week of June 1

Wow! It is so close to the end of the year. We will continue regular instruction this week, and have celebrations, watch some literacy plays and have a great time with each other. Below are the last week of spelling words. The only homework that we will have will be spelling story and reading.



music


buy


window


mark


heart


grew


listen


ask


sing


clear
energy


week


explain


lost


spring
travel


wrote


farm


circle


whose





We will also be doing a special tie dye project next Tuesday. Please make sure your child has a shirt to decorate and that they do not wear nice clothing that day. I will provide gloves, but sometimes dye does drip onto other clothes.





Our pizza party will be on Wednesday June 10 for all the hard work the students have done with recycling and watt watchers this year. They will not need a lunch that day. The pizzas will be pepperoni, cheese and canadian bacon. If they do not want pizza, the are welcome to get a school lunch or bring something from home.

Awards assembly June 11

Field day is June 12 from 9-11:00







4th grade core words: These are words you can practice during the summer to keep those spelling skills sharp. They are all words that should be mastered by the end of 4th grade:

able

about

above

across

add

after

again

against

ago

air

all

almost

alone

along

already

also

although

always

am

American

among

an

and

animal

animals

another

answer

any

anything

are

area

around

as

asked

at

away

back

ball

be

beautiful

became

because

become

been

before

began

begin

behind

being

best

better

between

big

black

blue

boat

body

book

both

bottom

box

boy

bring

brought

build

built

but

by

called

came

can

cannot

can't

car

care

carefully

carry

center

certain

change

check

children

city

class

close

cold

come

common

complete

cloud

country

course

cut

dark

day

deep

did

didn't

different

distance

do

does

dog

done

don't

door

down

draw

dry

during

each

early

earth

easy

eat

either

else

end

English

enough

even

ever

every

everyone

everything

example

face

fact

fall

family

far

fast

fathyer

feel

feet

felt

few

field

finally

find

fine

fire

first

fish

five

floor

follow

food

foot

for

form

found

four

friend

from

front

full

game

gave

get

girl

give

glass

go

going

gold

gone

good

got

great

green

ground

group

grow

had

half

hand

happened

hard

has

have

he

head

hear

heard

heart

heavy

held

help

her

here

high

him

himself

his

hold

home

horse

hot

hour

house

how

however

hundred

I

I'll

I'm

ice

idea

if

important

in

inside

instead

into

is

it

it's

its

itself

job

just

keep

kiept

kind

knew

know

lnad

language

large

last

later

lay

learn

learned

least
leave

leaves

left

less

let

letter

life

light

like

line

list

little

live

lived

living

long

longer

look

low

made

main

make

man

many

map

matter

may

me

mean

men

might

mind

miss

money

moon

more

morning

most

mother

move

much

must

my

name

near

need

never

new

next

night

no

not

nothing

notice

now

number

of

off

often

oh

old

on

once

one

only

open

Spelling list for this week:
May 26
1. machine 2. probably 3. Canada 4. stomach 5. yesterday 6. favorite 7. suppose 8. especially 9. giant 10. canoe 11. moment 12. animals 13. welcome 14. August 15. usually 16. buffalo 17. relatives 18. cement 19. iron 20. support

Have a great week!

week of May 18

Wow! The warm weather is here. We are continuing with our lessons about the Oregon Trail with Mrs. Judd. They are learning a lot and having a great time. Mrs. Judd will be leaving this Friday. It was great to have her here for the short time.
We will be continuing regular instruction through June 5th. The last week of school will be filled with assemblies, special activities and closing out the year with some fun. Homework will continue to be reading and spelling and math.
Here are the words for the week:
distance
ground
children
trail
pioneers
dangerous
emigrants
disease
wagon
sickness
dried
challenges
property
family
travel
fort
supplies
going

Have a great week!
Mrs. Hoopes

Week of May 11

Hope you are having a good start of May! We've enjoyed some fun activities the last few weeks. Here are the spelling words for the week.

Week of 5-11
another
complete
important
leave
pattern
perhaps
possible
sentence
someone
understand
weather
thought
through
several
voice
would

Challenge Words:
**requirement
**raccoon
**fundamental
**furious
**athlete
**innocent
**unnecessary
**debris
**judgment
**deposit

Homework: 20 minutes of reading daily
Monday: Spelling (choose 5 to look up in the dictionary) Choose 10 to use in a complete sentence.
Tuesday: Math practice
Wednesday: Writing
Thursday: Reading log

Week of May 4

We are in the first week of May! Happy Cinco de Mayo. We are looking forward to Mrs. Judd coming on Wednesday to work in our classroom. We will also be finishing up testing and having a great assembly by a few members of the Globetrotters on Thursday. It should be a great week!
Below are the spelling words. This week I will only be sending home reading and spelling.

Week 33 words
study
America
beautiful
between
there
often
always
language
poor
job
surface
usually
friend
however
it's
world's
together
hundreds
learn

Challenge:
**1. galaxy
2. government
3. county
4. settlement
5. emigrant
6. appreciate
7. concentration
8. fierce
9. replacement
10. measurement
11. conversion

Homework:
Monday: Spelling--either use all of the words in a story, sentences or definitions
Reading 20 minutes.
Tuesday-Thursday: Reading and unfinished work

Have a great week!

