Read-Read-Read

Tomorrow is our kick-off assembly for "I Love to Read" week. We are participating in a flash mob with a Black Eyed Peas song. The link is on my website list so have your child practice this tonight. It is going to be AWESOME!! Reading calendars for this will be going home tomorrow with more details.
Today we worked hard on equivalent and simplifying fractions so please please have your child practice their facts as this is a must.
Debate time: Ask your child about the debate we did with our class today. They actually did a great job for the first time doing it. If they can tell you some of the arguing statements, write debate in the planner.
Tomorrow: Recorders for Music.
I will post more tomorrow about the Valentine's Day Party. Correction on the buy-in. It will be $300.
The technology buy-in on Friday is $400.
Have a great night.

NIghtly Writing is Back

Yes, we are continuing with our nightly writing once again after a break. Since the first go round, we have been doing lots of editing in our Language weekly DOL's so now it will be fun to see all this in independent action through the nightly writing. As always there won't be any for the weekend.
The sharing of biographies was FANTASTIC. The projects looked great and I know the kids learned a lot about their historical figures as well as we did during sharing time. I am putting together a Smilebox with these and will post them when I get them.
I got a new camera for my birthday so I can post pictures again YIPPEEE!
This week we are working hard on main idea/details, character analysis, along with writing I-V_F summaries in our individual book clubs.
In Read-A-Loud, we are reading Owls in the Family. Hilarious story with lots of fun Science activities we are going to do with it.
Speaking of Science, we are going to begin our unit on rocks and layers of the earth with Ms. Erickson's class. Should be fun as we love to plan together. What a great team we make.
In Social Studies, we started our tour of the West. If your child can tell you 5 states in this region, write west in the planner.
In Math, we learned how to find equivalent fractions today. If your child can show and explain the criss-cross multiply strategy, write criss-cross in the planner. Tomorrow we will be simplifying fractions which is a fun skill if you know your mult./division facts so again this is a must to be practicing if needed.
Pennies for Patients: Our class raised $154.42. Great job Team Hankins.
There are 2 more days to bring in books for the collection for the hospital patients.
Congratulations to Team Hankins for receiving the "The Golden Garbage" can for the 2nd week in a row. We are going for 3 and trying to get 3 strikes or a turkey like in bowling. WE CAN DO IT!!!!
Remember tomorrow is PE so bring in those shoes.
This Friday is BUG Club at 2:20. Your child won't know if they made it or not until the assembly.
Also, on Friday, we will have a technology buy-in. Students will be able to bring in their IPODs, MP3 players, etc. to listen to music during recess, independent work time when I am not teaching. It will cost $400.
We also talked about the Valentine's Day Party buy-in for $500.
Have a great night.

Another Great Day!

Wow-these kids are becoming so mature and performing to the extent that I knew they could!! There have been some issues lately with kids in other classes not being respectful to adults/authority here at school. But, I am happy to announce that Team Hankins is showing respect and using good character. I am so proud of them and let's keep it up. I would like you to compliment your child too and write talk in the planner for free money.
Tomorrow is the last day for Pennies For Patients. Take one last look for all those loose coins.
Tomorrow is Library so get those books in. We got a compliment from Mrs. Anderson this week as we got all our books back last week so GREAT JOB!! Let's do it again.

BIOGRAPHY PROJECTS ARE DUE TOMORROW. WE WILL SHARE THEM IN READING BLOCK TIME!!!!
Today in math, we continued fractions on a number line.
Next week, we start the West Region in Social Studies. I put the states and capitals on here so start studying. The test won't be for a couple of weeks though.
I don't know if all of you know yet or not, but Mrs. Campbell, our wonderful secretary, is deciding to enter into a new chapter of her life. Yes, she is retiring and leaving us. Wednesday, February 1st is her last day. Ask your child what they did for her today and have them share some of it with you. Pretty funny-I hope she has enough time to complete even 1/2 of her list of advice.
Have a great night.

