Happy Birthday Caddo Grove!

Today my fourth grade students celebrated the Birthday of our school, Caddo Grove. This year I am trying to give my students as many experiences as I can in hopes that they use these experiences to draw from on the STAAR Narrative portion of the Writing Test. So we decided to make a day of it. We started off in morning assembly recognizing the school and then off to the classroom. In my Language Arts class we did several birthday related activities. First, we did the Writing Hokey (a "Writing" lyric themed version of the Hokey Pokey), then we completed two Birthday themed Mad Libs. Next we played Parts of Speech BINGO and "Pin the Subject to the Predicate". We ended class with a Spelling Pinata game. In their Math and Reading classes the teachers also geared their classes to the Birthday Theme. Students ended the day with....of course......CUPCAKES! You can't have a birthday party without some sort of cake! If was a great day and I hoping some sort of impact was made.

 

We Are Thankful

Today students practiced their Expository writing skills by jotting down the things they were thankful for. The students came up with three things and then went into detail about why they were thankful for them. We will be sending some of the letters to the Joshua newspaper. Be sure to check it out!

You're Invited.....

Students today wrote their invitations to each other for our big birthday bash tomorrow. Caddo Grove is turning 8 (really the real birthday was November 6 but we are celebrating it now). Check back later to see all of the fun events that took place.

Spelling Challenge- Week 13

Spelling Challenge- Week 13

Flower Words

Draw a flower for each word, 1 petal for each letter of the word. Inside each petal write one letter in the word and go in order of how the word is spelled until finished with the word. Once finished you will have a bouquet of wonderful words!

1.	center
2.	once
3.	scene
4.	germs
5.	spice
6.	bridge
7.	badge
8.	circus
9.	cement
10.	glance
11.	strange
12.	police
13.	certain
14.	orange
15.	ounce
16.	ginger
17.	wedge
18.	arrange
19.	sponge
20.	village

Spelling Challenge- Week 12

Spelling Challenge- Week 12

word, word, word

Small, Medium, Large Spelling

Have your child write the spelling word using the smallest letters they can possibly write (this one is a fave), then doing it normal sized and finally jumbo sized. It makes tedious writing practice so much more fun!

1.	hour
2.	lambs
3.	knew
4.	wrench
5.	kneel
6.	thumbs
7.	honest
8.	answer
9.	honestly
10.	plumber
11.	honor
12.	known
13.	combs
14.	wrapper
15.	knives
16.	doubt
17.	knead
18.	wriggle
19.	heir
20.	wrinkle

Chemistry Humor

Spelling Challenge- Week 11

Spelling Challenge- Week 11

Sensory Spelling

This is one of my favorites and I am sure it will be for your child as well. Layer a cookie sheet with salt, sugar, flour, shaving cream, pudding, whipped cream, OR any other fun goop you can think of and have your child write their spelling words with their finger in the goop.

1.	dirty
2.	purse
3.	birth
4.	curl
5.	curve
6.	curb
7.	person
8.	shirt
9.	worse
10.	hurl
11.	twirl
12.	swirl
13.	herb
14.	turkey
15.	turnip
16.	purpose
17.	blurred
18.	sternly
19.	serpent
20.	pearl