Please send in newspapers for am activity that we are working on in the classroom. Thank you!

Our Class Schedule

7:50-8:00-ENN, Attendance, Turn in Homework, Announcements

8:00-8:45-Reading Block

8:45-9:30-Reading Block

9:30-10:20-Math

10:20-11:20-Writing (Integration with Science & Social Studies)

11:20-11:50-Recess (except on PE days-Math

11:55-12:25-Lunch

12:30-1:15-Related Arts

1:15-1:55-Science & Social Studies (Language Arts Integration)

1:55-2:00-Dismissal

Laugh Out Loud

Parents, please help your child submit an age- and subject-appropriate joke. I will add it to our collection!

What kind of teachers wears sunglasses? Answer: The ones with bright students
Why did the boy take a tophat and cape to his math exam? Answer: He was hoping to use math-magics.
What did the boy say when he was told that he forgot everything he learned? Answer: Can you repeat the question?

Problem Solving

Occasionally we will have an optional brain-teasing math problem or a riddle to solve. Please be able to show me how you arrived at the answer and bring it to school with you by Thursday of the week that it appears on our web page. Parents or other adults may help! S-T-R-E-T-C-H those brains!

Read the clue Draw the objects in the correct order. Write their names below the picture.

1. Kristin's town had 3 days of very different weather. It snowed before it rained. The sun shone all day the middle day.

2. Jana has 4 crayons on her desk. The red crayon does not touch the green one. The blue one is before the yellow one. The yellow one is last. The green crayon is behind the blue one.

3. Julio has a row of stickers on his binder. The smile sticker does not touch the clover or bug. The dog and bug stickers touch the heart. The heart sticker is in the middle. The clover is in front of the dog.

Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award Program

Master List of Titles

2009-2010

Grades 3- 5

Cheaney, J. B. Middle of Somewhere. Yearling, ©2008. [Knopf (2007 hardcover) – ISBN 0375837906; Yearling (2008 paperback) – ISBN 0440421659]

Davies, Jacqueline. The Lemonade War. Sandpiper, ©2009 [Houghton Mifflin (2007 hardcover) – ISBN 0618750436; Sandpiper (2009 paperback) – ISBN 0547237650]

Fleming, Candace. The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School. Yearling, ©2009. [Schwartz & Wade (2007 hardcover) – ISBN 0375836721; Yearling (2009 paperback) – ISBN 0440422299]

Frazier, Sundee T. Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in it. Yearling, ©2008 [Delacorte (2007 hardcover) – ISBN 0385734395; Yearling (2008 paperback) – ISBN 044042206X; ListeningLibrary (2008 audiobook) – ISBN 0739379100]

Funke, Cornelia. Igraine the Brave. Chicken House, ©2008. [Chicken House (2007 hardcover) – ISBN 0439903793; Chicken House (2008 paperback) – ISBN 1905294654; Listening Library (2007 audiobook) – ISBN 0739356186]

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Found. Simon & Schuster, ©2009. (Simon & Schuster (2008 hardcover) – ISBN 1416954171; Simon & Schuster (2009 paperback) – ISBN 141695421X]

Hobbs, Valerie. Defiance. Square Fish, ©2009.[Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2004 hardcover) – ISBN 0374308470; Square Fish (2009 paperback) – ISBN 0312535813]

Jonell, Lynne. Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat. Square Fish, ©2008. [Henry Holt (2007 hardcover) – ISBN 080508150X; Square Fish (2008 paperback) – ISBN 0312384602; Full CastAudio (2009 audiobook) – ISBN 1934180270]

Kennedy, Marlane. Me and the Pumpkin Queen. HarperCollins, ©2009. [HarperCollins (2007 hardcover) – ISBN 0061140228; HarperCollins (2009 paperback) – ISBN 0061140244]

Lin, Grace. Year of the Dog. Little, Brown, ©2007. [Little, Brown (2005 hardcover) – ISBN 0316060003; Little, Brown (2007 paperback) – ISBN 031606002X; Recorded Books (2007 audiobook) – ISBN 1428133623]

Lisle, Janet Taylor. Highway Cats. Puffin, ©2009.[Philomel (2008 hardcover) – ISBN 0399250700; Puffin (2009 paperback) – ISBN 0142414859]

Lubar, David. Punished. Darby Creek, ©2007.[Darby Creek (2005 hardcover) – ISBN 1581960425; Darby Creek (2007 paperback) – ISBN 1581960638]

