First+Six+Weeks

== =Reading Rotations= Non-Fiction Story: "The Great Flood of 1927" Fiction Story: "Annie Guppy" Play: "Zathura" Connect to the book __Jumanji__ by reading it too and compare/contrast the two stories
 * Reading Rotations __StoryWorks Magazine Nov/Dec 2005__**

Non-Fiction Story: "Into the Volcano" Fiction Story: "Wind"--Deals with Hurricanes Play: "Jack and the Beanstalk" Read the Booklet: "Earth's History" from 3rd Grade science booklets
 * __Reading Rotations StoryWorks Magazine October 2005__**

Non-Fiction Story: "Killer Croc" Play: "Charlotte's Web"
 * __Reading Rotations StoryWorks Magazine September 2005__**

=Read Aloud Book: __Walk Two Moons__ by Sharon Creech= =Writing Lesson Ideas= __Begin Empowering Writers Instruction__ __Teach students how to take boring sentences and create fantastic ones to replace it__.

=Math Lesson Concepts= ⁰ Whole Number Concepts--Accelerated Math Objectives (1-32) 4th Grade Math Library (standard & expanded forms, rounding, odd and even, read and write numbers, add and subtract numbers) ⁰ Money Unit--Accelerated Math Objectives (83-91) 4th Grade Math Library ⁰ Time, calendars, and thermometers--Accelerated Math Objectives (104-110) 4th Grade Math Library

=Science topics=

⁰Rocks and Minerals
Also combine in the Science text book to use during Reading Rotations to study the properties of rocks and minerals Rock and Mineral Testing Lab with our "finds" from the field trip

=Social Studies Topics= ⁰ Regions of North Carolina ⁰ Native Americans of North Carolina

=Field Trips= Thermal City Gem Mines to pan for minerals-in county field trip