Another Year....a Great Group!

Welcome to 4th Grade!  

We are off to such a great start!

I was thrilled to meet almost all of you at the Ice Cream Social last night!

Your kids all came in with smiles and ready to go!

Here are some first day pictures for you!

How lucky am I to work with these smiling faces every day?

Pretty lucky!

Wrapping Up the Year...Believe it or NOT!!!

We are going to be BUSY, BUSY, BUSY these next 3 weeks!

Here are some Important Dates to remember:

May 6:       Wear a HAT for $1.00

May 9:       Carmel Civic Square Field Trip (No Chaperones needed.)

May 11:     Drama Cast Party (For those who participated in 101 Dalmatians)

May 20:     Indiana State House Field Trip (No chaperones needed.)

May 24:     Track and Fun Day!

May 25:     Last Day of School.  End of the Final Grading Period.

May 26:     Final grades available on MYCCS.

Holy Cow!

This week marks the end of our reading program.  

We will have no more spelling tests, reading tests or reading groups.

We will continue with writing.  Our final writing project will be a Literary Response to 

the book, Clara and the Freedom Quilt.

We will continue with Social Studies and learn more and more and more about

Indiana History.

We will pick back up with Science ---  we have CRITTERS arriving next week.

We will continue with math as usual to the very end.

Math homework and reading log will be your only homework.

BOY have I loved working with these kiddos! 

Their growth, maturity and progress over the year has been AMAZING to watch!

It is going to be very hard to see them leave...

Whew....What. A. Week!

Well, we have ALMOST survived our final I-Step week in fourth grade!

We have 1 last test, first thing Monday Morning.

Sleep well Sunday night and be ready to finish STRONG!

We have also completed our Space Informational Writing Chapter Books!

What an AWESOME experience that has been!

I cannot wait for you to see them!  

We worked so hard on the Pioneer books.

We learned so much about what we could do better.

We set specific, intentional goals, and ......

We did better!!!!

And one more thing....

Never, ever, ever has my class been gifted 

SO MANY AWESOME 

books for our classroom library!

Thank you! Thank you!  Thank you!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Update!!!

We have been working so hard!!

We completed a 4 Chapter Informational Book on Pioneer Life.

We worked on researching our topic, deciding on chapters, creating a "Micro-Story" and 

writing a persuasive essay with a thesis.

These are being graded this weekend and will come home

next week!  They are WONDERFUL!!!!!

Also, we have been learning all about the Good Ol'

 State of Indiana.

We have created State Maps, which will also be graded this weekend!

This week marks the end of the 3rd grading period.

I can hardly believe it!!!!  Time is FLYING BY!

Report cards will be available on MYCCS next Friday.

Please take some time to go over your child's grades with him/her.

Much to my daughters dismay, we have a weekly meeting where we check her 

grades on line and set goals!  It is really helpful!

Enough about business...here are some pictures of kids doing what kids do best!

PLAYING IN THE SUNSHINE!!!

Love these awesome 4th graders!!!!

Valentine's Day Party

So much fun...

So many awesome Parents...

So many happy kids!!!

 Love!!!!

2nd Semester Update....

We have hit the ground running 2nd semester!

Want to see a list of all the cool things we have learned so far?

Math:
geometry 

place value

decimals

mean, median and mode

big multiplication

long division

story problems

reading coordinates on a grid

using a protractor

drawing and measuring angles

Coming Soon...

FRACTIONS

CHANCE 

PROBABILITY

Writing:

Realistic Fiction

Persuasive Essays

Persuasive Friendly Letters

Literature Response with Evidence from the Text

Coming Soon...

NONFICTION WRITING...RESEARCH!!

Reading:

SO SO SO SO much...

Reading Strategies

Comparing Different Genres

Understanding Character, Theme, Problem/Solution

Summarizing

Retelling Beginning, Middle and End

Non Fiction Text Features

....and on and on and on!

Science:

Magnets

Electric Circuits

Landforms

Force and Motion

Coming Soon....

Social Studies:

Indiana History

Here is a peek at our cars we designed and the kids measuring speed while carrying a load...

Super Fun!