4th Grade Choice Board Week of November 26 – 30, 2012

Choose 2 assignments to complete every day.

Skills for the week: 1st and 3rd person point of view context clues, progressive verbs, fractions and mixed numbers, living and non-living things, 13 colonies

Boys: Green and Yellow
Girls: Grapes and Strawberries / Boys: Blue
Girls: Oranges, Pears, Cherries / Optional / A Must for Everyone
Write a short paragraph using the vocabulary words from the story “ A Walk in the Desert” / Write the meaning of each vocabulary word from the story “A Walk in the Desert” and use it word in a sentence. / Write the synonym and antonym for each vocabulary word form the story “A Walk in the Desert” / Write the syllabication of your spellings words. Then use each word in a sentence.
Solve the following problems
1.) 6 8/9 + 2 5/9 =
2.) 12 5/8 – 5 7/8 =
3.) Create a word problem where you would add or subtract mixed numbers. Then solve your problem. / Illustrate a picture that represents 3 4/9 + 5 2/9, then solve. Then write explaining how you solved this equation. / / Write your multiples of 6,7,8,12
Or
Write your factors of 80, 125,
Read pages 87 – 93 in your Social Studies textbook. Then write 2 paragraphs explaining how John Smith saved Jamestown in 1st per and then in 3rd person point of view / Read pages 87- 93 in your Social Studies textbook, then answer the following questions:
1.)Why were the Roanoke settlements failures?
2.)Why was Jamestown a successful colony?
3.)Why did the Pilgrims die during the first winter?
4.)Why did the Pilgrims hold Thanksgiving? / Illustrate a picture and explain the 5W’s of one of the following: 1. Pilgrim’s first Thanksgiving
2. Roanoke the lost colony
3. Jamestown / Spelling Words
Blue, Oranges, Pears, and Cherries
Lived –living
Rattled – rattling
Studied – studying
Traveled – traveling
Changed – changing
Appeared – appearing
Raced – racing
Hoped – hoping
Wrapped – wrapping
Green, Yellow, Grapes and Strawberries
Urgent – Thursday
Purpose – thirsty
Camera – wonder
Smuggler – remember
Surprise - earth
Certain - person
Dollar - color
Collar - early
Mayor - doctor
Read pages 300 – 301 then explain how ten biotic things depend on the abiotic things in the environment. / Read pages 300-301 Illustrate a picture of your environment. Then list the living and non-living things (at least 10 each). / / Go to studyisland.com and practice context clue