Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Fourth Graders are Awesome!

I am so impressed with all the wonderful comments I get from specials’ teachers and substitutes in the building. They are always commenting on how well behaved the fourth grade students are in class. They are awesome.

Today we had some special visitors in the building from Teachscape.  They observed in the classrooms and gave us some advice on how to help build your child’s problem solving skills! I appreciated the input!

On April 21, the fourth and fifth graders will be going to the Children’s Museum. We will leave around 11:00 a.m. and return by 2:00 p.m.  I need two volunteers. Please email me and let me know if you would like to go with us. On May 7, the third through eighth grade students will be attending an Indiana Fever basketball game.  I will let you know as soon as possible if I need any volunteers for this day!

The Unit 16 Vocabulary test will be on Friday, April 9. This will be last vocabulary test of the year! Students will complete a review unit and a cumulative review unit.

Students continue to study elapsed time, line plots, bar graphs, and pictographs. Next week, students will learn how to construct each graph. Students will have a math test on Friday, April 16.

On Friday, April 16, students will have a Chapter 5 social studies test. Students will complete a review sheet in class on Monday and play a review game on Tuesday.

In English, students are studying parts of a sentence. Students should be able to identify the complete subject and complete predicate in a sentence.

This week in writing, students wrote couplets. Have your child explain to you what makes a couplet a couplet. At the end of the year, students will bring home a Poetry book and a folder of all their writing from the year! I am sure you will enjoy reading them as much as I did.

Middle School students are having a spring flower sale. Please support their efforts by ordering lots of flowers. 

Pretzel order forms are due tomorrow.

Have a terrific week!

 

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