Salisbury, Graham. Night of the Howling Dogs. Laurel Leaf, ©2009. [Wendy Lamb (2007 hardcover) – ISBN 0385731221; Laurel Leaf (2009 paperback) – ISBN 0440238390]

Urban, Linda. Crooked Kind of Perfect. Harcourt, ©2009.[Harcourt (2007 hardcover) – ISBN 0152060073; Harcourt (2009 paperback) – ISBN 015206608X; Listening Library (2007 audiobook) – ISBN 0739359614]

Ms. Walker's Webpage

November 16 - November 20, 2009

Remember to Study Multiplication Facts!!

Something To Think About

You might want to try using these questions with your children as a springboard for logical thinking. Please don't be satisfied with a "yes" or "no" answer from them. Have fun!

A. Of what use are your fingernails?

B. Name some musical instruments that you can play while you are singing.

C. Do you always shed tear when you cry?

Writing Tips

1. Encourage your children to talk about ideas and jot down these ideas before writing.

2. Be sure to give your children lots of positive encouragement about their writing.

3. Ask your children what they did in writing class today and discuss what they're writing.

4. Encourage your children to keep a journal of personal or family events.

5. After you and your child have read a story together, have your child write a summary of the story, including setting, characters, the problem, and the solution to the problem.

6. Review the planning structure for a narrative piece (story) of writing. A narrative consists of at least 5 paragraphs. The following is the planning tool that we use for a narrative:

Grabber-get the reader's attention

Setting-where and when does the story take place

Characters-introduce who is in the story

Problem (Conflict)

Action 1 (Event) -actions that lead to the solution.

Action 2 (Event)-can have more than 2 actions

Solution (Resolution)-solve the problem

Take Away-what was learned from the story

Mark Your Calendar!

November 13-Science Fair Projects Due

November 16-"Locks of Love"

November 17-Fourth Grade Honor Roll Assembly 8:30-9:30 a.m. Free Dress Day for United Way

November 17-Book Order Due

November 18-Principal's Honor Roll Breakfast 8:30-9:30 Parent/Teacher Conferences 5:00-8:00

November 20-No School

November 25-27 Thanksgiving Vacation-No School

December 2 Early Release; Duffy's Night

December 3-10 Holiday Store

December 11-Fourth Grade Book Club

Academics

Reading - Text Structure: Cause and Effect

Spelling -Lesson 11 Each week, we will have 25 spelling words and several extra credit words. The current list will be removed on Thursday of each week.

1. begin 14. rival

2. vanish 15. relish

3. bonus 16. silent

4. legal 17. solar

5. event 18. spider

6. moment 19. super

7. motive 20. virus

8. native 21. basis

9. suburb 22. enemy

10. mimic 23. balance

11. paper 24. chemical

12. pilot 25. fiber

13. raven

Robust Vocabulary-Lesson 11-These words appear in the weekly reading stories and students need to learn the definitions to better understand what they are reading. They are not spelling words, but the ** words are extra credit words for spelling.

1. **predators Predators are animals that kill and eat other animals.

2. traits Traits are particular qualities or characteristics of a person or thing.

3. lure If something lures you, it makes you want to go to it, even though it is dangerous or could get you in trouble.

4. avoid If you avoid a person or thing, you keep away from that person or thing.

5. mimic If you mimic a person or thing, you try to act or look exactly like that person or thing.

6. **obvious If something is obvious, it is so easily seen or understood that no one has to explain it.

7. resembles if one person or thing resembles another, the two look similar to each other.

8. deceptive A deceptive person or thing tries to make you believe something that is not true.

Language - Common and Proper Nouns

Writing - Expository Writing

Mathematics - Multiply by One-Digit Numbers

Social Studies - Florida Native Americans

Related Arts Schedule

*Note - I will change the schedule on Thursday, so please make note of Friday's schedule. Thank you!

*Monday Music

*Tuesday PE

*Wednesday Science

*Thursday Computer

*Friday No School

Brain Teasers

Here are a few new Brain Teasers. See if you can figure out the answers!

Use the digits to write a number ( Use each digit only once in each problem).

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

A. The number that is closest to but not more than 7,000.

B. The smallest 3-digit number with all odd numbers.

C. The closest number to 10,000.

D. The greatest 4-digit number with all even digits.

Icon Storage

PE Computer

Science Art

Music