Monday, September 15, 2014

• Good Morning!! • Follow all Morning

Procedures• Be on your best behavior

and make good choices• Complete the morning

work on your desks.

http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/multiple-step-problems/printables/multiple-step2_STEPS.pdf

“Freedom means the opportunity to be what we

never thought we would be.”

Daniel J. Boorstin

Guided Reading/Independent Reading10:00-11:45

Problem of the day: Read the lists of specific details and write a general phrase that could be the subject or topic for each group. 1. separate the white and dark clothes add one cup of detergent insert quarters into the machineGeneral topic? 2. dribble the ballpass the ball down courtshoot a basketGeneral topic?

Main Idea and Supporting Details

The main idea of a passage tells you what it is mostly about. The supporting details help you understand the main idea.

http://mhschool.com/lead_21/grade4/ccslh_g4_ri_2_1b.html

• Agreement: when someone says they approve and will do something• Apartment: a building with lots of homes• Auditorium: large room that can be filled with a lot people• Basis: main reason/goal• Condition: the state something is in/how it looks or feels• Issue: a problem/something you have to think about and decide on• Knowledge: something that you already know• Manner: they way you do something/act• Movement: action/moving from place to place• Opportunity: Chance/privilege • Property: something that belongs to you (house/things)• Quality: how good something is/value• Speaker: the person talking• Spectacle: something to watch that is entertaining• Station: a place where you can get

http://mhschool.com/lead_21/grade4/pdf/ccslh_g4_ri_2_1b_link2.pdf

Writing 1:10-1:30

• Map Testing • Finish rough draft if time permits

Math 2:15-3:40

Problem of the Day Our Class is collecting peanut butter. The goal is

to collect 300 jars. On Monday, Montaisha brings in 3 boxes with 9 jars in each box. On Tuesday, Aaron brings in 4 boxes with 7 jars in each box. About how many jars of peanut butter do we still need to collect to meet our goal?

4.OA.1 & 4.OA.2 Review1. A piece of string is 7cm long. A piece of wool is 42cm long. How many times longer is the piece of wool than the

piece of string? 2. A truck is twice as heavy as a car. The car weighs 3,000 pounds. How much does the truck weigh? 3. James and Tony took a math test. James correctly answered 30 problems. James correctly answered twice as

many problems as Tony. How many problems did Tony correctly complete? 4. Henry picked 30 oranges. Janet picked 6 oranges. How many times as many oranges did Henry pick as Janet did? 5. You read 5 times as long this week as you read last week. If you read for 110 minutes this week, how long did

you read last week? 6. A pack of six pencils costs 5 times as much as a single pencil. A single pencil costs 9 cents. How much does the

pack of six pencils cost?

4.OA.3 Review

7. On a Friday evening a pizza shop had orders for 4 pepperoni, 97 vegetable, and 335 cheese pizzas. If the 4 cooks each made an equal number of pizzas, how many pizzas did each cook make? 8. Mr. Smith baked 3 trays of 36 cookies. After they cooled he divided the cookies evenly into 4 bags. How many cookies did Mr. Smith place in each bag? 9. A teacher bought 12 packets of crayons. Seven of the packets had 9 crayons and the other five packets had 10 crayons. How many crayons did the teacher buy in all? 10. Tom had 114 baseball cards. He kept 10 and shared the rest evenly among his 8 friends. How many baseball cards did each friend get? 11. I earn $5 per hour babysitting and $4 per hour for weeding the garden. Last week I did 7 hours babysitting and 6 hours weeding. How much more money do I need to buy a game that costs $80.00? 12. I had 357 books and got 23 more for my birthday. I put them into piles, with 38 books in each pile. How many piles of books did I make? 13. Mr. Liz divided $300 equally among his 5 children. His daughter, Lisa, used the money to buy 12 gifts that each cost the same amount. What was the price of each gift?

14. Six adults and five classes of 32 students went to the museum by bus. If each bus held 25 passengers how many buses were needed?

4.OA.4 Review15. Adrian is planning a class picnic. He wants to buy an equal number of hot dogs and hot dog buns. Hot dogs come in packages of 12. Hot dog buns come in packages of eight. (Make A Table)

What is the fewest number of packages he could buy to have an equal number of each?

Adrian is expecting 60 people at the picnic. How many packages should he buy to have an equal number of each, and have enough for all the people at the picnic?

