Archive for October, 2008

Halloween Spooktacular

October 31st, 2008

The Halloween parade and party was a big hit. Everyone had a wonderful time walking downtown and back, then ingesting lots of sugar. Be sure to click on these photos to see the full picture.

Kids Say The Funniest Things

October 28th, 2008

At the top of this page you’ll find three “tabs”; Home, About, and Kids Say The Funniest Things. Home is where you are now, About is a link to a short bio about your child’s teacher, and the last one is a new arrival. It’s actually been there for a while, but was not working [...]

ELMO Has Arrived

October 24th, 2008

ELMO is new piece of instructional technology equipment popping up around our school district. Room 4B just used one for the first time today. As document camera and projector, ELMO has lots of classroom uses.
As students completed a writing assignment today, ELMO projected the assignment onto the screen for everyone to see. The author got [...]

This Week @ 4B

October 24th, 2008

SPELLING: This week’s words are verbs ending with ed, ied or ing. You can visit www.mrbrownsroom for the weekly spelling list and ideas for different ways to study spelling words.
READING: On the Pampas, a story about a city girl visiting her family’s ranch in Argentina, is a wonderful introduction to gauchos and other exotic characteristics [...]

This Week @ 4B: October 19

October 17th, 2008

SPELLING: This week’s words are plural nouns ending with s, es or ies. You can visit www.mrbrownsroom for the weekly spelling list and ideas for different ways to study spelling words.
READING: This week we get to read another one of my favorite stories from our textbook. It’s called Marven of the Great North. It’s about [...]

This Week @ 4B: October 13

October 13th, 2008

SPELLING: This week’s words are adjectives of comparison that end with the suffixes est, iest and er. You can visit www.mrbrownsroom for the weekly spelling list and ideas for different ways to study spelling words.
READING: We get to read one of my favorite stories in our reading textbook this week, John Henry. This is a [...]

This Week @ 4B: October 7

October 8th, 2008

SPELLING: This week’s words contain vowels whose sounds are altered because they are followed by an “R” You can visit www.mrbrownsroom for the weekly spelling list and ideas for different ways to study spelling words.
READING: Our second non-fiction selection, Komodo Dragons is always a very popular story because it’s about animals and they happen to [...]