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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Classroom Update…

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 [...]

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Math Website…

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!
Johnnie’s Math Page for Kids

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Building a Library…

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 [...]

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Construction Aggregates and School Store

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 [...]

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Field Trip Reminder

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 [...]

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Off to a Great Start!

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 [...]

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

What a Week!

We had a fantastic first full week of school! I feel like we have really had a chance to bond and get to know one another! We are going to have a great year!
I really enjoyed getting to meet many of you at the Open House. Thank you for taking the time [...]

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Dune Day!

We had a great day at North Shore Beach last Friday for our first field trip of the year. We studied some amazing natural resources that we have right in our “backyard”. The students had opportunities to try experiments, build sandcastles, and even do some yoga!
A big thank you to all of our [...]

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Happy Monday!

I hope everyone had a wonderful, relaxing weekend! We have a busy week coming up. Check here for some upcoming events and pictures of the fun that we are having. Yes, we are learning too! I will be posting pictures from our first fantastic field trip, last Friday… We have [...]

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Thirst Quenching News

We had another fabulous day today… To name a few activities…we had a snowball fight (ask your child), we learned some more great facts about each other, we wrote letters to our teachers from last year, and we took a “coffee” (or juice) break to just read the news (Time for Kids)… Here [...]