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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Response Journal Topics for 4 weeks (to May 21st)
Response Journal Assignments for the next four weeks Due dates: Friday, April 30 Friday, May 7 Friday, May 14 Friday, May 21 Over the next four weeks, choose one of these ideas to write about: • Imagine being a doctor in surgery • Imagine being sucked into a book • Imagine being sucked into a [...]
Spelling List, Week of May 24
This week’s spelling list focuses on the suffixes /less/, /ful/, and /ness/ and the /ly/ ending. You can help point out how each of those suffixes changes the part of speech of the root word (i.e., adding “ful” to a word can make a noun into an adjective). hopeless careless homeless tireless hopeful fearful cheerful [...]
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January Newsletter
News from Fourth Grade January 17, 2010 Happy New Year! Dutchess Day students left for school break in December with a half day which included community service activities. The projects and activities made us all think about people around us in need of food, warmth, or simply cheering up. While many upper school students sang [...]
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Recycling Soliloquy
Recycling Soliloquy (Shamelessly borrowed from Shakespeare and then performed by fourth graders at the Monday Morning Assembly 9/21/09)) To re, or not to re: that is the question: Whether ’tis recycling or garbage? The question begs the sharing of our knowledge For in knowledge, we take arms against a sea of troubles, and by ignoring [...]
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