Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Fourth Grade Reading Challenge

Today you will be reading for the entire day in your homeroom class.

You may choose one of the following kinds of texts.
1) Time For Kids Magazine Article
Click here to read Time For Kids

2) DOGO News Articles (You may only watch the video after you have READ the article).
DOGO News
Click here to read dogo news

3) Sports Illustrated for Kids
Click here to read Sports Illustrated for Kids

4) Chapter Books

5) Any other kind of book...

Once you are done reading one chapter or an article, use the blog to summarize what you have read.  Write at least three sentences.  Do not forget to write the title and author of the book.

If technology fails, please summarize what you have read on a note card.  Every time you submit a blog reading comment or write a summary on a note card, you may add a tally to your class total.

Every fourth grade student will receive a book treat if your class reads at least 60 chapters and/or articles total.

The class with the most tallies and responses will receive a bonus item.:)  Happy Reading!

89 comments:

  1. in"swindle"i wonder if they are going to escape the dogs.i think they are going to get pass the dogs.

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  2. i wonder if they are going to find the card?i was surprise that the card was not in the safe.

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  3. hi every one this is jaya i am going to tll you about an article i read it is called dear carol it is were you post a comment or a problem and it will give you answers

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  4. cool I wonder what's going to happen!

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  5. i hope they will get the card back from daren vader.
    i wonder why a charecter made a charecter sound like darth vader

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  6. hi this is Jaya again and i want to post yet another comment about another article i read out of Gl mageziene about the next big thing like sage washed lids neon french Manis mid lenghth locks a new type of blush new lip balm the pixie mani thanks and remember thats girls life magizene the 100+ ways to love your look edition

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  7. i read an article on sports Illustrated about damion lilard of the portland Trailblazers. He won the rookie of the year even though he was rated bad. He was rated bad because he went to weber state. damion lilard is one of the best rookies in the game of basketball.

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  8. my name is Ellie and I'm reading a book called Peter and the Starcatchers. I'm reading and I'm on chapter 40. He was with a group from their ship and they just went it to a jungle. It was about a group and they saw big feet that scared him so much. When they were in the jungle they got token by savages and they got trapped by them (savages).

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  9. in"so you want to be a wizard"i wonder what happen to the fire hydret?i wonder what happen to all the cars know they are alive i wonder what happen? i wonder if fred and kit and kate is going to get out alive?i hope they do

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  10. I read chapter 11 in scorpia rising. In this chapter secret agent Alex rider starts his undercover job in a high end school called Cirao College. But towards the end of the chapter he plots his way to get into an official office where he will discover secrets!

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  11. it took 5,335,200 lego bricks to build the largest lego model.it took 32 builders.it took 17,336 hours to build it.

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  12. ZACH!!!!!  :):)May 30, 2013 at 8:08 AM

    I read chapter 16 in Hideout. In it Luther gets discovered at Ebony lake so Griffen has to hand him over so Swindle dosen't find him. Griffen gives the dog to his friends Melissa and Logan at camp Ta-Da.

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  13. The article I read in time for kids was called " Teachers on strike".
    It was about Chicago teachers going on strike because of their evaluation in school. Union president Karen Lewis announced that
    " Teachers hoped to avoid strike.

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  14. In the book i'm reading Just Ella she does not want to be a princess but her mother is forcing her to be one. She has to get up every morning and do her daily lessons but she has been seeing a young man walking around the village in poor cloths and when she tryed to talk to him she got caught and got in trouble.

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  15. i read "Great Block — or Greatest Block (of the Playoffs)?"
    it's about how Lebron James blocked gorge hill in a game Heat V.s Pacers.
    lebron could have just hade the best block in the playoffs. go to http://www.sikids.com/blogs/2013/05/29/great-block-or-greatest-block-of-the-playoffs-1 to read the article and see the block.

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  16. I read "Andrew Wiggins: HS Basketball Phenom Picks Kansas Jayhawks" which basically means It's title. The amazing high school baller Andrew Wiggins made his decision to be a jayhawk. he final choices were Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina and Florida State but in the end for the 2013-2014 college basketball season he will be a jayhawk!

