Thanks for coming to Open House!

Once again, thank you to all of the parents who attended Open House last night.  I hope you enjoyed taking a glimpse into the lives of your children and learning about what they do here at school.  For those parents who were unable to attend, a copy of last night's Keynote presentation is being sent home with your child today.  Please go through the material and contact me with any comments or concerns.


This week we spent some time creating our vocabulary word wall.  As students complete vocabulary journal sheets on word they are coming across in their reading, they can share the new words that they are learning with their classmates.  After presenting their new word to the class, students add their words to our class word wall.  They also draw a picture to help remind us what the word means.  We now have words up such as "extraterrestrial," and "aristocratic."  We can now use our word wall, along with our vocabulary journal, to help us during Writing Workshop.

Our research on recycling continues this week.  We are learning more and more information about recycling paper, aluminum, and plastics.  The groups will continuing collecting facts about the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling these items and will begin creating their classroom presentations next week.  We hope to fully begin our recycling program by the end of this month!

In math, the fourth grade students are continuing to practice their multiplication combinations.  We are also learning about factors and multiples in a new game called "Multiple Turn Over."  In this game, students play in pairs and take turns calling factors.  Each player has a set of ten multiple cards, and each time a new factor is called out, the players must determine whether or not they have multiples of the factor.  If they do, they record it and turn the card over.  The first player with all their cards turned-over wins.  This games helps students understand the rules of divisibility and multiplication.

Here is this week's newsletter from our class reporters:
3_4 News HL & LS 9:6:07.pdf

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