Posted: April 21, 2011
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Posted: April 21, 2011
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Posted: April 21, 2011
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Posted: April 18, 2011
Happy Easter Everyone!! This week we have a short 4 day week at Gretna Green! Here is the homework for this week. Please complete it and return it by Thursday! Math: Complete lesson on "comparing and ordering" Fractions. Try "stretch your thinking". Literacy: Complete Lesson 18 on Run-on Sentences. Read the 3 versions of the passage from "Stone Fox".Complete the 2 Sample writing pieces by adding punctuation such as periods and capitals, or taking out connecting words that cause run-on sentences. Writing: Write an Easter story with the words in your "word bank". You can add more words to the "word bank" as well. Read 20 mins each night. Remember to log any books you finish reading in your monthly reading log. Social Studies: We will be presenting our projects on Tuesday! I can't wait to see all of your amazing projects!! Speeches: Due April. 26th THURSDAY: We will be having an Assembly for the Spell-a-thon in the afternoon along with an Easter Egg Hunt! Remember to dress in your favorite Easter colors that day! Have a great week everyone! -Miss. Hitchman
Posted: April 12, 2011
Great Resource for Projects and Research Papers
Here is a link to a website that is a great resource for students who are working on projects or are looking for research on certain topics.
Click on "Worldbook kids" or "Worldbook student" to find information that is kid friendly!
Posted: April 12, 2011
Here is the homwork for this week:
Literacy: We are working on "Sentence Fluency" in class.
This unit consists of:
1. Varying your sentence beginnings
2. rewriting run-on sentences
3. Making language sound natural
4. checking for smoothness and flow
Read the story "The Cricket in Times Square" and complete "Your Response".
Read "Block Party" and revise by changing or adding words to "spice up" the story! Remember
to change the punctuatin ( . ! ? , ) if needed.
Math: We are working on Fractions and Decimals.
Please complete the "Try these", "Practice" and "Stretch your thinking" questions.
Social Studies: Work on Projects. Remember they are due on Tuesday!
Speeches: We are working hard writing our speeches.
Remember that speeches are to be between 2:45- 3:15 mins long. Practice timing your speech at home to get comfortable speaking. It is great practice to practice your speech infront of family and friends.
Read 20 minutes each night
Have a great week 4H!
-Miss. Hitchman
Posted: April 5, 2011
We have started working on speeches in class this week. Please remember to have your speech topic into me
by tomorrow. Speeches are to be 3-4 minutes in length. We will be working on them in class, but feel free to work
on them at home as well.
I can't wait to hear all of your amazing speeches once they are finished!
-Miss. Hitchman
Posted: April 5, 2011
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While having a class discussion on humorous poetry and rhymes, Shane explained to the class how he could say
rhymes extremely fast. Which he demonstrated to us in the following video. Great job Shane!
You can follow the words on this link: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/Peterpiper.shtml
Posted: April 4, 2011
Here are some pictures of medals and awards won through activities such as hockey, ringette, and gymnastics!
Way to go everyone!!
Posted: April 4, 2011
Homework for this week:
Math: Exploring Fractions of a Set : Complete all questions
Try: "Stretch your thinking"
Practice your x8 facts.
Literacy: Read 20 minutes each night. Please remember to log your books read throughout the month.
Complete Word Chop Activity: Create the 24 words by putting the 2 word parts back together.
Once finished, write 10 complete sentences using 15 words out of the "word chop".
Spell-A-Thon: The Home & School are putting on a Spell-A-Thon. Each grade have specific words to
practice. The newsletter was sent home today. Remember to practice your words, the test is on April 15th.
April Words
Repeat
winner
countries
exciting
weather
quiet
enough
musician
heard
piece
peace
night
knight
compliment
speech
* Some words may have been in previous spelling tests, but may be commonly misspelled words
that need a bit more practice.
Social Studies: "Famous Canadian Project" is DUE: April 19th. Please be ready to present the
project on this day.
Have a great week 4H!
-Miss. Hitchman :)
