Friday was filled with rain, candy, energy, and fabulous costumes! We had a great day and it all ended with a wonderful parade (lead by the three blind mice) and terrific party. The kids had a really good time and we all appreciated the time and energy that was put it to it by the parents. Thanks to all who made it special for the kids. Here are some photos of us in action…
Tomorrow is the day that we will have our costume parade and classroom party. Students should not wear their costumes to school. Look below to see the afternoon schedule…
1:45 Put costumes on
2:00 All School Parade
2:20-2:50 School-wide Double Recess
2:50-3:25 Classroom Party
Thanks to everyone that is helping, sending things in, etc.! We could not do it without you! A big thanks to Mrs. Kelly for organizing our event!
Hello everyone. I have really enjoyed talking with all of you about your wonderful children this week. Please see the note sent out to parents about the district’s information on H1N1. Have a great night!
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We have been working hard this week in Reader’s Workshop. Our main focus has been fluency. We have worked on what it sounds like to be a fluent reader. The fabulous students in this room know that reading fast does not make a fluent reader. They know that you need pausing, phrasing, stress, intonation, rate, and it all should be integrated when they read aloud. They are all doing a great job.
To practice fluency, each child is responsible for practicing reading a picture book that they will record themself reading aloud. We will be sharing these wonderful podcasts soon, so watch for them to come… They also wrote book reviews for each of the books and had their picture taken with the book. You can read those at conferences. I have included their pictures today. Some kids even dressed up for the photo session! What a great group of fluent readers I have!
Hello to everyone! We are having a great week! I just wanted to share a few updates with you…
* MEAP – We started our MEAP testing today. It will continue on Thursday, October 15, Tuesday, October 20 and finish up on Thursday ,October 22. Please help your child remember to get some good sleep and eat a good breakfast before each testing day.
* Conferences next week – I am looking forward to meeting with each of you next week to talk about your wonderful children. Remember that there will be half days on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
* Book Baggie Book – Thank you for helping your child remember their book baggie book each day. Some of the kids wanted to be able to check for just right books from home. The Scholastic Book Wizard is a great tool. Here is the site: Book Wizard
* The Book Fair will be open all next week. Your child will do a little visit on Monday, but you are more than welcome to send money in any time. Here is a link to preview some of the books… Book Fair
I will add websites as the year goes on as I find them that apply to our curriculum. This one caught our eye and I wanted to share it with you. It is a great practice site for all kinds of concepts. Enjoy!
We are working hard in fourth grade! Today we started to do some serious work in making our classroom library our own. The team spent some time looking at, discussing, and brainstorming different ways to sort our classroom books. It was fun to watch them in action. I heard such great “book talk” from the kids. They were excited about what they might read this year, and how they wanted our classroom library to look. I have some pictures I want you to see. This is important work and our library will be FABULOUS! It won’t only be fabulous it will be a great place to hang out and READ! Stop by and check out our “Dugout” anytime!
WOW! A busy week, but so good! We are in the flow of things and all is well. We went on another field trip that was full of learning and important information. We were in Grand Haven on Thursday at the Construction Aggregates site. We learned all about the mining of sand, what it is used to produce, and the efforts made to take care of the land after they mine the sand. Fascinating Info.! We all want to thank the wonderful parent driver/chaperones we had drive us and stay with us. We could not have done it without you!
Speaking of Thank Yous… We want to thank all the parents that came to school on Friday and helped open up the first Fourth Grade Store and to all the parents that sent in items so that we could have a store… WOW! There were some great items at the store and the students had no problem spending their money. It was great!
I have included a slide show below, so that you can see us in action on the field trip and at the store… I can’t wait to see what this week brings…
We are heading out on one more “sand” field trip tomorrow. Please make sure that your child wears shoes and socks for this field trip and dresses in layers. Each person will also need a sack lunch. We will be having our lunch at Coast Guard Park. Thanks for all your help!
Things in fourth grade are going well! It is so much fun to come to school each day and work with these kids.
I just wanted to make sure you could see some photos of just a few things that have been going on here at school. The bank was open for the first time, so the students could add up their credits/debits, get their check and then go to the bank to cash their checks. It was great. We also have spent some time finding some great books to read and just reading…and we had our first assembly of the year on Wednesday. Skippy and Dave came to visit us and share their important message about bullying. They were entertaining and their message was so good for everyone to hear.
We are off to a good start and all is well… Look for more updates soon!
