Our new idiom of the week is:
"between a rock and a hard place"
It means that you are faced with a choice and both options are unsatisfactory, ie not so good. You are faced with two unpleasant alternatives.
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Welcome to Mrs. McCormack's third and fourth grade class blog!
Classroom Digital Portfolio
PE News with Ms. Stanley
We are very excited to start a collaborative project with Ms. Stanley in PE. Please click here to reach her PE Blog and revisit our own classroom blog for continued updates on partnership projects in our current theme, Colonial America. Thank you!
World Languages
Please use the Google Translator to see this blog in another world language. Lycka till!!
Instant Dictionary
Classroom Motto: Every little PEACE counts
Classroom News and Reminders:
5/18, 5/19, 5/20: Science NECAP (4th graders)
5/25 HCS International Celebration, 11:30-2:30
5/24 Science Fair Projects due
5/26 HCS 3rd and 4th grade Science Fair, 5-6pm
6/1 HCS Library closes
6/14 3rd and 4th grade end-of-the-year Celebration Picnic, 11:30-1:30pm
6/15 Extended-day Field Trip to Billings Farm and Museum, Woodstock, VT. HCS departure at 7:30am, return 4:00pm
DAILY SCHEDULE
Monday: Music and PE
Tuesday: World Language and PE
Wednesday: World Language and Library
Thursday: Art
Friday: Music
WEEKLY HOMEWORK SCHEDULE
Daily: Students are encouraged to read for at least 20 minutes every day.
Monday: Weekly Update with parent signature due
Tuesday: Math homework due.
Wednesday: Math homework due.
Thursday: Math homework due.
Friday: Math Game form, Spelling form and Home Reading Log signed by parents. Vocabulary due.
5/25 HCS International Celebration, 11:30-2:30
5/24 Science Fair Projects due
5/26 HCS 3rd and 4th grade Science Fair, 5-6pm
6/1 HCS Library closes
6/14 3rd and 4th grade end-of-the-year Celebration Picnic, 11:30-1:30pm
6/15 Extended-day Field Trip to Billings Farm and Museum, Woodstock, VT. HCS departure at 7:30am, return 4:00pm
DAILY SCHEDULE
Monday: Music and PE
Tuesday: World Language and PE
Wednesday: World Language and Library
Thursday: Art
Friday: Music
WEEKLY HOMEWORK SCHEDULE
Daily: Students are encouraged to read for at least 20 minutes every day.
Monday: Weekly Update with parent signature due
Tuesday: Math homework due.
Wednesday: Math homework due.
Thursday: Math homework due.
Friday: Math Game form, Spelling form and Home Reading Log signed by parents. Vocabulary due.
Idiom of the Week
Please see our collection as it grows in our regular posts!! We also have a visual representation in our classroom. Please visit.
Word Curiosities
Every week we will choose a challenging word from our studies and explorations in class and add to our on-going work in "word curiosities". These words will be added weekly to this blog. Currently, we are studying the Explorers and Colonial America. In connection with these studies we are exploring the following words (for complete weekly vocabulary assignments, please visit Link Library on wiki. Click here)
New England colonies
Middle colonies
Southern colonies
pilgrim
puritan
indentured servant
slavery
A student also coined a new word for us as we explored traditional Self-to-Text Connections. Since we use so much technology, we now say that we do....
Self-to-Textnology Connections.
When you do these types of connections, you are....
Self-to-Textnological
New England colonies
Middle colonies
Southern colonies
pilgrim
puritan
indentured servant
slavery
A student also coined a new word for us as we explored traditional Self-to-Text Connections. Since we use so much technology, we now say that we do....
Self-to-Textnology Connections.
When you do these types of connections, you are....
Self-to-Textnological
My Shelfari Bookshelf
Author Web Sites
The Exquisite Corpse: An Online Book by many different authors
Reference Question
3. Which states are part of New England?
2. Who were "Sitting Bull" and "Sacagawea"? Where could you find your answers?
1. Please complete the pattern:
8,16,22,26,38,62,___
Good Luck!
2. Who were "Sitting Bull" and "Sacagawea"? Where could you find your answers?
1. Please complete the pattern:
8,16,22,26,38,62,___
Good Luck!
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