning about the four seasons, cause and effect, the reading comprehension strategy “asking questions”, the writing genre “fantasy”, sentences,  and action and linking verbs.

Friday

I sent home a few tests today at the end of school. Be sure to check your child's take home folder for it.

Wednesday's Homework

Math: 7-2 Homework Practice.
Read: Read for 30 minutes. Fill in reading log.
Spelling: Choose Activity.
* Crazy hat day is tomorrow.

Tuesday's Homework

Math: Homework Practice 7-3.
Read: Read for 30 minutes. Fill out reading log.
Spelling: Choose spelling activity.
***Tomorrow is pajama day.

Weekly Spelling Words (Unit Review Words)

Spelling Review Words
1. companies
2. sandwhiches
3. halves
4. radios
5. nephew
6. young
7. graph
8. partner
9. counties
10. themselves
11. belong
12. forward
13. whisper
14. heard
15. early
16. monkeys
17. argue
18. among
19. beliefs
20. strong

Thursday's Homework

Spelling: Turn in spelling assignments for the week.
Read: Have reading log completed and turned in.
Math: Complete "Homework Practice Test". Tomorrow we have a test on Chapter 6. Refer to ca.gr4math.com for extra help.

Wednesday's Homework

Math: skills Practice 6-7
Read: 30 min. Complete reading log
Spelling: Choose spelling activity

Tuesday's Homework

Spelling: Choose activity.
Read: Read for 30 minutes, and fill out reading log.
Math: Homework Practice 6-7

Monday's Homework

Spelling: Choose activity.
Read: Read for thirty minutes, and fill in reading log.
Math: Homework Practice 6-6
*Parent teacher conferences start tomorrow. School gets out at 1:10 on Wednesday and Thursday.

Spelling and Vocabulary List for 10/17-10/21

Spelling Words for 10/17-10/21 (Words with ear, ir, our, and ur)

1.    return           11.furniture

2.    courage        12. search

3.    surface         13. curtain

4.    purpose       14. burrow

5.    turkey          15. hamburger

6.    turtle           16. survey

7.    journal        17. first

8.    courtesy     18. heard

9.    nourish       19. birthday

10.                  purse           20. Early

Vocabulary Words (Words taken from this weeks story So You Want to Be President?)

Constitution the written set of fundamental principles by which the United States is governed

howling very great

humble not proud; modes

politics the work of government; management of public business

responsibility the act or fact of taking care of someone or something; obligation

solemnly seriously; earnestly; with dignity

vain having too much pride in your looks, ability, etc.

This week we have parent/teacher conferences. Tuesday and Wednesday are early out days to make time for those conferences.

This week in language arts we are focusing on the U.S. Government, suffix –ly, main idea and details, summarizing, expository nonfiction, and Plural possessive nouns.

In math, we are working on mainly “Order of Operations.” More on this concept can be found on ca.gr4math.com in Chapter 6 Lesson 3.

Thursday's Homework

Spelling: Write words 3 times each.
Math: Homework practice 6-4.
: Read for 30 minutes.
* Turn in parent/ teacher confirmation slips.
** If you hav money for the math-a-thon, please turn it in tomorrow. :-)

Wednesday's Homework

Math: Homework Practice 6-3. Use ca.gr4math.com as a resource to help you.
Read: Read for 30 minutes.( No reading log this week.)
Spelling: Workbook page 41.
*** I am sending home parent/teacher conference slips. The slips say the time and date for the conferences held next week. Please sigh and return the bottom portion.
***** Also, if you participated, please return the envelopes with the read-a-thon money. We use the money help pay for field trips. Thank you!!!!

Tuesday's Homework

Math: Homework Practic 6-1
Spelling: Workbook page 42
Read: Read for 30 minutes. (No reading log entry for tonight.)
**** If you have money to turn in for the read-a-thon, please turn it in this week.

Spelling and Vocabulary Words for 10/10-10/14

1. Thanksgiving       11. belong
2. think                     12. strong
3. blank                    13. graph
4. shrink                   14. wheel
5. trunk                    15. nephew
6. blink                    16. whiskers
7. chunk                  17. whisper
8. skunk                  18. elephant
9. among                 19. white
10. young                20. wharf


Vocabulary Words (Words are taken from this weeks reading selection Horse Heros.)

ambition: Something for which you have a strong desire.
infested: Covered by something harmful.
landslide: Mass of earth or rock that slides down a steep slope.
quicksand: A very deep, soft, wet sand that will not hold up a person's weight.
resistance: Thing or act that resists; opposing force; opposition.
rickety: Liable to fall or break down; shaky; weak.
roamed: Went about with no special plan or aim; wandered.
vast: Very great; immense.

