October News

It's amazing that October is almost halfway over!  Next week, we have our second round of conferences.  If you have not signed up for a specific time, please let me know your availability ASAP.  I will be sending home conference confirmations next week. 

Students have been having a great time learning about literary texts in our short stories unit.  Ask your child to tell you about the Tall Tales and Folktales we have been reading in class! Next week, we will continue reading folktales, while focusing on the following skills: setting, believability of characters/events, and retelling strategies.

In word study, we have been learning about the suffixes -ed and -ing.  Our spelling test will be Wednesday October 17th.  Keep studying those spelling words!

In writing, students are writing about the memorable events that happened at the summer Olympics.  Each day, we do a daily oral language review (DOL), which allows students to practice editing sentences and practice other skills.  Through this daily practice, students are becoming very good at identifying when certain letters should be capitalized and where punctuation should be.  Hopefully, they will start applying those skills to their own writing samples.  Keep encouraging them to do so!!

In math, students have been learning about fractions and decimals.  Students are having a blast learning about decimals and they are realizing that "decimals are easy" to understand.  We will be moving to learning about multiplication and division next week.  Each night, students will have a sheet of math homework.  It is important that they do their homework and return it to school.  Thanks for your support in helping build responsible students. 

Information about our fall festival will be coming home in Thursday Folders soon! Our Fall party will be on Friday, November 2nd. 

Fun and Fantastic Fieldtrip!

Today, we went on our first fieldtrip and students had a blast. They also learned many cool facts about grain too!  Many students enjoyed making and eating Buckwheat Pancakes.  Students received a "recipe book" and they could teach you how to make these pancakes for breakfast one weekend.  They are delicious!  Also, students learned a lot about corn and how it is used in many products we use each and every day.  Ask your child about what other cool facts they learned! 

We did it!!

Last Friday, I challenged the students to bring in 60 labels for Race for Education.  This morning (Monday), I counted 85 lables!  Our students and families rock! We earned our "movie and popcorn party" from the PTA!  Hopefully, we will be able to raise money to buy more technology for our school!  Race for Education will be on Thursday, November 1st.  I will post the time that 4th graders will be walking as soon as I find out.  Great job everyone!!