Hi everyone,
It seems like ages since we've been here at school, what with the weather being nasty and cold. I hope all of you are staying warm and working hard. Here are the things we will be working on this week.
Reading: We are continuing our Chocolate Touch Theme. Later this week we will be writing to different chocolate companies to see if they would send us any freebies! Free is good! The students are also noticing the difference in certain types of chocolate. We are working on Inferring with the information that we know. This is helping us to make an educated guess.
Math: Fractions are the name of the game this week. We are working on reducing fractions as well as finding missing numerators and denomanators to make our fractions equivalent. We will hopefully be playing a fraction math game later this week to help us better understand comparing fractions.
Writing: Our writing menus are out and the students are going to start working on those. We are also working on our in class Young Author's Books. This is a project that we will do in school. The Writing Menus will be done in class as well.
Writing Menus are due: March 23
Spelling this week focuses on changing singluar words to plural form by adding an --ves, --ies, or --es
The words for this week are: leaf, leaves, wolf, wolves, potato, potatoes, roof, roofs, family, families, library, libraries, journey, journeys, hero, heroes, ditch, ditches.
Please Remember that all assignments are due the next day. If assignments are failed to be turned in, then it is the student's responsibility to make it up and turn it in to me.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Please Check out Adopt-a-Classroom to help out our class.
Hello everyone,
I have recently posted a "wish list" to Adopt-A-Classroom.org.
The steps are pretty simple:
1) Just go to the website, http://www.adoptaclassroom.org/
2) Pick our 4th grade classroom.
3) 100% of your donations go toward the teacher
4) I can purchase the resources for classroom.
Again, If you feel the urge to contribute please check out http://www.adoptaclassroom.org/
Thanks for all you already do to help our children succeed.
I have recently posted a "wish list" to Adopt-A-Classroom.org.
The steps are pretty simple:
1) Just go to the website, http://www.adoptaclassroom.org/
2) Pick our 4th grade classroom.
3) 100% of your donations go toward the teacher
4) I can purchase the resources for classroom.
- Teachers spend an average of $1,200 of their own money each year purchasing materials for their classroom.
- Every teacher affects 3,000 students in their professional lifetime.
- 50% of teachers leave the profession within the first five years.
- Teachers cite lack of support as the top reason for leaving their profession.
Again, If you feel the urge to contribute please check out http://www.adoptaclassroom.org/
Thanks for all you already do to help our children succeed.
Monday, January 25, 2010
For the week of January 26th, we will be serving...
Hi Everyone,
This week we are getting into some "tasty" work. The students will be starting the reading unit comparing and contrasting certain types of information. What better way to do that than with CHOCOLATE! Here's how this week will be broken down:
Reading: We are starting The Chocolate Touch and relating it to the history of Chocolate. We are also going to tie-in letter writing with our story. The students are going to write letters to different chocolate companies requesting any form or information that they can give us. (hopefully free samples, YUM!)
Math: Fractions are the name of the game. We are working on identifying fractions, comparing and ordering them. There will be a little bit of multiplication involved but it's nothing that the students can't handle.
Social Studies: We are working on moving from the Civil War and Reconstruction to New Challenges NC faced as a new state. We will look at World War I, The Great Depression, and WWII.
Reminders:
Thursday is will be our Den Dollar Store day.
Thursday, January 28th: McTeacher night at McDonald's on University Pkwy.
This week we are getting into some "tasty" work. The students will be starting the reading unit comparing and contrasting certain types of information. What better way to do that than with CHOCOLATE! Here's how this week will be broken down:
Reading: We are starting The Chocolate Touch and relating it to the history of Chocolate. We are also going to tie-in letter writing with our story. The students are going to write letters to different chocolate companies requesting any form or information that they can give us. (hopefully free samples, YUM!)
Math: Fractions are the name of the game. We are working on identifying fractions, comparing and ordering them. There will be a little bit of multiplication involved but it's nothing that the students can't handle.
Social Studies: We are working on moving from the Civil War and Reconstruction to New Challenges NC faced as a new state. We will look at World War I, The Great Depression, and WWII.
Reminders:
Thursday is will be our Den Dollar Store day.
Thursday, January 28th: McTeacher night at McDonald's on University Pkwy.
***Congrats to the following AR Goal Winners!***
--Kamille, Jordyn, Kamesia, Stephanie, Tre', & Jasmine
GREAT JOB!
