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Welcome To Mrs. Cornejo's class!

We are having a terrific time getting to know each other and sharing our fabulous summer experiences. Your children have adjusted nicely to the school routine, and their eagerness for learning is amazing! It is going to be a wonderful year!
 
 
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I look forward to an INCREDIBLE year with you!

 

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Regular Homework

 

*Read 20 minutes and record. Reading logs are due Friday.
*Practice Spelling words nightly. 
*Math- We are working in our Math Book and and using  Xtra Math facts practice on the computer.

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Extra Practice with our math concepts can be found online using the ISE under "Things to Do" and Skill Sets found in the "Library", click on the "Lady in the Red Hat." You can find these helpful web based tools on Student Links under "Think Central." The children have been practicing how to access these helpful tools, so they should be able to show you how to log on to the program.

 

Please check over your child’s math homework daily for accuracy and completeness. Studies show students learn better when they are given the opportunity to verbalize the steps taken to solve problems. Please allow your child this golden opportunity each evening when completing the math homework to explain to you their logic on a few select problems. If you notice an error, you will be able to catch it quickly before it becomes a habit that is difficult to break. Some of the concepts may seem tricky, so please know ANY strategy you show your child that works is worth learning and sharing in math class.

 

Xtra Math Fact practice is expected to be completed daily for points. If your child completes facts for 5 days/week they will receive 10 points (A+) for the week, 4 days = 9 points (A-), 3 days = 8 points(B-), 2 days = 7 points(C-), 1 day = 6 points(D-).

 
Reminder:
 
When practicing spelling words, it  helps to break the words down into parts (syllables) and focus on the sounds of each part. 
 

Spelling Ideas to try at home:

  •   ABC order: Write your words in alphabetical order.
  •   Word Sort: Sort your words by vowel sounds, patterns, syllables, etc.
  •   Repetition: Write your words 3 times each
  •   Sentences: Write a sentence for each
  • spelling word.
  •   Word Art: Draw a picture and write your
  • words in the picture.
  •   Story time: Write a short story using all
  • your words.
  •   Creative Letters: Write your words by magazine and glue them on a paper.
  • cutting out letters in an old newspaper or
  •   Pyramid: Write your words adding or will be a pyramid shape of words.
  • subtracting one letter at a time. The result
  •   Good Clean Words: Write your words in surface that can be cleaned safely.
  • shaving cream on a counter or some other
  •   Handwriting: Write each word 3 times in
  • your best handwriting.
  •   Cheer your words: Pretend you are a
  • cheerleader and call out your words!
  •   Sound Words: Use a tape recorder and
  • record your words and their spelling. Then listen to your tape, checking to see that you spelled all the words correctly.
  •   Choo-Choo Words: Write the entire list end-to-end as one long word, using different colors of crayon or ink for different words.
  •   Flashwriting: In a darkened room, use a flashlight to draw letters in the air.
  •   Timer: Get a timer. Set it for 3 minutes. See how many times you can write your words before the timer goes off.
  •   Scramble: Have a parent scramble your spelling words. You unscramble them.

Chalk: Write your words outside using sidewalk chalk.

Letters: Write each word as many times as there are letters in the word.

Out loud: Spell your words out loud 2 times to a brother or sister, mom or dad.

Trace Around: Print your spelling words neatly. Take a colored pen and draw an outline around the word, closely following the shapes of the letters. Close your eyes and remember the shape.

Colorful Words: Use two different color pens to write your spelling words. Use one color to write the consonants and the other for the vowels.

Military spelling: Do jumping jacks, as you clap say a letter to spell your words.

Finger Tracing: Use your finger to spell out each of your words one letter at a time on your Mom or Dad‛s back. Then it‛s YOUR turn to feel and spell. Try to guess the word.

Practice Test: Have an adult give you a practice test.

Scratch n' Sniff: Write letters with glue on paper, and then sprinkle with Jell-O. Makes a super scratch n' Sniff when tracing over the letters.

Computer Words: Have your child type their spelling words ten times each on the computer. Use different colors and fonts and print it out!

Words-in-words: Write your word and then write at least 2 words made from each.

Snap and Spell: Snap on each letter, clap when you say the word at the end.

Create an activity: Can you think of a fun way to do your spelling activities? Try it out.

 

 
 

  

 

 

 

 

 

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...” Dr. Seuss

 

 
 

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Students will be tested on their spelling words on Friday. We will introduce words each Monday. Students will be expected to practice the words at home throughout the week. 


