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The Mississippi River flows through Mississippi, providing rich soil that supports agriculture. The state celebrates African American history and holds parades with floats and food. When settlers arrived, they found fertile land and a long growing season, making Mississippi a top furniture producer. Important cities in the state include Natchez and Yazoo, situated along the Mississippi River across central United States.
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The 4th grade teachers are planning a field trip for their holiday party on December 21st to see a movie at the Waconia Theater. They will leave school at 10:00 AM and return in time for lunch. Parents can either ride the bus with their child and the class or meet them at the theater. Parents must notify the teachers by December 7th if they want to attend and include $9 for their ticket. Snacks are included in the fee.
Artifact
The document provides instructions for students to collect artifacts from their home that relate to different social science subjects: economics, geography, political science, and history. For each artifact, students are asked to describe why they selected it and why the relevant social scientist (economist, geographer, political scientist, or historian) would find it interesting to study. The artifacts for each subject must all fit into the same small bag. Students will then analyze the bags of artifacts brought by other students to make inferences about which artifact relates to each social science subject.
Ssa4 1 artifact
The document provides instructions for students to collect artifacts from their home that relate to different social science subjects: economics, geography, political science, and history. For each artifact, students are asked to describe why they selected it and why the relevant social scientist (economist, geographer, political scientist, or historian) would find it interesting to study. The artifacts for each subject must all fit into the same small bag. Students will then analyze the bags of artifacts brought by other students to make inferences about which artifact relates to each social science subject.
Welcome Letter
This letter from Kristi Henkels, a 4th grade teacher, welcomes students and parents to the new school year. Henkels has been teaching 4th grade for 9 years and was previously the media specialist. She looks forward to setting class expectations and guidelines with students and having an exciting year of learning through reading, social studies, science, math, and a field trip to Wolf Ridge in May. Henkels also provides her contact information and asks parents to return a form to join a class email group.
September1
The teacher is excited to start the new school year and hopes the student and parents share her excitement. She has been teaching 4th grade for 9 years after working as a media specialist for 7 years. On Tuesday, the class will discuss their hopes and dreams to set class expectations and guidelines. The teacher expects this to be one of the best school years for the students as they will read stories, learn about different regions of the US, study science topics, learn new math concepts, and go to Wolf Ridge in May. She provided her contact information and a form to sign up for a class email group.
Theme6 worksheets
This word search puzzle contains vocabulary words from a reading about John Muir and his dog Stickeen. Players try to find words like "disappearance", "uneasily", "remarkable", and "reassurance" hidden within the letter grid. It also includes a list of the words to find and spaces to write down which words were found.
Theme5 worksheets
This word search puzzle contains words related to the book Cricket in Time Square such as:
- Cricket
- Times Square
- New York City
- Civilization
The puzzle contains 25 words from the book for students to find hidden within the grid.
Theme4 worksheets
This word search puzzle contains vocabulary words from the story "Juan Verdades: The Man Who Couldn't Tell a Lie". The words include various animals, body parts, clothing items, and plural nouns. Solving the puzzle requires finding the hidden words within a grid of letters.
Theme3 worksheets
1. The document is a word search puzzle containing words related to mimicry and camouflage.
2. Some of the words hidden in the puzzle include mimic, native, paper, rival, solar, and virus.
3. The word search contains 25 hidden words for students to find.
Powwows and weaving a c
Powwows and weaving are Native American traditions discussed in the document. The document shows examples of powwows and weavings found online, including a powwow parade tradition and several weavings. It then notes wrapping up the discussion of mixing the two traditions.
Theme2 worksheets
1) The document is a word search puzzle containing words related to weaving and California traditions.
2) It contains hidden words like LOOMS, WEAVE, BASKET, and PURCHASE among others.
3) Players are tasked with finding and circling all the hidden words in the puzzle.
Theme1 packets
Here are some suggested activities for the spelling tic-tac-toe board:
1. Write each spelling word without its vowels. Replace each vowel with a blank line.
2. Write your spelling words in secret code., where A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. Challenge a parent or sibling to use the code to decode each word. Correct their work.
3. Draw and color a picture. "Hide" the words in the picture. Please do not color over the words.
4. Write a letter to a friend/relative, in proper letter format, using at least 15 of the spelling words. Underline each spelling word.
5. Make and complete a word search using www
L2
The document defines and provides examples of several words related to facial expressions and reactions: muttered, gaped, flinched, snickering, glared, stunned, and fluke. It explains that muttered means saying something quietly, gaped means staring open-mouthed in surprise, flinched means quickly moving away from something dangerous or painful, snickering means laughing quietly at someone, glared means staring angrily, stunned means being shocked and speechless, and fluke means something unusual happening by accident.
Lesson1 packet
Here are 25 random word pairs for your worksheet:
1. lecture penguin
2. plot dread
3. ditch sting
4. check gum
5. spend twin
6. strap brand
7. else broad
8. brick crop
9. tread past
10. split gingerly
11. pact task
12. pleasure twin
13. film dread
14. gram sting
15. check crop
16. ditch gum
17. plot penguin
18. spend brand
19. strap broad
20. else task
21. brick gingerly
22. tread twin
23. pleasure dread
24. film crop
25. gram brand
M chap1 packet
1. The document discusses place value through millions. It provides a table defining the place value positions and their values from ones to millions.
2. It gives an example of writing a number in standard form from its word form, filling in a place value chart to determine 357,212,108.
3. It asks the reader to write the value of the bolded digit in the number 32,404, which is 4,000.
L1
A pact could be an agreement between friends to do certain activities together over the summer like starting a business, such as a lemonade stand. Feeling queasy can be caused by being deprived of needs like food, water, or sunlight for a plant. A teenager might foist chores onto a younger sibling against their will.
Quadrilateral
The document defines and compares different types of quadrilaterals. It states that a parallelogram has two pairs of parallel sides, a rectangle has four right angles and opposite sides that are parallel and the same length, and a square has four right angles and all sides the same length. A rhombus has two pairs of parallel sides and all sides the same length, while a trapezoid only has one pair of parallel lines. All squares are rectangles and parallelograms, all rectangles are quadrilaterals, and parallelograms are not necessarily rectangles.
Lesson 20 -vocabulary_pp_gr._4
The document defines 10 vocabulary words: ominous, confound, miserable, gracious, beams, self-assurance, monitor, exposed, installed, and looming. It provides short definitions or explanations of each word's meaning.
Inventions and inventors
Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb in the U.S.A., which could glow for over 1500 hours. Carl C. Magee invented the parking meter which was first installed in Oklahoma where he lived. Edison also invented the phonograph in 1877, which was a device that could play recorded sound.
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