Week of April 27

It's almost May! I can hardly believe the year is coming to an end. We still have LOTS to do and many fun activities planned. This week also starts our last round of TESA. :)
We will be testing on Tues-Friday of this week. Please make sure to be well rested and eat a good breakfast.
Other important dates coming up:

5-1 Volunteer dessert. If you didn't receive an invitation and you have volunteered this year, please join us from 1-3 in the east family room for cupcakes and student entertainment.
5-2 Awesome 3000. T-shirts and packets will need to be picked up by parents (not at school) the address is on the entry form.
5-6 Mrs. Judd (former Myers student teacher) will be with us to do an ESOL practicum. She will be here through June and will most likely be teaching the Oregon Trail
5-14 Celebration of students

Homework:
This week I will only be giving spelling and reading homework. I don't want to overwhelm the kids with more work during a testing time:)

Spelling words: Assignment (put them in ABC order and write in cursive)
Spelling list 4-27

someone
remember
already
reading
people
following
alone
once
letters
bottom
strong
school
began
first
check
you’ll
greats
there
then
fall
important
than

Challenge:
advanced
historian
specific
incredible
succeeded
participate
comprehension
character
sensitive
obvious

Have a great week!
Mrs Hoopes

week of Aprill 20

Hope you are enjoying the nice weather! We still expect the students to keep up with homework, even though it is tempting to play outside all evening. We have our last round of state testing coming up next week. All students will be taking the 3rd opportunity to either pass or improve their score. Please make sure your child is well rested and has a good breakfast next week. Our time to test is 9:00-9:50, which is a great time for kids. We will also have a guest speaker on Friday to show us artifacts and tell us stories from the trail. The orchestra students will be on a field trip Friday afternoon, we'll miss you!
Homework for the week:
Monday: Spelling Use each of the words in a sentence, or create a story.
Spelling words: week of April 20, 2009


carefully
sounds
their
build
pictures
through
something
examples
glass
father
rock
across
gold
tall
form
because
surface
after
always
night
kind
stand

*1. urban : rural :: solids :
opinion : view :: persuade :. steady : stable ::
4. rough : coarse :: prosperous :

Tuesday:Math practice
Wed:Writing
Thursday: Reading

Have a great week!

Week of April 13

Hopefully you all had a great weekend! We have many things coming up this week.
Friday will be our field trip to the Polk County Museum and the Rock and Mineral show. The cost to students is free, however if they would like to bring a few dollars for the rock show they can buy small items. The battle of the books final Myers round will be this Wed afternoon. The 4-5 team will also be presenting awards for the last report card this Wed.
We are wrapping up our how to projects this week, and will be learning about Oregon Counties next week.
This weeks spelling words:
there
could
children
suddenly
which
different
their
center
began
itself
either
field
first
although
special
everone
stay
boats
might
***wouldn't
section
wonder
include
describe
electric
Monday: Spelling Use 10 words in a story
Tuesday: Math problem solving page
Wednesday: Reading
Thursday:Reading/ writing
Hope you have a great week!

We had a great time at OMSI, thanks to all of you who were able to help out. We are going to be quite busy this month.
4-10 Bowling trip 8:45-11:45 free
4-17 Rock and mineral show/ polk county museum free(chaperones $2)
4-24 Pioneer presentation in the family room
4-27 Symphony ($3) 8:45-11:00
These are great trips and presentations for our students. Hopefully you can join us for one. Please make sure if you sign up to volunteer, you have already completed your background check. Thanks

Spelling words for the week:
through
pattern
gone
distance
watch
although
walked
water’s
someone
enough
there
again
everyone
their
its
half
animal
American
beautiful
instead

*challenge
various, garden, result, practice, difference, maybe, reason, village, island, weight, doesn't
Assignment: Choose 2 activities (sentences, definitions, groups, syllables, abc order, cursive, story)
Tuesday: Math
Wednesday: Finish how to speech and practice
Thursday: Final copies of speech poster

Thanks for all you do!

Welcome back! I hope you all enjoyed your spring vacation and had some time to relax. This week is the OMSI sleepover and we will be leaving school on Thursday at about 4:30. I will be sending home reminders about what to bring. Please let me know if you have other questions or concerns, but for the most part we are ready to go!
Students may be picked up on Friday about noon to go home. Those who will stay at school will be with Mr. Ochoa to do projects, art, watch a movie and recooperate.

Homework for the week.
Monday: SPelling and reading
Tuesday: Math
Wednesday: Writing
Thursday:No homework.. OMSI

This weeks spelling words:

another
its
it's
miss
fmialy
matter
family
fact
there
nothing
certainly
weather
rains
another
example
wild
size
don't
because
person
sixes
enough
lay
English

catch
business
object
minute
record
forest
direction
sign
forward

Week of March 9

We are done with testing! I'm so proud of all the students and how serious they were during this whole process.
We will be finishing up the life cycle of Salmon this week and begin learing about temperate rain forests and the food chains and webs you can find there.
Conferences will be on March 18-19. Please sign and return your conference forms as soon as possible. If I didn't request a conference, but you would like to come in, please let me know. I'm always happy to meet with you.
OMSI will be here before you know it, so make sure you get all of your paperwork in soon. The deadline for that will be March 18. I will try and attach the forms if you have lost them.

