Monday,
September 15, 2014
• Good Morning!! 
• Follow all Morning
Procedures
• Be on your best
behavior and make
good choices
• Complete the morning
work on your desks.
“Freedom means the
opportunity to be what we
never thought we would
be.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/multiplestep-problems/printables/multiple-step2_STEPS.pdf
Guided Reading/Independent Reading
10:00-11:45
Problem of the day:
Read the lists of specific details and write a general phrase
that could be the subject or topic for each group.
1. separate the white and dark clothes add one cup of
detergent insert quarters into the machine
General topic?
2. dribble the ball
pass the ball down court
shoot a basket
General topic?
Main Idea and Supporting Details
The main idea of a passage tells you what it is
mostly about. The supporting details help you
understand the main idea.
http://mhschool.com/lead_21/grade4/ccslh_g4
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Agreement: when someone says they approve and will do something
Apartment: a building with lots of homes
Auditorium: large room that can be filled with a lot people
Basis: main reason/goal
Condition: the state something is in/how it looks or feels
Issue: a problem/something you have to think about and decide on
Knowledge: something that you already know
Manner: they way you do something/act
Movement: action/moving from place to place
Opportunity: Chance/privilege
Property: something that belongs to you (house/things)
Quality: how good something is/value
Speaker: the person talking
Spectacle: something to watch that is entertaining
Station: a place where you can get
http://mhschool.com/lead_21/grade4/pdf/ccsl
h_g4_ri_2_1b_link2.pdf
Writing 1:10-1:30
• Map Testing 
• Finish rough draft if time permits
Math 2:15-3:40
Problem of the Day
Our Class is collecting peanut butter. The goal is
to collect 300 jars. On Monday, Montaisha
brings in 3 boxes with 9 jars in each box. On
Tuesday, Aaron brings in 4 boxes with 7 jars in
each box. About how many jars of peanut
butter do we still need to collect to meet our
goal?
4.OA.1 & 4.OA.2 Review
1. A piece of string is 7cm long. A piece of wool is 42cm long. How many times longer
is the piece of wool than the piece of string?
2. A truck is twice as heavy as a car. The car weighs 3,000 pounds. How much does the
truck weigh?
3. James and Tony took a math test. James correctly answered 30 problems. James
correctly answered twice as many problems as Tony. How many problems did
Tony correctly complete?
4. Henry picked 30 oranges. Janet picked 6 oranges. How many times as many oranges
did Henry pick as Janet did?
5. You read 5 times as long this week as you read last week. If you read for 110
minutes this week, how long did you read last week?
6. A pack of six pencils costs 5 times as much as a single pencil. A single pencil costs 9
cents. How much does the pack of six pencils cost?
4.OA.3 Review
7. On a Friday evening a pizza shop had orders for 4 pepperoni, 97 vegetable, and 335 cheese pizzas. If the 4
cooks each made an equal number of pizzas, how many pizzas did each cook make?
8. Mr. Smith baked 3 trays of 36 cookies. After they cooled he divided the cookies evenly into 4 bags. How
many cookies did Mr. Smith place in each bag?
9. A teacher bought 12 packets of crayons. Seven of the packets had 9 crayons and the other five packets had
10 crayons. How many crayons did the teacher buy in all?
10. Tom had 114 baseball cards. He kept 10 and shared the rest evenly among his 8 friends. How many
baseball cards did each friend get?
11. I earn $5 per hour babysitting and $4 per hour for weeding the garden. Last week I did 7 hours babysitting
and 6 hours weeding. How much more money do I need to buy a game that costs $80.00?
12. I had 357 books and got 23 more for my birthday. I put them into piles, with 38 books in each pile. How
many piles of books did I make?
13. Mr. Liz divided $300 equally among his 5 children. His daughter, Lisa, used the money to buy 12 gifts that
each cost the same amount. What was the price of each gift?
14. Six adults and five classes of 32 students went to the museum by bus. If each bus held 25 passengers how
many buses were needed?
4.OA.4 Review
15. Adrian is planning a class picnic. He wants to buy an equal number of hot dogs and hot dog buns. Hot dogs
come in packages of 12. Hot dog buns come in packages of eight. (Make A Table)
What is the fewest number of packages he could buy to have an equal number of each?
# of packs
1
# of hotdogs 12
# of buns
8
Adrian is expecting 60 people at the picnic. How many packages should he buy to have an equal number of
each, and have enough for all the people at the picnic?
