Unit 1

What is Courage?

 Activities & Assignment - Trapped in Big Beaver

Activities & Assignment For Trapped In Big Beaver

You have three activities & the Courage Concept Map assignment:


Click on each activity for more information

Recount or retell the story of "Trapped in Big Beaver" to another person: a friend, or a family member.


After you have told the story to that person, ask him or her some questions. Here are some ideas of questions to ask:

  • Have you ever heard a story similar to this one? Or, did this story remind you of another story about courage? Please tell me that story.
  • How are these stories similar? How are they different?

Compound Word Activity


Did you find two compound words in the Trapped in Big Beaver story? The compound words are; farmhouse  and newspapers.
You can get lots of practice with compound words using the online games found on this site: Learning Games for Kids.
Game

Game

Practise compound words playing this online game:  Compound Words. Click on the one called Compound Word Lesson first. Then click on the other activities.
  • Replay Compound Word Lesson first to remind you about how compound words are made.
  • Remember to read the instructions before starting a game.
  • Some games have a hint feature that will help you.

This lesson includes your first Vocabulary Word Wall words


Each time you see the Vocabulary Word Wall icon, you know that you must learn to spell six Vocabulary Word Wall words.

Each time you get another list of six Word Wall Words, you must study them carefully. Knowing how to spell these most common words found in Grade 4 readings will increase your reading and writing ability. While reading, you will recognize the words right away and no decoding will be necessary, and you will write them without even thinking about the spelling, as you will know them so well.

Vocabulary Word Wall words are "no excuse" words. This means that once you have studied them in the lessons, you must spell them correctly in all your written work – no excuses! Remember, you will have a Word Wall assessment to complete at the end of the unit.

Vocabulary

Vocabulary Word Wall

Click the Vocabulary icon button to open the Grade 4 Word Wall in a new tab. For this lesson, you are responsible for Word Wall List 1. When you are finished, close the tab to return to this instruction page.




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Use Word Wall Strategies to find ideas about learning Word Wall Words. Use whichever of these ideas works best for you to learn the words.

  1. Download the document Word Wall Strategies.
  2. IMPORTANT NOTE: When the download screen opens:

Get someone to test you on the spelling of the words before going on to new Vocabulary Word Wall words.


If you see new Vocabulary Word Wall words in a lesson before you have had someone test you on the last ones,

  • stop
  • take the Vocabulary Word Wall Test
  • practise and take the test again if you made any spelling mistakes before you go on to the new ones.

Do not get behind on the Vocabulary Word Wall words. It is fairly easy to learn six at a time, but if you let them pile up, they may become very difficult to learn them. Remember as well that you will have an assessment to do on the words at the end of the unit.

Get busy using the strategies for learning these words NOW. You will see new Vocabulary Word Wall words two lessons from now.