A Very Productive Day in Room 6

What a great day we had today. So good to get back into the routine and get into our curriculum. Today, we started our day out by reading the book, "Have you Filled a Bucket Today"? It is about being bucket fillers and not bucket dippers. Ask your child what the difference between the 2 and if they can tell you, write "fillers" in the planner. We made a poster of what fillers and dippers looks like and each child also has a paper bucket on a tagboard poster in which little notes that others write for them and how they filled their bucket will be in them. Then on Friday, we will share them during morning meeting. The more buckets they fill, the faster their "citizenship" cards will fill up. Then in Social Studies, we continued to work on our flip books for "me on the map". These are turning out pretty cool and will be on display for you to see at our Open House Night. Unit #1 Spelling word lists went home today and we will be practicing them along with skills here in school all week to help with mastery, but some time at home studying is necessary also. In Language, we discussed the difference between sentence fragments and sentences which will lead us into the 4 kinds of sentences, subject & predicate, and parts of speech. We did finish our reading placement test today. This is only one little piece of deciding where your child will fit into the new reading series we have. I will also be trying to incorporate read-a-louds and book clubs so there will be lots of components in reading. More about this at Open House. In Math, we did our first vocabulary for shout outs. Then practiced place value. If your child can show you how to write 458,987 in expanded form, write math in the planner. Students had their first day of Art Class today and LOVED. They were so on task and into their drawings. This is such a fun first thing for 4th graders. So glad to see the many water bottles. There are still a few without so please send one to school as it is extremely warm in here and not supposed to let up a bit until Thursday. Yikes------ Thank you for getting all the office paperwork back. You parents ROCK!! This makes their job in the office that much easier. Also, thank you for returning your name homework today from the weekend. We will be sharing them tomorrow as we ran out of time today during morning meeting. Coupon lunch is on Wednesday. Anyone who bought a coupon to eat lunch with me can use it this Wednesday or next Wednesday. After that they expire. Have a great night and try to stay cool. See you tomorrow.