16. How many packages do you need to have a class set of each of the following?
cartons of one dozen eggs
six-packs of cola
30-packs of glitter pens
bags of three soccer balls
sets of eight puppets
packages of ten mini-whiteboards
17. Use the numbers 18 and 24 to complete the following steps.
Find the factors of 18.
Find the factors of 24.
List any numbers that are factors of both numbers.
18. Use the numbers 14 and 28 to complete the following steps.
Find the factors of 14.
Find the factors of 28.
List any numbers that are factors of both numbers.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Writing 8:45-9:25
• Show don’t tell BrainPop
http://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/shownottell/
Which is better? Why?
a.
b.
I missed the bus.
I raced down the road, wildly waving my hands,
and yelling, “Stop, stop,” but the bus traveled on
down the road without stopping.
Fix these sentences:
• I was scared as I walked towards the haunted
house.
• I am cold.
• I left work feeling happy. It was a good day.
Guided/Independent Reading
9:25-11:00
Problem of the day:
After reading the sentences, decide the phrase that best expresses the
topic or general subject of the sentences.
1. The law of demand is illustrated in an experiment conducted by the
makers of M&M candy.
2. For a twelve-month period, the price of M&Ms remained the same
in 150 stores, but the number of M&Ms in a package increased,
which dropped the price per ounce.
3. In those stores, sales immediately rose by 20 to 30 percent.
a.
b.
c.
Candy Maker’s Experiment
M&Ms Drop in Price
M&Ms Prove the Law of Demand
Paragraph #1
Ms. Smith is a great second grade teacher. She
has worked at Livingston Avenue School for three
years. Her first job in Cranford was as a third grade
teacher. Ms. Smith is always nice to her students.
She makes learning fun and cares about each child
in her class. Cranford is lucky to have Ms. Smith as
a teacher!
Main Idea
• What is the passage mostly about?
• What is the author’s message?
• Limited(little) information – only tells
what is really important
• Does not include details
Ways to Identify Main Idea
1.
Locate important words that tell (who,
where, when, what, why) the passage is
mostly about.
2.
List and separate the supporting details
to create your own main idea
sentence
(typically graphic organizers)
Paragraph #1
Ms. Smith is a great second grade teacher. She
has worked at Livingston Avenue School for three
years. Her first job in Cranford was as a third grade
teacher. Ms. Smith is always nice to her students.
She makes learning fun by reading to her students
all of the time and playing learning games. Cranford
is lucky to have Ms. Smith as a teacher!
Paragraph #1
• Ms. Smith is a great teacher at LAS because
she is nice and fun.
The new girl on the block is a bully.
There’s a new kid on the block
And boy, that kid is tough
The new kid punches hard
The new kid plays real rough
The new kid’s big and strong
With muscles everywhere
That new kid tweaked my arm
That new kid pulled my hair
The new kid likes to fight
And pick on all the guys
That new kid scares me some
That new kid’s twice my size
That new kid stomped my toes
That new kid swiped my ball
That new kid’s really bad
I don’t care for her at all
Detail #1
The new kid is really big and strong with
muscles everywhere.
Detail #2
The new kid punches and pulls hair.
Detail #3
The new kid steals.
• Illustrate the main idea and supporting details
of your book using the index card man.
Math 11:00-11:45/1:55-2:50
• Mad Minute Multiplication Test
Guided/Independent
1. Mr. Cunningham cuts 360 heads over 9 weeks. He cuts the same number of heads each week.
This is represented by the number sentence C x 9 = 360. How many heads, C, does Mr.
Cunningham cut each week?
2. 4th graders receive 3 cougar paws every time they are caught being quiet in the halls. They
earned a total of 36 cougar paws. Which number sentence could be used to find U, the
number of times they were quiet in the halls? Solve your equation.
A. 3 + U= 36
D. U ÷ 3 = 36
Solve:
B. 3 x U = 36
C. U - 3 = 36
3. * Monique has 21 bracelets
* Penny has d bracelets
* Monique has 7 times as many bracelets as Penny.
Kala says that Penny’s number of bracelets can be found by solving the equation 21 = d x 7. Landa
says that Penny’s number of bracelets can be found by solving the equation 7 x 21 = d. Who is
right? Explain your answer.
4. A full grown adult dog will eat 5 times the amount of dog food as a puppy. The adult dog will eat 10
pounds of dog food a month. Altogether, how many pounds of dog food will they eat?
Equation for the amount of food a puppy will eat _______________________
Amount of food a puppy will eat ______ + _______amount an adult dog will eat = ________total
5. The 1st bamboo tree is 72 feet tall. The 1st bamboo tree is 8 times as tall as the 2nd bamboo tree.
What is the height of the 2nd bamboo tree?
