Mrs. Bookwalter's Class

February 1, 2015

Scantron Testing this week for Grade Four. Testing is tentatively scheduled for Monday and Wednesday. Please have your child/children eat a nutritious breakfast, get plenty of sleep, and arrive to school on time.

Please see blog page for past weeks' information.

See the Tests tab above for this week's test schedule.

Children should be reviewing and practicing basic multiplication and division facts on IXL (www.IXL.com). If you have misplaced your child's log-in username and password, e-mail me. [email protected]

Have you logged in to Accelerated Reader Home Connect lately? If you have misplaced your child's log-in username and password, e-mail me (or ask your child--they should know it.) https://Hosted334.renlearn.com/29538/HomeConnect

Please support the class basket for the Mardi Gras. Please see below the e-mail from Linette Kolos regarding donations needed:

Well is that time again when we have been asked to donate a basket for the 2015 Mardi Gras silent auction. Our theme this year is Movie Night we would like to include the following in our baskets, but we need your donations to make it happen. Please pick form the list below or if you have that special something you like to do while enjoying a movie on the couch or in you theater room feel free to donate one of those….

Movie theater gift cards or tickets, Redbox or movie rental gift certificate, Domino's/Pizza Hut/Ledo’s gift cards, gourmet and regular popcorn, popcorn boxes/bowl, air Popcorn popper, popcorn seasonings, chocolates, raisins, Skittles, sodas, family oriented DVDs, blankets, a pillow etc..

Thanks so much for your donations!

Linette Kolos

Please send in and give the items to Mrs Bookwalter so they can be arranged in a basket for the auction by February 2, 2015

Spelling Words

Easily Confused Words

set

sit

off

of

when

win

our

are

than

then

lose

loose

were

we're

where

quiet

quit

quite

whose

who's

Reading Vocabulary

convinced

courageous

engineer

gradually

immigrants

Spelling Words

Contractions:

we'll

I'm

I'd

you'd

I'll

we've

it's

that's

what's

doesn't

he'll

she'll

they'll

they'd

he'd

would've

could've

wouldn't

shouldn't

let's

Reading Vocabulary

character

courtroom

evidence

guilty

rescued

Religion Terms to Know

Ten Commandments

covenant

human rights

Moses

The Israelites

Mt. Sinai

Abraham

Catholic Schools Week "Communities of Faith, Knowledge, and Service"

Cost: $8 for the week (Dress Down only), to be donated to the Mardi Gras Dance Fund

Sunday: Catholic Schools Week Mass, St. Mary’s Church 9:30 a.m. OPEN HOUSE at school 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Monday: Pajama Day & Lunchtime Bake Sale

Tuesday: Jersey Day, Classroom Visits & Family Appreciation Day

Wednesday: Wacky Wednesday & Service Project Day

Thursday: Throwback Thursday, Student Appreciation Day & Reptile World

Friday: School Mass & Faculty Appreciation Day

****Please see full details of Catholic Schools Week events and guidelines on attachment sent in e-mail and in School Newsletter.

Please see blog page for past weeks' information.

See the Tests tab above for this week's test schedule.

Children should be reviewing and practicing basic multiplication and division facts on IXL (www.IXL.com). If you have misplaced your child's log-in username and password, e-mail me. [email protected]

Have you logged in to Accelerated Reader Home Connect lately? If you have misplaced your child's log-in username and password, e-mail me (or ask your child--they should know it.) https://Hosted334.renlearn.com/29538/HomeConnect

Please support the class basket for the Mardi Gras. Please see below the e-mail from Linette Kolos regarding donations needed:

Well is that time again when we have been asked to donate a basket for the 2015 Mardi Gras silent auction. Our theme this year is Movie Night we would like to include the following in our baskets, but we need your donations to make it happen. Please pick form the list below or if you have that special something you like to do while enjoying a movie on the couch or in you theater room feel free to donate one of those….

Movie theater gift cards or tickets, Redbox or movie rental gift certificate, Domino's/Pizza Hut/Ledo’s gift cards, gourmet and regular popcorn, popcorn boxes/bowl, air Popcorn popper, popcorn seasonings, chocolates, raisins, Skittles, sodas, family oriented DVDs, blankets, a pillow etc..

Thanks so much for your donations!