16. How many packages do you need to have a class set of each of the following?

cartons of one dozen eggs six-packs of cola30-packs of glitter pens bags of three soccer ballssets of eight puppets packages of ten mini-whiteboards

17. Use the numbers 18 and 24 to complete the following steps.

Find the factors of 18.Find the factors of 24.List any numbers that are factors of both numbers.

18. Use the numbers 14 and 28 to complete the following steps.

Find the factors of 14.Find the factors of 28.List any numbers that are factors of both numbers.

# of packs 1

# of hotdogs 12

# of buns 8

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Writing 8:45-9:25

• Show don’t tell BrainPop http://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/shownottell/

Which is better? Why?

a. I missed the bus.b. I raced down the road, wildly waving my hands,

and yelling, “Stop, stop,” but the bus traveled on down the road without stopping.

Fix these sentences:• I was scared as I walked towards the haunted

house.• I am cold.• I left work feeling happy. It was a good day.

Guided/Independent Reading9:25-11:00

Problem of the day: After reading the sentences, decide the phrase that best expresses the topic or

general subject of the sentences. 1. The law of demand is illustrated in an experiment conducted by the makers

of M&M candy.2. For a twelve-month period, the price of M&Ms remained the same in 150

stores, but the number of M&Ms in a package increased, which dropped the price per ounce.

3. In those stores, sales immediately rose by 20 to 30 percent. a. Candy Maker’s Experimentb. M&Ms Drop in Pricec. M&Ms Prove the Law of Demand

Paragraph #1

Ms. Smith is a great second grade teacher. She has worked at Livingston Avenue School for three years. Her first job in Cranford was as a third grade teacher. Ms. Smith is always nice to her students. She makes learning fun and cares about each child in her class. Cranford is lucky to have Ms. Smith as a teacher!

Main Idea

• What is the passage mostly about?• What is the author’s message?• Limited(little) information – only tells

what is really important• Does not include details

Ways to Identify Main Idea

1. Locate important words that tell (who, where, when, what, why) the passage is

mostly about.

2. List and separate the supporting details to create your own main idea

sentence (typically graphic organizers)

Paragraph #1

Ms. Smith is a great second grade teacher. She has worked at Livingston Avenue School for three years. Her first job in Cranford was as a third grade teacher. Ms. Smith is always nice to her students. She makes learning fun by reading to her students all of the time and playing learning games. Cranford is lucky to have Ms. Smith as a teacher!

Paragraph #1

• Ms. Smith is a great teacher at LAS because she is nice and fun.

The new girl on the block is a bully.

There’s a new kid on the blockAnd boy, that kid is toughThe new kid punches hardThe new kid plays real rough

The new kid’s big and strongWith muscles everywhereThat new kid tweaked my armThat new kid pulled my hair

The new kid likes to fightAnd pick on all the guysThat new kid scares me someThat new kid’s twice my size

That new kid stomped my toesThat new kid swiped my ballThat new kid’s really badI don’t care for her at all

Detail #1The new kid is really big and strong with muscles everywhere.

Detail #2

The new kid punches and pulls hair.

Detail #3The new kid steals.

• Illustrate the main idea and supporting details of your book using the index card man.

Math 11:00-11:45/1:55-2:50

• Mad Minute Multiplication Test

Guided/Independent1. Mr. Cunningham cuts 360 heads over 9 weeks. He cuts the same number of heads each week.

This is represented by the number sentence C x 9 = 360. How many heads, C, does Mr. Cunningham cut each week?

2. 4th graders receive 3 cougar paws every time they are caught being quiet in the halls. They

earned a total of 36 cougar paws. Which number sentence could be used to find U, the number of times they were quiet in the halls? Solve your equation.

A. 3 + U= 36 B. 3 x U = 36 C. U - 3 = 36 D. U

÷ 3 = 36 Solve: 3. * Monique has 21 bracelets * Penny has d bracelets * Monique has 7 times as many bracelets as Penny. Kala says that Penny’s number of bracelets can be found by solving the equation 21 = d x 7. Landa

says that Penny’s number of bracelets can be found by solving the equation 7 x 21 = d. Who is right? Explain your answer.

4. A full grown adult dog will eat 5 times the amount of dog food as a puppy. The adult dog will eat 10 pounds of dog food a month. Altogether, how many pounds of dog food will they eat?

Equation for the amount of food a puppy will eat _______________________Amount of food a puppy will eat ______ + _______amount an adult dog will eat = ________total 5. The 1st bamboo tree is 72 feet tall. The 1st bamboo tree is 8 times as tall as the 2nd bamboo tree.

