Morning Message 3/23/10

Good Morning and Happy “Dress Rehearsal” Day! Today is Tuesday, March 23, 2010.
Tiger Day: R
Day 125 of School, 55 days left

REMINDERS:

• Dress rehearsal at George Mason today! Music Performance this Wednesday night!
• In order for the performance to be great, everyone will need to be extremely attentive, hard-working, and cooperative both this morning and tomorrow night.
• Remember to have your TJ t-shirt ready for tomorrow! If you are borrowing a shirt from Mrs. Harbison, you will come to the performance with your own solid-color t-shirt on (preferably dark navy blue)-- then you’ll just put the borrowed t-shirt on top of your shirt.
• Book Reports due this Friday!
• Tomorrow is a short Wednesday and we have an assembly.

This Morning:

• We’ll work on our key words for VA Studies Weekly during announcements
• We’ll board the buses around 8:45am to go to GM!

To-Do List:

1. Complete your morning routine! If you want to eat snack, you’ll need to eat it now. We cannot bring snack with us.
2. Take out your issue of VA Studies Weekly. You can work on your keywords during announcements.

Computer Lab Assignment 3/22/10

Hey 4th Graders!

This morning we did some research about the Underground Railroad, the abolitionist movement, and slavery. We've also read about the causes of the American Civil War in our textbooks. Let's put all this information together now-- how are the following BrainPop animations related?

Today, you'll be doing your quizzes ON PAPER... Then on the back, you'll be expected to produce an illustration. Read the directions carefully.

Here are the links you will need:


BrainPOP: Slavery

BrainPOP: Underground Railroad


BrainPOP: Frederick Douglass

BrainPOP: Civil War Causes

Show Ms. Bragg, your illustration before you move on. She'll give you directions about what to do next.

Have fun and expand your brain!

Morning Message 3/22/10

Good Morning and Happy Picture Day! Today is Monday, March 22, 2010.
Tiger Day: E
Day 124 of School, 56 days left

Because it’s raining, we’ll be taking our panoramic picture on the risers in the gym. Are you ready to smile big for the camera?

REMINDERS:

• Turn in class and panoramic picture orders!
• Music Performance this Wednesday night! Our dress rehearsal at George Mason is tomorrow!Book Reports due this Friday!

 This Morning:

• Before/during announcements, we’ll be reading books concerning slavery, the underground railroad, and the abolition movement.
• At around 8:50 we’ll start lining up... We’ll line up inside our room with row 1 of the musical first, then row 2... And so on and so forth, ending with row 5. At around 8:55 we’ll start walking row 1 from all seven classes down to the gym, followed by Row 2, Row 3, Row 4, and finally row 5!

To-Do List:

1. Complete your morning routine! Don’t forget about snack!
2. Be sure to turn in any important papers to Ms. Bragg’s box. Return your empty Friday Folder to its mailbox.
3. Find a buddy and pick a book from the back table. We’ll read until it’s time to line up for the Panoramic pictures.

Morning Messae 3/19/10

Good Morning! Today is Friday, March 19, 2010
Tiger Day: G
Day 123 of School, 57 days left

REMINDERS:

• We’ll perform for our Book Buddies this afternoon. We only have twenty minutes-- so we’ll have to use our time efficiently.
• Music rehearsal today!
• Book Reports due next Friday!
• Next Monday is class picture and 4th grade panoramic picture day! We want to look good! Do you know what you’re going to wear yet?

This Morning:

• Chester!
• Timelines!

To-Do List:

1. Complete your morning routine! Don’t forget about snack!
2. Work on your Chester the Crab questions.

Computer Lab Assignment 3/18/10

Hey 4th Graders!

Welcome back to the computer lab!

You've already done some typing practice and some Virginia Studies review on Study Island. Now it's time to get a preview of our next science unit: weather!

Study these short video clips to get excited about learning more! The order doesn't matter.

Kid Meteorologist

What's a meteorologist?

Lightning Hunters

How is the rocket the lightning hunters use similar to the kite and key combo that Ben Franklin used?
What is a cloud like?

New Tools for Predicting Hurricanes

We've already satellites are used in astronomy... How are they used to forecast the weather? Do you remember what the definition of a satellite is?

Have fun and expand your brain!

Morning Message 3/18/10

Good Morning! Today is Thursday, March 18, 2010.
Tiger Day: I
Day 122 of School, 58 days left

REMINDERS:

• Music rehearsal today!
• How are the Book Reports going? Has everyone finished their book?
• Next Monday is class picture day! Have you picked out a snazy outfit yet? We’ll also be taking a panoramic picture of the whole 4th grade!
• Math Olympiad test today at 2pm.

This Morning:

• Civil War!
• Timelines!

To-Do List:

1. Complete your morning routine! Don’t forget about snack!
2. You’ll be working with a partner to do the vocabulary matching activity on your desk. Be sure to read the directions carefully! You’ll work with the person who is next to you (example: Hannah B. works with Christian), unless you’re on this list: Josh and Hannah R. work together. Michael and Ben L. work together.

Morning Message 3/17/10

Good Morning and Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Today is Wednesday, March 17, 2010.
Tiger Day: T
Day 121 of School, 59 days left

REMINDERS:

• Today is a long Wednesday!
• No pinching! Some people enjoy wearing green and some don’t. No big deal! J
• Today is the first day of the Third Trimester-- What does this mean for Encore?
• No music rehearsal today... You’ll have rehearsal again tomorrow.
• Who needs a TJ t-shirt for the music performance? Let me and Mrs. Harbison know. She has extra t-shirts that kids can borrow on performance day.

This Morning:

• First, a little bit of homophone practice.
• We’ll be catching up with our Virginia Studies textbooks.

To-Do List:

1. Complete your morning routine! Don’t forget about snack!
2. Same as yesterday! Take out your Word Study notebook. Find a partner to play the “homophone game” with. That’s the game where the “speller” spells the word on the “guesser’s” back or arm... Then the “guesser” has to use the word in a sentence that explains the meaning. The “speller” tells the “guesser” if they’ve used the correct version of the homophone. Then you switch!