Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear 4S,
Mrs. Boyd and I would like to thank you all very much for our generous gifts!  I know Mrs. Boyd loves Charming Charlie and will have a hard time deciding what to get!  As for me, I can't wait to go shopping at, Jeans and a Cute Top Shop over break!  Your thoughtfulness is greatly appreciated and we absolutely love coming to school every day to spend our time teaching and learning with you!

We hope you have a joyus, relaxing, exciting Winter Break with family and friends...after all, that's what the season is all about: cherishing your loved ones and reflecting on the wonderful things we have in life. 

We are thankful to have such a wonderful group of children to teach, and we look forward to seeing each and every one of you next year! :)

Many thanks,
Mrs. Boyd and Mrs. Schroeder

Winter Program is Tonight!

Dear Parents,

Tonight, December 17, is the Winter Concert! All classroom doors will be open at 6:45pm. All students are required to go to their homeroom before their performance time. The early grades go first followed by 4^th, 5^th, and chorus.  After we sing, the children will return to our classroom where parent(s) will pick them up after the show.

This Weeks Blog by Tommy Muff and Joey Masterson

 

Reading = in reading we doing national geographic articles and putting together graphic organizers and working on interacting with our text. Also in reading we do book reports every month this time the genre is historical fiction books.  We’re doing an Animoto book report!

                Gym = in gym we are playing hokey. Every Tuesday, and Thursdays we jump rope for a minute and see how many jumps we can do. Our goal is fifty in a row with partners. Also we are playing broom ball hokey. Broom ball hokey is just like hokey but with a real broom that you use for sweeping the floor.

                Social studies = in social studies we are learning about the Northeast regions we are also using THIEVES, (T= title, H= headings, I= introduction, E= every first sentence, V= vocabulary and visuals, E= end of section questions, S= summary sentence.) With that lesson

                Computer= in the computer lab we are doing an animoto. In animoto we are making book trailers for our book reports. Also we are working on our typing skills. And our math skills, using fast math.

                Science= in science we are reading lesson five in our science books to learn about animal adaptations to help them survive.

                Math= in math we just switched classes and are learning about area models (length and width) with multiplication

                Read aloud= in read aloud the book that we are reading is Someone Named Eva. The book is about a Check girl who gets captured by Nazis who take her away to a camp where they make all the girls German.

                 Other activities= other activities that we are doing is the gratitude chain, a gratitude chain is where we write something that we are thankful for on each link. Then, every day we pull off a link and read what we are thankful for. The whole class goes and does it. Also Tommy is star of the week, he put together a poster board of pictures, and then, on Friday he will share the poster to the whole class and explain what he is doing in the pictures.

 

                We hope you enjoyed Tommy and Joey M’s blog!        

Veteran's Day Pictures

reader's theater pics

Thank you and After Thanksgiving...

Hi 4S,
Thank you so very much for my birthday treats!  How thoughtful of you all!  You helped to make my day so special!

Here's what is coming up after Thanksgiving Break...

Reading:  No flexible grouping until after Winter Break.  We will continue to work on reading strategies such as: main idea/details, text features, summaries, fact/opinion, inferencing, etc..  with National Geographic For Kids and short passages. We will also have some fun with Reader's Theaters to work on fluency, expression, and oral reading.  After Winter Break we will continue with our flexible grouping.

After Thanksgiving Break, the children will work for at least two weeks on their Animoto book reports.  Make sure you ask your child about this fun way to present their book via technology!

Math:  Flexible Grouping.  We will focus on Area and Perimeter for the three weeks before Winter Break.

Writing:  Parts of speech.  After winter break we will start our Persuasive Writing Unit.

Science:  We will wrap up chapter one with Animal Adaptations.

Social Studies:  We will finish studying the Northeast Region and will assess before Winter Break.  After Winter Break, we will start our Government Unit!

Have a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving Break!  I am so thankful for having such a great class this year!  You make me smile every single day!  I look forward to seeing all of you in a week!

Mrs. Schroeder

Michael and Lexi's Blog

By Michael and Alexis

 

                In math we are doing this thing called Math switch. So we are learning about all different things for switch you could have Mr. Jewel Mrs. Fraser or Mrs. Schroeder. I’d like to tell what we are doing we are doing Factors Multiples and Arrays. They are very fun like multiples are easy but fun factors are fun but a little hard.

 

In P.E. We are doing bowling and we are playing with other classes what we are doing with other classes is we are doing running and that is all we are doing with other classes. Well back to bowling. Like I said early is we are doing bowling. If you get a strike you get to get a paper bowling pin. And at the end of gym we get to clean up some people get to help Mrs.Shirly with the mates and other people get to take the bowling pins and put them in the bucket. And others get to take the bowling balls in to the bucket. And know we started doing tumbling and turkeys. Turkeys is where you get three strikes in a row.

 

In social studies we are doing a report on the American Revolution war also like the liberty bell. It is very complicated you have to do research, then you have to get graded. Then you have to make a power point. Social studies is really fun!

 

In science we are learning about cells. Cells are very interesting Animal cells have a nucleus and the ability to move. Plant cells do not have the ability to move. We are also learning about different cells like true bacteria and a lot more.