Classroom Expectations
What should you do when the teacher is talking?
Answers Vary (listen, pay attention, no talking)
Before leaving to use the restroom you need to:(Name at least 2)
What is: Ask Permission, Check the sheet to see if there is already people out of the room(2 boys and 2 girls at a time), Sign yourself out and then back in when you return.
Work as a team to spell three words from a past spelling test of Mrs. Reisiger's choice.
Students must spell all three words correctly.
Describe the meaning of each of the following words: Consent, Sturdy, Oppose
Answers may vary-Mrs. Reisiger determines if meaning of each is correct
What is: To expand their fur trading- more land=more animals to hunt=more fur=more money
Three things you can do to get points on the class scoreboard:
What is:The entire class becoming silent and turning to look at Mrs. Reisiger when she says, "4th grade", Listening to directions the first time, Having a good specials class, working hard and listening well, anything Mrs. Reisiger feel sis worthy of points.
The way Mrs. Reisiger expects you to act in the hallway:(Name at least 2 things)
Walking in a single file line on the right side of the hallway. No talking, hands and feet to ourselves
Explain what a complete predicate and complete subject are
What is the predicate is what the subject does and it starts at the verb, and the complete subject includes the subject and any words describing it (including articles)
The difference between narrating and summarizing
In narration you are telling the story back using as many details as possible, in a summary you are looking for the most important things that have happened and want to make it brief.
External versus internal structures
External is on the outside and internal is on the inside.
Three ways to be prepared for class
What is: You have your book out or homework ready, you are in the ready to learn position, and you are silently waiting for Mrs. Reisiger's directions.
During Morning work you are expected to:
What is: Complete the work on the board, and when finished, pick a can do activity
The difference between an adverb and an adjective
Two things that were discovered, started, or accomplished by the French explorers and Jesuits.
Answers may vary: What is: Found the Mississippi river ends at the Gulf of Mexico, established some cities and states (Louisiana, Chicago), Jesuits converted many Native Americans to Catholicism and started many missions, etc.
Participation points are awarded for these three in class expectations:
Can Do Activity options:
What is: Read a book, complete a logic puzzle, any unfinished work from a previous class(so long as it isn't homework)
The 4 kinds of sentences and how they are different than each other
Interrogative, Imperative, Exclamatory, and Declarative.
The theme of a story
The moral lesson you can learn
Pick one of the animals that the people on your team chose to study and explain how their body works together as a system.
Answers may vary
You don't have your homework and it was not because you were sick or absent from school-what happens?
What is: You will complete it during recess. If not complete after 3 days, Mrs. Reisiger will only give you 50% of the credit it was worth.
This is the same for in class projects that you are told are for homework if not completed in class-if not completed by the due date you will complete during recess for only 50% of credit.
The reason Mrs. Reisiger wants you to do can do activities after the must do parts of a lesson are completed:
What is: To keep our brains engaged and working instead of staring into space.
What does it mean to write copiously?
What is: Answers may vary. To show and not tell with the way you write. To expand fully and describe using powerful words especially adjectives rather than plain bare minimum ones. We talked about this in our fox book. ;)
Explain one of the themes from Tales of a 4th grade nothing and from Caddie Woodlawn
Answers may vary
Recite one of the prayers we learned before Christmas break
Act of Hope, Act of Faith, Act of Love