Equation: __________________
Answer: ______________________
6. Mrs. A. Smith loves to shop! Due to budget cuts, she decided to save 4 times as much money this
month as she did last month. If she saved $32 this month, how much money did she save last
month?
Equation: __________________
Answer: ______________________
7. We have a goal of obtaining 200 can goods to donate to the homeless shelter. Javion brought in 3
boxes with 12 cans in each box. Alaysia brought in 5 boxes with 11 cans in each box. About how
many can goods still need to be collected?
Javion’s equation & total cans_______________ Alaysia’s equation & total cans _________________
Estimate of cans still needed _________________________
7. We have a goal of obtaining 200 can goods to donate to the homeless shelter. Javion brought in 3
boxes with 12 cans in each box. Alaysia brought in 5 boxes with 11 cans in each box. About how
many can goods still need to be collected?
Javion’s equation & total cans_______________ Alaysia’s equation & total cans _________________
Estimate of cans still needed _________________________
8. There are 36 children in a 4th grade class. Each van can hold 12 children. How many vans are needed
so that all students can have a ride? Equation: ________________________ Number of vans:
______________
9. A car travels 62 miles in one hour. What is the most reasonable estimate of how far a car will travel in
6 hours?
a. 360 miles
b. 37 miles
c. 300 miles
d. 600 miles
10. The cafeteria bought milk to give to students. They have 20 crates with 12 cartons of chocolate milk
in each crate and 30 crates with 11 cartons of white milk in each crate. Each student needs 5
cartons of milk for the week. How many students can the cafeteria feed?
11. Which number is a factor of 24, but not a multiple of 3?
a. 8
b. 6
c. 12
d. 3
12. Ricky is 48 years old. He went to a birthday party for his niece, Shawn. Shawn’s age is a factor of
Ricky’s age. Find all of the possible ages that Shawn could be.
Inquiry 2:50-3:45
• Engage: Share something you have learned with
a neighbor
• Explore: Turn and talk
– What would happen if there were no more
producers?
• Explanation: Review and Discuss
– Entrepreneurship - the process of starting a
business or other organization
– Supply - the amount of a product which is
available to customers
– Demand - The amount of a good or service that a
consumer will want to purchase at a given price
– Scarcity - The basic economic problem that arises
because people have unlimited wants but
resources are limited
Assignments
Make sure all
assignments are
complete:
1. Comprehension
questions from 219223
2. Leveled Readers
assignment
3. Questions form
videos
4. Brainpop Activity
sheets
5. P. 246 Questions1-6
6. P. 247-8 Quesitons
1-10
7. Import/export
charts
As a new entrepreneur, you have a brand new candy bar in the
chocolate industry. In order to get started, you need to submit a
business plan to the bank. The bank has instructed you to include in
your business plan the following items..
Advertisement: 20 points (5pts each)
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Name of chocolate/business (Consider who your consumers will
be)
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Array and dimensions of candy
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Design of box or wrapper and description of chocolate
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Price
Use some of these
vocabulary words
in your written
responses and
scenarios:
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Written responses :50 points (10 points each)
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Marketing: where can we purchase the new chocolate? Why did
you choose this location?
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Productivity: Hershey’s, your biggest competitor make a similar
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chocolate for $1 a unit. They sell it for $1.50 making a fifty cent
profit. Assuming you can make your chocolate for the same price, •
how much would you charge your consumers for a unit?
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Interdependence: Assuming that North Carolina does not grow
cocoa beans or sugar, from what countries could you import these •
two supplies?
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Resources: Would the supplies you need (sugar and cocoa beans)
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be renewable or nonrenewable resources? How do you know?
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Government: North Carolina charges 7% tax. What services might •
the state provide with this tax money?
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Market Economy Scenarios: 30 points (15 points each)
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Create a scenario where the demand for chocolate would be
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scarce. (Use as much vocabulary from the units that you can.)
Create a scenario where the supply for the chocolate would be
scarce.
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price
Supply
demand
Productivity
natural resources
human resources
capital resources
Import
Export
market economy
Scarcity
Entrepreneurship
economic choices
Consumers
Want/Need
limited
renewable
resources
nonrenewable
resource
factors of
production
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Writing 8:45-9:25
Building Suspense
• A sense of suspense and anticipation is what
hooks the reader and moves the story into the
main event.
• Suspense building raises questions in the reader’s
mind
• If the main character is wondering or worrying,
so is the reader! The reader’s questions have to
be answered.
• Suspense, contrary to what people often think,
does not have to be scary.
• But another way to look at suspense is as story
tension or a sense of anticipation.
