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Good Morning Red Dragons. You are almost finished with ½ of 4 th Grade 

Good Morning Red Dragons. You are almost finished with ½ of 4 th Grade  . Today you will get back your Theme Tests. Only 2 people so far have earned Wii time. What do you think happened? . Write your weekly goals in your morning work spiral. Are you prepared for the day?

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Good Morning Red Dragons. You are almost finished with ½ of 4 th Grade 

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  1. Good Morning Red Dragons.You are almost finished with ½ of 4th Grade  Today you will get back your Theme Tests. Only 2 people so far have earned Wii time. What do you think happened? • Write your weekly goals in your morning work spiral. • Are you prepared for the day? • Work on Math Flex.

  2. Theme 6: The Land Shapes People’s Lives Turn to page 158-159 How does geography influence the way people live? If you stood in a heavily forested area, what might you see and hear?

  3. What do people do at these locations?

  4. Word study: Homonym • A homonym is a word that sounds like another work but has a different meaning and spelling. • Example: hare/hair; to/too/two

  5. Find the homonyms • Don’t be late. The bee landed on the flower. • Can you see the shore? The boat sailed on the sea.

  6. Spelling list • cent • sent • scent • pour • pore • their • they’re • their • degrees • rectangle • no excuse • apple • but • flower • other • challenge words • cereal • serial • patience • patients

  7. Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights page 160-161 • What words would you use to describe the sky in each picture? • What do you know about how the light changes month to month in Alaska? • Let’s read to find out why the Arctic is special place. Listen for how the author organizes information to help you understand her observations in Alaska.

  8. vocabulary • farmland: Land that is used to grow vegetables, fruits, grains and other crops is called farmland. Farmland is also used to raise animals, such as dairy cows. • I drive past farmland everyday. – MC • My grandpa has a couple huge farmlands. – AM • There are a lot of farmland in Texas. - AM

  9. vocabulary • fertile: Soil that is fertile can produce (give or make) good crops. • My grandpa’s farm soil is very fertile. CP • My auntie uses fertile soil for her plants. MK • My garden’s soil is not very fertile, it does not have a lot of nutrients. BZ`

  10. vocabulary • vast: When something is very large in size or amount, we say it is vast. There is a vast amount of information on the Internet. The pool had a vast amount of water. BZ The Pacific Ocean had a vast amount of water. – AM My dad has a vast amount of money. MC

  11. homophones • Can you think of other words that sound like sent but are spelled differently? • What are the meanings of these words? • How could you use them in sentences?

  12. Comprehension strategy: Synthesize • To synthesize means to combine the important ideas in a text. • Turn and talk • What are the important ideas in the passage? • What would you tell a friend about what you have read?

  13. Which fix-up strategy did you use? • Used illustrations • Used phonics • Read on • Broke it into parts

  14. vocabulary • Horizon: The horizon is where the land and the sky appear to meet. Did you see the horizon? It was very orange this morning. –JM In art the teacher taught us what a horizon was. – AM If you look outside in the evening you can see a dark view of the horizon. - AL

  15. Vocabulary • reflection: The image that bounces back to you from a mirror is a reflection. I see my reflection in the car window. JM My reflection showed up in the mirror. LE I see my reflection in my grandma’s eyes. MK It was scary when the girl did NOT see her reflection in the mirror. Curtis

  16. Homonyms Chesapeake Bay p. 168 • Find the word mussels on p. 168. What is the meaning of the word? • Con you find a homonym for the word mussels as you read on? • Look for more homonym pairs in the text.

  17. My A-mazing Summer Vacation p. 166 • Where have you traveled to visit relatives or on a vacation? • Did people do anything differently in the places you visited?

  18. Features of realistic fiction • Believable characters who behave in realistic ways • Setting • True to life plot

  19. Plot • Plot begins with the problem or conflict and ends with a solution of the conflict. • What’s the problem in My A-mazing Summer Vacation?

  20. Synthesize • How is your ability to synthesize changing as you practice this strategy? • How do you decide which details can be synthesized into a new idea?

  21. Explore words together p. 169 • List a homonym for each word and define it. Be prepared to share your list.

  22. The Gigantic Redwoods p. 170 • What things would you need to take on a weekend camping trip in the woods? • What is the largest tree you’ve ever seen? • Let’s read to find out what it was like to go camping in a redwood forest in 1888.

  23. Synthesize • Why do you think it is helpful to synthesize as you read? • Is synthesizing changing your reading habits? How?

  24. vocabulary • Create a question for our vocabulary words farmland, fertile, vast, horizon and reflection. • Example • Answer: horizon • Question: Where do the land and sky seem to meet?

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