Finished Metric Olympics Today

Today we finished the Metric Olympics by discussing how we can make more accurate estimations with an activity like this. We also took time to convert measurements from mm-cm-m and the g-kg. If your child can tell you why the metric system is so much easier than ours, write metrics in the planner.
Also, we continued with fractions today. This kids are doing great and can't wait until we get into harder fractions.
If they can show you the difference between parts of a region and parts of a whole, write fraction in the planner.
Started recorders today. A couple people still need theirs. Remember they need them on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Tomorrow is PE so remember those shoes now that we have boots.
Reminder that the biographies for my kids are due on Friday.
Reminder that Friday is the last day for Pennies For Patients. Let's give it our all Team Hankins to come out on top with the most donated!! WE CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!!
As I mentioned yesterday about the book donations for the children at the clinic. Everyone go through your books and donate those that you no longer want. I will pay the kids $5 for each book they donate.
Have a great night.

Recorders Need to be Here For Music Tomorrow

Tomorrow is recorder day in Music. Students that are bringing them from home must do so tomorrow. If they are getting one from Mr. Goodheart here at school, they already have them. School ones can't be taken home to practice. Let the fun of these squeaky things begin! Good thing is -it is fun to compare them from Day 1 until they have their concert.
We started fractions in math today. If your child can tell you about the numerator & denominator and tell the difference, write fraction in the planner.
We finished our Metric Olympics today with measuring marble grab in grams. Tomorrow we will discuss the activities and wrap it up.
We will also share our persuasive writings with a partner and start practicing for our debate which is going to be next Tuesday with Ms. E's class.
My reading kids researched owls today to build background knowledge for our new read-a-loud which is Owls in the Family. This is a hilarious story and your child will have lots to share about it when we start reading it.
Book Drive: One of our former students who is now at Castle Rock is involved in a project called Two Roads. What he is choosing to do for his part of the project is collect books and donate them to the pediatrics unit at both hospitals here in town. So what a great way to "pay it forward" and help out others. So please donate any books that you have read and want to share and pass on to others. I know I have many books that just sit around so why not share them and let others enjoy them. Go Team Hankins -let's once again do our part to help out others.
Have a great night and remember those recorders.

Happy Monday!

We had a great day in here today, but I didn't feel as though I had enough contact time with them as we also had Library today added to our already usually busy Monday. Just to clarify-we will have Library this Friday as usual. Today's was a make-up from last Friday.
We had our first long division math assignment today. We have been practicing and so now I want to see who can do what by themselves. Should have great results I am hoping. We also talked more about volume today. If your child can tell you what volume is in math, write volume in the planner. We are getting ready to move on to Fractions. Again, we will continue to review and repeat old skills through the DOM's.
Great job on the SW states and capitals test which we took on Friday. Now we are moving to the last sections which is the west and that is the region with Montana. We will go through this region and then study Montana History by itself.
In Science, we will finish our Metric Olympics tomorrow with grams. We have measured centimeters, milliliters, and now grams.
Nightly writing tonight consists of students writing their final copy of their persuasive paragraph on the colored card they received today. Some students want to type it out on the computer and this would be great too. I can not wait to see these and looking forward to the debate. Have your child read through their completed paragraph a few times to better help them prepare for the debate. If they do this, write debate in the planner.
Reminder: To my reading kids, biography projects are due on Friday. Staley & Melissa have theirs here and they look great.
Congratulations to Branden, our student of the week. We loved hearing about you. Our new one this week is Jose'. Looking forward to seeing your stuff.
I have some pics from Venture Theater, but my camera & computer are not cooperating with each other. I can not get my computer to read the camera. Bummer. Guess I may need to ask for a new one for my birthday.
Remember PE shoes tomorrow.
Have a great night.

Great Job Today to the Venture Theater Kids!