Reading Logs will go home on Fridays and will be due the following Friday. We are expecting students to read for 20 minutes and record three complete sentences summarizing what they read. Please initial each entry. For three complete entries, they will receive a B-. For four complete entries, they will receive an A-. For five complete entries, they will receive an A+. They can choose which nights to read.

The following schedule shows the consistent homework assignments for each day. There may be other assignments given. Please check the agenda daily for specific assignments.  


Monday
Read 20 Minutes and record in reading log.
Math- One lesson plus Xtra Math facts practice
Practice spelling words on own.


Tuesday
Read 20 Minutes and record in reading log.
Math- One lesson plus Xtra Math facts practice

Practice spelling words on own.

Wednesday
Read 20 Minutes and record in reading log.
Math- One lesson plus Xtra Math facts practice.
Practice spelling words on own.

Library book due Thursday.


Thursday
Read 20 Minutes- Signed reading logs due on Friday.
Math- One lesson plus Xtra Math facts practice
Practice spelling words on own.

NO HOMEWORK ON FRIDAY - ONLY MAKE-UP WORK AS NEEDED.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Spelling 1.2 Words for test on Fri., Sept. 1

 

Unit 1, Week 2

Words with Short o

blossom
concrete
conflict
costume
cottage
fond
hostile
mock
modest
novel
pottery
probably
process
proper
solemn
 

Watch-Out Words

lay
lie
passed
past

 

Weekly Update August 29-September 1

 

Hello Families! Your children had a very productive week last week. Watching the eclipse was especially exciting! Thank you to all our wonderful families who have sent in their $3.00 donations. Thank you to all the families who sent in $5.00 to help out! YOU are AMAZING! Donations are still being accepted until we reach our $75.00 goal. Thank you!

I feel like I am really getting to know your children and we are establishing our routines. I look forward to seeing you at Back To School Night on Thursday, August 31 at 7:30 p.m., room 23.  The Book Fair will open at 5:30 p.m. for your shopping pleasure. They always have a very nice selection of books.

Our classroom visit to the Book Fair is on Monday, August 28.  If you would like your child to be able to purchase books, please send him/her with money on Monday.

Last week in reading, we read about Living Traditions and Vanishing Cultures. This week we will read Tales from Timbuktu.  Our class novel is A Dog's Purpose. I love this book!  It is about a dog who lives multiple lives until he realizes his ultimate purpose. The book is told from the dog's perspective and includes some really funny passages.

We completed our first set of spelling words this week.  Students will be quizzed on their words every Friday.  Students have a printed list of words that they will bring home every week. This week we are on spelling Week 2 (1.2)  Our spelling routine will be to take a spelling pretest on Monday, and write their words in their agenda on Tuesday.  We will go over these words in class and make sure that children are familiar with them. Students will take their spelling test at school on Friday.

Thursday Folders will come home every Thursday.  This past week, there was not a lot of graded work in the folder.  At the beginning of the year, we also do lots of our work together as I am trying to establish routines and expectations.

This coming Thursday, we will get to attend a fun Character Counts assembly!

I think that is all for now!  Thank you for sharing you awesome children with me!  I am really enjoying them!

Mrs. Cornejo

 

Eclipse!

Today we had an incredible morning studying about the eclipse.Students journaled what they already know about eclipses, what they were wondering about, and finally at they end of the lesson they wrote about what they learned today. I had purchased special LUNT Solar glasses for the students, so we would be safe while viewing the eclipse. $3.00 donations to our classroom are being accepted to help cover the cost of the solar glasses. Most students took them home today to show their families. They may keep their glasses even if you do not make a donation. In addition, we watched videos to help us understand sun safety, to show us what was happening during the eclipse, and we made "pin hole" projectors. It was a great morning!
 
 

Reach Spelling 1-1, Test on August 25

Unit 1, Week 1

Words with Short a

admire
background
catalog
contrast
factor
grasp
impact
mainland
passage
practice
rapid
sacrifice
standard
translate
travel
 

Watch-Out Words

than
then
to
too
two

Reach Spelling Unit 1

Unit 1, Week 1

Words with Short a

admire
background
catalog
contrast
factor
grasp
impact
mainland
passage
practice
rapid
sacrifice
standard
translate
travel
 

Watch-Out Words

than
then
to
too
two

 

Unit 1, Week 2

Words with Short o

blossom
concrete
conflict
costume
cottage
fond
hostile
mock
modest
novel
pottery
probably
process
proper
solemn
 

Watch-Out Words

lay
lie
passed
past

 

Unit 1, Week 3

Words with Short i, u

artistic
assist
blush
budge
culture
differ
fundamental
humble
illustrate
immense
inspire
instruct
puzzle
rigid
upward
 

