Keeping Up During Thanksgiving Break!

Writing-- The Memory Game. Use your writing journal and T-chart graphic organizer.

Memory (on one side) and Envision/Mind's Eye (on other side). Write down as many as you would like.

**********Interview family members. Ask about their memories too!

DynaMath (Oct issue) pages 8-11. Try to play at least one game of Multiplication War. Impress your family with your quick brain~

Read Scholastic News Magazine and complete the back page. On the Edge issue (Polar Bear cover).

Remember to think about how you are blessed and what you are thankful for in your life today.

Due: Monday, December 1, 2008

Time & Multiples of 10

We've been studying clocks, yes the kind with hands!

Remember, it's all about skip counting by 5s...

Multiples of 10: Remember our trick-- just add zero.

Due: Tuesday, Nov. 25th

Read & Response Log (The new version), fill it out as you go.

Parallel Power

Sides, angles, parallel lines and intersecting lines

Due Mon., Nov 24

Finish the "Number Sense" packet

Due Mon., Nov 24

DynaMath

Finish at home and turn in for a Dyna-mite grade!

Read and Response Log

Due Monday with your Friday Note, of course ;-))

PeriMETER & Area

Use the perimeter and area grid sheets we created in class.

Assignment: Perimeter & Area packet (4 pages)

Due: Thursday, Nov. 20

Colorful Colorado: The Centennial State

Our State Animal: Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep


Colorado Social Studies Unit 

Begins NOW!         The Rocky Mountains--Wildlife

Click on the above link to watch the video. 

         This is also part of our "Where in the World is Colorado?" Web Quest Assignment. 

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Math "Crunch the Numbers" packet and finish today's assignment in  "Number Sense" packet, stop bottom of page 16. 

Writing

Plan and Rough Draft--

What did you learn from our visit with Todd Mitchell, author of The Traitor King?   Genre: Essay.

Due Wed., Nov. 19

Use that Measuring Muscle

SAB pages 1-6   Use your measurement tools. How long is a paperclip?    How many feet long is a humpback whale?  What about using your index 

                                                      (pointer finger??) 

What about walking out a measurement.............

    

______Use estimates to get close to a real measurement. Why?

           "Hey who are those cool kiddos in the piK?" Azul wondered while tilting his head to the side like a curious puppy.  

All report card folders brought back Monday, signed.                     

Book Logs and a response to the juiciness you have been reading.

Due: Monday Nov 17

Next week: PTA @6:30 p.m. on Tuesday-- 4th grade takes the stage~~

Math in our room & Turkey Luncheon Thursday afternoon

Do you have number sense?

Lesson 1 - Number Sense. Stop at page 13!

Remember to log your reading time and write a stunning
reflection on what you are reading.

Due Thursday, Nov. 13

Math and Writing

SAB pages 65 & 66. They will be graded like a test!

Writing Jounal: We are starting essay writing.

Use our handy-dandy T-chart at home tonight.

Section 1- SEE, Hear, & Notice Section 2- Think.

Use the funny examples we wrote in class to help!

Always remember to read and log your reading time!

All work is due Wed. Nov 12th.

            Put on those Division Goggles!

Turn multiplication on its head.

Cameron told our class he visualizes a running back

darting one way then the other between division and multiplication facts.

Darlene said she visualized a sand timer being turned up and down between 

division and multiplication. Super ideas! 

Thanks for the share Darlene and Cameron =-}

SAB (Student Activity Booklet) pages 41-51, 

Unit 3----Due Date:  Nov 10

Reading Book Log and Response  

Due Date:  Nov 10

Signed Friday Note  Due Date:  Nov 10