Congratulations to the Venture Theater cast. They did a great job and what courage it takes to get up in front of people. What a fun-filled, upbeat performance it was. Great story line too-what would we do without technology?! Brought back memories of board game nights with family during the holidays. I love to play board games.
Persuasive Writing went home tonight to write their draft for their paragraph. Then parents, please help by editing it so we can write the final draft on Monday. Then we will be ready for our debate on Wednesday. Can't wait.
Library on Monday-since we didn't have Library today due to Venture Theater, Mrs. Anderson wants to take them on Monday afternoon so get those books back.
Pennies for Patients: We had $30 this week. Way to go, let's make this last week our strongest week yet so again bring in those loose coins.
Remember to my reading kids-biographies are due on Friday, January 27th.
Have a great weekend. I think we are in for some nice weather.

Report Cards Are Arriving Today!

BRRRRRRRRRR!! Mother Nature is not letting up! Maybe tomorrow will be outdoor recess if it warms up, so make sure you dress for it so you can go out in the snow if the temps. allow. The kids are doing very well with indoor recess though keeping themselves busy with work, games, and puzzles.
Today, we discussed our Persuasive Writing. Some students need to re-visit theirs tonight and make some corrections and then return them tomorrow. So assigning Part 2-the rewrite- will be put "on hold" until tomorrow. I want to make sure everyone is ready to move on. Great job to those that don't have it to re-do tonight. Those that do either wrote their details as opinions and need to reword them, wrote about the wrong topic, or they need to finish as they were incomplete. Come on Team Hankins' YOU CAN DO IT!!
Pennies For Patients: We only collected $8.31 this week. Keep looking around the house for that loose change.
Library: We will not have Library tomorrow due to Venture Theater so students will check out books on Monday afternoon.
Remember to be working on those Biographies. They are due on Friday, January 27th, just one week away.
Report Cards should be in your hands by the time you read this. Overall, they are very good and kids are doing a good job. I hope you take the comments I wrote seriously. Students who made Terrific Kids Club or BUG Club do not know yet as it will be a surprise at the assembly. I love surprises and to see their faces when their names are called.
Venture Theater performance tomorrow at 1;00, 2:00, and again for parents at 6:00. These kids are going to make us so proud.
Have a great night and stay warm. Yippee-I get to go home and shovel. See why I don't like snow-shoveling is a waste of time. The good thing is, there is some exercise that goes along with it. :))

BRRRRRRRR!!

WOW-it is cold out there!! Ok-so who are those people that wished for snow???!!!! What are you thinking now?? Ms. Erickson, remember when I told you "watch what you wish for" when we made our snowmen last week. Anyway, this leads me to our nightly writing for tonight. Students are to decide if they "like" snow or "do not like" snow. That will be their topic sentence for their persuasive paragraph and then they are to give 3 details to support it along with a proof (evidence) statement to explain the detail. Don't forget the conclusion at the end. For tonight, they are just to complete the graphic organizer, then tomorrow we will talk about what to do next.
Today, we continued with our Metric Olympics. Students had to do a standing long jump and measure in centimeters and then we measured liquid using a graduated cylinder and milliliters. This activity was called the sponge squeeze. Ask your child what was their favorite so far and write it in the planner.
Tomorrow is PE so make sure you pack those shoes.
Report cards are coming home tomorrow.
Remember that states and capitals test on the SW is either going to be tomorrow or Friday. We will squeeze it in.
Have a great night and stay warm.

Quick Post

This is going to be a quick post as I just got out of a meeting at 4:45.
We had a great day today and started to learn the Metric System. We learned about millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers. We did a few activities that we titled: "The Metric Olympics". If your child can tell you about the 4 events that we did, write metrics in the planner. Tomorrow there is more to come. It is a fun way to introduce this system of measurement.
We talked about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today. If your child can tell you what he did for our country, write MLK in the planner.
We took our Geometry test today and so far the scores are looking great. I will finish grading them tonight and then we will go over them tomorrow or Thursday.
Have a great night.