What is the height of the 2nd bamboo tree? Equation: __________________ Answer: ______________________ 6. Mrs. A. Smith loves to shop! Due to budget cuts, she decided to save 4 times as much money this

month as she did last month. If she saved $32 this month, how much money did she save last month?

Equation: __________________ Answer: ______________________ 7. We have a goal of obtaining 200 can goods to donate to the homeless shelter. Javion brought in 3

boxes with 12 cans in each box. Alaysia brought in 5 boxes with 11 cans in each box. About how many can goods still need to be collected?

Javion’s equation & total cans_______________ Alaysia’s equation & total cans _________________ Estimate of cans still needed _________________________

7. We have a goal of obtaining 200 can goods to donate to the homeless shelter. Javion brought in 3 boxes with 12 cans in each box. Alaysia brought in 5 boxes with 11 cans in each box. About how many can goods still need to be collected?

Javion’s equation & total cans_______________ Alaysia’s equation & total cans _________________ Estimate of cans still needed _________________________ 8. There are 36 children in a 4th grade class. Each van can hold 12 children. How many vans are needed so that all

students can have a ride? Equation: ________________________ Number of vans: ______________ 9. A car travels 62 miles in one hour. What is the most reasonable estimate of how far a car will travel in 6 hours?a. 360 miles b. 37 miles c. 300 miles d. 600 miles 10. The cafeteria bought milk to give to students. They have 20 crates with 12 cartons of chocolate milk in each crate

and 30 crates with 11 cartons of white milk in each crate. Each student needs 5 cartons of milk for the week. How many students can the cafeteria feed?

11. Which number is a factor of 24, but not a multiple of 3?a. 8 b. 6 c. 12 d. 3 12. Ricky is 48 years old. He went to a birthday party for his niece, Shawn. Shawn’s age is a factor of Ricky’s age. Find

all of the possible ages that Shawn could be.

Inquiry 2:50-3:45• Engage: Share something you have learned with a

neighbor

• Explore: Turn and talk– What would happen if there were no more

producers?

• Explanation: Review and Discuss– Entrepreneurship - the process of starting a business

or other organization– Supply - the amount of a product which is available to

customers– Demand - The amount of a good or service that a

consumer will want to purchase at a given price– Scarcity - The basic economic problem that arises

because people have unlimited wants but resources are limited

AssignmentsAs a new entrepreneur, you have a brand new candy bar in the chocolate industry. In order to get started, you need to submit a business plan to the bank. The bank has instructed you to include in your business plan the following items..

Advertisement: 20 points (5pts each)• Name of chocolate/business (Consider who your consumers will be)• Array and dimensions of candy• Design of box or wrapper and description of chocolate• Price

Written responses :50 points (10 points each)• Marketing: where can we purchase the new chocolate? Why did you

choose this location?• Productivity: Hershey’s, your biggest competitor make a similar

chocolate for $1 a unit. They sell it for $1.50 making a fifty cent profit. Assuming you can make your chocolate for the same price, how much would you charge your consumers for a unit?

• Interdependence: Assuming that North Carolina does not grow cocoa beans or sugar, from what countries could you import these two supplies?

• Resources: Would the supplies you need (sugar and cocoa beans) be renewable or nonrenewable resources? How do you know?

• Government: North Carolina charges 7% tax. What services might the state provide with this tax money?

Market Economy Scenarios: 30 points (15 points each)• Create a scenario where the demand for chocolate would be scarce.

(Use as much vocabulary from the units that you can.)• Create a scenario where the supply for the chocolate would be

scarce.

Make sure all assignments are complete:1. Comprehension questions from 219-2232. Leveled Readers assignment3. Questions form videos4. Brainpop Activity sheets5. P. 246 Questions1-66. P. 247-8 Quesitons 1-107. Import/export charts

Use some of these vocabulary words in your written responses and scenarios:• price• Supply• demand• Productivity• natural resources• human resources• capital resources• Import• Export• market economy• Scarcity• Entrepreneurship• economic choices• Consumers• Want/Need• limited• renewable

resources• nonrenewable

resource• factors of

production

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Writing 8:45-9:25Building Suspense

• A sense of suspense and anticipation is what hooks the reader and moves the story into the main event.

• Suspense building raises questions in the reader’s mind

• If the main character is wondering or worrying, so is the reader! The reader’s questions have to be answered.

• Suspense, contrary to what people often think, does not have to be scary.