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  17. hi i read "Mona Lisa talks to fans" by Meera Dolasia. The word that i didn't know and know i do is " Anecdotes" it means " A short, obscure historical or biographical account."

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  18. The book I am reading is called, "The Private Thoughts of Amelia E. Rye". In the first chapter, Amelia's mom was pregnant with her and thought she was a brain tumor. When she found out what was happening, she tried to kill Amelia. Her dad ran away when that was happening. The sweet part about it is that sometimes, Amelia sits at the window, hoping that her dad would come back for her!

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  19. The article I read was called " Coral reefs in trouble" it is about coral reefs being polluted, over fished and global warming are to blame. Did you know coral is made up of small animals? Or did you know that coral was around for millions of years and are living fossils?

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  20. 1D has a big tour coming up. they are about to have there first movie ever. I hope it is good. they were on the X-Factor.

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  21. In the egyptian passage I learned that there tombs had images on it. The images were of prayers. The images guide the deceaced on a difficult path ahead of them.

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  22. i wonder what the eggplant person looks like?i hope they get the dark magic book.i wonder who is all ways stealing the dark magic books?i wonder how many dark magic books they are

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  23. In the 2nd chapter of just Ella she sneaks out of her palace to go see him when she comes to find out that his father passed long before he came to the village and his mother passed when he was just born.Now she started to feel bad beacuse he didn't have any family.

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  24. It's Ellie again and chapter 41 is about Peter and Molly (passengers of the ship) are walking and they are so tired. They found the group of Prentiss,James,Tubby Ted, and Thomas. Peter and Molly said they are going to help the group escape.

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  25. hey this is jaya again and i just read a devistateing article in time for kids about a :( disater that struck oaklahoma this past week and its about a tornado killing at least 24 peole lots of them were infact childeren still on the search for more surviores

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  26. Aidan may30, 2013 at 11:20

    The article that i read was called "world's largest lego star wars model." they created it and showed it in new york. it took the group 4 mounths to complete it.it took 5,335,200 lego blocks. the model was the x-wing.

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  27. Hi im Nathan and i just red a cool comic book called the ultimate spider man. its about a teenager that got bit by a radyoactive spider then be came spider man. The bad part was that spider mans uncle died from a guy with a gun.

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  28. I read "Genome Unlocking Life's Code". This passage was about how Scientists are finding out ways to cure certain sicknesses. Also it is how every person has a code inside them.

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  29. The article I read was called " The right touch".
    An astronaut is on the moon and takes a picture as if she were holding the sun. This launch was on Sept. 5.

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  30. i hope they are going to get all the dark magic books.i wonder what will be the next guirden

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  31. ZACH!!!!!  :):)May 30, 2013 at 8:31 AM

    I read Hideout in the chapter Logan and melissa were going back to their camp and luther started barking and melissa had to Skype Savana and she had to dog whisper to him to get him back to his "normal self"

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  32. Hi i am Sara the great and powerful! I learned that on september 1st 1939 ground fores of Nazi Germany swept in poland and percipitated in world war 2. Also German air force threw the first strike of world war 2.

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  33. this is arri. disney channel is making a new movie called TEEN BEACH MOVIE.Two kids get stranded in a movie.But they changed it and now they have to fix it

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  34. i read a time for kids article it was about a normal school day for a 10 year old girl.she wakes up at 6:45 then to get to school she rides a pubic bus. when she is at school her first class is about computers.

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  35. I read a book called why wolves Howl it is about why wolves howl.It tells you that most of the things in movies that are about wolves howls are false. Did you know that wolves howl when happy? Wolves don't always howl at night at a full moon they howl when ever they want in the day or night?

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  36. IN swindle there are two boys that found a baseball card in an old house that was in good condition. The guy that cells sold it for $120 when it was realy worth $4,000,000. so they have there misson.

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  37. the girl lives in germany

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  38. I read "Joey Pigza Loses Control". chapter 8 was about Joey and his dad. Joeys dad gave his son Joey patches and to Joey that was the beast gift ever.

