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You will rotate amongst the other 4th grade classes to gain an insight on our best practices.

Please arrive at 6 p.m.!

Spelling City - Unit 3 Week 2 - Adelina's Whales

Unit 3 Week 2 Spelling City
https://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=20925722&x=888cf

Multiplicationa nd Division Games

http://iss.schoolwires.com/page/20523

Unit 3 Week 1 Study Guide - Week of October 27th

 

Week of October 27^th, 2014

Spelling Words: watched, watching, danced, dancing, studied, studying, stopped, stopping, dried, drying, happened, happening, noticed, noticing, robbed, robbing, slipped, slipping, hurried, hurrying

Challenge Words: answered, answering, magnified, magnifying, interfered

Vocabulary Word	Meaning
apprentice	a person who works with an expert to learn a job
atmosphere	gas that surrounds Earth; the air in a certain place
chemical	a substance formed by other substances acting on each other
essay	a short piece of writing that gives the writer’s ideas about a certain subject
manufacturing	making goods by hand or with machines
pressure	the force of one thing pushing against another
scales	the hard pieces that cover animals such as fish

Spelling City - Week of October 13th

https://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=20246409&x=10c70

Study Guide- Week of October 13th, 2014

Unit 2 Week 4 – Week of October 13^th, 2014

This week’s Vocabulary Words

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 can swallow people and animals

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

Spelling:

Thanksgiving       among        think           graph                    young         wheel

nephew               belong        whiskers     whisper      elephant    white

shrink                   wharf                    trunk          strong         blink           chunk

blank                    chunk         skunk

Challenge Words: strengthen, bankrupt, phantom, whimsical, whatever

Week of September 22nd - Spelling and Vocabulary Resources

Week of September 22, 2014

 

Spelling Words: monkeys, friends, plays, supplies, taxes, holidays, months, companies, costumes, sandwiches, hobbies, daisies, delays, scratches, counties, teammates, memories, bunches, batteries, donkeys

Challenge Words: eyelashes, ambulances, trophies, secretaries, inventories

 

Vocabulary Words and Definition

fouled – in sports, made an unfair play against an opposing player

hoop – a ring or a round, flat band

jersey – a shirt that is pulled over the head, made of a soft, knitted cloth

marveled – be filled with wonder, be astonished

rim – an edge, border, or margin on or around anything

speechless – not able to talk

swatted – hit sharply or violently

unbelievable – incredible, hard to think of as true or real

Spelling City
http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=265158&x=fbf31

Vocabulary Practice
http://www.quia.com/jg/1395981.html
http://www.quia.com/cz/160615.html

Cause and Effect
http://www.quia.com/mc/1396980.html

Study Guide - week of August 25th

Reading Skill: Author’s Purpose

Strategy: Questioning

Genre: Historical Fiction

Spelling Skill:

Words with Long a and i Patterns

Spelling Words: sigh, right, weigh, eight, detail, height, spray, braid, bait, grain, slight, thigh, tight, raisin, trait, highway, frighten, dismay, freight, sleigh

Challenge Words: eighteen, daylight, twilight, mayonnaise, campaign

 

 

Vocabulary Words and Synonym

docks – piers; platforms built on the shore

migrating – voyage; moving from one place to settle in another

scan – glance; to look over hastily

scent – smell

wharf – dock; platforms built on the shore where ships can load/unload

yearned – desire; felt a longing for

 

Math Games - This week's Vocabulary

http://iss.schoolwires.com/page/20527

http://www.franklinboe.org/domain/1681

ancestors – people from whom you are descended, such as your great-grandparents

avoided – kept away from; kept out of the way of

generations – periods of about thirty years, or the time from the birth of one generation to the birth of the next generation

minister – member of the clergy; spiritual guide; pastor

numerous– very many

pulpit – platform or raised structure in a church from which the minster preaches

shielding – protecting; defending

 

http://www.quia.com/jfc/1544174.html

 

http://www.quia.com/ba/234340.html

 

 

Social Studies Weekly

http://www.studiesweekly.com/online/home

Above you will find the link to a site in which your child can access the Social Studies Weekly newspaper.

There is an option for the paper to be read to them, along with games, assessments, etc.

Week of April 21st - Reading Street Resources

http://www.quia.com/jg/1544165.html

http://www.quia.com/rr/409888.html

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=265220&x=b166d

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_4_10.htm

http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/rocket_words/rocket_words.htm

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/preposition_desert/index.html

Spelling and Vocabulary - week of 3/31/14

https://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=16938233&x=f9d38

https://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=16938238&x=38538

Link to the homepage:

http://www.spellingcity.com/MsMikel/


This week's list are under story title: Cliffhangers

fractions

Spelling City

http://www.spellingcity.com/MsMikel/


Please find the spelling and vocabulary lists under Smokejumpers.

Family Resources - Math

http://www.nctm.org/resources/families.aspx

Awesome Fraction Games!

http://iss.schoolwires.com/page/20527

http://www.franklinboe.org/domain/1681

Resources - Week of February 18th

Spelling City

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=265202&x=8c6db

Vocabulary:
http://www.quia.com/rr/399949.html
http://www.studystack.com/flashcard-644017
http://www.classtools.net/mob/quiz_8/IgHco.htm
http://www.quia.com/jg/1520285.html

Synonyms:
http://www.quia.com/mc/67661.html

Antonyms:
http://www.quia.com/mc/3974.html

Characters and Plot
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/charactersandplot4l.cfm

Grammar:

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/ski_trail/index.html

Study Guide - Week of February 18th

Spelling Words: distrust, uncertain, incomplete, unlikely, unfair, discontinue, unaware, disorder, discount, indirect, unopened, disrespect, unimportant, unlisted, disrepair, inability, disapprove, unsolved, disobey, unsuspecting

 

Vocabulary Words and Definition

amphibians – cold-blooded, moist-skinned, scaleless animals with backbones that live underwater until they develop lungs for living on land

crime– activity of criminals

exhibit – display or public showing

lizards – long-bodied, cold-blooded reptiles with tails, movable eyelids, and usually with four legs; some have no legs and look a lot like snakes

reference– used for information or help

reptiles -  cold-blooded animals with backbones and lungs, usually covered with horny plates or scales

surface -  animals shaped like lizards but related to frogs and toads, with moist, smooth skin, that live in water or damp places

stumped– puzzled