4th Grade week 7 – October 16, 2011

Monday:

Bible/character: A Child’s Book of Character Building. Read and discuss Contentment in the Bible pg 61

Reading: The Deep Blue Sea. Unit 2: Food Fun. Theme: What Are You Eating? In My Mother’s House and Food Riddles for You. Theme Wrap-up: Verbally answer. Write riddles about a food Lionel likes, a food he doesn’t like, and a food YOU like.

Social Studies: Highlights Top Secret Adventures: South Korea packet

Handwriting: Colossians 1:13-19 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

Activity: Write 5 words using the letters in the word OCTOBER

Math: Understanding Subtraction pg 81-82. Two digit addition/subtraction worksheet

Money. Complete Henny Penny pg 224. Teach penny and practice counting out pennies and buying items with pennies.

Reading/language: Provide 3 different sizes of an item such as bottles. Shayla orders them and names each one. Shayla includes bigger and biggest or smaller and smallest in the description.

Write sentences on the board that use comparative language to describe the different sizes of bottles. Circle the er and est endings. The -est ending is used when comparing more than two items. Other items to compare are spoons, cups, and books.

Language: Shayla writes a sentence about something she has done. Then add another sentence telling what happened next or including more details. Complete Sentence Building pg 312

Spelling: Write spelling words in sentences.

Therapy.


Tuesday:

Therapy session with vision therapist.

Wednesday:

Bible/character: A Child’s Book of Character Building. Read and discuss Contentment at Home pg 63 and Contentment at Play pg 67

Reading: The Deep Blue Sea. Unit 2: Food Fun. Theme: More Cookies, Please. Read Cookies. Verbally answer Think It Over questions. Write: Add to the story. What do you think Toad will do with the cake.


Thursday:

Bible/character: A Child’s Book of Character Building. Read and discuss Contentment at School pg 65

Reading: The Deep Blue Sea. Unit 2: Food Fun. Theme: More Cookies, Please. Read

Cookies, Cookie Cutters, The Doorbell Rang. Verbally answer questions. Write about the cookies Ma made. Tell how they looked, smelled, and tasted.

Social Studies: Highlights Top Secret Adventures: South Korea packet

Handwriting: Colossians 1:14-15 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

Math: Finding Missing Parts of 6 and 7 pg 83-86 Finding Missing Parts of 8 pg 87-90

Review yesterday’s work. Introduce nickels and dimes.

Lay out rows of dimes, count by 10’s. Do same thing with pennies and nickels. Add names of coins and worth, value, cents, one, five, and ten to weekly spelling list.

Complete Five Hive and Marching Dimes pgs 225-226

Activity: Write 4 short-e words. Draw a picture of each one.


Friday:

Reading: Shayla reads aloud and discusses The Puzzle Place – Bossy Kiki, It’s Not Nice to be Bossy.

Social Studies: Highlights Top Secret Adventures: South Korea packet

Handwriting: Colossians 1:16-17 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

Activity: Copy and finish this sentence: I like this time of year because…

Math: Finding Missing Parts of 9 pg 91-94

Introduce and practice counting change (pennies and nickels).

Lay out one nickel and one penny and show her how to count (add up) their value. Point to the nickel and say, “five cents.” Point to the penny and say, “One more cent equals six cents. Five cents plus one cent equals six cents.” Point to and count the nickel and penny. Repeat this activity with one nickel, and two, three, or more pennies. Repeat using two or more nickels.

Write a different amount (1-15 cents) on each of several index cards. Put several nickels and pennies in a box with cards. Instruct Shayla to make the amount written on each card as many ways as possible using only nickels and pennies.

Complete Cent-erpillars pg 227

Spelling: Complete Fluffy Flapjacks. Spell each word aloud and act out meaning.

Reading/language: Look through Ferdinand and identify descriptive words. Then write sentences using the descriptive words in a comparative form. Example: Ferdinand is quieter than the other bulls.

Reading/language: Shayla compares attributes of sound (loud, louder, loudest), texture (soft, softer, softest) and appearance (bright, brighter, brightest)

Fold a paper into thirds. Label one third big, the next bigger, and the last biggest. Draw the same object (like an ant) in graduated sizes.

Write the words soft, softer, and softest. Circle the endings. Write words big, bigger, and biggest. Note the doubling of the consonant. Knowing that endings may change on root words may help identify words in the future. Other words to teach are late, kind, small, fat, deep, and tame.