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!

 

 

Unit 1, Week 1

Words with Short a

Watch-Out Words

Unit 1, Week 1

Words with Short a

Watch-Out Words

 

Unit 1, Week 2

Words with Short o

Watch-Out Words

 

Unit 1, Week 3

Words with Short i, u

Watch-Out Words

 

Unit 1, Week 4

Words with Digraph ch, tch

Watch-Out Words

 

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

16. finally
17. finely
18. precede
19. 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

16. recent
17. resent
18. thorough
19. 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

16. missed
17. mist
18. sail
19. 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

16. shone
17. shown

 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

16. fair
17. fare
18. scene
19. 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

16. peer
17. pier
18. wait
19. 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

16. foul
17. fowl
18. tide
19. 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

16. who’s
17. whose

 

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

16. right
17. rite
18. 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

16. affect
17. effect
18. quiet
19. 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

16. breath
17. breathe

 

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

16. toe
17. tow
18. real
19. 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

16. beside
17. besides
18. loose
19. 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

16. allowed
17. aloud
18. creak
19. 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

16. dew
17. do
18. due

 

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

16. heard
17. herd
18. it’s
19. 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

16. 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

 

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

 

 

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

Thank you!

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!

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!

 

 

 

Dear Families,

 

We have a very busy week planned! Hopefully you received the message our Mission Project due date has been extended to Monday, May 22, in honor of Mother's Day! I hope you and your beautiful children enjoy the day together! 

 

We have been busy preparing for our play, "Gold Dust or Bust", and we will be performing for our families on Wednesday, May 17 at 6:00 p.m. in the MPR. Please have your child meet us in Ms. Schwartz's classroom, #21, in costume, at 5:45 p.m. (Reminder for costumes: blue jeans and a plain t-shirt in a color that would have been available in the 1800's or plaid shirt. Please no logos on shirts. Girls are welcome to wear skirts, blouses, and bonnets.) We look forward to performing for you!

 

We will enjoy our field trip to Coloma on Thursday, May 18. Thank you to all the parents who have volunteered to join us on this very special trip. We now have enough parents joining us, so THANK YOU!

 

Our regular homework schedule begins again this week and we will be having a spelling test on Friday, May 19. (Unit 7.1 words)

 

Aide appreciation day is on Friday, May 19. We will be celebrating Mrs. Yoho and Mrs. Overmire. They have both been a wonderful help in our classroom this year and we are so grateful to have them! Mrs. Overmire comes in every Monday to read with our students and she helped them as they prepared for the Speech Contest. Mrs. Yoho works with our children daily and has helped them make amazing progress throughout the year. We love them both!

 

Looking ahead...  Our class will be visiting the Book Fair on Monday, May 22, from 12:30-1:00. Students may bring money in an envelope with their name written on it. 

 

Have a wonderful week!