4^th grade news Walden Lower School May 9, 2008 Issue 28 School Phone: 893-0434 Ms. Aboud’s email: aaboud@walden-school.org School web address: www.walden-school.org Ms. Geller’s email: dgeller@walden-school.org
A Few Reminders PE – Monday and Wednesday – dress appropriately with proper shoes Snack provided Monday – Thursday Read 20 minutes a night 12:45 dismissal on Fridays	Ms. Aboud’s and Ms. Geller’s Notes Hello Parents! The end of the year is almost here! We are wrapping up our units that we are working on and beginning to review our skills from the whole year. In Math we will be making a Paper Patchwork Quilt. The children will learn about different patterns, lines of symmetry, and design. We will continue to work on our Civil War Project during most of our free time. For Reading we are going to focus on short stories and reading comprehension, main idea and supporting facts. This is our last week of homework, spelling tests, and Scholastic/Time Quizzes. .
DATES TO REMEMBER 5/16 – Civil War Project Due 5/17 – WPA Auction 5/26 – No School 5/27 – High School Graduation 5/28 – end of the year trip – Connor Prairie 5/30 – Award’s Day and last day of school
Just a Reminder …. Civil War Project The Civil War Project is due Friday. The children have been working on this for a long time at school and at home. It is a major portion of their Social Studies grade. One thing we have stressed to the kids is that we want to see their own work not their parent’s, siblings, etc. We want them to use their keyboard skills and type the pages themselves. You will be impressed once they are bound! Discovery Quest On Fridays we have our Discovery Quest presentations. Below is a schedule of when the children are presenting. Please check the website or the Fourth Grade Open House Packet for each month’s topic choices. May 16^th – Kamron, Sydney, Christopher, Nicole, / Aidan, Madelyn, Kalin, Rosemary, Kinsey May 23^th - Madeline, Zac, Andrew, Katie, Alexander / Jake Martina, Bridget, Rachel
Scholastic News / Time Magazine Quizzes Our classes get two children’s magazines every week – Scholastic News and Time Magazine. We will distribute one of the magazines on Tuesdays with a take home Quiz. The children can read the magazine at school or at home and answer the questions. They may use their magazine to answers the questions. The Quizzes will be due on Thursdays to be used as an assessment.
Homework Homework will always come home in the yellow. All assignments (unless otherwise noted) are due the following day. Spelling will be assigned on Monday and the unit is due on Friday. A spelling test will be given on Friday.
Spelling Words Robin, button, bacon, reason, cotton, sunken, eleven, cousin, woven, raisin, cannon, muffin, widen, wooden, ridden, common, proven, often, penguin, skeleton, medal, pupil, paddle, violin, vitamin
Fourth Grade Parents It is a Walden tradition to have a Lower School end of the year photo show during the Awards Day ceremony. As the 4^th grade will be “graduating” from Lower School we add a special “then to now” section. Please gather a cute picture of your child under the age of 3 and a current picture of your child. Either email them to Mrs. Fitts at lfitts@walden-school.org or put the hard copies in plastic bag with the student’s name written on it and turn in to the office or Mrs. Fitts. If you do not have a current picture of your child Mrs. Fitts will take a photo during school. These work best if both picture images are about the same size. The pictures will be returned to you in your child’s awards day envelope. Thank you!
Spelling Bonus Words These are “Bonus Words” for spelling they come from all areas of study. You may choose for your student to study these in addition to the regular spelling words. Brittle, agreement, definitely, quesadillas, jewelry, video, coordinating, mounting, unbelievable, repeated
Monday Math Review WS Language Art WS Reading 20 minutes every night
Tuesday Math Review WS Language Arts WS Social Studies Time Magazine / Scholastic Take Home Quiz Due Thursday Reading 20 minutes every night
Wednesday Math Review WS Language Arts WS Reading 20 minutes every night
Thursday Math Review WS Language Arts WS Reading 20 minutes every night
Friday No Homework No

MASTERY CLUB

A Club for Students Interested in Learning

This is a club for students who are interested in achieving “above and beyond” the normal classroom expectations. All you have to do is learn all about the topic, and then tell Ms. Geller the answers. You can become a 1 star member, all the way up to an 84 star member! Learning never ends – thank goodness!

MASTERY CLUB RULES

Students must memorize all Mastery Club items (therefore learning something new). You may use your notes to study form and quiz each other, but not on the actual “test”. When you are ready to tell me the answers aloud to the challenges, I will record your answers on scratch paper to ensure there are no duplicates. You either “pass” or not. If you don’t “pass”, you may try again the next school day. If you do “pass” I will record your accomplishment on a chart to be displayed in class.

Good luck and happy studying!