Linette Kolos

Please send in and give the items to Mrs Bookwalter so they can be arranged in a basket for the auction by February 2, 2015.

January 19, 2015

Children should be reviewing and practicing basic multiplication and division facts on IXL (www.IXL.com). If you have misplaced your child's log-in username and password, e-mail me. [email protected]

Have you logged in to Accelerated Reader Home Connect lately? If you have misplaced your child's log-in username and password, e-mail me (or ask your child--they should know it.) https://Hosted334.renlearn.com/29538/HomeConnect

Please support the class basket for the Mardi Gras. Please see below the e-mail from Linette Kolos regarding donations needed:

Well is that time again when we have been asked to donate a basket for the 2015 Mardi Gras silent auction. Our theme this year is Movie Night we would like to include the following in our baskets, but we need your donations to make it happen. Please pick form the list below or if you have that special something you like to do while enjoying a movie on the couch or in you theater room feel free to donate one of those….

Movie theater gift cards or tickets, Redbox or movie rental gift certificate, Domino's/Pizza Hut/Ledo’s gift cards, gourmet and regular popcorn, popcorn boxes/bowl, air Popcorn popper, popcorn seasonings, chocolates, raisins, Skittles, sodas, family oriented DVDs, blankets, a pillow etc..

Thanks so much for your donations!

Linette Kolos

Please send in and give the items to Mrs Bookwalter so they can be arranged in a basket for the auction by February 2, 2015.

Spelling Words

Words with ch, sh, tch, wh

shown

short

punish

shelter

flashlight

trash

March

chapter

chocolate

church

watch

kitchen

pitcher

catcher

whatever

anywhere

whenever

wheat

awhile

somewhere

Reading Vocabulary

farewells

flung

suggested

tangled

uniforms

vain

Religion pp. 91 - 92 due on Friday, Jan. 16. This will count as a homework assignment not a test assignment.

Chapter 4 Test Review Social Studies

Directions--Identify which group (the British or the colonists) did the following:

1. They declared independence. British or Colonists

2. They passed the Stamp Act. British or Colonists

3. They wanted to have a say in the laws and taxes. British or Colonists

4. They surrendered to George Washington. British or Colonists

5. A group of them dumped tea overboard during the Boston Tea Party.

British or Colonists

Directions—Fill in the blanks with the correct answer from the list below.

Thomas Jefferson empire

George Washington protests

Patriots revolution

Loyalists taxes

Privateers

6. The Sons of Liberty organized _____________________against the British.

7. A __________________________ is when people fight to replace one government with a new government.

8. England wanted its kingdom, or ____________________________, to grow.

9. People who wanted independence were called ________________________.

10. ________________ __________________ wrote the Declaration of Independence.

11. The leader of the colonial army was _______________ _________________.

12. The colonists were angry about the ______________________they were forced to pay the British.

13. Colonists who remained loyal to the king were called ___________________.

14. Ship captains served as ________________________, attacking and capturing enemy ships.

Directions—Write complete sentences to answer the questions.

15. Why didn’t George Washington want to be king after the war was over?_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

16. What risk did men take who signed the Declaration of Independence?

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

17. How did Maryland farmers and ship builders help the Revolutionary War effort? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

18. Name two things the colonists learned in the French and Indian War that helped them in the war with England. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

19. Why was the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution?

______________________________________________________________________________

Spelling Words

Unit 3 Review

scarier

scariest

happiest

happier

closest

flowers

enemies

beaches

ashes

mysteries

worried

chased

stopped

worrying

drying

except

Texas

queen

liquid

bridge

October

angle

people

barrel

doctor

Math Chapter 4

product

equation

factor

Distributive Property

partial products

regroup

Social Studies Chapter 4

empire

militia

tax

representative

protest

resist

rebellious

cooperate

revolution

import

Loyalist

Patriot

ammunition

independence

treason

impel

barracks

ironworks

privateer

ideal

amendment

survey

Spellling Words

other

number

October

another

color

doctor

motor

people

simple

angle

title

model

barrel

angel

broken

sudden

oven

common

gallon

button

Reading Vocabulary

cobra

coiled

lame

plunged

triumph

Reading Vocabulary

brand

bridles

calves

corral

heard

initials

manes

reins

Religion Terms to Know

Advent

Spelling Words

Inflected forms with -ed and -ing

happened

studied

worried

slipped

dancing

chasing

robbing

opened

stopped

dried

happening

opening

dancing

studying

stopping

chasing

worrying

drying

robbing

slipping

Social Studies – Maryland – Chapter 3 Study Guide

1) Identify the following people:

Christopher Columbus

John Smith

Leonard Calvert

George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)

Jonas Green

Mathias de Sousa

Queen Henrietta Marie

Margaret Brent

Charles and Daniel Carroll

2) Name two reasons the colonists left England to come to Maryland.

