There is an information sheet and a yellow Reading Log sheet. I’ve also included a sheet with ideas of how to respond to books and a list of book genres.

Other homework assignments can be found in Assignment Notebooks and online on the class web page.

After listening to the read-aloud book The First Day Jitters, fourth graders shared times when they felt nervous – or had the jitters – when faced with a new situation or challenge. Students wrote personal narratives describing a memorable time when they felt nervous or scared or anxious.

Be sure to ask your fourth which character had the jitters in this entertaining picture book. 

Check out the Grades 3-5 section and write sports poetry, create online trading cards, making board games, and lots more.

Leave a comment to recommend a cool activity that you tried out!

Students took notes, made sketches, and worked on related worksheets before, during, and after the trip, and are using these materials to help them create their Wade House essays.

This writing project follows lessons focused on writing with the traits of ideas, voice, word choice, and sentence fluency, and takes students to the next level – writing with from the perspective of a person (real or fictional) who was connected with Wade House in the 1860s.

Students will also focus on the steps of the writing process during this project – prewriting, drafting, editing and revising, and writing – then typing – their final draft.

Wade House essays will be posted on the class web page in the next few weeks – so stay tuned!

Remember to include your blog URL so her students can respond to your blog. Thank you!

This is Fiona Beal from Cape town (specifically Fish Hoek which is a part of Cape Town) South Africa. I have been looking at and enjoying your blog. I am the computer teacher at Fish Hoek Primary and I have done a Senior Citizens/Grandparents project with one of my Gr 4/5 classes. I wondered if your students could write in my class individual blogs and tell us something about their grandparents. We would love the connection and information.

Please view our blog at
http://fionabeal.edublogs.org

Do you want to know how to become an expert at music to impress your friends? Here are some tips to make you an expert!

1. Have fun!
2. Notice all the music notes and how they sound
3. Adjust your voice to the right sound level
4. Try to memorize the music
5. Listen to the way your music teacher sings the notes so you know how it is suppose to sound
6. Think outside of the box when thinking of melodies and music notes
7. Don’t make other noises when people are singin
8. Know the music notes
9. Improve the music, by suggesting ways to make it artistic
10. Not only sing, but also play an instrument

Do you want to know how to become an expert at music to impress your friends? Here are some tips to make you an expert!

1. Have fun!
2. Notice all the music notes and how they sound
3. Adjust your voice to the right sound level
4. Try to memorize the music
5. Listen to the way your music teacher sings the notes so you know how it is suppose to sound.
6. Think outside of the box when thinking of melodies and music notes.
7. Don’t make other noises when people are singing.
8. Know the music notes.
9. Improve the music, by suggesting ways to make it artistic
10. Not only sing, but also play an instrument

Here are our top 10 ways to become an Amazing artist.

1. Have fun
2. Don’t brag
3. Practice, practice, practice
4. Do art everywhere
5. Doodle a lot  
6. See art in everyday things
7. Doodle a lot
8. Do different things, not just one
9. Take some art classes
10. Go to art museums

Bonjour! Have you ever wanted to study the French language? Here are some spectacular ways to start!

• Study French before your teacher comes into the room.
• Pay attention to your teacher.
• Study French at home.
• Learn the French alphabet.
• Learn how to say numbers in French.
• Write small French paragraphs.
• Speak French at home.
• Read French passages to other people.
• Play French games.
• Sing French songs.

Here are the top 10 ways to be an expert at science –

• Ask questions to clarify your understanding
• Try things in different ways
• Never give up
• Get deeply involved don’t be lazy
• Be daring to investigate
• Don’t get frustrated if the experiment doesn’t work
• Think outside the box
• Try things that might not work
• Be safe
• Have fun but don’t go to overboard

Here’s 10 tips on how to make your writing magnificent. Follow these 10 ways wisely to write your next story!

1. Imagination
2. Personal voice
3. Extravagent word choice
4. Sequential organization while writing
5. Very exciting and interesting topics
6. Sentence fluency is an important key
7. Every little convention counts in your piece
8. Expressing your feelings on paper helps your writing
9. Picking genres is just as signifigant as the text
10. You need tremendous amounts of patience to write well

In our school we call our gym class Physical Education!
Here are the ways we think you can become an expert at Physical Education!

1. Have fun!
2. If you have an idea, say it
3. Play fairly
4. Play by the rules
5. Cooperate with others
6. Be safe
7. Be yourself
8. Listen when the instructor is talking
9. Do your best
10. It is easier to be athletic

If you want a 100% percent on all your spelling tests, these are the top 10 ways to get it!

• Practice every day
• Study the difficult words
• Think the words through
• Do a practice test at home
• Study the grammar of the words
• Sound out the syllables
• Make sure you know what the word means
• Break the words into parts
• Look at the spelling list
• Challenge yourself with difficult words