Friday, January 22, 2010
Progress Reports!!!!!
Attention!!!!!!
Progress reports are stapled in your student's planners. You do not have to return them to school, but please review them and discuss with your child ways to improve his/her grade.
Thanks!
Progress reports are stapled in your student's planners. You do not have to return them to school, but please review them and discuss with your child ways to improve his/her grade.
Thanks!
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Week of January 19-22nd
Hello everyone, It's been quite awhile since the blog has been up and running. BUT...we are back in action and ready to keep you posted as to what we are doing in class.
Reading: We are in the middle of Secret of NIMH but we are also going to start reading The Chocolate Touch. We are reading this with the each 4th grade class. It's a short book that's going to introduce the students to the history of chocolate and what can become of a character when they over induldge.
Math: We are going to start working on FRACTIONS!!!! I like to make math hands-on when it comes to fractions so there will be a lot of in-class, mini-projects that deal with their math concepts. Fractions take up half of the 3rd quarter so we will have plenty of time to get this under our belt.
Writing Project: When we get back on the 26th, our 3rd quarter is going to start off with learning about Chocolate and how certain candies were created. The project is not a huge one but it is going to count as a writing grade. The students will work on this in class and with Mrs. Charpentier in Media.
**Upcoming Events: Jan. 28th--Gibson Store
Jan 28th-- McTeacher Night @ 5:00
Reading: We are in the middle of Secret of NIMH but we are also going to start reading The Chocolate Touch. We are reading this with the each 4th grade class. It's a short book that's going to introduce the students to the history of chocolate and what can become of a character when they over induldge.
Math: We are going to start working on FRACTIONS!!!! I like to make math hands-on when it comes to fractions so there will be a lot of in-class, mini-projects that deal with their math concepts. Fractions take up half of the 3rd quarter so we will have plenty of time to get this under our belt.
Writing Project: When we get back on the 26th, our 3rd quarter is going to start off with learning about Chocolate and how certain candies were created. The project is not a huge one but it is going to count as a writing grade. The students will work on this in class and with Mrs. Charpentier in Media.
**Upcoming Events: Jan. 28th--Gibson Store
Jan 28th-- McTeacher Night @ 5:00
Monday, November 23, 2009
Short Week but lots to do.
Hi Everyone!!!
I hope that all of you are gearing up for a great holiday break. We all have a lot to be thankful for so these next couple of days are a great way to show your thanks! ...and with food no less. What could be better?
Eventhough we only have a couple of days, we are still going to be working hard and catching up on some things that might have slipped through the cracks.
Reading: We are still working on the Wishgiver. We are now looking at a new character that is involved with a "treeman." Kinda spooky but we'll have to wait and see what that chapter holds for us. Hopefully we will complete the book the week after our Thanksgiving break.
Math: Once again, division is taking over the math time. We are going to work on dividing with a calculator. This will help prep the students for the EOQ when they are allowed to use calculators. I still want them using their brains and not relying on the calculator so much. The best practice at home is to work on Times Tables and Division facts. Simple facts will make a world of difference.
Social Studies: We are getting LOST...with the Lost Colony. We are going to take a couple of days to look into North Carolina's oldest mystery and see if we can learn any insightful things. Who knows...maybe someone in our class will solve the Mystery of the Lost Colony.
Science: We are working on the Earth....it's a big job. The students are going to being learning about Volcanos, Earthquakes and other natural disasters that shape and change our earth.
There is no spelling this week but we will be working with our Wordbuilders Activity books. This is helping the students get insight to new words and how to use endings such as, --er, --ed, --ing, etc. Wordbuilders is a great program and the students really enjoy working together with each other, discoverying new words.
** REMINDER!!!! We will be having our Terrific Tuesday tomorrow (Tuesday). Please remember to send in Chex-Mix, BBQ Chips, etc. We are making our theme around Thanksgiving.
I hope that all of you are gearing up for a great holiday break. We all have a lot to be thankful for so these next couple of days are a great way to show your thanks! ...and with food no less. What could be better?
Eventhough we only have a couple of days, we are still going to be working hard and catching up on some things that might have slipped through the cracks.
Reading: We are still working on the Wishgiver. We are now looking at a new character that is involved with a "treeman." Kinda spooky but we'll have to wait and see what that chapter holds for us. Hopefully we will complete the book the week after our Thanksgiving break.
