Friday, June 6, 2014

Summer Reading

Ms. Zbacnik our school librarian has created summer reading lists for our students.



Check out recommendations from Brimhall's librarian, our teachers, and our students! Click on the links within each grade level. Keep scrolling down for teacher recommendations. 

A link to this form will be posted on the BH library page.


Monday, May 19, 2014

Spelling Week 33

1. forgotten
2. taught
3. hide
4. torn
5. kind
6. speak
7. tear
8. choose
9. chose
10. forget
11. tore
12. forgot
13. high
14. spoken
15. spoke
16. hole
17. lose
18. lost
19. orchestra
20. band

**integer
**rehearsal

Monday, May 12, 2014

Spelling Week 32

1. wagged
2. admitted
3. hopping
4. hi
5. beginning
6. starring
7. hot
8. controlled
9. hoping
10. knotting
11. quitting
12. shopped
13. hid
14. horse
15. totally
16. coolly
17. slippery
18. staring
19. patience
20. excitement

**track and field
**doubling

Monday, May 5, 2014

Spelling Week 31

1. strawberry
2. skyscraper
3. loudspeaker
4. hello
5. jay
6. headquarters
7. lifeguard
8. earthquake
9. forty-six
10. motorcycle
11. good-bye
12. hen
13. newspapers
14. hurt
15. homestead
16. windshield
17. compound
18. orchestra
19.

** Cinco de Mayo
**

Monday, April 28, 2014

Spelling Week 30

1. breathe
2. fashion
3. hooray
4. yell
5. ouch
6. yea
7. keep
8. cease
9. celebration
10. amazing
11. carefree
12. merit
13. hear
14. partner
15. hat
16. gigantic
17. percent
18. hyperbole
19. performance
20. kindergarten

**linear
**exponential

Thursday, April 24, 2014

4M iPad Mini Math Apps

Students have thoroughly enjoyed playing some of the new Everyday Math applications on our iPad mini's.

Baseball Multiplication

Equivalent Fraction Match

Divisibility Dash

Beat the Computer Multiplication


We also are trying to master King of Math Jr., some of us have even moved onto King of Math 

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Spelling Week 29

1. either
2. since
3. unless
4. well
5. young
6. until
7. yet
8. angel
9. angle
10. whenever
11. zoo
12. though
13. although
14. because
15. while
16. write
17. liar
18. pleasure
19. investigate
20. define

**economy
**resource

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Big day!

Today students found out their BizTown positions. We had a great time celebrating our new jobs! 

E brought in a book and shared it with the class. We learned all about different animals and compared their size and power with humans. Very cool E! 



Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Spelling Week 27

1. attention
2. sickness
3. wait
4. shipment
5. happiness
6. election
7. winter
8. argument
9. cement
10. pavement
11.warm
12. freshness
13. wind
14. creation
15. champion
16. amusement
17. education
18. government
19. business
20. leadership

**entrepreneur
**determined

Monday, March 31, 2014

"You are all smart enough to start your own business."

This afternoon we learned from Rick Gering, co-founder of Eastbay. Mr. Gering taught us all about business competition, catalog design, predicting product sales and so much more. We even saw a size 22 shoe! Students had a chance to design their own catalog page and to compare their predictions with actual 4M (pretend) class sales.


Students had prepared some really interesting questions for his visit. Great work 4M! Thank you again Mr. Gering!

Friday, March 28, 2014

MCA Practice

READING

4M students always:
 -Make sure text is a good size
 -Cross out wrong answers (control + click)
 -Highlight evidence in the text
 -Flag answers that you are unsure about
 -Take mental breaks when needed 
 -Check answers before moving on to the next section

Remember... we are SMART and CAPABLE. 

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Spelling Week 26

1. beautiful
2. lovable
3. turtle
4. ageless
5. thoughtless
6. wish
7. strategy
8. constable
9. doubtful
10. forgetful
11. penniless
12. countless
13. enjoyable
14. word
15. agreeable
16. wonderful
17. excitable
18. successful
19. area
20. perimeter

**identify
**theme

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Story Box Delivery

4M's new story boxes

Thank you Roseville Area Schools Foundation!

