The Romney Rambler

September 18, 2017—Week #5

CARNIVAL TONIGHT!!

LEARNING HAPPENS HERE

It does! If you don’t believe, just come watch. We’re al-

ways busy. We learn in every part of our day—even when

we’re outside playing a game together. Last week we

learned about visualizing while reading and realized how

differently we all picture things. We learned that a sentence

needs a subject and a predicate. I chose that lesson because

I’m seeing a lot of sentences in our class’s writing that are

incomplete. Here’s an example:

“Hearing the sound of leaves rustling.”

Hmmm. Do you see what I mean? Now compare it to this:

“Hearing the sound of leaves rustling calms me when I’m

falling asleep at night.”

Now the sentence has a subject and predicate.

Well, I didn’t mean to get so caught on that one thing when

we learned SO much more. Here are some things the kids

can talk about:

—A day in the life of a boy serf (peasant).

—-How to conserve water.

—The meaning of retreat

—How to add 100,000 to 345,610 without even writing the

problem down.

—Why to read the sidebars when reading an informational

article.

—Why honesty and policing yourself makes playing games

outside go so much better.

Again. Not enough room. Oh how I love learning and

LOVE these kids. ALL of them. We’re having so much

fun! (Please note that in the last 6 sentences, three of them

didn’t have subjects and predicates. All I can say is that you

can do that after you get really good.)))))

P.S. I can’t come to the carnival. I planned my neighbor-

hood social at my house tonight! I’m so sorry; I love to see

everyone there usually. . .

This Week’s Vocab

merciful, adj. Compassionate and caring. stout, adj. Large and heavily built; fat skittish, adj. Very likely to frightened easily plus

very shy. tyrant, n. A ruler who uses power unjustly.

treason, n. The breaking of a person’s allegiance

to his or her people. sanctuary, n. A sacred or holy place; a place of

peace.

joyful

oyster

appointment

disappoint

rejoice

BONUS:

boysenberry

turquoise

trapezoid

gargoyle

hoist

noisy

avoid

soybean

voyage

Spelling Words- Words that have “oy” or

“oi” in them.

These pics are from our first

&me doing Fourth Grade

Zumba with Ms. Gonzalez!