Huddle Newsletter
Fourth Grade Edition 2014-15
LMSVSD - Welcome Back Fourth Grade Teachers!
District Resource Teacher Directory:
Assessment - Tracy Olander x6370
BTSA (Regular Ed) - Leah Saunders x6403
BTSA (Special Ed) - Brooke Noble x6420
Cross Curricular CCSS - Ani Asaro x6427
Cross Curricular CCSS - Kristin Gentile x6398
English Learners - Linda Michaud x6306
Language Arts (Elementary) - Tammie Babbitt x6357
Math Resource - Beth Rackliffe x6304
Media Services - Janice Gilmore x6465
Technology - Noelle Suffield x6359
If you need Focus wall materials - contact Nancy Steiger x6387
Did you know?
Everyday Math has a Common Core bridge - the password is CCSS
Instructional Materials Guide
Did you know? The replacement cost of one complete set of fourth grade teaching materials for the four core subjects is $16,664.32!
All requests for instructional materials should be made through your school Library Media Tech.
- teacher editions
- supplemental materials
- manipulatives
- student textbooks
- workbooks
Not sure what something is called or wondering what you're supposed to have? Here are the answers:
California Model School Library Standards
What should fourth grade students know and be able to do?
(pages 13-15 of linked document)
http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/librarystandards.pdf
Your Library Tech is committed to helping you make sure your students know how to:
A = access information
E = evaluate information
I = integrate information
O = originate information
U = use information safely and ethically
· Lessons may be taken from HM
· Lessons may come from Digital Citizenship curriculum
· Additional lessons could take the form of activity, game, or worksheet
· Teachers should actively engage in lessons and understand the California Library Standards that are being addressed
Depending on the number of hours the Library Tech works, the number of classes that need to visit, and the level of support at the site, you may be able to have both a literature share visit and library & information literacy lessons. This could be one long block of time (45-60 minutes) or two separate visits during a week.
Combination classes might be able to send one grade level at a time since library standards are tied to each grade level.
Core Literature for Fourth Grade
Use Destiny to order core literature.
1. User name is firstname.lastname
2. Password is teach411
TIPS:
- Make sure you select your school before logging in.
- Make sure you select District Media Services (check the box) instead of your own school library.
- Core literature can be found by entering the keyword search corelit4
Here is the list of Fourth Grade Core Literature. Each one has a Teacher's Literature Guide that is available for checkout.
Online curriculum resources, logins & passwords
https://www-k6.thinkcentral.com
user name: firstnamelastname
password: teach 411
username: your old district email address (it will still work)
password: you set it yourself, we commended using info411
If you need or want to re-register, the registration code is 8332E0A6
If you’ve changed schools, you can move your account yourself.
Step 1: Login
Step 2: Click on Online Games
Step 3: Click on Change My School
You may need to log out and log back in to have it take effect.
Science AND History/Social Science
Pearson's new Online Learning Exchange (OLE) was launched this Fall. This is the new digital path to access all of your Scott Foresman programs. You can activate your account here. Your school code is: 49-51-90
Fill in your information and click on Subscriptions to see your resources.
Find time for these five lessons in 2014-15
Strong Passwords Students learn how to create secure passwords in order to protect their private information and accounts online.
You've Won a Prize! Students learn what spam is, the forms it takes, and then identify strategies for dealing with it.
How to Cite a Site Students reflect on the importance of citing all sources when they do research. They then learn how to write bibliographical citations for online sources.
Picture Perfect Students learn how photos can be altered digitally. They will consider the creative upsides of photo alteration, as well as its power to distort our perceptions of beauty and health.
UNIT ASSESSMENT - Check out this student-facing, interactive, summative assessment.
Quick Print Form
Use this form to order standard print jobs. No need to send blackline masters, we have them on file. Please order for only 1 trimester on one sheet. Your School Office Manager will need to issue a standard print requisition. You will be prompted for a user name and password when you try to use this link.
User name: staff
Password: info411
Is VHS dead?
- Check out the resource lists by curricular area later in this newsletter
- Core literature tie-ins
Teaching Assignments 2014-15
How to use Destiny
https://destiny.lmsvsd.k12.ca.us
Language Arts Videos
Theme 1 ~ Journeys
· The Incredible Journey (VHS-28 minutes) TE p. 20D
· The Wind in the Willows (VHS-75 minutes) TE p. 20D
Theme 2 ~ American Stories
· Folksongs of western settlement (VHS-16 minutes) TE p.242
· America's songs of liberty (VHS-10 minutes) TE p.242
· The Scrambled States of America (VHS-17 minutes) TE p. 150C
· Snowflake Bentley (VHS-20 minutes) TE p. 150C
Theme 3 ~ That’s Amazing!
