New and Improved BOOK REVIEW!!!!

Remember you may do a BOOK REVIEW over any BOOK you want. Just make sure that before you start reading that you will be able to answer the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE and WHY questions for your summary and recommendation! 

HAPPY FIELD TRIP DAY!!!

Student Response Question

Why is it important to know how to SUMMARIZE text? 

Sub Day Monday Sept 17, 2012

I will have a sub on Monday, Sept 17, 2012. Our class activity will be to look-up our new weekly vocabulary words in our paper dictionaries or online dictionaries. Students may work independently, with partners or in small groups as long as they are WORKING! Please make sure I get a good report guys and gals. :) 

~Ms. Decker

BONUS POINTS

Read over the weekend and have your parent sign your Reading Log and you earn bonus points for Language Arts class!

Wilifred Gordon McDonald Partridge

WONDEROPOLIS

A great way to learn NEW and EXCITING things is to visit WONDEROPOLIS! There are videos to watch, articles to read, vocabulary words to learn and links to more information online. Plus, there is even an iphone/ipod app to download! 

Go learn something and come back hear to share it with your friends!

Midterm

Midterm ended today for all Madison County School System students. Midterms will be coming home next Thursday. 

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Sequencing Events Graphic Organizer

Weekly Vocabulary Words Sept 10-14

Upcoming Field Trips & Special Activities

Wednesday, September 12th - BIKE RODEO 

Tuesday, September 18th - EKU Center for the Arts

**I MUST have a signed permission slip for students to participate in either of these events!!!**

Week in Review

I must begin by saying I am so super proud of all my students who took the time and effort necessary to do well on their Weekly Vocabulary Quiz! We will be doing this each week in order to experience new words and hopefully move them into our working vocabularies. This means we will be utilizing these new words as we write and speak! 

I want to remind ALL STUDENTS to bring their library books to class with them everyday! It is important that you select "Just Right Books" when you are in the Library. Books which are not too hard or too easy! This is the only way you will become a better reader. I'd love to see all my students in chapter books by the end of September. 

Homework, Planners and Reading Logs are a MUST everyday! We give you homework so you may practice the skills you are learning during the day and thus will hopefully become better at applying those skills. I promise we aren't just wasting your time or being mean. Homework, Planners and Reading Logs teach you the RESPONSIBILITY you will need to become a successful adult. 

Remember to write down the names of ALL the books you read or have read to you on your Reading Log. This way I can see what books you are reading and you can take AR Quizzes over all those books! Don't leave any out! Ms. Scully and Ms. Decker both read aloud to you during school. These are easy...(cheating)...AR points to get! :) 

Thank you for being the most awesome group of 4th graders I have ever had the pleasure to teach!

Ms. Decker

Online Books

Also, remember that there are links at the top of the blog for online books! These books will be read TO YOU! Write them down and take AR tests! Shhhhh...it's a great way to cheat!!! :) 

~Ms. Decker

Online Dictionaries

I added several reputable Online Dictionaries to our blog today! Students may use these at school or at home to help them with their vocabulary studies! :) Enjoy!

~Ms. Decker