May 13th
Novel Units
May 6th
There will be a new format for the next 3 weeks:
Ms. Gardner will be having all the 4th grade girls for reading group and will be reading a novel.
Mrs. South will be having all the 4th grade boys for reading group and will be reading a novel.
***A/R time is getting critical. The library will close its doors by May 24th. Individual students still needing to finish will be allowed to keep a book they are reading until May 29th...the deadline for testing.
Ms. Gardner will be having all the 4th grade girls for reading group and will be reading a novel.
Mrs. South will be having all the 4th grade boys for reading group and will be reading a novel.
***A/R time is getting critical. The library will close its doors by May 24th. Individual students still needing to finish will be allowed to keep a book they are reading until May 29th...the deadline for testing.
April 29th
My Rows and Piles of Coins: Realistic Fiction based in Africa
April 22nd
Historical fiction this week. Pop's Bridge is a very sweet story about boys and their dads and the building of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
April 15th
The Dust Bowl is an article on the period of time when the midsection of our country suffered severe droughts. Working on reading strategy of using context clues to help us with words we do not know.
April 8th
Expository Text: Immigrant Children covers the time period of great migration to the U.S. through Ellis Island in New York's harbor and Angel Island in San Francisco Bay.
March 25th
Scholastic News article on Kilauea and volcano facts; plus other interesting short articles.
March 18th
John Henry Races the Steam Drill: a legend
March 11th
The Golden Spike article on the coming of the railroad to Utah. Just studied this in Social Studies too. Working on the difference between opinion and fact.
March 4th
Striking in Rich: The Story of the California Gold Rush.
This is an expository text and we will be reading to gather the important facts about the 49ers and their activities. We are working heavily on reading for nonfiction comprehension
This is an expository text and we will be reading to gather the important facts about the 49ers and their activities. We are working heavily on reading for nonfiction comprehension
February 18th
Biography of Benjamin Banneker
Biography book read on own: Get prepared to give report on your person orally in the first person format.
Biography book read on own: Get prepared to give report on your person orally in the first person format.
February 11th
Biography of Abraham Lincoln
February 4th
A Covered Wagon Girl: The Diary of Sallie Hester, 1849-1850
This story goes along with social studies and our trek across the plains to Utah. It is written in journal style which we are trying to do also as we trek to Utah.
This story goes along with social studies and our trek across the plains to Utah. It is written in journal style which we are trying to do also as we trek to Utah.
January 28th
Benjamin Franklin Biography
January 22nd
The Case of the Gasping Garbage - on using the scientific method.
January 14th
Expository Text: Magnetism
January 7th
Expository Text: Scientific Method
December 10th
Continuing reading our novel.
December 3rd
We are reading Racing the Sun and working hard on our comprehension skills!
November 26th
Novel Unit with emphasis on reading for understanding. Each chapter will have comprehension activities.
November 12th
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry. This goes with the last three articles we have been reading on food chains, who eats what? and rot and its role. A story with beautiful art work.
Homework: 140 minutes or more at home reading
Finish and test 1st A/R book before Thanksgiving break.
Homework: 140 minutes or more at home reading
Finish and test 1st A/R book before Thanksgiving break.
November 5th
Article on "What Rot!". This is a continuation in the series of articles focusing on nature. We are learning to read expository text and glean facts from it.
October 29th
Doing a Scholastic Newspaper Edition this week. Vocab comes from this source.
October 22nd
Expository (factual) text: Who Eats What
Reading for understanding, interpretation, inferencing, and ability to make conclusions about the information.
Reading for understanding, interpretation, inferencing, and ability to make conclusions about the information.
October 15th
Reading will be independent this week. The students are expected to read 100 minutes this week :)
October 8th
Expository text article on Energy - What produces it? How it transfers from its source to other things.
Expository text tells people reading it something with facts about real people, things, events.
Expository text tells people reading it something with facts about real people, things, events.
October 1st
The Snowflake: A Water Cycle Story is written as a narrative story. Narratives are written as factual information in narrative for interest/excitement. We will do a large study of the water cycle in science so this will be a good introduction.
September 24th
The reading story this week is a Greek myth, Daedalus and Icarus. The skill we are working on is predicting what comes next.
September 17th
The reading story this week is Mrs. Frisby and the Crow. It is a fantasy with a there of "one good turn deserves another". I think the students will like it.