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  39. I just read avengers end of the earth.It was about spider man thor hulk black widow spider girl iron man hawk guy and caption America fighting the the sinister six. but the avengers lose . the next comic the avengers win.

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  40. hey, the book i read is " magic tree house Hour of the olympics"by Mary pope osborne. The word that was confused me was chapter 5 "hi zues!"

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  41. what i read was coral reefs in trouble. it is about the coral in danger. coral is made up of tiny animals, the animals are dieing!

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  42. I read an article called bare paint the... it is about the first paint that you can accully light up and turn it on and off.

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  43. In the book I am reading a girl named molly just flew and saved from drowning in the ocean with her star power powers. Also there is a box that holds a big part of the star power that there fighting against evil and good.Also Mollys family is all on the good team and captin hook is trying to stop them from getting the star power.

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  44. The article that i read was called "the solar system. the sun's light produces 161 millon km to the earth.
    HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN RAINBOW. get a hose and sprinkel water on your driveway and there you go.

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  45. I read "The Dream Comes True" Fifty Years of Humans Spaceflight. One article is about Yuri Gagarin, he was a young cosmonaut in training in 1960. He flew out to space in 1961 and it took 108 minutes "from ignition to landing." Yuri became an International hero.

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  46. I read game for someone designed... it is about a guy who created a board game for someone he thinks it will take 2,700 years for someone to discover it.

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  47. The article I read was about 1913 history. It is about how people entertained themselves after the Great Depression. The exhibit I'd like to see would be the natural history exhibit.

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  48. I read will 3d printers... it is about a group of people who think 3d printing will end hunger they are trying to make a printer that will print out food 1 layer at a time.

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  49. I read US Tornadeo season... by Meera Dolasia. It was an article about a tornadeo in Texas. Another tornadeo raged in Olkahoma city. Tornadeo damege is estamaited to cost over 1 million U.S.D.

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  50. I'm reading diary of a wimpy kid dog days
    I'm on the first chapter Greg is going to his friends pool.
    his friends name is Rowley and his friend and him are fighting. so he hast to go back to the public pool.
    Jude

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  51. The Babenator/ Emily! :)May 30, 2013 at 9:13 AM

    The second chapter of, "The private thoughts of Amelia E. Rye" is about how she got her name. Amelia's real name is Amelia Earhart Rye. Her mother didn't name her like most people do. Because Amelia's mom hated her so much she wouldn't name her. So her Grandfather got sick of her mothers complaining and went ahead and named her.

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  52. the tornado in Oklahoma was a tragedy. it killed about 24 people including children. also 120 people are in the hospital.

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  53. I read a article called massive tornadoes hit... its about how tornado season started out with a big tornado hitting Oklahoma.

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  54. What i read was a truly hair raising event. it is about a hair style competition. there are 49 woman with wild hair that is is so wonderful! the hair is from famous queens to famous people all over the world.

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  55. I read Uh-oh the moon... by Meera Dolasia. It is about a massive rock that hit the moon. The explosion could be seen from Earth!

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  56. I read chapter from the book " unlocking the Spell". Where Annie, and Liam just saved little red riding hood from a wolf. The reason was because little red riding hood had no idea it was a wolf posing as her grandma.

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  57. In the book peter and the Star Catchers I just read that molly a girl who is 14 just saved Peter from drowning. She flew to the ocean with the star power she had in her star neckalace and saved him.The star power is a sourse that has so much power any one can control it. There is a black case that cotains a lot of that power and there fighting against good and evil to get the power

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  58. I read New Irish Stamp... by Meera Dolasia. It is about an informitive postage stamp. A 17 year old student came up with it.

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  59. I read "Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life" from the National Museum of American History. This article is about Abraham Lincoln, he stood out even more by wearing his top hat from J.Y. Davis, a hat maker. The last time Lincoln whore it was at the Fords theater. After Lincoln died they put is hat in a basement in 1867 and found it in 1893.