· Cinderella (VHS-11 minutes) p. 326G
· June 29, 1999 (VHS-30 minutes) p. 292C
· Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo (VHS-30 minutes) p. 292C
· Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (VHS-14 minutes) p. 292C
· The Phantom Tollbooth (VHS-89 minutes) p. 292D
· The Enormous Egg (Core Lit) p. 292D
· Tops and Bottoms (VHS-11 minutes) p. 292D
Theme 4 ~ Problem Solvers
· Stone Soup (VHS-12 minutes) p. 384C
· Thank You, Mr. Falker (VHS-23 minutes) p. 384D
Theme 5 ~ Heroes
· Martin’s Big Words (VHS-10 minutes) p. 526A
· Martin Luther King, Jr.: a personal portrait (VHS-53 minutes) p. 526A
· A conversation with Rosa Parks (VHS-15 minutes) p. 552
· Going, going, gone (VHS-30 minutes) p. 606
· Cesar Chavez (VHS-23 minutes) p. 526C
· Johnny Appleseed (DVD-23 minutes) p. 526D
· Johnny Appleseed (VHS-14 minutes) p. 526D
· Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (VHS-30 minutes) p. 526D
· Brave Irene (VHS-13 minutes) p. 526D
· John Henry (DVD-23 minutes) p. 526D
· John Henry (VHS-19 minutes) p. 526D
Theme 6 ~ Nature: Friend and Foe
· Caves (DVD-42 minutes) p. 632A
· Hurricanes, tornadoes, and thunderstorms (VHS-24 minutes) p. 626C
· Sarah, Plain and Tall (VHS-98 minutes) or (VHS-30 minutes) p. 626D
· Brave Irene (VHS-13 minutes) p. 626D
Thunder Cake (VHS-13 minutes) p. 626DSocial Studies Videos
Unit 1
- California is Calling for You [about regions] (VHS-15 minutes)
- California’s Environment (VHS-11 minutes)
Unit 2
- Indians of California (VHS-23 minutes)
- Mission San Diego Alcala (VHS-11 minutes) 15 additional missions have videos, to
- Life in a California Mission in the 1790s (VHS-14 minutes)
- Living in Spanish colonial America (VHS-18 minutes)
Unit 3
- On Location: Travels to California’s Past (VHS-60 minutes)
- The Gold Rush (VHs-24 minutes)
- Gold Rush and the Settlement of California (VHS-16 minutes)
- The Gold Rush and the ‘49ers (VHS-21 minutes)
- Gold Rush and Gunfights (VHS-43 minutes)
- Life in a Gold Mining Town in the 1850s (VHS-18 minutes)
- Trails to Riches: The California Gold Rush and settlement of Pacific Northwest (VHS-26 minutes)
Unit 4
- California: A Changing State (DVD-41 minutes)
- There’s No Place Like California: An Historic Tour with Pictures, Words, Music, and Student Art (VHS-30 minutes)
- Cesar Chavez (VHS-23 minutes) or (DVD-23 minutes)
- California (VHS-20 minutes) California (DVD-23 minutes)
Unit 5
- Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution (VCR-32 minutes)
Science Videos
Electricity
· Static electricity/electricity [Bill Nye] (VHS-46 minutes)
· Electricity (DVD-13 minutes)
· Electricity (VHS-11 minutes)
· Science Please! (DVD-Segments 18-20)
Magnetism
· Magnetism/static electricity [Bill Nye] (VHS-46 minutes)
· Exploring Magnetism and Electricity (VHS-10 minutes)
· Science Please! (DVD-Segments 15-17)
· Magnets [The Way Things Work Series] (13 minutes)
Energy and Matter
· Heat/Energy [Bill Nye] (VHS-46 minutes)
· Phases of Matter [Bill Nye] (VHS-23 minutes)
· Phases of Matter [Bill Nye] (DVD-23 minutes)
· Atoms [Bill Nye] (VHS-23 Minutes)
· Atoms and Molecules (VHS-75 minutes)
· Changing States of Matter (VHS-6 minutes)
· Properties of Matter (VHS-6 minutes)
· Solid, Liquid, Gas (VHS-12 minutes)
· Science Please! (DVD-Segments 1-4)
Ecosystems
· All about Deserts and Grasslands (VHS-23 minutes)
· All about Forest Ecosystems (VHS-23 minutes)
· All about Water Ecosystems (VHS-23 minutes)
· Island [Eyewitness] (VHS-29 minutes)
· Jungle [Eyewitness] (VHS-28 minutes)
· Mountain [Eyewitness] (VHS-29 minutes)
· Rainforest [Eyewitness] (DVD-27 minutes)
· Ecosystem of a Pond (VHS-18 minutes)
Minerals and Rocks
