4th Grade States Fair

All students SHOULD have brought home a paper we did in class that will help

them study the capitals and abbreviations for the 12 states in the midwest

region. We worked on and finished this last Friday, April 15th. We will take

the Midwest test sometime during the week of May 2nd. I will let you know

the exact date as we get closer.

Yesterday all students brought (should have) a paper home detailing a state

project they will need to work on at home. I'm attaching the same paper to

this email. 

We will be having our States' Fair on Thursday, May 12th. Students will be

displaying their project they make at home, as well as all the projects we've

done here at school. This is always an exciting time and the kids are always

proud to display and talk about everything they have found out about their

state!  

They will be displaying their projects during the day for other classes from

12:45-3:00. We will then have an open house for parents, family, friends,

and the public from 5:30-6:30. I encourage each of you to make it possible

for your child to be here for the display times.

Denise Busch

Internet Safety

It is becoming increasingly clear to me that kids are social networking at a much younger age and many of your children are using the internet daily.  Are they safe?  Have you talked with them about it?  I have been taking a tech class through Grant Wood and these are just a few sites that I learned about that might help you talk with your kids about how to safe stay on the internet.

http://mashable.com/2010/12/07/child-online-safety/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

http://www.google.com/familysafety/

http://www.kidscomjr.com/games/safety/safety.html

Monday, April 11, 2011

There has been a lot going on in 4th grade lately!  Besides MAP Testing and the Book Fair, the 4th graders have kept busy with planning and writing a story in Language Arts, learning about fractions in Math.  We finished up Unit 7 on Friday and will review for the test on Tuesday, Wednesday we will take the test.  In Science they finished up 'Rocks and Minerals" and are now reading their biographies and taking notes on the person from their state in Social Studies.  We are ready to start a new theme in Reading entitled, "Problem Solvers," and the first story is "My Name is Maria Isabel."  Skills we will be working on are: predicting outcomes, words with the suffix -ible, base words and inflected forms for nouns, adjectives, and verbs, and the irregular verb -be.  We will also have spelling again this week.

Thanks to all the parents who joined us for Parent-Teacher Conferences!  It is always enjoyable to talk with you about your children.  We look forward to meeting with the rest of you this week.