• But another way to look at suspense is as story tension or a sense of anticipation.

1. Story Questions• Story questions can be raised directly or indirectly.• The simple way (directly) is to have your main character raise

a question -to wonder or worry• The indirect approach involves telling the reader only part

what is going on –just a hint. This raises questions in the readers’ mind and compels them to read on.

Example:Catherine couldn’t believe her eyes. What in the world

did Grandma have in that huge wrapped package? (Catherine and the reader wonder what’s inside - and, if

it is a gift for Catherine.

2. Word Referents

• Tease the reader by not immediately revealing what “it” is. Describe a story critical character or object without naming it .

• Example:Instead of writing: I saw a dragon in the cave.Use word referents: The creature was huge and dark as

night. It made a soft rumbling sound. I could feel the mythical beast’s hot breath on my face.

3. The Magic of 3• This technique involves the convention in which a

series of sensory hints (involving any of the senses) are provided in a way that builds tension- the third hint leading directly to a revelation.

1. You hear a noise. You look. Nothing. You dismiss it.2. You see a fleeting shadow. Again, you try to

determine what it could be, but don’t notice anything unusual. You start to worry.

3. You feel something brush past you. You turn. There it is! (revelation)

Red Flag Words and Phrases

• When building Suspense, and particularly when using the Magic of Three, authors us RED FLAG WORDS AND PHRASES to grab the reader’s attention, to alert the reader to the fact that something significant is about to happen.

• These RED FLAG WORDS AND PHRASES may be used effectively to introduce each hint in the Magic Three.

• They can also be used effectively along with story questions and word referents. These transitional phrases help to move the action forward in a suspenseful way.

RED FLAG WORDS AND PHRASES

• Suddenly • A moment later• The next thing I knew • In the blink of an eye• Instantly

• Just then • All of a sudden• Without warning• To my surprise

Guided/Independent Reading9:25-11:00

Problem of the day: Which phrase best describes the topic or subject for each group of sentences. 1. To provide a favorable climate for growing grapes, the winter temperature should not go below 15° F, and the summers should be long.2. During the growing season, rainfall should be light.3. A gentle movement of air is required to dry the vines after rains, dispel fog, and protect the vines from fungus disease. A. Protecting Grapes from DiseaseB. Appropriate Temperatures for Growing GrapesC. Appropriate Climate for Growing Grapes

• Review Main Idea using the “Main Idea Rap” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jb0JuslzDQ

• Main Idea Tasks Cards in Groups (class set of 6)

http://5thgradereadingresourcesmcboe.wikispaces.com/file/view/Main+Idea+Task+Cards+Under+the+Big+Top+Set+D.pdf

Math 11:00-11:45/1:55-2:50

Mrs. D. Smith can build 12 robots in 1 hour. What is the most reasonable estimate for the amount of robots she can build in 8 hours?

Guided/Independent1. Mrs. Talton baked 120 muffins over 4 weeks. She bakes the same number of muffins each

week. What equation can be used to determine the number of muffins she bakes each week? How many muffins does Mrs. Talton bake each week?

2. Aaron earns 8 lead pencils every time he stays in his seat during a lesson. He earned a total

of 48 pencils. Which number sentence could be used to find a, the number of times he remained in his seat during the lesson? Solve your equation.

A. 8 + a = 48 B. a - 8 = 48 C. 8 x a = 48 D. a ÷ 8= 48Solve: 3. * Ms. Heron had 16 students who earned Fun Friday * Mrs. Whitner had f students who earned Fun Friday * Mrs. Whitner had 4 times as many students earning Fun Friday as Ms. Heron. Ms. Hirschhorn says that Mrs. Whitner’s number of students can be found by solving the

equation 16 = f x 4. Mrs. Chapman says that Mrs. Whitner’s number of students can be found by solving the equation 4 x 16 = f. Who is right? Explain your answer.

4. Tia can eat 12 crabs in one sitting. Will can eat 4 times the amount of crabs as Tia. How many crabs can they eat together?

Equation for the amount of crabs Will can eat _______________________Amount of crabs Will can eat ________ + _______amount of crabs Tia can eat = _________total 5. Morehead is 28 feet tall. Nathaniel is twice as tall. What is the height of Nathaniel?Equation: __________________ Answer: ______________________ 6. Maurio spent $45 on video games last month. This month he spent 5 times that amount on

video games. How much money did Maurio spend this month on video games?Equation: __________________ Answer: ______________________ 7. We have a goal of obtaining 500 can goods to the homeless shelter. Portland brought in 6

boxes with 28 cans in each box. Bryce brought in 12 boxes with 12 cans in each box. About how many can goods still need to be collected?