1. Story Questions
• Story questions can be raised directly or indirectly.
• The simple way (directly) is to have your main character raise
a question -to wonder or worry
• The indirect approach involves telling the reader only part
what is going on –just a hint. This raises questions in the
readers’ mind and compels them to read on.
Example:
Catherine couldn’t believe her eyes. What in the world
did Grandma have in that huge wrapped package?
(Catherine and the reader wonder what’s inside - and,
if it is a gift for Catherine.
2. Word Referents
• Tease the reader by not immediately revealing what
“it” is. Describe a story critical character or object
without naming it .
• Example:
Instead of writing: I saw a dragon in the cave.
Use word referents: The creature was huge and dark as
night. It made a soft rumbling sound. I could feel the
mythical beast’s hot breath on my face.
3. The Magic of 3
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This technique involves the convention in which a
series of sensory hints (involving any of the senses)
are provided in a way that builds tension- the third
hint leading directly to a revelation.
1. You hear a noise. You look. Nothing. You dismiss it.
2. You see a fleeting shadow. Again, you try to
determine what it could be, but don’t notice
anything unusual. You start to worry.
3. You feel something brush past you. You turn. There
it is! (revelation)
Red Flag Words and Phrases
• When building Suspense, and particularly when
using the Magic of Three, authors us RED FLAG
WORDS AND PHRASES to grab the reader’s attention,
to alert the reader to the fact that something
significant is about to happen.
• These RED FLAG WORDS AND PHRASES may be used
effectively to introduce each hint in the Magic Three.
• They can also be used effectively along with story
questions and word referents. These transitional
phrases help to move the action forward in a
suspenseful way.
RED FLAG WORDS AND PHRASES
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Suddenly
A moment later
The next thing I knew
In the blink of an eye
Instantly
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Just then
All of a sudden
Without warning
To my surprise
Guided/Independent Reading
9:25-11:00
Problem of the day:
Which phrase best describes the topic or subject for each group of
sentences.
1. To provide a favorable climate for growing grapes, the winter
temperature should not go below 15° F, and the summers should be long.
2. During the growing season, rainfall should be light.
3. A gentle movement of air is required to dry the vines after rains, dispel
fog, and protect the vines from fungus disease.
A.
B.
C.
Protecting Grapes from Disease
Appropriate Temperatures for Growing Grapes
Appropriate Climate for Growing Grapes
• Review Main Idea using the “Main Idea Rap”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jb0JuslzDQ
• Main Idea Tasks Cards in Groups (class set of 6)
http://5thgradereadingresourcesmcboe.wikispaces.com/file/view/Main+Idea+Task+Cards+Under+the+
Big+Top+Set+D.pdf
Math 11:00-11:45/1:55-2:50
Mrs. D. Smith can build 12 robots in 1 hour.
What is the most reasonable estimate for the
amount of robots she can build in 8 hours?
Guided/Independent
1. Mrs. Talton baked 120 muffins over 4 weeks. She bakes the same number of muffins each
week. What equation can be used to determine the number of muffins she bakes each week?
How many muffins does Mrs. Talton bake each week?
2. Aaron earns 8 lead pencils every time he stays in his seat during a lesson. He earned a total of
48 pencils. Which number sentence could be used to find a, the number of times he
remained in his seat during the lesson? Solve your equation.
A. 8 + a = 48
B. a - 8 = 48
C. 8 x a = 48
D. a ÷ 8= 48
Solve:
3. * Ms. Heron had 16 students who earned Fun Friday
* Mrs. Whitner had f students who earned Fun Friday
* Mrs. Whitner had 4 times as many students earning Fun Friday as Ms. Heron.
Ms. Hirschhorn says that Mrs. Whitner’s number of students can be found by solving the
equation 16 = f x 4. Mrs. Chapman says that Mrs. Whitner’s number of students can be found
by solving the equation 4 x 16 = f. Who is right? Explain your answer.
4. Tia can eat 12 crabs in one sitting. Will can eat 4 times the amount of crabs as Tia. How many
crabs can they eat together?
Equation for the amount of crabs Will can eat _______________________
Amount of crabs Will can eat ________ + _______amount of crabs Tia can eat = _________total
5. Morehead is 28 feet tall. Nathaniel is twice as tall. What is the height of Nathaniel?
Equation: __________________
Answer: ______________________
6. Maurio spent $45 on video games last month. This month he spent 5 times that amount on
video games. How much money did Maurio spend this month on video games?