What a Great TGIF!

Wow-what a great day today. They earned 2 compliments so far today and they are hoping for another from Mrs. Anderson as they are in Library right now as I write. Ask them if they did get a 3rd one, and if they did write Celebration in the planner.
Mrs. Salazar had a great lesson today about "school is cool". If they can tell you 3 things about the story she read, write "cool" in the planner.
In Math today, we had an awesome review for our test coming up on Tuesday. They took their study guides home so have them do some practice over the next 3 days. We also practice long division with 3 digits divided by 1 and they are doing fabulous.
We finished our tour of the SW and learned why Oklahoma's mascot is called the "Sooners". If your child can tell you why, write "Sooners" in the planner.
My reading kids: Biography projects went home today. We had a great discussion and I think everyone understands all the parts. It is quite extensive. I showed them the model of mine and there is a picture of it below. Any questions or if you want tagboard from the school just ask. We talked about that the Dollar Store has fun colors for $.50 and also some fun sticker bubble letters for $1.00. I can't wait to see the awesome projects they come up with. Also, we talked about typing the poem and the facts for sure as that looks so much neater. They will be graded on each part along with quality, presentation, and overall effort.
Remember No School in Monday, January 16th as it is a special day honoring Dr. Martin Luther King.
Thanks Mason for sharing all your cool stuff. Your mom sure made you an awesome book. Love it.
Have a great weekend and Good Luck to your football teams if they are still alive in the playoffs. Go Packers!

Let it Snow-Let it Snow OR NOT!!

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How many of you like snow????? How many of you don't like snow????? Well, we all have our opinions and reasons why we don't like snow and next week you will get to share your opinion. We will be writing persuasive paragraphs where you will persuade someone to like snow or not to like snow. These should be fun and then even more fun to have a class debate. Snow vs. no snow. I sure know what my opinion is, but will save that for next week.
Today, we had a good review of the DOM's in Math. You will notice that some grades are real good and we talked about taking our time, reading the question carefully, and doing our best. We will have these again as the weeks progress.
We will review for our Time, Geometry, multiplication, and division test tomorrow. Then we will take the test next Tuesday. They will get the study guide to take home tomorrow after our review.
Today in math, we played a little game called the "Royal Family". They were in teams of 5 and each got to be a family member, and lots of learning took place and I think we now have division down. If your child can show you a problem tonight, write division in the planner for money.
Today, I entered the last grades for the quarter. Report cards will be coming home next Thursday.
Remember tomorrow is the last day to order books.
Tomorrow is also Library. There is now a fine for not having their books.
Have a great night.

Snow Fun!!

Today we had lots of fun making our own snow! Well, not exactly, but we made snowmen with shaving cream & glue. They are so cool as the students individualized theirs. We have all kinds. I am going to take their picture with them tomorrow morning and make them into a smilebox for you to see. They were a bit wet and drippy yet today.
Our HR yesterday was about Buffalo Bill Cody so after our discussion of it today, we had Mr. Senitte come in and talk to us about Cody. Why you may ask? Well, that is where he grew up and he still has family there. He gave us lots of great information about him and his family, as well as the town of Cody. If you remember the name of the famous hotel/restaurant that is named after his daughter, write it in the planner.
Mr. Goodheart sent home a letter today talking about recorders. Make sure your child shows it to you. Each student is to have their own recorder and will need them by Monday, January 23rd.
Pennies For Patients: We collected $42.17 which is awesome for just three days. Keep digging in the cushions, under the seats, and wherever as we want to be the top collectors at Bitterroot. Go Team Hankins!!
Make sure the kids in my reading are working hard on reading their biographies. They will get the materials for the projects they are to complete at home also on Friday.
Remember PE shoes tomorrow.
Have a great night.

