11/6/26 By now your child should have asked you to check my google classroom for our November reading challenge. Students are trying to read 5 nonfiction books during the month in order to earn a grammar scavenger hunt and party.. Their biography bottle project book does count as one of the 5. Please advise me by Monday, 11/9th of your child's biography selection for the project. The biography is about someone from Colonial Times as that will be the unit of study in social studies this year. Parents are welcome to attend the Biography Bottle Wax Museum at 8:30 a.m. (in the school hall) on Monday, November 30th. As long as the class earns it, this will also be the day of our class scavenger hunt and party. Parents are allowed to stay for the scavenger hunt, but must be virtus trained, and sign in at the office. Please contact me if you would like to stay to help with the party as well. In other news, we are starting our unit 6 s/v unit this week. The tests will be given on Thursday, November 19th. We continue to work on pronouns in grammar, completing a daily page in our text book during school, and our workbook for homework. We will also continue reading our novel (Chapters 17-21 this week).
11/2/26 We are finishing our Unit 5 S/V this week, with our tests on Friday. We have our unit noun test on Tuesday, November 3rd. I plan to read chapters 11-16 in our novel this week. Please look for a Biography Bottle Project coming home today. Details are on the form. We will be starting our nonfiction reading unit soon, and this will be part of it. Our next unit in grammar will be on pronouns. I anticipate completing personal pronouns by the end of the week. Additional information: Students are to bring in their novel to be approved by November 9th. If you are purchasing from Amazon, you may send the link via email to me so that I can see it to approve before you buy. A library book may just be brought in to school. Parents are invited to visit our Living Biography Bottle Wax Museum from 8:30-9:00 on Monday, November 30th. It will be held in the hall.
10/26/26 We will be starting Unit 5 in S/V this week (test on Friday, November 6th). We are finishing up our noun unit. The test will be on Tuesday, November 3rd. THIS IS A CHANGE. We continue reading our novel---chapters 10-14 this week. I look forward to seeing many parents at our visitation day on Wednesday.
10/19/26 We are continuing to work on our Unit 4 S/V words; the test will be on Friday, 10/23. We are continuing to work on our noun unit in grammar (we are finishing possessive nouns, and are then moving on). We completed our personal narratives, and are now focusing on our novel. I look forward to seeing many parents at conferences and on parent visitation day. Our next grammar test (on nouns) will be on Thursday, October 29th.
10/12/26 This week we are starting our Unit 4 S/V words. Our test will be on October 23rd . We are completing our personal narratives and continuing studying nouns in grammar. We have been continuing our novel as well.
10/6/26 This week we are continuing our study of Unit 3 S/V words for our tests on Friday, October 9th. We are working on writing personal narratives, as well as starting a new unit in grammar on "nouns". We continue to enjoy our novel during class.
9/28/26 This week we are starting our Unit 3 S/V words. The next test will be given on Friday, October 9th. We have a unit test tomorrow in grammar on "sentences", and continue to read our novel. We will also be starting our narrative writing unit. ***Scholastic book orders are due on Thursday, October 1st.
9/21/26 This Week we have been completing our Unit 2 S/V words; the tests will be given this Friday, September 25th. We worked on Direct Objects in Grammar today as well as starting our bi-weekly mentor sentence work (also on subjects and predicates). Our Unit 1 grammar test has been moved to Tuesday, September 29th. We have not completed the unit yet. Study a little each night to be prepared. We have read through chapter 2 in our novel, and will continue reading and discussing it this week.
.9/14/26 This week will be start working on Unit 2 in our S/V book. The tests will be given on Friday, September 25th
We are working on subjects and predicates in grammar. ***Our first grammar test will be taken on September 24th. This will be a complete test on the entire first unit on sentences. Students should complete their homework, and study a little each night in order to be prepared.
I am so excited that we are starting our first novel of the year! All novel work will be completed during class.
9/3/26 Welcome to Fourth Grade ELA class! This week we have been working on routines and have been discussing our summer reading.
Students will have their first Spelling/Vocabulary Tests on Friday, September 11th. The spelling words are the same as the vocabulary in the orange workbook.
We will be working on "Sentences" in grammar, and will be completing short written responses based on a book I will be sharing with students throughout the week.
I will be sending (via our room mom) the link for our first novel, Schooled, by Gordon Kormon. You may purchase on your own or through the school link. Our school does not elevate prices if you order from us. It is just meant to be a convience for parents. We will begin our novel on Monday, September 14th.
Our first Scholastic Book order is due on Friday, September 11th by noon if you plan to make a purchase. Please order directly online rather than sending in a paper copy (this delays orders). The code for my classroom is: RVLPB. Thank you for your support!