Week of February 7th

Hi Families!!  Here is this week's agenda:

Reading - Leveled books with the theme being "Dogs".......We will work on finding the climax of a story with their books this time.  The children will also read a picture book on dogs and do a summary and illustrations page on it.

English - Creative writing ......The children have started writing their own story recently.  They are very excited about their stories!  The best part is that they will get to put their story together with an online publishing company and get their stories actually published!  Every child will get a free paperback of their published story!!  Last week the children simply brainstormed and started writing.  A few actually even finished their stories.  Towards the end of this week, the children can start typing their stories.  I will give you your child's password so that he/she can type at home as well.  You can download actual pictures for their stories or scan their artwork or they can illustrate by using the online web tools and clipart.  It is a really neat website and project!! 

Spelling - List 14  Because of the 2 snowdays, I decided to postpone this list until this week.  Enriched words will be "Q" and "V" words.

Math - The children did awesome with decimals!  We are ready to move on to fractions and relate the two concepts once again.  As far as morning math goes, I am very proud of how many children turned in their math review homework page!  We have 2 teams......Team A and Team Z.  As of this past week, Team Z is in the lead!  The children rocked the classroom with their math review test on place value!!  Wow!  Everyone of the children got a C or better!!! That is awesome!  This week, we will review multiplication and estimation.  Look for a homework review sheet to come home soon.  Please check over this page as your child works on it to check for understanding.  There are 24 of them and only 1 of me and sometimes a child will just need a little one on one help to boost them into understanding.

Social Studies - This week the children will finish up their SE partner projects and present their new found knowledge to the class.  ****Heads up****The SE locations and capitals tests will be coming up next week....locations on Wednesday and capitals on Friday. 

Science -  Our next unit will be geology..rocks and minerals!  We will begin this unit in a couple of weeks.  As for our space habitats, we will be doing them, but it will be awhile.  I will let you know when.  I am watching for consistent class and student integrity.  It's been pretty inconsistent lately.  They are really an awesome group of children.  I totally ADORE them.  But, between the weather, the portable, 4th grade boy/girl relationships (too young) and Valentine's Day coming up, many have been having a few issues.  They will have to rise above it, however, to do the extra fun stuff though!! INTEGRITY - that's a biggie to me!!

We are getting ready for our 4th grade program.  The program will be February 17th.  It will be about Oklahoma musicians.  Our class is in charge of decorating the front of the stage.  If anyone has any ideas or can offer any help to do this decorating, I would greatly appreciate it!  One idea could be to hang some pictures of Oklahoma singers like Toby Keith, Carrie Underwood, Garth Brooks, etc.  If anyone has any pictures to loan us, let me know.  I thought about the project we did in the Fall, 5 Pocket People.  Some of the kids did Oklahoma singers.  They were really cute.  I wondered about even using them.  Please think on it and get in touch with me.  Thanks!!