Equation: __________________
Answer: ______________________
7. We have a goal of obtaining 500 can goods to the homeless shelter. Portland brought in 6
boxes with 28 cans in each box. Bryce brought in 12 boxes with 12 cans in each box. About
how many can goods still need to be collected?
Portland’s equation & total cans_______________ Bryce’s equation & total cans
_________________
Estimate of cans still needed _________________________
8. There are 72 children that have to go in trailers. Each trailer can hold 9 students. How many trailers
are needed so that all students can be in a classroom?
Equation: _____________________ Number of trailers: ______________
9. A car travels 78 miles in one hour. What is the most reasonable estimate of how far a car will travel in
4 hours?
a. 312 miles
b. 400 miles
c. 800 miles
d. 350 miles
10. The cafeteria bought milk to give to students. They have 15 crates with 7 cartons of chocolate milk
in each crate and 18 crates with 9 cartons of white milk in each crate. Each student needs 5 cartons
of milk for the week. How many students can the cafeteria feed?
11. Which number is a factor 20, but not a multiple of 2?
a. 10
b. 5
c. 7
d. 4
12. Yvonne is 35 years old. She went to a birthday party for her daughter, Elaine. Elaine’s age is a factor
of Yvonne’s age. Find all of the possible ages that Elaine could be.
Inquiry 2:50-3:45
• Engage: Turn and talk
– What would happen if there were no rules?
• Explore: view video on YouTube: Constitution
Preamble from Schoolhouse Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30OyU4O80i4#t=50
• Explanation:
• What a constitution?
– A plan for that government that decides how the
government will be run; also informs citizens of
their rights and responsibilities.
• Elaboration: TW use Imagine It story: The US
Constitution and You (skim through intro and read the
Constitution and You on P 25-257
US Symbols
Create a Poster
• United States symbol (10 points)
• The US Constitution Preamble (Cloze – 20 points)
• Bio of a couple of the authors of the Constitution (can
use Imagine It book and Constitution Day site:
http://www.constitutionday.com/ )
( 2 people, 10 points each)
• Response to questions:
1.
2.
How can you protect the Constitution? (10 points)
How does the Constitution make your life better? (10
points)
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Writing 8:45-9:25 “The Main Event”
• The Main Event is basically what the story is all
about.
• Everything so far should led up to one single,
meaningful event or scene.
• (A novel consists of many scenes that lead to one
peak climatic event- a short story focuses on a single
significant main event.)
• The main event consists of the adventure, problem,
or experience that changes or affects the main
character in some way.
Fully Elaborated Main Events are made of a balance of:
• Action: What did you do?
(tell it in, slow motion, Play by Play, S-t-r-e-t-c-h i-t O-u-t)
• Description: What did you see, hear, feel?
• Thoughts/Feelings: What were you wondering,
worrying, feeling?
• Dialogue/exclamation: What did you say or exclaim?
• Sound Effect: What did you hear?
* Don’t summarize! Make a Scene!
Guided/Independent Reading
9:25-11:00
Problem of the Day:
Which phrase best describes the topic or subject for each group of
sentences.
1. Salsa, the popular blend of Latin American music, is also the word
for sauce.
2. According to stories, the expression was contributed to the music
world by a Cuban orchestra conductor.
3. While practicing a mambo that needed more life, the orchestra
leader told his musicians to “echale salsita” or “throw in the sauce.”
A.
B.
C.
Latin American Salsa Music
The Naming of Salsa Music
Contribution of Salsa
• Read Aloud
“Teammates”
(or listen
and
complete summary
house
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swAnRW9noEI )
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17013702/Main%
20Idea%20for%20Big%20Kids%20Freebie.pdf
• Specific skills: Main
Idea
• Complete summary
house for your selfselected books.
Math 11:00-11:45/1:55-2:50
The 4th Grade Team loves to eat mints!!! Ms.
Tyler bought 4 bags with 25 mints in each bag.
Mrs. Harris bought 12 bags with 20 mints in
each bag. If there are 6 teachers in 4th grade,
how many mints can each teacher get?
Math Common Assessment
Multiplication concepts: (Remember what you
know )
• factors/ multiples
• strategies for multiplying and dividing
(inverse)
• multiplicative comparisons
• rounding/estimating
• multistep problems
Inquiry 2:50-3:45
• Engage: Watch Brain Pop video
“Budgets”
http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/economics/bu
dgets/
– Take quiz for grade
• Explore: Picture Walk
• Look at the pictures in Lesson 3 p. 231
and 233. Identify ways that people are
using money.
• Compare and contrast the two graphs on
p. 234-5. What features are different?
• What government services are illustrated
in the photographs on p.234-5
Friday, September 19, 2014