Friday, November 19, 2010

Grade 4 News - November 19, 2010

Mrs. Hawley has a letter for 4B students today about her Guidance lessons, complete with tips and ideas for parents. Ask your child for this!

Math Facts Practice
Continue to practice daily! You should see improvement with every test we take. Keep at it and strive to get more correct in a faster time. This is a great thing to practice over your Thanksgiving break.

Book Reports
Students should continue reading their books, and after Thanksgiving we'll begin assembling our paper chains of 'events'. Many are already working on these. Stay tuned. Books should be read by December 1st.

Needed for next week: If you have any grocery ads you could send in next week, we'll be calculating the cost of a Thanksgiving meal in class Tuesday. Thanks in advance for your help!

Have a safe and blessed Thanksgiving. Next news update will be Friday December 3rd.

REMINDER: Christmas Program Practice after school for all 4th graders will be Thursday December 2nd and Monday December 6th.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Today's Homework

LA - Study for Skinnybones Vocabulary test
Study Spelling words

Math - Practice your facts

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Today's Homework

LA - Spelling Funky
Study for Skinnybones Vocab test Friday
Current Events continue

Math - Practice your facts

Remember your donation for the Gas & Grocery giftcards. Our collection ends Friday. Thank you!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Today's Homework

LA - Spelling WB pg. 60
Current Events continue
Skinnybones Vocab test Friday 11/19

Math - WB pg. 40
Practice your facts!

Monday, November 15, 2010

Today's Homework

LA - Spelling WB pg. 58
Current Events continue this week
Skinnybones Vocabulary test is Friday 11/19 - Students were given review guides today.

Math - Practice your facts!

We are continuing the collection of Gas & Grocery giftcards for the auction. Your donation is appreciated! Thank you for your efforts in making our auction a success!

Sunday, November 14, 2010

A Smith Progress Report

In an attempt to photograph Caroline's teeth, I snapped her photo. How do you think I did? Perhaps not quite 'meeting the standard'(N)?
We are crawling all over the place and beginning to pull up on everything. I believe she's progressing on level (check) for a thirteen month old.
And today, we've discovered the steps. Yikes! Caroline has earned the + here. She's definitely exceeding the standard!
It's a busy and fun time for us! After a few requests for updated pictures, I decided to post some more. Enjoy!

Friday, November 12, 2010

Grade 4 News - November 12, 2010

Guidance Lessons Begin!
Mrs. Hawley, our Guidance Counselor, is working with Grade 4 students on how to manage stress. She will be visiting the 4th grade classrooms in the coming month to give students tips and talk with them about strategies for de-stressing.

Christmas Program Info
Please visit Mrs. Kathy Smith's website for all the latest details!
http://katsmith.educatorpages.com/Page.aspx?p=70519

Progress Reports
Students received progress reports today. Please look over these with your child and offer lots of hugs for all their hard work. 4th Grade is challenging and your students have been working hard! Please sign and return the empty envelope. Thanks!

Shoebox Science?
Do you have a shoebox kit at home? We seem to be missing a Globs & Blobs kit in 4B. If you happen to see these at home, send them in so we can restock them. Thank you.

Math Websites
In case you've misplaced my note that went home earlier this week with details on Math web sites, here they are again:
www.aaamath.com
http://www.funbrain.com/math/index.html
http://www.thatquiz.org/
http://www.mrmyers.org/Math_Mania/ttmult.html
If you’d like to print off some worksheets of your own to practice, try http://themathworksheetsite.com/cgi-bin/mult_5_minute.pl
This site will even print off an answer key for you!

Looking ahead to next week:

Language Arts - We are finishing Skinnybones. We will have a vocabulary test next Friday. A review guide with the definitions will be sent home Monday with your child.
Current Events begin again next week. In Grammar we are looking at singular and plural nouns and finishing our work with common and proper nouns.

Math - We are continuing our work with multiplication and division facts. Keep up with these at home! Practice nightly!

Parent/Teacher Conferences are scheduled for Thursday Nov. 18th from 4:30 - 7:30 p.m. Call the office to schedule one if you need to speak to us. Thanks!