· All About Rocks & Minerals (VHS-23 minutes)
· Rock & Mineral [Eyewitness] (VHS-35 minutes)
· Rocks and Minerals (VHS-26 minutes)
· Rocks, Minerals & Fossils (VHS-17 minutes)
Changing Earth
· Climate Change (VHS-9 minutes)
· Dynamic Earth: Changes in its Surface (VHS-15 minutes)
Math Videos
Unit 4 (lessons 4.8 - 4.10)
· Metric Measurement (VHS-11 minutes)
Unit 5 (lesson 5.10)
· Rounding Numbers (DVD-10 minutes)
Unit 7
· Equivalent Fractions & Mixed Numbers (DVD-15 minutes)
· Weird Number (DVD-13 minutes)
Unit 9
· Decimals & Percents (DVD-23 minutes)
· Decimals & Equivalent Fractions (VHS-10 minutes)
Unit 11
· 3-D Shapes (DVD-15 minutes)
Just For Fun:
· Math Cure (VHS-30 minutes)
· Donald in Mathmagicland (VHS-27 minutes)
Three resources for you
Read Works
- author's purpose
- cause and effect
- compare and contrast
- fact and opinion
- figurative language
- point of view
- sequence
- vocabulary in context
- voice
- ... and more
Achieve 3000
Username: commoncore.teacher
Password: commoncore.teacher
Benchmark Universe E-Book Library Subscription
Login: new district email address
Password: welcome
- ebooks can be opened on computers or iPads
- you can assign titles to students to read
- lesson plans are available for these titles
- use the books whole class with your projector or on the big screen
- books can be printed for student use
Classroom Libraries
Many teachers like to purchase books for their classrooms that will serve as a mini-library right in their room. These books might be purchased with Scholastic Book Club points, at garage sales, or through discount online sites like amazon.com. Sometimes parents offer to purchase books for your classroom. Here are some recommendations for nonfiction books that align to STEM.
Reading levels listed provided by publishers.
Science
Science Detectives by YES Magazine RL V
Burp! The Most Interesting Book You'll Ever Read About Eating by Diane Swanson 1050L
George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt … by Lucy and Stephen Hawking 940L
Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist's Microscope by Stephen Kramer 1040L
Micromonsters by Christopher Maynard 940L
Technology
Robo World: The Story of Robot Designer Cynthia Breazeal by Jordan Brown 1040L
Biomass: Feuling Change by Niki Walker 1090L
George Eastman and the Kodak Camera by Jennifer Fandel 620L
The Nexi Robot by Toney Allman 760L
Now and Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin by Gene Barretta 910L
Science and Technology in the Middle Ages by Joanne Findon 1080L
Engineering
Fantastic Feats and Failures by Yes Magazine 960L
Baffling and Bizarre Inventions by Jim Murphy 830L
Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World by Elizabeth Rusch
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Woman by Catherine Thimmesh 960L
Maker Faire by Kristin Fontichiaro and Samantha RoSlund
Pyramid by David Macaulay 1110L
Math
That's a Possibility! A Book about what Might Happen by Bruce Goldstone
The Book Bandit: A Mystery with Geometry by Melinda Thielbar 490L
The Kids Guide to Money Cents by Keltie Thomas
Polar Bear Math: Learning About Fractions from Klondike and Snow by Ann Nagda and Cindy Bickel
Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School by Louis Sachar 670L
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table by Cindy Neuschwander 600L
Start the Game: Geometry in Sports by John Perritano
Real reading
It's free! And you can print from it or show it on your big screen.
CYRM Intermediate Nominees
The LMSV Educational Foundation funds the purchase of both the primary nominees and the intermediate nominees for each elementary library.
