"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!

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. 

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

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.

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

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!

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

March for Others

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