Welcome!

Welcome to 4th grade!  I'm so excited about getting to know your children!  It's going to be a great year!  Please bookmark this website so that you can get to it easily.  I recommend you check it every Monday at least.  I usually update once a week, but sometimes I will add more news as the week goes on.  Please check the links to the right of the page to find out about policies/procedures, our economy system, how to contact me, and lots of other beneficial sites.  This week we will just be settling in getting to know each other and learning expectations.  I'm looking forward to a wonderful year!

Last Week.......:( .........:) ........ Bittersweet!

Time to say goodbye............:(

I'd be crazy to say that I don't love summer because of course I do! On the flip side of that though, is the fact that I have to let go of my kiddos. Please know they are loved, cherished, and will be missed. You've raised great kids!

This week, I will basically be babysitting! We have a lot to keep us busy though with volleyball, the auction, awards assembly, Grizzly Day, movies, fun worksheets, K-9 officer, kindergarten buddy activities, game day, cleaning, helping Mrs. C take apart the room, and other things! Whew! It will be a whirlwind week!

Thanks so much for being such wonderfully involved and supportive parents this year! What a blessing you have been! So long families! May all of you be blessed on all your future endeavors!





Before the water balloon fight!! Look! Someone played a sneaky!!!

Thanks Mr. Rainey, Mrs. Parker, and Mrs. Albright for being such good sports!! You rock!!

After the water balloon fight!

The annual egg drop! Thanks Mr. Starks for helping us out!

In celebration of our egg drop, we made edible bird nests complete with eggs!

Leonardo's field trip!

State Float project! Awesome work kids!

Our terrarium project....thanks Mrs. Hinote!

Grassheads!

A few things to note:

Wednesday is Grizzly Day, so make sure your child wears old clothes and shoes to school.

Thursday is Game Day. Your child may bring a special snack/drink and game(electronics included) to school.

Here is Lisa Bozeman's Snickerdoodle recipe! The kids love them! So do I!

Snickerdoodle Cookies

These cookies are easy and Yummy!! They're so soft, it's like eating air!

1 c butter

1 1/2 c sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp cream of tartar

1 tsp soda

1/2 tsp salt

2 3/4 c flour

cream butter & sugar.

add eggs, beat until fluffy.

sift together dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture a little at a time.

using a cookie scoop, I drop each ball of dough into cinnamon & sugar mixture and squish with a fork with a cross hatch.

bake at 350 for 8-9 minutes.

My best tips:

1)use an electric mixer, you can't beat the eggs enough doing it by hand

2) I take them out of my oven at 8 min, whether they look done on not & I let them cool a few minutes on the cookie sheet.

3) I store the cookies in the freezer, I pack them up as soon as their cool and when we want one they microwave in a few seconds to be like they were just baked.

Frozen cookies also travel well in lunch bags to school.

enjoy!!

from Clay's mom
Lisa Bozeman

Butterflies

The children were very excited to receive their very own Painted Lady Larva. These caterpillars will turn into beautiful butterflies in a couple of weeks. I put a link to the right of the page on how to raise these caterpillars. On that link is another link on caterpillar care that will show you what each stage looks like as well as how to make the sugar/water mixture for the newly emerged butterfly. This link also tells you how to construct a shoebox habitat. Once the caterpillar changes into a chrysalis, you will need to move it into this homemade habitat. I have one other suggestion for a habitat: get a pop up hamper from the dollar store and put some tulle material from Hobby Lobby to lay over the hamper. That would make an easy habitat. :) Enjoy this beautiful metamorphosis!!

FYI

Tomorrow will be our balloon fight with Mr. Rainey and the secretaries! It will be at 2:00. We won't worry about changing clothes because school will be almost out anyway! Get your strategy on!!! Yeah!!!!!!!

Week of May 10

I can't believe how fast these last days are ticking away! I had to shed a few tears this morning about letting these precious babies go! I pray many blessings over them in the coming years!

Busy week ahead!

Reading - We are reading Stone Fox as a class. The children have comprehension pages and vocabulary work that accompany the story. On Thursday, we will get to watch the movie and compare/contrast the book to the movie.

English - Review work

Math - Review work

Science - Weather - We will also continue to journal about our terrariums and grassheads. One day this week, we will have hair cut day with our grassheads too! Fun! Also, we will be doing the scientific method with our egg drop containers.

Social Studies - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell

Spelling - done

Reminders - Our Egg Drop will be Thursday at 9:00. The Egg Container is worth 200 points in science. Can't wait to see what you all come up with!
We will have 3 guest speakers this week.......1 on Tuesday and 2 on Wednesday.
The Leonardo's field trip is on Friday! Yeah! We can't wait! Let's pray for good weather. It looks like we have a chance of rain.
The Spring Fling is on Friday too! It starts at 5:30!

Thanks for coming to Parent's Day! It meant a lot to your children! I thought they did an awesome job!

That's all for now! Oh, I wanted to say though, that the State Floats were unbelievable! Wow! I am amazed at the creative ability of you all! They all are terrific! We have had lots of compliments!!

Week of May 3rd

Looking forward to another great week with your special kiddos! Here's what's happening:

Reading - Literature Circles

English - Poetry - power point

Math - Review - Order of Operations, place value, multiple addend addition, sequencing decimals

Social Studies - USA fun facts - America's grizzly bears and Franklin Roosevelt *Don't forget that the State Floats are due on Tuesday

Science - Observation Journals on plant projects (grassheads and terrariums), climate and wind

Spelling - States (2nd half)

Don't forget about the important events coming up! This week will be the Little Olympics on Wednesday and Parents Day on Friday.

Important Dates to Remember

Hey Families! Isn't this a crazy time of year.....and then you have to deal with a teacher who is the Queen of Big Projects!! :O Thanks for putting up with me though! You are awesome, but most of all your kiddos are! I am going to miss them like CRAZY! Here is a list of events coming up:

May 4th - State Floats are due
May 5th - Little Olympics (The kids can bring concession stand money that day.)
May 7th - Parent's Day (1:30) - (A formal invitation will be sent home next week.)
May 11th - Guest speaker 9:00
May 12th - Guest speaker 9:00
May 13th - Egg Drop (More info to come......another project.....but the kids want to do it and some parents encouraged me to do it.....so blame them! :))
May 14th - Leonardo's field trip 9:40-2:30, Spring Fling
May 17th - Auction 9:00, Awards Assembly 1:30
May 18th - Guest speaker 9:00, Volleyball-Teachers vs. 5th graders 1:30
May 19th - Grizzly Day (morning), Yearbook signing 2:00

One more thing to note - The last spelling enrichment test will be next Tuesday. This is list 27.5.

One more thing.........

Could you please edit your child's story this weekend. We need to submit for publishing no later than Tuesday. These stories are absolutely fabulous! I am so proud of the kids and can't wait to get the published books back!!