Newsletter for Week of Aug. 29

Fourth Grade News



For the Week Of August 29, 2011





Reading: Lewis and Clark and Me

Math: Place Value, Chapter 1 TEST TUESDAY

Language: Unit #1 Sentences

Spelling: Monday: Define 10 words

Tuesday: 3 x each

Wednesday: Sentences

Thursday: ABC order

Friday: Unit #1 test and turn in activities.

Alabama History/Science: Animal Studies, Chapter 1 TEST FRIDAY





Important Dates to Remember:

August 31st: 10 for Technology Packets sent home

August 31st: Take home folders go home

September 1 – 8th: 10 addressed envelopes are due back

September 1st: 3 week Progress Reports

September 1st: Folders due back signed

September 1st: Reading Test

September 2nd: Spelling Test and Multiplication Quiz 0-3

September 5th: No School – Labor Day

September 13th: PTO meeting

September 22nd: 6 week Progress Reports





Spelling Words for the Week:



1. sigh 11. slight

2. right 12. thigh

3. weigh 13. tight

4. eight 14. raisin

5. detail 15. trait

6. height 16. highway

7. spray 17. frighten

8. braid 18. dismay

9. baked 19. freight

10. grain 20. sleigh

Lady Liberty

We has an assembly this week. Lady Liberty was featured. The students had worked on a song all week to sing during this.

Recipe for Success

The first week of school has been great. I have a sweet class and they worked very hard. Our theme for the year is Cooking Up Success, so yesterday each child wrote a recipe for a successful 4th grade. They loved it especially when they realized that I had a snack prepared for them.

Recipe for Success
1/4 c Hard work (pretzel sticks)
1/3 c Responsibility (Cheerios)
1/3 c Humor (marshmallows)
1 spoon Kindness (M&M)

August 22 - 26, 2011 Newsletter

Fourth Grade News
For the Week of August 22, 2011:

Thank you for sending in supplies and returning all forms promptly. If you have not returned all forms please send those tomorrow. It is very important to have this information about your child.

Reading: Because of Winn-Dixie”
Math: Place Value, Chapter 1
Language: Unit #1 Sentences
Spelling: Monday: ABC order
Tuesday: Defintions—first 10 words only this week
Wednesday: Sentences
Thursday: 3 times each
Friday: Unit #1 test and turn in activities.
Alabama History/Science: Classifying Plants and Animals, Chapter 1

Important Dates to Remember:
August 24th: Ident-A-Kid forms due
August 24th: Take home folders go home
August 25th: Folders due back signed
August 25th: Reading Test
August 26th: Spelling Test and Multiplication Quiz 0-2
August 31st: 10 for Technology Packets sent home
September 1 – 8th: 10 addressed envelopes are due back
September 1st: 3 week Progress Reports
September 5th: No School – Labor Day
September 13th: PTO meeting
September 22nd: 6 week Progress Reports


Spelling Words for the Week:

1. admire 11. accident
2. magnet 12. mitten
3. contest 13. intend
4. method 14. fabric
5. custom 15. flatten
6. rally 16. rascal
7. soccer 17. gutter
8. engine 18. mammal
9. sudden 19. happen
10. finger 20. cannon

1st Day!

We had a great first day of school. The kids were awesome!! I am looking forward to a great year. I hope to have pictures posted soon.

This week we will review and practice skills. We will also learn rules and procedures for how our classroom and school runs. Parents, please be sure to sign your child's homework planner each night. I will also list behavior on planner too. If you child has a stamp or smiley face, then they had a great day. If they have a note from me on it then it was a mark.

C.H.E.F.S Binder

This year students will be required to keep a CHEFS (Children Having Everything for Success) Binder.

This is the cover that students will put in the clear front.

A homework planner will be given to students on the first day. They will keep this in their binder and be responsible for copying homework from the board into the planner each day.
This is what is needed. (Everything is on the supply list.) A binder, 4 tabs with labels, and the planner that I will provide.
The tabs will be labeled Reading/Language, Math, AL History, and Science. In that order they will be placed in the binder.
All are placed in binder and paper will be added behind each tab. All work and homework will be kept in this binder.

It is most helpful for students to be organized. This binder is designed to add in organization and help students become more responsible.

Ready for a New Year

This was my first week back to school. It has been full of meetings. Here are a few pictures of our room. The theme for 4th grade is Cooking Up Success.

This is the outside of my classroom. I will display student work here.
Writing/Language wall
Science and AL History area.
My reading Focus Wall is behind my small group reading table.
Math wall
This year my students will apply for class jobs.
They also have a behavior chart that they can go up for good behavior or down for wrong choices.
Can't wait to see you on Monday.