Math: Once again, division is taking over the math time. We are going to work on dividing with a calculator. This will help prep the students for the EOQ when they are allowed to use calculators. I still want them using their brains and not relying on the calculator so much. The best practice at home is to work on Times Tables and Division facts. Simple facts will make a world of difference.
Social Studies: We are getting LOST...with the Lost Colony. We are going to take a couple of days to look into North Carolina's oldest mystery and see if we can learn any insightful things. Who knows...maybe someone in our class will solve the Mystery of the Lost Colony.
Science: We are working on the Earth....it's a big job. The students are going to being learning about Volcanos, Earthquakes and other natural disasters that shape and change our earth.
There is no spelling this week but we will be working with our Wordbuilders Activity books. This is helping the students get insight to new words and how to use endings such as, --er, --ed, --ing, etc. Wordbuilders is a great program and the students really enjoy working together with each other, discoverying new words.
** REMINDER!!!! We will be having our Terrific Tuesday tomorrow (Tuesday). Please remember to send in Chex-Mix, BBQ Chips, etc. We are making our theme around Thanksgiving.
Monday, November 16, 2009
I'm BAAAAACK!
Hi Everyone,
It has been a wild couple of weeks lately. I've had the flu, which of course turned into pnumonia (which I don't know how to spell). But I'm back in the saddle (so to speak) and we are picking up what was left off and are running with it.
Here's a look at what we're working on for the week of November 16-20!
Reading: Are reading groups are still working hard. We are really into reading to ourselves and working on retelling information to our group leaders. We are also working on finding the facts in the story. This will help the students hunt for their information during the EOG at the end of the year.
We have also shifted gears and are working on a new Chapter Book in class. The title of our story is The Wishgiver by Bill Britian. I have always enjoyed how funny this book is but also tells how you should be careful what you wish for. We will be working with sequencing from the stories that are told from the point of view of the three characters.
Math: We are going to continue working with Division and making sure we have the concepts. We MUST keep working on our multiplication facts. We still have a few people who are struggling with division because they are not sure of their math facts. We are going to work on longer division (dividing 3 digits by 2 digits) and estimating then dividing.
Social Studies: We are wrapping up our lesson on Native American's in NC. The students will be report writing for a grade using the facts and information they find in the chapters. We will continue on with our writing and reading of social studies.
Science: This week we are looking at the layers of the earth. We are going to use our new Science Studies Weekly papers to help get a better understanding. We are going to be working with some measuring, experiments and other cool, hands-on activities.
Spelling List for the week: across, alone, among, brother, again, front, banana, appear, compass, pedal, given, heaven, mountain, ocean, cousin, purchase, often, color.
It has been a wild couple of weeks lately. I've had the flu, which of course turned into pnumonia (which I don't know how to spell). But I'm back in the saddle (so to speak) and we are picking up what was left off and are running with it.
Here's a look at what we're working on for the week of November 16-20!
Reading: Are reading groups are still working hard. We are really into reading to ourselves and working on retelling information to our group leaders. We are also working on finding the facts in the story. This will help the students hunt for their information during the EOG at the end of the year.
We have also shifted gears and are working on a new Chapter Book in class. The title of our story is The Wishgiver by Bill Britian. I have always enjoyed how funny this book is but also tells how you should be careful what you wish for. We will be working with sequencing from the stories that are told from the point of view of the three characters.
Math: We are going to continue working with Division and making sure we have the concepts. We MUST keep working on our multiplication facts. We still have a few people who are struggling with division because they are not sure of their math facts. We are going to work on longer division (dividing 3 digits by 2 digits) and estimating then dividing.
Social Studies: We are wrapping up our lesson on Native American's in NC. The students will be report writing for a grade using the facts and information they find in the chapters. We will continue on with our writing and reading of social studies.
Science: This week we are looking at the layers of the earth. We are going to use our new Science Studies Weekly papers to help get a better understanding. We are going to be working with some measuring, experiments and other cool, hands-on activities.
Spelling List for the week: across, alone, among, brother, again, front, banana, appear, compass, pedal, given, heaven, mountain, ocean, cousin, purchase, often, color.
Remember that all homework is due the day it is assigned.
It is YOUR responsibility to get any late assignments to me. I will not "hound" after you to turn in your work. Any work that is not turned in stays at a 50%. Please me sure you get the work into me!
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