Huntsville Space & Rocket

Moon Buggy races and Space and Rocket!!

Field trip!

Headed to Huntsville for moon buggy races! A little bus fun.... :)) love these kids!

Whales Tales

4th grade goes swimming at the NAT. They are learning safety skills and swimming techniques. Fun!!

REVIEW

ARMT+ Prep

We are practicing reading and finding our answers in scavenger hunt form. This skill teaches us to go back and look in the story for our answers.

We are practicing math skills and using our WISE steps to explain our answers.

April 11-17

Reading: We are reading about the Wright Brothers and their invention of the plane! 

"To Fly" by Wendie C. Old

Orville and Wilbur Wright were a fascinating pair. Not only did they invent, build, and fly the first airplane, they were also idiosyncratic individuals who had a unique relationship, sharing a home, a bank account, and a business throughout their lives. Their story is portrayed here in brief, accessible chapters, beginning with their childhood fascination with flight and love of problem solving, then detailing their early experiments and dangerous trial runs in North Carolina, and ending with their successful flights of 1903. This well-researched and personable biography is illustrated with elegant watercolors by flight enthusiast and noted artist Robert Andrew Parker. (Google Books)

Spelling Words

For

“To Fly:  The Story of the Wright Brothers”

1.  careful                                11.  harmful

2.  tasteful                              12.  monthly

3.  lonely                                  13.  yearly

4.  powerful                             14.  successful

5.  suggestion                          15.  playful

6.  peaceful                             16.  thoughtful

7.  recently                             17.  actually

8.  extremely                          18.  pollution

9.  certainly                            19.  correction

10.  wisely                                20.  eagerly

BONUS WORDS
separation

description

immediately

suspenseful

completely

VOCABULARY:
Cradle, Drag, Flex, Glider, Hangars, Rudder, Stalled

MATH:

We are working on Topics 14-16 in our EnVision book. Our focus next week is on Measurement... both customary & metric. We will be having a measuring scavenger hunt & will measure ourselves! Also, Coordinate Grids and Map skills will be focused on.

SCIENCE:

Due to severe weather month, we are still focusing on Weather & the Water Cycle.  Our next project will involve a "Make, Draw, or Bring" activity about a weather event.

 

iPads & Eday.... We will be having our Eday make up very soon. Be on the look out for a note home regarding the distribution of our iPads. The Eday assignment works best with internet access but I have tried to provide offline apps for completion of the work.

 

 

TEST PREP is beginning! Eat Well & get a Good Night's Sleep!

Tech Team to STATE!!

I am so proud of our 4th graders!!

Logan- First on the IT test

Brodie & Andre- 2nd, Level 2

Jonathan- 2nd, Level 2

Angelica & Josh- 3rd, Level 2

Severe Weather and 1974!

It is severe weather month!

On This Date In 1974…

Updated Apr 03, 2013 6:18 AM CDT

At the time it was the greatest outbreak of tornadoes on record in the U.S. The famous “superoutbreak” of tornadoes started… A total of 148 tornadoes swept across 13 states in roughly a 24 hour time frame. From Illinois to North Carolina and from Michigan to Alabama, tornadoes and severe thunderstorms killed 335 people! (source ABC3340)

Mrs. Evans was 3 years old when this tornado hit downtown Jasper.

 

Jasper, Alabama -

While tornadoes were causing devastation in the northwestern most corner of the state, another supercell crossing the Mississippi-Alabama state line produced another violent tornado that touched down in Pickens County before heading northeast for nearly 2 hours towards the Jasper area causing major damage to its downtown as the F4 storm struck. Damage was also reported in Cullman from the storm before it lifted.^[38].
The Jasper tornado first touched near Aliceville, producing scattered damage as it tracked northwestward. The damage became more intense continuous as the tornado entered Tuscaloosa County. The tornado continued to strengthen south of Berry, and two people were killed near the Walker County line when a church was destroyed. The tornado tore directly through downtown Jasper at 6:57 PM, resulting in severe damage and at least 100 injuries. The Walker County courthouse sustained major damage, and a new fire station was completely leveled. The fireman on duty at the time took shelter underneath a nearby bridge, and survived without injury. The tornado crossed Lewis Smith Lake and moved across the south side of Cullman at 7:40 pm. Multiple homes and shopping centers were damaged or destroyed in the area, resulting in one death and 36 injuries. The tornado finally dissipated northeast of Cullman a short time later.^[39]
In total, the storm killed 3 and injured over 150 while 500 buildings were destroyed and nearly 400 others severely damaged. At the same time, a third supercell was crossing the state line near the track of the previous two. (source Wikipedia)
 

Olympic Track & Field Day

Congrats to my awesome boys!!

April 4-11

READING:

This week we are reading “Eye of the Storm” by Stephen Kramer.  We will focus on some vocabulary words in this story.  It would be helpful if you will reinforce the meaning of these words at home with your child.  Also, on this post you will find our spelling words for the week.  Please practice these words at home as well.  The words in italics are our challenge spelling words.  Let’s have a great week!

Spelling Words: watermelon, homemade, understand, sometimes, shoelace, highway, upstairs, thunderstorm, shortcut, doorbell, jellyfish, touchdown, campfire, skateboard, anyway, fireworks, haircut, loudspeaker, laptop, flashlight, masterpiece, stomachache, cliffhanger, sweatshirt, afterthought

Vocabulary Word	Meaning
destruction	great damage; ruin
expected	thought something would probably come or happen
forecasts	statements of what is coming; predictions
inland	in or toward the interior
shatter	to break into pieces suddenly
surge	a swelling motion; sweep or rush, especially of waves

MATH: 

Test on all fractions on Friday, April 5th.

Measurement & Geometry begin April 8th

SCIENCE:
WEATHER focus to correspond with our story: Eye of the Storm and April is Severe Weather month.