Portland’s equation & total cans_______________ Bryce’s equation & total cans _________________

Estimate of cans still needed _________________________

8. There are 72 children that have to go in trailers. Each trailer can hold 9 students. How many trailers are needed so that all students can be in a classroom?

Equation: _____________________ Number of trailers: ______________

9. A car travels 78 miles in one hour. What is the most reasonable estimate of how far a car will travel in 4 hours?

a. 312 miles b. 400 miles c. 800 milesd. 350 miles 10. The cafeteria bought milk to give to students. They have 15 crates with 7 cartons of chocolate milk

in each crate and 18 crates with 9 cartons of white milk in each crate. Each student needs 5 cartons of milk for the week. How many students can the cafeteria feed?

11. Which number is a factor 20, but not a multiple of 2?a. 10 b. 5 c. 7 d. 4 12. Yvonne is 35 years old. She went to a birthday party for her daughter, Elaine. Elaine’s age is a factor

of Yvonne’s age. Find all of the possible ages that Elaine could be.

Inquiry 2:50-3:45• Engage: Turn and talk

– What would happen if there were no rules?

• Explore: view video on YouTube: Constitution Preamble from Schoolhouse Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30OyU4O80i4#t=50

• Explanation:• What a constitution?

– A plan for that government that decides how the government will be run; also informs citizens of their rights and responsibilities.

• Elaboration: TW use Imagine It story: The US Constitution and You (skim through intro and read the Constitution and You on P 25-257

US Symbols

Create a Poster

• United States symbol (10 points)• The US Constitution Preamble (Cloze – 20 points)• Bio of a couple of the authors of the Constitution

(can use Imagine It book and Constitution Day site: http://www.constitutionday.com/ )

( 2 people, 10 points each)• Response to questions:

1. How can you protect the Constitution? (10 points)2. How does the Constitution make your life better?

(10 points)

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Writing 8:45-9:25 “The Main Event”

• The Main Event is basically what the story is all about.

• Everything so far should led up to one single, meaningful event or scene.

• (A novel consists of many scenes that lead to one peak climatic event- a short story focuses on a single significant main event.)

• The main event consists of the adventure, problem, or experience that changes or affects the main character in some way.

Fully Elaborated Main Events are made of a balance of:

• Action: What did you do?(tell it in, slow motion, Play by Play, S-t-r-e-t-c-h i-t O-u-t)

• Description: What did you see, hear, feel?

• Thoughts/Feelings: What were you wondering, worrying, feeling?

• Dialogue/exclamation: What did you say or exclaim?

• Sound Effect: What did you hear?* Don’t summarize! Make a Scene!

Guided/Independent Reading9:25-11:00

Problem of the Day:Which phrase best describes the topic or subject for each group of sentences. 1. Salsa, the popular blend of Latin American music, is also the word for sauce.2. According to stories, the expression was contributed to the music world by a

Cuban orchestra conductor.3. While practicing a mambo that needed more life, the orchestra leader told

his musicians to “echale salsita” or “throw in the sauce.” A. Latin American Salsa MusicB. The Naming of Salsa MusicC. Contribution of Salsa

• Read Aloud “Teammates” (or listen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swAnRW9noEI ) and complete summary house https

://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17013702/Main%20Idea%20for%20Big%20Kids%20Freebie.pdf

• Specific skills: Main Idea• Complete summary

house for your self-selected books.

Math 11:00-11:45/1:55-2:50

The 4th Grade Team loves to eat mints!!! Ms. Tyler bought 4 bags with 25 mints in each bag. Mrs. Harris bought 12 bags with 20 mints in each bag. If there are 6 teachers in 4th grade, how many mints can each teacher get?

Math Common Assessment

Multiplication concepts: (Remember what you know )

• factors/ multiples• strategies for multiplying and dividing

(inverse)• multiplicative comparisons• rounding/estimating• multistep problems

Inquiry 2:50-3:45• Engage: Watch Brain Pop video “Budgets”

http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/economics/budgets/

– Take quiz for grade

• Explore: Picture Walk

• Look at the pictures in Lesson 3 p. 231 and 233. Identify ways that people are using money.

• Compare and contrast the two graphs on p. 234-5. What features are different?

• What government services are illustrated in the photographs on p.234-5

Friday, September 19, 2014