Reading Rockets: Reading Tips for Parents of First Graders

Reading Rockets: Reading Tips for Parents of First Graders

Fourth Grade Homework Sheet ~ 9/27-10/1

Spelling List 5

1. faith

2. sailfish

3. rainbow

4. railroad

5. driveway

6. countdown

7. southwest

8. shouted

9. crowned

10. topsoil

11. pointing

12. oilcan

13. enjoying

14. again

15. said

16. Ezra

17. Nehemiah

18. Esther

19. snare: trap

20. honesty: having the courage always to tell things as they really are, leaving the outcome to God

Review I Corinthians 13:1-5

& Vs. 6-7

"Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things."

New Memory Verse

~Ephesians 6:1-3~

"Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;

That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth."

Test/Quiz Schedule

MONDAY:

Verse Test - I Corinthians 13:1-7

TUESDAY:

Language TEST

Know all punctuation rules for the following:

1. Commas

2. Quotation Marks

3. Apostrophes

4. Underlining

5. Colons

WEDNESDAY:

Spelling Test - List 5

Science Test - Chap. 1-2

History Quiz

THURSDAY:
Insect Presentations

FRIDAY:

Insect Presentations

Verse Quiz - Ephesians 6:1-3

Math Test

History Test - Chap. 1-2

SPECIAL EVENT

Field trip to Cedar Hill Farms on Friday, October 8th! More information will be going out on Monday, September 27th. I hope many of you are able to come!

Learning Math With Pancakes

Since we learned our measures of capacity in math yesterday,

we decided to make pancakes in fourth grade today!!!

What a wonderful field trip we had to the kitchen!

Who knew math could be so much fun?!? And fourth

graders also found out what their teacher's favorite

food was growing up and still is!

Grandparent's Day ~ 2010

What a wonderful Grandparent's Day we had in fourth grade!

The students sang their favorite songs, recited

1 Corinthians 13:1-4, and put on a play called

"Grandpa's Teeth." We even had a game show

called "Getting To Know Your Grandparent's"

where many students asked the grandparent's

questions about their childhood and life growing up.

To end our fun day, grandparents and parents

helped students fill out their family trees.

Thank you grandparents for visiting our

classroom and for teaching us! May you

never stop spoiling us and being our role models!

Fourth Grade Homework Sheet - 9/13-9/17

SPELLING LIST 4

1. east

2. leapfrog

3. seacoast

4. oatmeal

5. snowflake

6. rowboat

7. cleaner

8. cleanest

9. sweeter

10. sweetest

11. greener

12. greenest

13. cheapest

14. great

15. break

16. Samuel

17. Kings

18. Chronicles

19. devour: to destroy or eat up greedily

20. tempt: to invite, attract, or entice someone to do something wrong

~MEMORY VERSE~

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal."

"And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. "

"And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing."

"Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up."

"Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil."

TEST/QUIZ SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY:

Spelling Pre-Test

Language Quiz ~ Know Quotation Mark Rules

THURSDAY

Verse Quiz - I Corinthians 13:5

FRIDAY

Spelling Test

Oral Verse Test

Science Quiz - pgs. 40-44

*INSECT PROJECT DUE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th*

Round-Up Sunday - 2010

Sisters? No, but we act like it!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY A DAY EARLY, KIM!

I thank God for my roomie/friend/sister.

Nothing like great food, great friends, and fellowship on Sunday.

I even was able to eat with some of my fourth grade girls today - Reauna, Rachel, & Lily.

What a wonderful Round-Up Sunday we had today! Thank God for the visitors that came out to Central. We had some special music, good preaching, fun games for the kids, and tasty food.

Elementary Volleyball

"TIME TO HEAD OUT"

Lily, Rachel, Bethany, & Carly show excitement for the game!

Angel & Reauna are warming up!

Looks like Camille and Claire are bonding before game time!

Molly, Ashley, & Haley are ready to go!

GREAT JOB, girls, on your win at Calvary! Keep working hard as a TEAM!

CARLY'S "ME IN A BOX"

We celebrated our August birthday this last week. Happy Birthday, Carly. Carly was born in Memphis, loves volleyball, wants to go back to San Diego, California some day to visit, and, as you can see, is very creative. Thank you, Carly, for sharing some of your favorite things with us!

Setting Your Thoughts On Things Above

I don't know how many times in my life I allow negative thoughts to creep into my mind. What I have realized is how the more I think on Satan's lies, the more down I become and allow it to guide my actions and attitude for the day. Why let Satan have victory in my life when God has already conquered sin and is wanting US to have victory in Him?!? Thus, my goal has been to find God's truths in His Word, memorize them, and FOCUS on those thoughts which are true and helpful in making me more like Him and bringing glory to Him alone. Here are a couple of God's Truths to think on for the week. Let's set our minds on things above!

~2 Corinthians 9:8~

"And God is able to make ALL GRACE abound toward you, that you, always having ALL SUFFICIENCY in ALL things may have an abundance for every good work."

~Psalm 62:1,2,5,6, 8~

"Truly my soul silently waits for God; from Him comes my SALVATION;"

"He only is my ROCK and my SALVATION; He is my DEFENSE; I shall not be greatly moved."

"My soul wait silently for God ALONE, for my expectation is from Him."

"He ONLY is my ROCK and my SALVATION; He is my DEFENSE; I shall not be moved."

"TRUST in Him at all times, you people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a REFUGE for us."

*The key for us as Christians is to live in complete dependence of God each day.

"Begin each day with joyful expectation watching to see what HE will do through YOU."

~2 Corinthians 12:9.10~

"My grace is SUFFICIENT for thee for my STRENGTH is made perfect in WEAKNESS."
"Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of CHRIST may rest upon thee."

Fourth Grade Update ~ 9/6-9/10

SPELLING LIST 3

1. unjust

2. unlike

3. unsafe

4. unlock

5. untwist

6. unpack

7. unplug

8. retrace

9. retell

10. rethink

11. remake

12. replant

13. refill

14. beyond

15. before

16. Joshua

17. Judges

18. Ruth

19. stature: height; how tall you are

20. synagogue: the building where Jews meet for worship

~ MEMORY VERSE~

I Corinthians 13:1-4

(Vs. 1) "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not CHARITY, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

(Vs. 2) And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand ALL mysteries, and ALL knowledge; and though I have ALL faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not CHARITY, I am NOTHING.

(Vs. 3) And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not CHARITY, I am NOTHING.

(Vs. 4) CHARITY suffereth long, and is kind; CHARITY envieth NOT; CHARITY vaunteth NOT itself, is NOT puffed up."

TEST/QUIZ SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK

WEDNESDAY

*Math Quiz

*Language Quiz

*Spelling Pre-Test

THURSDAY

*Science Quiz ~ pgs. 20-29

FRIDAY

*Verse Quiz ~ I Corinthians 13:3,4

*Spelling Test

*History Test ~ Chapters 1&2

SPECIAL NOTEST

Grandparent's Day ~ Monday, September 13th

Insect Project Due Monday, September 20th

*You may bring in your insect project on Friday, September 10th for Grandparent's Day!

Fun with Insects

Following our learning about the differences between

butterflies and moths, we decided to make butterflies

using food. We used celery sticks, pretzels, spreadable

cheese, and raisins.

The best part was eating them! Mmmmm Yum.. =)