Week of 10-01

This week is an exciting week in Mrs. Corderman's 4th grade! Today the children applied for salaried positions in the classroom! Paydays will be around the 20th of each month. At that time the children will make deposits with the banker, pay rent for their home(desk/chair), pay any fines they may have received regarding incomplete work, messy work area, or not turning in reading homework. They can also visit the store and purchase monthly privileges with any left over money they may have. Some of the children may be really good at saving their money. If this is the case, they may end up saving enough money to buy their home (desk/chair) and not have to pay monthly rent anymore. At the end of the year, we will have an auction. The more money the children save, the better chance they have of getting a much wanted item. I hope to teach the children a little about money management, budgeting, saving, delayed gratification, as well as work ethic, and when you work for things-maybe you appreciate things more. The children will also learn to fill out ledgers and get visited by the taxman! Tomorrow the children will find out what position they got! Be sure to talk to them about these things at home. These are life lessons!

This week:
Math- calendars and elapsed calendar time.
English- verbs
Reading- following directions, comprehension
Spelling- consonant blends
Social Studies- Oklahoma symbols, Dust Bowl
Science - What is a scientist?, Science tools

Other News!
Don't forget to find an Oklahoma fact for our book! These facts are due on Wednesday. You don't need to turn in the recipe yet. So far, however, several kids have turned in an Oklahoma fact. I have seen some awesome ones!!

Tomorrow, we are having a real artist visit our classroom!

Thursday and Friday, we will have Show and Tell. Thursday is for children that have an even class number and Friday is for children who have odd class numbers.

All year, I will be collecting items for our end of the year auction. If you know of anyone that can donate an item, please let me know or help me out with that. I would greatly appreciate it!