Fourth Grade Newsletter
10 for Technology- Please send in the ten addressed and stamped envelopes. Once returned, your child will receive a Frisbee to participate in PE challenges. Daily prizes are awarded. Do not place anything in the envelopes. Your child will write letters this week.
September 1‐8: Students returning 10 stamped addressed envelopes will receive their very own, one‐of‐a‐kind Harvest Husky Frisbee!
September 9: The entire school will take part in a fun‐filled day of letter writing to request funding for our 10 for Technology Initiative.
September 23: Donations Due.
September 26: Announce Results.
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13 Colonies Poster is due this week on Sept. 7. Information was sent home Friday. All students who participate will have the option of dropping their lowest AL History grade during the 1st nine weeks. Posters will be posted at the Constitution Village.
Muffins and Memories- (Grandparents Day) will be held on Sept. 13. Grandparents are asked to be our guest and share an early childhood or school related memory. Please return the yellow form sent in last week’s Wednesday folder.
Attendance Initiative- Sept. 6-Oct. 3 is our attendance window for AYP. Our goal is to have 100% attendance rate. Please do not schedule doctor’s or dentist’s appointments during these dates. We encourage you to have you children here on time and avoid checking them out prior to 11:30. Students who are present each day will have their names placed in a drawing for a brand NEW bike! They will also attend an attendance celebration! Help us reach our goal.
Accelerated Reading- This week 40% of the AR goal is due with 85% average and your child’s individual book level goal. Please make sure your child reads every night and completes the reading log. One chapter book and one “thin” nonfiction or picture book is recommended for checkout each week. Please encourage your child to stick with a chapter book. It increases the application of reading strategies learned in class as they think about how the author develops the story.
Basic/ Multiplication Facts- It is so important that your child continues to study basic addition and subtraction facts and Multiplication facts. It is our goal that the students know the facts automatically. This helps with computational math fluency. Our math curriculum progresses quickly, so it very important that your child has a strong math foundation. Flash cards can be purchased very inexpensively at dollar stores. They can also be made with index cards.
Work Habits- Please encourage your child to pay attention in class and begin assignments once they have understood directions. Incomplete classwork becomes homework or missing assignments. Homework should be minimal if classwork is completed. Homework includes reading 30 minutes a day.
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Spelling Words
sweet
each
three
least
freedom
below
throat
float
foam
flown
greet
season
croak
shallow
eagle
indeed
rainbow
grown
seaweed
hollow
Subject Summaries
Math- Ordering and Comparing Numbers using Place Value; Multiplication facts-4’s
Alabama History- Geography of AL.
Reading: Genre: Historical Fiction Skill: Sequence Strategy: Graphic Organizers
Grammar- Subject and Predicate
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Dates to Remember:
9/7- Thirteen Colonies Poster due- see yellow instruction sheet
9/8- Selection Test on Grandfather’s Journey
9/9- Spelling Test, Multiplication Drill in 4’s, 40% of AR due
9/13- PTO/Open House at 6:30 (Please join PTO for $5.00. Each class is striving for 100%.)
9/19-9/23- PACK Week- more information to come
9/22- 6 weeks progress report
9/22- Fall Pictures
10/6-10/13- Scholastic Book Fair
Today I am joining 4th Grade Frolics for Monday Made It. If you haven't checked out her blog, it is awesome. She has the best ideas for the classroom. She is doing this linky this summer.
This is what I have been up to for the last week. If you know me, you know I love pinterest and has a long list of pins. Sadly, I am not great at making all of these cute things I pin but working on that.
Since Father's Day was this past weekend, I printed this cute one, framed it, and surprised one daddy with it.
I also found these cute chalkboards at the free table at school. Does anyone else have these tables that just happen at the end of year or the beginning of year as we all start cleaning out? I usually just all to the table but this year, I think I took as much as I left. :)
I spray painted the frame and then covered it to spray the inside with chalk paint. The lines did not work for me, so I painted over them. I wrote the Porch Rules on it which was also an idea I found. I added it to my chest that I painted red for by back porch. I hope to have my back porchall finished and ready to share in a few days.
Last, I found these bottles in the same free table at school and sprayed them yellow and set those on a little table on the back porch.
I have tons of other ideas for my classroom, but I just haven't gotten to it yet. Most of what I want to do for my class needs to be done in the class. We can't get back into the building until July, so it will have to wait.