    This week in math we are in chapter 6. The focus of chapter 6 is "Order of Operations." Please visit ca.gr4math.com to preview the chapter.
   In Language Arts this week, we are focusing on learning Latin prefixes dis-, re-, and non-, fact and opinion, expository nonfiction, organizing and building an introductory paragraph, and singular possessive nouns.

Thursday's Homework

Math: Complete Worksheet "test practice."
Read: Turn in Reading Log.
Spelling: turn in spelling homework.
*** Students are doind the read- a- thon tomorrow. If they want to bring a pillow to be comfortably reading, that is okay. The money is to be collected and returned sometime next week. Thank you for your participation!

Wednesday's Homework

Parents have Homework tonight!
Please fill out and return the Impact Aid Survey Form. These surveys are NOT optional. They need to be returned by tomorrow (Thursday), and they HAVE TO be returned by Friday.

There is no homework for the students. Their homework is to make sure the Impact Aid Survy Form is turned in by you.

Thank you! :-)

Tuesday's Homework

Math: Homework Practice 5-8.
Spelling: Choose activity.
Read: Read for 30 minutes, and fill out reading log.

A quick Internet resource for math is ca.gr4math.com

Monday's Homework

Math: Homework Practice 5-6
Reading: Read for 30 minutes, and log in information in the reading log.
Spelling: Complete spelling activity.
****I sent home math chapter tests 3 and 4 for parents to review with their child. it does not need to come back to school.

Spelling and Vocabulary words for 10/3-10/7

Spelling Words for 10/3-10/7 (Words with ar, or)
1. morning   11. sharp          
2. forest       12. garden                                           
3. form         13. Arkansas                                       
4. corner      14. alarm                                                    
5. story         15. garbage                                        
6. storm       16. argue                                               
7. Florida     17. start
8. sport         18. partner
9. force         19. apartment
10. forward   20. backyard

Vocabulary Words taken from the weekly story Scene Two

advice suggestion or recommendation about an action or decision.
argument a debate or verbal disagreement
arrangements plans
descendant a person descended from an ancestor
dishonest not truthful
script the written text of a play
snag a hurdle or problem

            We have two very long school district-wide tests we will be taking Monday and Tuesday morning called the district “Blueprints.”
             This week in Language Arts, we are reading the story Scene Two. We are focusing on this week Latin prefixes, drawing conclusions, irregular plural nouns, and learning about the reading/writing genre plays.
            For math, we are continuing through chapter five in our math books. The main focus in chapter 5 is multiplication and division math facts. Multiplication and division math facts are something we will be using all year, so this is a skill that needs to be continually at school and at home on their own.

Internet Resources for Your Child

Online Resources

My Email:
rhiggins@silvervalley.k12.ca.us 

My Blogsite with homework information and other resources is
http://higgins4thgrade.blogspot.com/

Math Text Book and Workbook Online Resource:
http://macmillanmh.com/ose/
Go to the above link and enter the following into the field that says "Access Code": (The code won't work if you copy and paste it into the field. You have to type in the access code on the keyboard.)
BACF92D466

Now, this resource will let you view the entire math textbook at home. ALSO, it will allow you to print out the homework we do and give you additional math pages for practice. (To get to homework you will need to click on the "Table of Contents"; then you will click on the little gray arrow next to whichever chapter you want the homework for; a list will drop down from the arrow; click on whichever lesson we are working on (IE 14-6); then click on the "Resources" button which is next to the "Table of Contents" button; finally, homework and additional practice resources will appear for you to view.) If your child "forgets" his or her homework, you can still have him or her do it if you have an internet connection.

Another Online Math Resource:
ca.gr4math.com
This resource has some videos that reteach the lesson we are on. There are also extra practice problems, and sometimes math games available for a lesson.


Student Online Achievement Resource (SOAR) for Military Families:
http://www.soarathome.org/