Cruising Through the Southwest

We have started our tour of the SW and should finish it up this week and will do our test early next week or maybe even this Friday. Should be easy as there are only 4 states. As I told the kids, I am not sending home a study map. Today, we talked about factories being built on the U.S./Mexico border. If your child can tell you why America builds factories in Mexico, write factories in the planner. (We talked about how this is sad, but true.)
Our HR today was about Buffalo Bill Cody. Tomorrow we will have a discussion on it and Mr. Senitte just happens to be from Cody so he is going to come in and talk to the kids about growing up there.
We are finishing up 4 huge concepts in math this week. They are geometry, time, graphs, and calendars along with continuing long division. We will have a test on these Friday. Today, we learned about finding the Median, Range, and mode of data. If they can tell you which one occurs most often, write it in the planner.
We started our new book clubs today. The kids are excited about their new books and we had a good discussion about them already as they shared their awesome predictions. Like I said before, these kids are so much for to listen to discuss books. So much information being shared. Just so you know the strategies we with books are:

*predictions
*connections
*clarifications
*questions
*summaries
*visualizations

Skills we work on are:
*figurative language
*main idea/detail
*cause/effect
* fact/opinion
* opinion/proof
*characterization
*compare/contrast

Wow-is that a lot of learning going on or what!!!!
Pennies for Patients-our box is getting quite heavy so keep sending in the coins to help out others. SHHHH-the kids still don't know about the pizza party.
I hear Venture Theater going on as we speak. They sound awesome already and can't wait until the 20th to see it.
Remember book orders are due on Friday.
Have a great night and dress warm tomorrow as a weather change is upon us.

Great Job Today!

Another great day was had by all in 4th grade today. The days just fly by as there is so much to do. Today we continued and almost finished our Geometry unit. We learned how to classify triangles by not only their sides, but angles too. If your child can tell you the 3 kinds formed by their angles, write triangle in the planner.
My reading kids were given their new book club books today. Ask them the title of theirs and what they think the book is going to be about.
We started our tour of the SW today. One of the stops was the Grand Canyon. If they can tell you 2 facts about the Grand Canyon, write SW in the planner.
As I shared with the kids today, my grades for this quarter will be cut off on Wednesday. This will give me time to figure out their GPA so I can see who makes BUG Club and Terrific Kids Club. The Terrific Kids club is for those who have straight A's and BUG is for those who bring up or maintain their grades from 1st quarter.
Reminder: Venture Theater for those who signed up practice every day from 3:15-5:15 for the next 2 weeks.
Remember shoes for PE tomorrow.
Have a great night.

Another Great Day!

Happy TGIF Day!
Today was another good day in the life of a 4th grader in Mrs. Hankins' Class. I guess you should ask your child, but in my opinion it was. Got a lot done and finished tidying up some lose ends.
In Math, we did a DOM. We are going to check it as a group on Monday so we can see where we made our mistakes if we made any. Also, finished up making line plots. We didn't get time to work on Long Division, but will pick that up again on Monday.
Also, finished up our book club activities except for the report cards that they are working on for a particular character. This is fun to hear and see their perspective of it and how it is to grade someone and then to give an explanation of why they gave a grade for a particular characteristic. They get to be on the other side of a report for once!!!
Also, my reading kids picked the biography they are going to read and take notes on as they read. They have sticky notes to mark their thinking and get key facts down about their person. I am reading Helen Keller out loud to them and modeling writing down key facts and then I will be showing them a project on Friday the 13th as a model for the project they will do for their person. So right now they are to be reading it as part of their nightly reading and taking notes. The rest will come later. The date for the whole project to be due on Friday, January 27th.
Speaking of report cards, I will be ending my grades for this quarter on Wednesday. So that will be the last day for 2nd quarter. Report cards then go home on the 19th.
Today in Social Studies, we read about the Louisiana Territory which is a little snippit of how Montana History will start this spring. If your child can tell you about the Louisiana Territory/Purchase (at least 4 things) then write France in the planner.
Speaking of planner and blog, I am still rewarding $ for the blog question, but it has dropped down to $10/day. That doesn't mean it isn't still important, but they don't need that much money as we discussed this morning in morning meeting. We don't have any field trips, etc. coming up in the near -near future. We will have a technology day at the end of this month in conjunction with my birthday.
Another question about the blog, are you enjoying having it and using it as a communication tool with your child? If you do, write yes in the planner and if you'd rather not have it, write "no". I love doing it even though it takes time, but I think it keeps the communication open, but I would like your input. Thank you.
Everyone brought home a flyer about collecting "Pennies for Patients" which is an organization collecting money for cancer patients. It is a 2 week period starting on Monday, January 9-23. We set a goal of collecting $200 (the class chose this) and the we did some math and figured out that each of us including me would have to donate $7.04 to reach that goal. We discussed how it can be any coins and bills too if they wish. Now please don't think you need to send that with your child as this was just what we came up with as a class goal- we will be happy to collect whatever we can. We also talked about how some may donate more and others less and we could reach our goal that way so be looking in those furniture cushions, vehicles, under furniture, etc. all those places change seems to fall into and help out a great cause. Thank you. The thing we didn't talk about was that the class collecting the most gets a reward of a pizza party. I don't want them to think of it as doing something for that reason, but instead to help out those in need. Ok so if this is as clear as "mud" let me know and I will clarify for you. (Seems like I made it a long explanation!!)
Congratulations to Staley, our student of the week. We loved the pictures.
Have a great weekend

