The Secret of Saying Thanks...

What do you overlook in your day to day life? What natural phenomena are you grateful for that you may forget to acknowledge when you’re feeling down? After reading The Secret of Saying Thanks, we decided to decorate our front window with things that we are thankful for. Not so much the traditional “I’m thankful for my family, my XBox, and my dog” answers, but ones that made us think a a little deeper. You can see our results below.

Addition and Subtraction Word Problems...

Here’s another review for ya’! We’re having a little trouble deciphering between addition and subtraction word problems (i.e.: knowing when to add and when to subtract). In order to practice at home (and help with Accelerated Math practices), please visit the following sites! Great, fun, review!

Thinking Blocks: Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

Mrs. Bogucki’s Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

Math Playground Word Problems

Top Teacher Blogs: 4th Grade...

Congratulations to us! It appears we’ve been recognized as having one of the best fourth grade blogs in the Western United States!

Top Teacher Blogs: Each of these educators have given their students a different medium in which they can learn. And they have done so in excelling and aspiring fashion. Our selected teachers are those that we feel have maintained some of the best teaching blogs on the internet.

Early October ’10: Topics-of-Study...

Language Arts: Step Up to Writing Review, Fact and Opinion, Cause and Effect, Parts of Speech, Capitalizing/Underlining Titles

• Step Up to Writing, Step Up to Writing #2 (notes + examples)
• Fact or Opinion, Fact or Opinion #2 (review practice)
• Cause and Effect (notes), Cause/Effect, Cause and Effect (review practice)
• Rocket Word Tag, Alien Word Mine, Grammar Gorillas, Supernova Sentence Puzzles, Irregular Verbs, Wacky Web Tales (Mad Libs), Adjective and Adverb Trail, Parts of Speech (review practice)
• Capitalization Rules (notes), Capitalization, Capitalization #2 (review practice)

Mathematics: Comparing and Ordering Numbers, Equal Equations, Rounding, Review of Place Value + Multiplication Facts

• Comparing and Ordering Numbers (notes), One False Move (review practice)
• Here are a few examples of equals: If 3 + 4 + 7 = 3 + n + 7, then n=4. lf 22 x 3 = m x 11 x 3, then m=2. If 4r = 20, then r = 5. If you find any practice sites for this concept, please let me know!
• Rounding (notes), Rounding, Rounding #2, Rounders Rounding (review practice)
• Place Value and Number Forms (notes), Place Value Pirates, Everything in Its Place, Place Value Puzzler (review practice)
• Multiplication Chart (notes), Fact Families, Save the Clown Fish, Around the World in 80 Seconds, Dude’s Dilemma (review practice)
• Trimester One Math Helper (front), Trimester One Math Helper (back)

Social Studies: Chapter One — California’s Geography, Review of General Global Geography

• California Geography (notes), CA’s Location/Regions of CA, Climate/Vegetation, etc. (vocabulary practice)
• The Geography of California
• The Continents and Oceans, Name the Continents, World Continents Quizzes, Test Your Geography Knowledge (review practice)
• Water and Land (song practiced in class)

Science: Chapter Six — Electricity

• Chapter Six Resources
• The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits, Conductors and Insulators, Series and Parallel Circuits, Building Circuits, Heat (movie), Light (movie), Electricity and Magnetism