Fourth Grade, Reading, Set One

Little House Series

• We read Little House in the Big Woods, doing some activities from Little House in the Classroom after most chapters. When we completed the book we went through the discussion questions and completed the Then and Now section in Little House in your Classroom.
• The Then and Now activity was to write down what the Ingalls family ate and where they got the food and then to write down what we eat and where we get the food.

Mystery-Fold

• I showed K. the Birthday Party story
• The following day she performed it for me
• The next day she did it for some friends

Tall Tales

• I read Five Fathoms Tall / Stormalong from American Tall Tales by Adrien Stoutenburg
• K. read the short story about Stormalong in Teaching Tall Tales
• Geography
• We figured a route for Stormalong to sail from Maine to Italy to India to Australia to China to Russia and back to Maine
• Introduced "water words" by giving clues and definitions for K. to find the place on a map
• Art
• K. scratched a picture in a bar of soap and then colored it in with paint