Watch-Out Words

angel
angle
set
sit

 

Unit 1, Week 4

Words with Digraph ch, tch

attach
challenge
childhood
chili
church
clutch
exchange
fetch
match
research
screech
sketch
splotch
stretch
switch
 

Watch-Out Words

one
won
peace
piece

Reach Spelling Unit 7

 

Unit 7, Week 1, Words with Hard and Soft c, g

 

  1. advantage
  2. broadcast
  3. circuit
  4. conquer
  5. cylinder
  6. device
  7. engineer
  8. gadget
  9. genius
  10. glimpse
  11. gravity
  12. intelligent
  13. oxygen
  14. replacement
  15. telescope

 

Watch-Out Words

  1. finally
  2. finely
  3. precede
  4. proceed

 

Unit 7, Week 2, Words with oo; Silent Consonants

 

  1. acknowledge
  2. align
  3. bombs
  4. climbing
  5. crooked
  6. design
  7. fasten
  8. gnash
  9. handbook
  10. know-how
  11. numbness
  12. outlook
  13. withstood
  14. wrathful
  15. wreckage

 

Watch-Out Words

  1. recent
  2. resent
  3. thorough
  4. through

 

Unit 7, Week 3, Words with VCV, VCCV Patterns

 

  1. cluster
  2. commander
  3. future
  4. goggles
  5. helium
  6. helmet
  7. lunar
  8. massive
  9. pilot
  10. platform
  11. public
  12. seldom
  13. signal
  14. tablet
  15. vapor

 

Watch-Out Words

  1. missed
  2. mist
  3. sail
  4. sale

Unit 7, Week 4, Multisyllabic Words with VCCV, VCCCV Patterns

 

  1. altitude
  2. astronomy
  3. calculate
  4. commitment
  5. constellation
  6. constitute
  7. emblem
  8. mechanic
  9. packet
  10. pursuit
  11. restrain
  12. sensation
  13. tinkering
  14. turbulent
  15. vibration

 

Watch-Out Words

  1. shone
  2. shown

Reach Spelling Unit 6

 Unit 6, Week 1,

Words with r controlled syllables

  1. affirm
  2. bargain
  3. blister
  4. circumstance
  5. export
  6. flickering
  7. harpoon
  8. import
  9. liberty
  10. nursery
  11. orphan
  12. partner
  13. serpent
  14. surrender
  15. yonder

 Watch-Out Words

  1. fair
  2. fare
  3. scene
  4. seen

 

Unit 6, Week 2, Words with y 

  1. anxiety
  2. authority
  3. canyon
  4. celebrity
  5. fury
  6. hearty
  7. justly
  8. outcry
  9. rallying
  10. reply
  11. society
  12. spry
  13. yacht
  14. yearn
  15. yoke

Watch-Out Words

  1. peer
  2. pier
  3. wait
  4. weight

 

Unit 6, Week 3, Words with oi, oy, ou, ow

  1. annoy
  2. astound
  3. boundless
  4. boycott
  5. cowardly
  6. disappoint
  7. encounter
  8. hoist
  9. loyalty
  10. outrage
  11. prowl
  12. rouse
  13. scowl
  14. trounce
  15. turmoil

 

Watch-Out Words

  1. foul
  2. fowl
  3. tide
  4. tied

Unit 6, Week 4, Words with oo, ew; au, aw, al, all

  1. awkward
  2. balmy
  3. brooding
  4. falter
  5. foolproof
  6. gloomy
  7. jaunty
  8. jewelry
  9. lawless
  10. nightfall
  11. roost
  12. saucy
  13. shrewd
  14. squawk
  15. strewn

 

Watch-Out Words

  1. who’s
  2. whose

Reach Spelling Unit 5

 

Unit 5, Week 1

Words with Long i: ie, igh

  1. airtight
  2. blight
  3. delightful
  4. frightening
  5. highway
  6. insight
  7. knighthood
  8. lie
  9. lightweight
  10. oversight
  11. searchlight
  12. supplies
  13. tiebreaker
  14. upright
  15. vie

Watch-Out Words

  1. right
  2. rite
  3. write

Unit 5, Week 2

Words with Long u: u, i, ue

  1. argue
  2. avenue
  3. barbecue
  4. bruise
  5. continue
  6. cruel
  7. fruitful
  8. fuel
  9. hue
  10. juicy
  11. nuisance
  12. overdue
  13. rescue
  14. statue
  15. suitable

Watch-Out Words

 