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  60. I read an article called when you go to... it is about a cab driver who gives out candy to the passengers he calls the cab the candy cab.

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  61. The article I read is called " Should schools teach cursive". Two Kids debate over whether schools should teach cursive or not. A 9 year old boy said yes and a 11 year old girl said yes.

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  62. The 6th chapter of "The magic tree house Hour of the olympics" by Mary pope osborne. i learned that Chariot racers in the olympics wear full armor while they race.

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  63. what i read was light a circuit. it is about some kids in school who created a paint that goes on any thing and the best part you don't need any wires the paint is the wire!

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  64. Greg does'nt like the ocean cause it is just all bath room pipes go to the ocean. but he also likes the beach cause of the ride on the boardwalk.
    Jude

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  65. I read Robocops,Robots and... by Meera Dolasia. It is about how people in Brazil are adding even more security. They are adding security because of several terroism events that took place at large public gathrings.

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  66. I read Will 3-D printers... by Meera Dolasia. It was about a scientest trying to find a end to world hunger. He will acheive this by using a 3-D printer. [World hunger in a couple of years that is.]

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  67. I read a game for someone... by Meera Dolasia. It is about a man who designed a game for 2700 years from now. He hopes it will not be discovered before then.

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  68. what i read was an amazing journey. it is about a cat names Holly who traveled 200 miles home to palm beach,Florida! scientist are shocked that she had such good senses of smell. don't you think that's amazing?

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  69. hey,Chapter 7 of " The magic tree house Hour of the olympics" by Mary pope Osborne. What I imagined was Annie wearing a big helmet with armor and was hoping no one will see her.

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  70. I read "Tornado Devastates Oklahoma Town" from Time For Kids. A tornado people call the seconded most deadliest twisters went up to 200 miles a hour. The tornado ruined Moores major buildings, two elementary schools, a medical center, and etc. 24 people are dead, 120 people in the hospital, and there might still be more people out there looking for help.

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  71. greg and his dad dont see eye to eye on alot of stuff. but they both dont like the comk Li'l cutie.
    Jude

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  72. when the two boys in swindle got a team, they found out about were the base ball card was.

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  73. I read on Dynamic planet that if you look at a interactive map it will show. It will show you what happens. The map shows 44,000 earth quakes and 170 impact craters and 1,500 volcanoes.

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  74. The article I read is called " Top ten newest species". It is about animals that are new and weird. There is a glow in the dark cock-roach!

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  75. what i read was Color shifter. it is about a new species of lizard. it can measure up to 11 inches long.at night it looks dark brown but in the day it looks green and blue. it is easily spotted in he day,not the dark. dose that sound cool[only in Vietnam.]

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  76. when the two boys in swindle had the team they met a very special dog named luthor that loved a girl named Savana.

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  77. The light of the sunamere is 93 million miles away. It takes only a few minutes to reach earth. Seeing light that has traveled for million even billion of years to reach us. If you look back in time you can see that the universe has evolved from its starting.

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  78. The article I just read is about seahorses strong and protective armor. They have flexible joints that can bend at almost 360. I'm sure it is a powerful creature.

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  79. what i read was cats are the internet! it is about this festival that congrats cat videos all over the internet.[ wow i didn't know cats were that popular?]

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  80. I read about "teachers on strike". It was about when it was September 10 and that more than 350,000 students could not go to schools in the county. ≠≠≠

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  81. The Babenator/ Emily! :)May 30, 2013 at 11:18 AM

    The second chapter of, "The private thoughts of Amelia E. Rye" is about when she is in 4th grade. In forth grade Amelia is bullied but now shes not the only one. There is a new girl named Fancy Nelson and shes bullied to but she stands up for herself and Amelia. They find out that both of their dads ran away!

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  82. Dog Diaries/ chapter 4
    Ginger is a pet for a family and she got back from the vet and she misses the vet. When she was four months she got hit with a hammer and she bit the boy that hit her and then she was took back to the pound.

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  83. I love choclate!!!! so i am reading this book choclit fever it is so good .

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