These Intermediate titles are available for teachers that may want to read all the nominees aloud during the school year:
- Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George.
- Wild Wings by Gill Lewis
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio.
And here is the teacher and librarian resource packet
CYRM Primary Category
And the nominees are:
- Miss Brooks Loves Books! (And I Don't) by Barbara Bottner
- Too Tall Houses by Giana Marino
- Exclamation Mark! by Amy Rosenthal
- Randy Riley's Really Big Hit by Chris Van Dusen
- City Dog, Country Frog by Mo Willems
Math Adoption
There are six programs that fit our criteria (K-5) that were adopted by the State Board of Education and announced by the California Dept. of Education.
- Creative Core Curriculum for Mathematics with STEM, Literacy and Arts TPS Publishing
- enVision Math Pearson
- Go Math! Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Math Expressions Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Math in Focus (Singapore Math) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- My Math McGraw-Hill
This is an exciting time as the committee narrows it down to the two that will piloted and then finally choose the new program to implement in 2015-16.
Math Library Books
Don’t forget your school library has the following titles that align with your Everyday Math curriculum. Many of these titles are on the Math Resource shelf and aren’t allowed to circulate to students. As this is the last year of this math adoption these books will be integrated into the main collection in June 2015.
Number and Order
1, 2, 3, Go!
12 Ways to Get to 11
Can You Count to a Googol?
Count Your Way Through ...
Counting on Frank
fractals, googols, and other mathematical tales
Funny and Fabulous Fraction Stories
G is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book
The History of Counting
How Much, How Many, How Far, How Heavy, How Long, How Tall is 1,000?
How Much is a Million?
Math Curse
Math Talk: Mathematical Ideas in Poems for Two Voices
Math-terpieces
My Full Moon is Square
On Beyond a Million: An Amazing Math Journey
Sea Squares
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division
The Amazing Pop-Up Multiplication Book
Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar
Arithme-Tickle: An Even Number of Odd Riddle-Rhymes
The Best of Times
The Grapes of Math
The Great Divide: A Mathematical Marathon
A Remainder of One
Spaghetti and Meatballs for All
Geometry
The Art of Shapes for Children and Adults
A Cloak for the Dreamer
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
Geometric Patterns and How to Create Them
Grandfather Tang’s Story
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
Mummy Math: An Adventure in Geometry
Pigs on the Ball: Fun with Math & Sports
Shape Up!
Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi
Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland
Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone
The Tangram Book
What's Your Angle, Pythagoras?
Data, Chance, and Probability
Do You Wanna Bet?
How to Lie with Statistics
In the Next Three Seconds
Probably Pistachio
Tiger Math: Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger
The Top 10 of Everything
Fractions, Decimals, and Percents; Rates and Proportions
Fraction Action
Fraction Fun
If Dogs were Dinosaurs
If You Hopped Like a Frog
Piece=Part=Portion: Fractions=Decimals=Percents
Patterns & Algebra Concepts
Anno's Magic Seeds
Eight Hands Round: A Patchwork Alphabet
A Grain of Rice
One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale
The Token Gift
Reference Frames (Time, Money, Coordinates)
A Fly on the Ceiling: A Math Myth
Follow the Money
The Kid's Money Book: Earning, Saving, Spending, Investing, and Donating
Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude
What's Faster Than a Speeding Cheetah?
Measurement
Actual Size
How Big is a Foot?
Inch by Inch
Measuring Penny
Millions to Measure
Is It Larger? Is It Smaller?
Problem Solving and Other Topics
25 Mini Math Mysteries
Albert Einstein: A Life of Genius
Career Ideas for Kids who Like Math
Computer Animations: From Start to Finish
Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World Toughest Math Competition
Logic Puzzles to Bend Your Brain
Math Stuff
Math Trek: Adventures in the Math Zone
Optical Illusion Magic: Visual Tricks and Amusements
Real-World Math for Hands-On Fun!
Wait ... there's more!
Reading Level Assessments
District Website
Here is a link to the 4th grade LMSVSD website resources
You'll need to login as staff with the password info411.
Janice Gilmore-See
Email: janice.gilmoresee@lmsvsd.k12.ca.us
Website: http://www.lmsvsd.org
Location: 4750 Date Avenue, La Mesa, CA, United States
Phone: (619) 668-5700 6465
Twitter: @janiceairplane