4th Grade Week 4 – September 25, 2011

Monday:

Bible/character: A Child’s Book of Character Building. Read and discuss Creative in the Bible pg 31

Reading: Shayla reads aloud PALS. The World of Birds – 3rd grade level.

Social Studies: Around the World. Australia. Highlights Top Secret Adventures. Guide to Australia – Read Capital City pg 10-11. The Sunshine State pgs 12-13 The Tropical Coast pgs 14-15 Complete Suitcase Match pg 2-3. Guide book – read. Complete Zoo Search pgs 6-7.

Handwriting/Bible: Ephesians 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Activity: Write a list of 6 words that describe fall.

Spelling: Pretest: red, yellow, blue, green, purple, black, brown, white, pink, orange

Math: Comparing and Ordering Numbers and Which Number is Greater? pg 29-30

Adding ten: Shayla builds any two-digit number with sticks. Add a bundle of ten sticks and state the total out loud. Add additional bundles and continue counting by tens. Repeat, starting with a different two-digit number. Compare to a hundred chart. Add two digit numbers. Complete Picture This pg. 221

Reading/Language: Write 10 sentences with the verb omitted. After each sentence, write base form of missing verb in parentheses. Shayla writes the correct form of the verb in the blank. Example: The cat was ______(sleep) The cat was sleeping.

Language: Write 10 sentences and partial sentences. Have Shayla circle each complete sentence. Rewrite each partial sentence as a complete sentence.

Therapy.



Tuesday:

Bible/character: A Child’s Book of Character Building. Read and discuss Creative at Home pg 33.

Reading: Shayla reads aloud PALS. Animals of the Night – 4th grade level.

Social Studies: Around the World. Australia. Highlights Top Secret Adventures. Guide to Australia – Read The Top End pgs 16-17 and The Red Center pgs 18-19. Complete At the Opera pg 8-9 and Moomba Fun pg 10-11

Handwriting/Bible: Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Activity: Draw pictures of three things that begin with the same sound as your first name.

Math: Comparing Two Numbers pg 31-34

Graphing: Make a behavior chart. Using a ruler, draw a 5x5 grid of ½ boxes. Write a behavior goal at the top of the page. Along the bottom of the grid, write the days of the week. Each time the new behavior is practiced, place a sticker on the grid. Notice if there has been any improvement at the end of the week. Reward improvement with a special activity. Complete The Clean Desk Graph pg 222

Spelling: Write spelling words in sentences.

4H/science: Let’s Explore the Outdoors. Birds pg 11-12. Look at guide book and identify what birds live in this area. Go on a bird hunt. Fill bird feeder and watch for birds.

Wednesday:

GCS

library

Dance lessons

Thursday:

Bible/character: A Child’s Book of Character Building. Read and discuss Creative at School pg 35

Reading: Shayla reads aloud PALS. Fossils – 5th grade level.

Social Studies: Around the World. Australia. Highlights Top Secret Adventures

Handwriting/Bible: 1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Math: Ordering Three Numbers pg 35-38 Ordering Numbers to 12 with a Number Line pg 39-42 and two digit addition w/o carrying worksheet

Spelling: Complete Naturally Colorful Canvas pg 356. Spell each word aloud while clapping a rhythm.

Literature: Teach that writers like to use a variety of language to make stories more interesting. Snoozing, dozing, sleeping, slumbering, and napping are colorful words that mean approximately the same thing. Brainstorm other groups of words that mean approximately the same thing. Examples: working, straining, laboring, exerting, and sweating. Write a variation of The Napping House such as The Working Farm.

Language: Statements and questions. Write 5 statements and 5 questions on paper. Shayla turns each question into a statement and each statement into a question. Be sure to include correct punctuation. Complete Review of Sentences pg 319.


Friday:

Bible/character: A Child’s Book of Character Building. Read and discuss Creative at Play pg 37

Social Studies: Around the World. Australia. Highlights Top Secret Adventures. Read Guide to Australia City of Gold pgs 24-25 and The Green Island pg 26-27. Complete Jigsaw Reef pg 18-19 and Follow the Feet pg 20-21

Reading: The Deep Blue Sea. Unit 1: Water Ways. Theme: Sand and Sea. Read Bookshelf pgs 10-11, DW All Wet. Answer Think it over questions verbally (pg 25). Write: What might happen if DW comes back to the beach?

Handwriting/Bible: Address envelope and mail badge 11 to the Star family.

Activity: Copy and finish the following sentence: People think I’m kind because

Spelling: Using a crayon the color of the word, make block letters that spell each word. Color a pattern inside the letters.

Math: Act It Out pgs 43-46

Ordinal Numbers: Go on an ordinal number scavenger hunt. Arrange a trail of clues ahead of time. Hide a treat for the final clue. Ideas: Read the fifth chapter of the book (place next clue at the end of the chapter). Compete the fourth problem on page __ in ___, bring the problem to me and I will give you the next clue. Walk up to the seventh stair and look on the carpet. Bring me the second pencil from the right on the desk.

Complete Flags First pg 223.

Language: Write 5 adjectives that describe the book, The Napping House, 5 adjectives that describe the characters, and 5 adjectives that tells feelings about the book.

Language: Maintain lists of rhyming words on chart paper for reference when student writes poems. Point out that words that rhyme are not necessarily spelled the same.