3) Where did the Ark and Dove land?

4) Name the first capital of the colony of Maryland.

5) Where did the first explorers of Maryland come from?

6) Define indentured servant and gentry.

7) Was slavery allowed in the Maryland colony?

9) Name three ways in which life changed for the American Indians when the colonists arrived.

10) Who was allowed to vote in the colony?

11) Name three important crops in the colony.

12) What crop did farmers in Western Maryland grow?

Wednesday, November 26 Grandparent's Mass at 10:10.

12:30 Dismissal. Ne Extended Care.

Santa's Secret Shop orders due by Monday, Nov. 24.

Pasta and Spaghetti Sauce donations due by Tuesday, Nov. 25.

Keep Christ In Christmas Poster Contest Entries--see Mrs. New and last week's school newsletter.

Spelling Words

Adding -s, -es

monkeys

holidays

delays

flowers

friends

tigers

supplies

enemies

hobbies

memories

mysteries

eyelashes

ashes

beaches

bunches

circuses

glasses

classes

taxes

suffixes

Reading Vocabulary

grizzly

flapjacks

depot

cord

snowshoes

Religion Terms to Know

Ordinary Times

Math Chapter 4

product

equation

factor

Distributive Property

partial products

regroup

Social Studies Chapter 3

proprietor

colony

conquer

indentured servant

slave

replica

gentry

plantation

tolerate

discrimination

St. Mary's City

Maryland (origination of name)

silt

debt

Spelling Words

Adding -er and -est

smaller

larger

happier

hotter

sadder

deeper

closer

scarier

funnier

fatter

smallest

largest

happiest

hottest

saddest

deepest

closest

scariest

funniest

fattest

Reading Vocabulary

boulder

glimpse

hollered

horizon

rhythm

shivered

tunnel

Religion Terms to Know

Liturgical Year

Liturgy

Advent

Lent

Triduum

Ordinary Time

Christmas

Easter

Math Chapter 2

Review: difference, estimate, round, sum, and word form

New:

Associative Property of Addition

Commutative Property of Addition

Identity Property of

Addition

equation

minuend

subtrahend

unknown

variable

November 16, 2014

Please see blog page for past weeks' information.

See the Tests tab above for this week's test schedule.

Here are some IXL.com sections that your child can practice this week:

Fourth Grade

Addition: B.1; B.2; B.4; B.8; B.9

Subtraction: C.1; C.2; C.3; C.6; C.7

Thank you to everyone who attended Parent-Teacher conferences. It was so good to be able to meet with all of you and discuss your child(ren)'s progress.

The field trip to St. Mary's City is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 19. Students need to be in full uniform but may wear comfortable walking shoes. Please check the weather for proper outer wear. All students need to bring a bag lunch.

All students need to be at school by 8:00 so we can load the bus promptly and leave by 8:20. The students will not arrive back to school until 3:30.

Thank you to all of our current servicemen and women and to all of our Veterans for your service to our country. The fourth grade class made Veteran's Day cards for the Veterans residing at the Charlotte Hall Veteran's Home. Cards will be delivered Monday evening.

Parent-Teacher Conference forms went home last week. Please sign and return form to confirm your attendance. Parent-Teacher conferences are scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 11.

If you have not yet returned your child's signed report card envelope please do so this week. Thank you.

The spelling words for this week are a review of the words learned during this past unit. There are 30 words instead of the usual 20 words.

There is not a new story for reading this week and there will not be a reading selection test this week. However, there will be an English test given of plural nouns. In reading this week, the class will review skills learned during this past unit which includes: context clues, plural nouns (regular and irregular), fact and opinion, cause and effect, theme, and visualizing. The class will also read and discuss poetry.