UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER - DECEMBER 2018

EVENT REMINDERS: December 2018

Dec. 17-21 Holiday Dress Up Days (see below)
Jan. 11: Talent Show Performances

                                           Dress Up Days: 
Monday 12/17: Reindeer Day
Tuesday 12/18: Holiday Sweaters (ugly or cute)
Wednesday 12/19: Snowman/Frosty Day
Thursday 12/20 Pajama Day 
Friday 12/21 Holiday Attire (early release day)

ASSIGNMENTS DUE Week: Sept. 24 - Sept. 28

ASSIGNMENTS DUE TODAY - September 28

- Cursive "B"
- Whooo's Reading Reader Response Entry # 2
- Strong Character Chart in Writer's Notebook (Brainstorming Entry)
- Checkpoint ( Theme and Author's Purpose )

HOMEWORK: DUE OCTOBER 4

HOMEWORK REMINDER:

Week: September 27 - October 4

Students should be setting a goal of weekly reading. Goal should not be less than 20 minutes.

Parent Signature is required.

Page 1: Reading Concept
Page 2: Grammar Concept

ELAR WEEK: October 1 - October 5

ELAR WEEK: October 1 - October 5

Reading Workshop: 

Mentor Text: "Quickest Kid in Clarksville"

This week we will continue to look at Theme, and how stories can teach us about life lessons.
We will also begin to dive into Plot! We will study the plot elements:
- Exposition (Setting, characters)
- Rising Action (The events that are leading up to a conflict in the story)
- Climax (The turning point when things begin to change for the good or the working out of conflict)
- Falling Action (The events that are occurring as the conflict begins to draw to an end)
- Resolution  (The conflict is resolved, and everything is as it should be)

Students will learn about the plot elements, as well as how to summarize a piece of text containing the elements, being careful not to label the element parts in their writing. Students must have a good concept of the plot elements in order to be able to summarize a text thoroughly.


Writing Workshop:

We are already working on our Imaginative Stories! We are wrapping up building our Strong Characters, and we will work this week on creating conflicts in our stories as we brainstorm. We will also determine what Theme do we want our stories to have, and work toward building our own plot in our writing!

Grammar Concepts for the week: What are Adjectives?

Week September 17 - 21

ELAR WEEK: September 17 - 21

Reading Workshop:

This week we will finalize Unit 1! We have learned alot!! This week's Interactive Read Aloud will be
"Weird, Wonderful, Mrs. Becker". It is a short story where we will continue to use our Schema to connect to the text, as well as underline places where we find Sensory Details. We will discuss how we can use the crafts we see Author's using in our own writing!

You will find the story here!
Weird, Wonderful Mrs. Becker


Writing Workshop:

IT IS TIME!! We have finished our Drafts and will be publishing this week!! We cannot wait to have our guest readers, YOU, come and read what we have been working so hard on!
Remember it is this Friday, September 21, and it will vary by your child's homeroom time for ELAR.
Please refer to your email invitation for the times as well as the Fast Pass for the quick check in!

Writer Celebration

 Writer' Celebration - September 21, 2018

Join us on Friday, September 21, 2018 as we celebrate our authors!

Check your email for details! 

AUSTIN TRIP and 4th Grade Curriculum Night Notes

Here you will find the information for the Austin Field Trip as well as other 4th grade notes from Curriculum Night!

                                                               Austin Trip Information

Video Message Week: September 10 - 14

This weeks Video Message:

September 10 - September 14

Click on the Link to view Message:

                                                      Video Message: Week September 10 - 14

Expected Assignments from previous week: Week September 10-14

ASSIGNMENTS DUE - Friday, September 14

Record of Reading Responses over the text "Goin Someplace Special"
-  Students should have written in their journal their Schema Connections from their own text
-  Students should have written in their journal the Sensory Details they found from their own reading.

Checkpoint 3 online: From the text "Swimmers". Questions over Literal, Interpretive, and Evaluative, using Text Evidence, and Author's Purpose.

Reteach will start this week over those concepts for those who need extra support.

Writing Drafts should be being completed by Tuesday, September 11 or Wednesday, September 12.
Revising and Editing were to be completed by Friday, September 14

Cursive Letter: "A"

HOMEWORK DUE: September 13

Homework for Log 2 and Editing Practice DUE, Thursday, September 13.

Week September 8 - 12

Reading Workshop:
This week in ELAR we will be learning about how author's use Sensory Images to bring forth stories, as well as connecting to other texts by using our background knowledge. Students will continue to discuss Author's Purpose as well as look at Literal, Interpretive, and Evaluative questions when we read, "Goin Someplace Special."

Writing Workshop:
In Writing Workshop this week we will learn how to create Strong Beginnings in our writing, as well as begin Revising and Editing our Writing. We are so excited to present our first pieces on Friday, September 21 to our audience! More information to come on that this week!

HOMEWORK Due Sept. 6

Homework was given out August 30.
Homework booklet is due Sept. 6 to review and discuss.

Please do not have pages removed from booklet. 

Homework link to all pages coming soon!

Assignments Due:

Assignments currently due by September 4 -

Word Work
Writing Small Moment Entries

ELAR Week: Sept. 4 - 7, 2018

Reading Workshop:

This week we will look at Literal, Interpretive, and Evaluative questions, while continuing to tie that into Author's Purpose.

Literal Questions: Questions whose answers can be directly stated and found in text.

Interpretive Questions: Are questions where the reader has to use details/text evidence to infer what is really being said, happening, or going to happen in determining answers.

Evaluative Questions: Questions whose answers/opinions are reasonable based on text evidence.

Mentor texts we will use this week as we apply our new vocabulary and learning:

"Eleven"
"Weird Wonderful Mrs. Becker"

Writing Workshop:

Last week we chose the one Small Moment we want to publish! This week we, as authors, will determine what we want our purpose to be in writing, and what we want the HEART of the story to be. We will begin drafting and working through the writing process with revising and editing over the next couple of weeks.