Spelling words for the week of March 9:
heart
there
another
distance
sat
their
possible
almost
finally
real
quite
thought
then
idea
simple
early
morning
followed
toward
although
different

window
explain
travel
correct
measure
striaght
thus
moment
except

We're beginning another round of state testing this week! Starting on Monday 2-23 students who have not passed the reading or math will have another opportunity to pass the test. Those students who have already passed, will not participate in this round. They will be working on other activities during testing time. They will take the test again in May to see if they can improve their score.
We also just finished up with studying Native Americans of Oregon and will be constructing homes on Monday. Our next unit of study will be animal classification, temperate rain forest ad food chains and webs.
Homework for the week:
Reading 20 minutes every night and filling out reading log
Monday: Spelling (sentences with words)
Tuesday: Math
Wed: Writing
Thursday: science

Spelling words for the week:
there's
that's
within
never
examples
floor
piece
dry
watch
shell
among
group
living
upon
other
body
use
their
they're
enough
would
today's
poetry

**record
**direction
**various
**necessary
**information
**women
**famous
**machine
**business
**ecosystem

We had a great time on Valentines day! Thanks for all the yummy treats and fun cards. Congratualtions to our contest winners.
This week we will be finishing our state writing test and our unit on Native Americans of Oregon.
Spelling words for the week:

often
together
everything
leave
morning
usually
bring
several
their
because
there
only
cannot
too
really
through
threw
carefully
system
reason

Homework: Reading 20 minutes every night.
Monday: Spelling, look up 10 words in the dictionary. Write a sentence for 5 of the other words.
Tuesday: Math graphing practice
Wed: Basic facts
Thursday: Write 2 paragraphs about what you love about living in Oregon.

It's been a busy January, and now we're gearing up for February. Time goes so fast!
We will have the state writing test next week (9-13) and our Valentines party on Friday the 13th. Below is a list of names for Valentines if your child want to make cards. Please make sure if you send Valentines that you include everyone.
Also, I sent out a permission for watching the video "City of Ember" based on the novel we read in class. If you would prefer for your child not to see the movie, I will have an alternate class for them to join during lunch.

VALENTINE LIST:
Andy
Angel
Benito
Betty
Coby
Conner
Elizabeth
Esme
Hailey
Hector
Jahiro
Jazmin
Jessica
Jose
Juan
Karla
Keiara
Kaci
Kimber
Laceabeth
Jennifer
Monica
Spencer
Tahlia
Travis
Yasad
Jared

Monday: Spelling: 10 complete sentences. See if you can use all the words in the 10 sentneces.
Tuesday: Math graphing page
Wednesday: Writing. Write a letter to a Native American and tell them how your life is different than theirs.
Thursday: Editing

Spelling list:
important
than
then
completely
example
it's
heavy
winter
brought
they're
beautiful
already
everyone
carefully
problem
half
special
aren't
follow
Americans
once

Challenge:
electric
throughout
capital
knowledge
region
anthropologist
environment
various
temperature
business

Week of January 20

This week we will only have reading for homework. Since it is such a short week, we will not be doing a spelling test. The kids have been working hard on imaginative stories and some shared them with Mrs. Berry's class. It was fun to see their creativity in story telling. We will be wrapping up our study of the skeletal system and moving on to Oregon Trail next week.

Have a great 3 day weekend!

We had a busy first week back and are ready to jump right back in. This week we will be finishing up with state testing. I will be sending those scores home on Friday.
We will continue our learning about the skeletal system and will be making a skeleton of our own.
Homework for the week:

SPELLING WORDS FOR THE WEEK:
warm, summer, gone, already, show, because, their, write, example, finally, between, second, right, would, you're, all ready, skeleton, system, once

CHALLENGE WORDS:
abbreviation, heritage, acquainted, conversation, absence, respectful, requirements, spaghetti, passenger
Monday: Spelling ( Use 10 of the words in complete sentences)
Tuesday: Multiplication practice. Keep practicing your flashcards.
Wednesday: Writing practice.
Thursday: Body spelling and reading.

Week of January 5

Welcome back! It's been a long vacation, and we're ready to get back into our learning. This week we will continue to work on the skeletal system, problem solving and imaginative writing. We will finish off our state testing next week and those results will be sent home when it is completed.

This weeks spelling words (1-5-09)
hundreds, road, strong, their, pieces, blue, then, special, pictured, held, instead, people, than, they're, known, either, English, another.
Challenge words: accidentally, convince, forgiveness, separately, neighborhood, headache, imagination, concentration

Homework for this week: Read for 20 minutes, complete reading log with 3 important words
Monday: Spelling (Use the words in a story, edit for spelling and punctuation)
Tuesday: Math problem solving
Wednesday: Handwriting
Thursday: Skeletal system handout.