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?

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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!

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

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

Spelling Bee

Today we had our first official spelling bee. All students did a great job- we are the first class to have EVERYONE choose to participate. Way to go 4M!

Congrats to our final four: Hannah, Tom, Jake and Michael. We look forward to seeing Michael compete in the first ever school wide spelling bee on January 17th! Way to go!

Spelling Week 15

1. about
2. invited
3. masses
4. each
5. countries
6. nerves
7. will
8. committed
9. instead
10. wolves
11. millions
12. do
13. worrying
14. losing
15. shared
16. donkeys
17. oxen
18. potatoes
19. estimation
20. structure

**setting
**character

Spelling Week 14

1. clown
2. skis
3. up
4. orbit
5. counter
6. compass
7. aware
8. bulletin
9. promise
10. how
11. follow
12. rough
13. repair
14. them
15. beauty
16. cougar
17. quantity
18. stomach
19. villain
20. hero

BONUS WORDS:
    **princess
    **kingdom

Spelling List 13

1. argue
2. practice
3. struggle
4. aid
5. imagine
6. surround
7. many
8. continue
9. galloping
10. then
11. appear
12. comfort
13. exercise
14. city
15. she
16. notice
17. receive
18. succeed
19. sum
20. difference

BONUS WORDS:
   *product
   *quotient

Kendama Guest Speaker

Today our friend Marshall Covert came in to teach us about Kendama. We practiced asking good questions and focusing on the speaker. Marshall then signed autographs- it was so exciting!

Thanks Marshall!

No Spelling HW- Short Week!

Instead, practice your SPELLING BEE WORDS!

Check out the national website.

Spelling List 12

1. their
2. sent
3. pour
4. peace
5. apple
6. other
7. flower
8. cereal
9. patience
10. they're
11. pore
12. but
13. cent
13. piece
15. there
16. scent
17. patients
18. serial
19. multiple
20. factor

Bonus Words
    homonym
    evaporation

Homophone Tree

We are getting ready for our Pear Pair Tree tomorrow... A big thanks to C and his assistant M for helping to create our tree. It looks great!