   16.lessen

   17.lesson

   18. pair

   19. par

   20. pear

Unit 5, Week 3

Words with r-controlled vowels: ar, er, ir, or, ur

  1. bewilder
  2. confirm
  3. curse
  4. emergency
  5. harmful
  6. horrible
  7. litter
  8. marvelous
  9. purchase
  10. scurry
  11. shortage
  12. smother
  13. starvation
  14. thirst
  15. victor

Watch-Out Words

  1. affect
  2. effect
  3. quiet
  4. quite

 

Unit 5, Week 4

Words with r-controlled vowels:

air, ear; ear, eer

  1. appear
  2. career
  3. fearful
  4. flair
  5. jeering
  6. lair
  7. pear
  8. repair
  9. sneer
  10. spear
  11. stairway
  12. steer
  13. swear
  14. teardrop
  15. weary

Watch-Out Words

  1. breath
  2. breathe

Reach Spelling Unit 4

 

Unit 4, Week 1

Words with Long a: ai, ay

 

  1. betray
  2. daily
  3. decay
  4. display
  5. entertain
  6. hail
  7. maintain
  8. mermaid
  9. praise
  10. relay
  11. remain
  12. sustain
  13. traitor
  14. waterway
  15. yesterday

Watch-Out Words

  1. toe
  2. tow
  3. real
  4. really

 

Unit 4, Week 2

Words with Long e: ee, ea; Long o: oa, ow

 

  1. boast
  2. defeat
  3. evergreen
  4. exceed
  5. feeble
  6. foamy
  7. keen
  8. minnow
  9. oath
  10. overflow
  11. plead
  12. reasonable
  13. release
  14. roam
  15. shallow

Watch-Out Words

  1. beside
  2. besides
  3. loose
  4. lose

 

Unit 4, Week 3

Verbs Ending in ed

 

  1. absorbed
  2. astonished
  3. bulged
  4. concealed
  5. cured
  6. echoed
  7. envied
  8. evaporated
  9. functioned
  10. identified
  11. knotted
  12. noticed
  13. varied
  14. whizzed
  15. yielded

Watch-Out Words

  1. allowed
  2. aloud
  3. creak
  4. creek

Unit 4, Week 4

Verbs Ending in ing

 

  1. altering
  2. cultivating
  3. debating
  4. eroding
  5. glittering
  6. harvesting
  7. impacting
  8. irrigating
  9. mingling
  10. overtaking
  11. plunging
  12. producing
  13. reducing
  14. scarring
  15. supplying

Watch-out Words

  1. dew
  2. do
  3. due

Reach Spelling Unit 3

 

Unit 3, Week 1
Words with Long e, i, and o

1.because

2.equal
3.female
4.meter
5.react
6.climate
7.final
8.item
9.private

10.silence

11.frozen

12.notice

13.overseas

14.polar

15.program

Watch-Out Words

  1. heard
  2. herd
  3. it’s
  4. its

Unit 3, Week 2

Words with Long a: ai, ay

1. betray

2. daily

3. decay

4. display

5. entertain

6. hail

7. maintain

8. mermaid

9. praise

10. relay

11. remain

12. sustain

13. traitor

14. waterway

15. yesterday

Watch-Out Words

  1. to

Unit 3, Week 3
Words with VCe Pattern

1.classmate

2.compose

3.confuse

4.earthquake

5.excuse

6.homeland

7.invite

8.misbehave

9.longitude

10.polite

11.remote

12.suppose

13.trace

14.valentine

15.zone

Watch-Out Words

16.brake

17.break

18.hear

19.here

 

Unit 3, Week 4
Words with Plurals Formed by Adding –s, -es

1.batches

2.benches

3.bosses

4.compasses

5.deserts

6.fences

7. jackets

8.passes

9.patches

10.peaches

11.photographs

12.porches

13.rashes

14.towers

15.wishes

Watch-Out Words

16.by

17.bye

18.buy

Reach Spelling Unit 2

 

Unit 2, Week 1

Words with Short e

  1. accident
  2. attend
  3. clever
  4. employee
  5. escape
  6. express
  7. forever
  8. invest
  9. medicine
  10. object
  11. pellet
  12. prevent
  13. regret
  14. relative
  15. vegetable

Watch-Out Words

  1. there
  2. they’re
  3. their
  4. good
  5. well

 

Unit 2, Week 2

Words with Digraphs ck, sh

  1. ashamed
  2. flourish
  3. flock
  4. husk
  5. knuckle
  6. lack
  7. marsh
  8. package
  9. pluck
  10. punish
  11. reckon
  12. shaggy
  13. shelter
  14. shriek
  15. stuck
  16. trickery

