A Note From Mrs. Douce...

Carmel Elementary is partnering again this year with Chaucie’s Place, a child advocacy organization in Hamilton County, to bring Smart Steps:  A Body Safety Program for Children to our Kindergarten, 2^nd and 4^th grade students.  Smart Steps is a child sexual abuse prevention and education program that empowers your child to say “NO!” to any unwanted touches that make them uncomfortable from anyone.  

We invite you to attend a Chaucie’s Place Parent Night to learn more about the Smart Steps program.  West Clay Elementary will be hosting on Thursday, September 17th from 6:00pm-7:00pm and Orchard Park Elementary will be hosting from 6:00-7:00pm on Tuesday, October 6^th. ^.    These meetings are open to all parents and/or guardians of Kindergarten, 2^nd and 4^th grade students.  Please be advised that Parent Night is not open to children.  To learn more about Chaucie’s Place visit: www.chauciesplace.org.

Upstanders Rock!

Ask your child what it means to be an UPSTANDER!

We had an awesome convocation today about bullying.

We learned that we would all rather be an UPSTANDER than a bystander!

Recognize these awesome helpers???

 Great job, Kailyn and Ethan!!!

Class of the Week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a FANTASTIC, AMAZING, WONDERFUL surprise we received today....

We were elected....THE CLASS OF THE WEEK!!!

We were caught being proactive, respectful and having great behavior 

throught CE this week!  What an honor!

The kids all walked a little taller after we found out during morning announcements this morning!

Here we are with our excited faces...a bit silly...

We had a great week!

We worked on:

• Understanding Author's Purpose
• Finding the Main Idea of a story and supporting it with details from the text
• Learning about different cultures (The Music of Gabon, Africa)
• Fiction VS Non-Fiction Text Features
• Previewing Text and Making Predictions
• Subject and Predicate in a sentence
• 4 Types of Sentences:  command, question, statement, exclamation
• How to BUZZ about a book with a group

What a great week with a great class!

Enjoy your weekend!

Julie

Building Our Team!!!

We are having so much fun getting to know each other in 

Room 16!  

Today we had a challenge...

We had to use spaghetti noodles ($.50 each),

marshmallows ($.25 each) 

and tape ($1.00 a piece)

 to build the

TALLEST, CHEAPEST

tower possible!

We had to hire a general contractor, an accountant and 2 buyers on each team.

Tower Height:  Unknown (A possible collapse?)

Tower Cost:  $7.50

Tower Height: 21 Inches

Tower Cost: $6.25

The CHEAPEST tall tower!!!!!

Tower Height:  22 1/2 Inches

Tower Cost:  $8.25

The TALLEST Tower!!!

Tower Height:  25 Inches

Tower Cost: $12.75

Tower Height:  6 Inches

Tower Cost:  $6.75

Tower Height:  25 Inches

Super tall....but not quite able to stand on its own.

Tower Cost: $10.25

Fourth Graders are so much fun!

I just know this is going to be an awesome year!

Back to School!!!!

Welcome Back to School!!!

It is that time of year again!  I know my family is excited to start a new year

with new friends and old friends.  They are so excited to see their new teachers.

I am starting a new adventure in 4th grade!  I can't wait to reconnect with families I had

in first grade and meet new families!

If you are interested in receiving BLOG updates throughout the year, please submit your email address in the section that says, "Follow me by Email".  I will update my BLOG weekly with

photos and stories about our learning in 4th grade!

If you were in my class last year and would rather not receive updates, just

unsubscribe at the bottom of this page.

I am working on updating my BLOG....it will be final and ready to go by the first day of school.

I hope to see all of you at the

  Ice Cream Social on Monday, August 10 from 4:00-5:30!

I will be in Room 16 ready to say Hello!