Vivid Verbs Lesson- Uncle Chris

A visit from Uncle Chris!

This past Thursday and Friday our 4^th grade students recently received a fun visit from “Uncle Chris”. Students attended two hour long workshops each day on Thursday and Friday. These workshops assisted the boys and girls in the brainstorming process, with hooking introductions, writing “dyno-write” conclusions, making their sentences more detailed and so much more. The students loved every minute of each of the workshops and have a new spark when working on their writing. For more information about "Uncle Chris" be sure to visit his website! http://www.thestorywindow.com/ 

Spelling Challenge- Week 19

Spelling Challenge- Week 19

Cheerleader Chant Spelling

Give me an S, give me a P, give me an E, give me an L, give me another L - what's that spell? SPELL! Practice making a fun chant with each of your spelling words. Guys, there are boy cheerleaders too- they are called Yell Leaders! So now I expect everyone to yell, get to work and SPELL, SPELL, SPELL!

1.	flower
2.	voices
3.	tower
4.	mound
5.	cowboy
6.	gown
7.	frown
8.	south
9.	howling
10.	annoy
11.	noises
12.	pound
13.	hound
14.	pouch
15.	thousand
16.	wound
17.	grouch
18.	cough
19.	grown
20.	voyage

Spelling Challenge- Week 18

Spelling Challenge- Week 18

MERRY CHRISTMAS! This week my gift to you is to choose your FAVORITE challenge so far that we have done. Practice this weeks words using that activity! If you need refreshing on all of the fun challenges so far, take a look back at Spelling Challenges 1-17!


The Spelling Challenge I Choose Is: __________________________________________

1.	zoom
2.	tunes
3.	brooks
4.	you'll
5.	wool
6.	mood
7.	suits
8.	crew
9.	spool
10.	stool
11.	cookie
12.	food
13.	used
14.	grew
15.	group
16.	stoop
17.	move
18.	stew
19.	huge
20.	should

Light Bulb Sentences

This current six weeks we have been focusing a bunch on parts of speech identification. We have recently learned about Adverbs, Articles and Prepositions but have been reviewing our knowledge of Nouns, Proper Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, and Conjunctions- Whew! We have been learning a ton! A great way way to wrap it all up and get into the holiday spirit was to make our own Christmas lights!

First the students had to create their very own Christmas sentence. After writing down their sentences on their papers, they then were challenged with labeling each word's part of speech. After their identifications, they then had to ensure their sentences had at least 5 different parts of speech in them. If their sentences lacked, they were taxed with including in a missing link.

Here is the color code we used:
Nouns and Proper Nouns- Red
Verbs- Light Blue
Adjectives- Yellow
Adverbs- Orange
Pronouns- Purple
Articles- Green
Prepositions- Pink
Conjunctions- Dark Blue

Check out the student samples below. They did AWESOME!

Spelling Challenge- Week 17

Spelling Challenge- Week 17

Partner Spelling

This requires two people- You and your student. Take turns adding a letter to spell each word. For example, for the word SUN - child starts by saying the letter S, parents adds letter U and child then completes word by adding the letter N. This requires focus and listening and is a great exercise.

If you want to make it more challenging and get the whole family involved, this is a great way to focus on concentration and listening because you have to hear what everyone is saying before you. If someone misses their letter, they have to sit out the rest of the round. If you have a younger child that is not up to the same spelling level, give them a cheat sheet. Your younger child will still benefit and learn from having to follow along. You could even make them your checker to ensure everyone is spelling the words correctly. 

1.	funnier
2.	families
3.	pennies
4.	worried
5.	replied
6.	varied
7.	marries
8.	carries
9.	easily
10.	silliest
11.	jumpier
12.	emptier
13.	merrier
14.	applied
15.	cozily
16.	sorriest
17.	prettily
18.	lazier
19.	happiest
20.	dizziest

Prepositions

In class, our grammar focus has been over prepositions. Prepositions are great to add to your writing when wanting to add elaborative detail, descriptions, etc. I have posted some great videos and songs to practice with prepositions. Hopefully you find them helpful!