Print a list of the challenges

SOCIAL STUDIES		Here's a Web Site to Assist You in Your Research....... (Just click your "Back" button to come back to this page.)
1.	Name the 7 continents.	More About the Continents
2.	Name 15 world countries.	Country Maps
3.	Name 15 major world cities.	World Cities
4.	Name 15 types of dwellings.	10 types of dwellings
5.	Name 10 South American and Central American countries.	South America Country Map Central America Map
6.	Name 10 countries bordering the Pacific Ocean.	Country Maps
7.	Name 10 countries in Europe.	European countries quiz game Click on the correct European country game
8.	Name 10 countries in Africa.	Click on the correct African country game
9.	Name 10 major bodies of water.	Oceans and Seas
10.	Name 10 major world rivers.	Fact Monster - Principal Rivers of the World River Systems of the World
11.	Name 10 large deserts of the world.	FactMonster deserts of the world Desert maps
12.	Name 10 large lakes in the North America.	U.S. Lakes.com  Lakes of the world
13.	Name 10 major mountains or mountain ranges.	World Mountain Maps - click a mountain Highest Peaks
14.	Name the 50 states.	50 States Quiz
15.	Write the names of the 50 states on a map.	Explore the States
16.	Name the state capitals.	State Capitals - Homework Spot States & Capitals Game
17.	Name the 13 Colonies.	13 Colonies Homepage List of the 13 Colonies 13 Colonies Quiz & Map
18.	Name 10 Native American tribes.	Native American Nations
19	Name 10 Oregon Trail landmarks.	Historic Sites Along the Trail
20.	Label 10 of Oregon’s counties on the map.	Oregon Blue Book Counties Home Page
21.	Name the state symbols of Kentucky.	State Symbols of Oregon
22.	Name 8 explorers.	Zoom Explorers
23.	Name 8 Civil War battlefields.	Civil War Battlefields & information Civil War battlefields A to Z
24.	Name the 1^st - 10^th presidents in order.	Presidents of the U.S.A. KidsKonnect - Presidents
25.	Name the 11^th  - 20^th presidents in order.	Presidents of the U.S.A. KidsKonnect - Presidents
26.	Name the 21^st - 30^th presidents in order.	Presidents of the U.S.A. KidsKonnect - Presidents.
27.	Name the 31^st - current presidents.	Presidents of the U.S.A. KidsKonnect - Presidents

SCIENCE		Here's a Web Site to Assist You in Your Research....... (Just click your "Back" button to come back to this page.)
28.	Name 15 kinds of fish.	Northeast Fisheries Science Center KidsKonnect.com - Fish
29.	Name 15 marine creatures.	KidsKonnect.com - Aquariums
30.	Name 15 mammals.	All About Mammals
31.	Name 15 vertebrate animals.	List of vertebrate animals Vertebrate animals & photos
32.	Name 15 desert animals or wildlife.	Loads of desert animal information
33.	Name 10 amphibians.	Amphibians
34.	Name 10 reptiles.	Reptile Database
35.	Name 10 dinosaurs.	Dinosaur Pictures KidsKonnect.com - Dinosaurs
36.	Name 10 types of birds.	State Birds of the U.S.A. KidsKonnect.com - Birds
37.	Name 10 rain forest birds or mammals.	Rainforest Wildlife Zoobooks - Rainforest Mammals Crossword Puzzle KidsKonnect.com - Rainforest
38.	Name 10 deciduous trees.	Deciduous Trees KidsKonnect.com - Trees
39.	Name 10 rocks or minerals.	Mineral Gallery - see photos Rock Hounds - How Rocks are Formed KidsKonnect.com - Rocks & Minerals
40.	Name 10 chemicals and their chemical symbols.	The Periodic Table of Elements Another Periodic Table Website
41.	Name 10 constellations.	Choose a constellation then "constellation lines" More constellation pictures Another constellation site
42.	Name 10 organs in the human body.	Interesting Information About the Human Body
43.	Name 8 types of clouds.	More about clouds
44.	Name 5 inventors and their inventions.	National Inventors Hall of Fame Timeline
45.	Name 5 human body systems	Virtual Body
46.	Name the stages of the water cycle.	Water Cycle Animation
47.	Name the order of the colors in the rainbow.	About Rainbows
48.	Label the major bones of the skeleton.	Human Skeleton - Enchanted Learning Mr. Bones Assembly Activity
49.	Name the order of the planets in the solar system.	Introduction to the Nine Planets

LANGUAGE ARTS & LINGUISTICS		Here's a Web Site to Assist You in Your Research....... (Just click your "Back" button to come back to this page.)
50.	Name 20 verbs.	What is a Verb? Play the "Nouns or Verbs? game
51	Name 15 adjectives.	What is an adjective? More adjective info.
52.	Name 15 adverbs.	Adverbs More about Adverbs
53.	Name 15 prepositions.	Guide to Grammar & Writing
54.	Name 10 common nouns & 10 proper nouns.	Nouns Noun activities to quiz yourself with
55.	Name 10 famous authors.	Children's Authors KidsKonnect.com - Authors
56.	Give 2 examples each of alliteration, personification, simile, metaphor, and onomatopoeia.	Simile, metaphor, personification Onomatopoeia
57.	Count to 20 in Spanish.	Count to 20 & listen
58.	Count to 20 in French.	Click "Écoutons" to listen to the numbers & then click "Répétons" and finally, "Praticons" to play a game - neat site!
59.	Use sign language and "sign" the alphabet.	Animated sign language on the Net Sign the word you'd like here
60.	Score 100% on the grade-level 100-word spelling test.	4th Grade 100-word list

MATH	Here's a Web Site to Assist You in Your Research....... (Just click your "Back" button to come back to this page.)