Ms. Walters Reading- The Westing Game

I gave each child a copy of our new book that we will be reading today, The Westing Game.  They seem to be very excited to read this intricate mystery.  Here are the

Wander Indiana Projects

Most of our 4th graders submitted their Wander Indiana "Project Proposal" and "Parent Awareness" sheets on Friday, March 4th, when they were due. However, we still

Language Arts UNIT 8 (Mrs. Taylor)

     With ISTEP+ wrapping up last week, we are able to get back into our normal routines here at school. We are in Unit 8 of our Benchmark Reading Series. Our main objectives (goals) are to evaluate author's purpose, summarize, and synthesize new information as we read. Synthesizing is using our schema (prior knowledge) and combining that with new text information to come up with new ideas and thoughts about what we are reading and/or what is happening. We will be using photographs, posters, short passages, picture books, and novels to work on these skills and strategies. Our genre focus is "tall tales" and we will be comparing and contrasting those over the next three weeks.

     Our vocabulary test will be next Friday, March 18th. We will be testing over the "assessment" vocabulary words I gave students three weeks ago. I only tested them on the commonly misspelled words last week and wanted to give them a few more weeks with the vocabulary portion. I will attach a picture of the list below. Please let me know if you have any questions.