Check out what a professional story box retell looks like by watching this video.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Spelling Week 25

1. across
2. below
3. glad
4. above
5. within
6. toward
7. world
8. beneath
9. beyond
10. glass
11. against
12. around
13. try
14. behind
15. down
16. during
17. except
18. though
19. describe
20. determine

**line plot
** bar graph

Thursday, March 6, 2014

4M = iPad Grant Recipients

A huge thank you to the Roseville Area Schools Foundation for the iPad Mini grant 4M received earlier today! We are THRILLED to have a set of iPads permanently in our classroom!


Monday, March 3, 2014

Spelling Week 24

1. usually
2. always
3. funny
4. farther
5. tomorrow
6. gold
7. sleepily
8. basically
9. especially
10. eagerly
11. going
12. quite
13. later
14. game
15. forward
16. forever
17. eventually
18. frequently
19. increase
20. decrease

**product
**profit

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Water Cycle

Today 4B watched this short video in class. Can you define ALL of the words mentioned at the end of the video in your own words?

Monday, February 24, 2014

Spelling Week 23

1. fault
2. wrong
3. fix
4. expand
5. watered
6. finest
7. gone
8. obeyed
9. shoed
10. salad
11. Memorial Day
12. form
13. great
14. moist
15. ripe
16. nurses
17. shooed
18. width
19. length
20. engineer

**investigate
**February

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Spelling Week 22

1. anyone
2. yourself
3. fallen
4. mine
5. those
6. its
7. fine
8. everybody
9. ourselves
10. me
11. something
12. myself
13. guess
14. nobody
15. someone
16. have
17. several
18. whom
19. area
20. perimeter

**quantity
**comprehension

Monday, February 10, 2014

Spelling List 21

This week our spelling focus is on abbreviations. Students will be given the whole word. They must write the abbreviation. Periods and capital letters count!

1. qt
2. Jan.
3. feel
4. Mrs.
5. ft
6. Ave
7. at
8. Bldg.
9. Blvd.
10. gal
11. NY
12. Wed.
13. be
14. Mr.
15. Dr.
16. idea
17. Corp.
18. Hwy.
19. Ms.
20. MN

Monday, February 3, 2014

Spelling List 20

1. I've
2. face
3. should've
4. you've
5. from
6. they'll
7. haven't
8. could've
9. mustn't
10. one's
11. what's
12. or
13. that'll
14. you'd
15. shouldn't
16. hasn't
17. there'd
18. who'd
19. should've
20. didn't

BONUS WORDS
**contraction
**apostrophe

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Spelling Week 19

It's a three day week- but we're going for it!

1. prepaid
2. relocate
3. little
4. rewrite
5. people
6. preview
7. bring
8. precaution
9. president
10. precook
11. refuel
12. preschool
13. which
14. recover
15. prehistoric
16. restore
17. reappear
18. reunite
19. reuse
20. recycle

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Spelling Week 18

1. nonfiction
2. know
3. indirect
4. where
5. disgust
6. informal
7. would
8. disengage
9. dissatisfied
10. disagree
11. were
12. nonsense
13. discontinue
14. inactive
15. disapprove
16. nonstop
17. injure
18. innocent
19. disengaged
20. dissected

**prefix
**suffix

PBIS/Read-a-thon Assembly

This morning we had a PBIS Assembly to kick off the Read-a-thon coming up in February. 4M students were featured in a very cool video showing Bengal Pride. Check it out!

Friday, January 17, 2014

Brimhall Spelling Bee

4M is SO PROUD of our Michael for coming in third at the First Annual Brimhall Spelling Bee. 


Way to go Michael!

Sunday, January 12, 2014

What are Partial Quotients?

Check out this video for an example problem.

4M students have been learning the partial quotients method to divide two and three digit numbers. 


Spelling Week 17

1. unspoken
2. unafraid
3. unbutton
4. uncomfortable
5. an
6. when
7. unwelcome
8. uncle
9. unconscious
10. unknown
11. unused
12. we
13. unbeaten
14. uncertain
15. can
16. uninteresting
17. unite
18. unreasonable
19. metaphor
20. persuasive

BONUS WORDS
** partial
** division

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Spelling Week 16

1. bee
2. modern
3. Spanish
4. favorite
5. enormous
6. if
7. important
8. endangered
9. energetic
10. twelve
11. said
12. heroic
13. jolly
14. by
15. purple
16. frantic
17. genuine
18. hilarious
19. resolution
20. goal

**quotients
**simile