Watch-Out Words

  1. course
  2. coarse
  3. affect
  4. effect

 

 

Unit 2, Week 3

Words with Digraphs th, ng

  1. among
  2. anything
  3. earthworm
  4. enthusiasm
  5. evening
  6. fang
  7. health
  8. kingdom
  9. lengthen
  10. method
  11. mustang
  12. sympathy
  13. theory
  14. thicket
  15. underneath

Watch-Out Words

  1. mail
  2. male
  3. bred
  4. bread

 

Unit 2, Week 4

Words with Consonant Blends

  1. ascend
  2. brilliant
  3. clink
  4. clumsy
  5. complain
  6. consult
  7. crest
  8. dread
  9. frequent
  10. frolic
  11. slither
  12. smother
  13. sniff
  14. snout
  15. stamp
  16. trample

Watch-Out Words

  1. all right
  2. all ready
  3. already
  4. all together
 

Weekly Update June 5-8

Dear Families,
 
It has been my pleasure to teach your Fourth Grade children this year! It has been a wonderful experience. They have all learned and grown so much since last August. I am very proud of our students.
 
We will have a final busy week to include our Eagle Day Activities and Pizza Lunch on Wednesday. Please remember to send in your $3.00 for pizza if you have not yet sent it in. In addition, our Sign Up Genius went out and many slots are filled! Thank you! However, we are still in need of one more person to set up/clean up from 11:00-12:00, someone to send in a veggie tray or salad, we need 2 bags of ice, one more dessert, a cut-up fruit plate, and parachute helpers on the field from 8:15-9:15, or 9:40-10:25. (I will be present to lead the parachute, but I desperately need the help of parent volunteers. It is pretty fun!)
 
We completed our final Reading Log last Friday, June 2, but I will be asking the students to read nightly for homework. They will not be asked to record their reading. I am hoping they will enjoy their book so much they will continue to read over the summer! No reading logs will be turned in this week.
 
Students will be asked to continue Xtra Math Facts on the computer this week, and we will have one final math homework assignment on Monday. We will not have a spelling test this week.
 
Thank you for your support this school year. It has been my pleasure getting to know you and your children. Have a wonderful summer vacation!
 
Sincerely,
Mrs. Cornejo
 
 

Correction to Update for May 30-June 2

I look forward to seeing our students in class on Tuesday, May 30th! 
Thank you!

Weekly Update May 30-June 2

It was great to see so many of our wonderful families at Open House Thursday night! I really enjoyed seeing your children's faces light up as they were showing you so many projects they have been doing in fourth grade this year. I am so proud of them! 
 
I hope you all have a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend and I will look forward seeing our students back in class on Tuesday, May 31. It is going to be another fast week! We will continue our regular homework schedule to include math WB pages, Xtra Math facts, and Spelling Test 7.3 on Friday. 
 
Please see our Sign Up Genius for the Fourth Grade End-of-the Year Party on June 7. In addition, we are requesting all students send in $3.00 by Friday, June 2 to cover the cost of the pizza. Yum! Thanks! 
 
Friday, June 2nd is Bus Driver Appreciation Day. Please remind your child to offer kind words of gratitude to their bus driver on that day. Our bus drivers do an amazing job!!!
 
Also happening on June 2 is Hawaiian Shirt Day! Your child will receive group points for wearing either a Hawaiian shirt or spirit colors on Friday.
 
Thank you for all you do for our children! Have a wonderful week!

Weekly Update May 22-26

Thank you for returning the Eagle Day Contracts! We just have a few unsigned and hope they will be returned soon!  A second copy of the Eagle Day contract went home on Friday, May 19 with students who have not yet returned them. They are due by June 2, 2017. To attend, students must have less that nine refocuses from May 16- June 6. Also, all work from 5/16-6/2 must be completed and up-to-date.

Please make sure that kids are working on their Mission Boards.  These are to be completed at home and returned by Monday, May 22. Thank you to the children who sent them in this week. They look marvelous! Please do not send in extra credit projects until May 25th.

We hope that everyone will be able to make it to Open House on Thursday, May 25.  There will be a lot happening that night at our school.  There will be three food trucks and the book fair will be open in the library!  We are also excited for you to see all of the projects that we have been working on!!

We will be testing on Spelling 7.2 on Friday, May 26. We are still doing reading logs this week and Math homework. Please ask your child if they have received their Xtra Math Certificate. It is worth points!

I will be sending a sign up genius in the near future for our End-of-the Year party, and for Fun Day Volunteers for Wed., June 7.

Have a great week!

Mrs. Cornejo welcomes you!