I Knew They Could Do It!!

Wow-great job to our class for a superb job on their SRI test. Lots of AWESOME growth has been made and I am sure there will be more to come. Way to focus, concentrate, and do your BEST kids!!
Today, we continued with our Long Division using the Royal Family. We are slowly getting it, but have no doubts that by next week we will be quite proficient with this skill.
Also, in math today we made a bar graph. If your child can tell you what the axis on a bar graph are called and what the title of our graph was, write graph in the planner.
Tomorrow, my reading kids will do their last little project with their books. Writing a report card for a character in the book and writing comments to go with it. Should be fun to see what they come up with. Now they will know what it is like for me to write comments on their report cards.
Remember tomorrow is Library so get those books back.
Also, they received their recorder books yesterday in Music and have an assignment to do page 2. Many of them have it done, and it needs to be done by Monday. These pages are a huge part of their Music grade from now on.
Book Orders went home today. Remember if you order on-line, our class activation code is: GZN8L. They will be due on Friday, January 13th.
Have a great night and continue to enjoy this amazing weather. Wow-what are we going to do when winter does come? We are getting spoiled, but I don't mind.

The Royal Family

Yippee!! L-O-N-G Division began today and we are thinking of it as the Royal Family. Daddy-Divide --Mommy-Multiply
Sister-Subtract, and Brother-Bring Down. If your child can tell you the 5th member of the family that is not always "hanging" out with the rest, and comes in at the end, write "Division" in the planner. Again, please don't help your child with this process as I want them to do it just as we are and use the same vocabulary that we do. Like I said, I will video a group doing it and put it on the blog so you can see it at work.
Also, in math we worked on line plots. If your child can draw one for you and tell you what an outlier is, write line plot in the planner.
Today, we finished all book clubs. Tomorrow, we will be taking our SRI test which will show their reading growth thus far. I am excited to see positive results. Then on Friday, each of them will be making a report card for a book character that they just read. Should be fun to see the grades they give them for certain attributes and then the comments they write. Then next Monday, we will be starting new book club books.
Also, on Friday, each of my reading kids will be choosing a biography book to read at home for their nightly reading. They will read it, write down key ideas & facts on sticky notes, and then they will use these to make a final project along with a timeline.
Again, this will be done at home.
In Social Studies today we partnered with Ms. Erickson's class and did a review of the NE, SE, and Midwest regions. So exciting to see that they are retaining lots of the information they are learning.
We also started our geography challenge for the SW which has only 4 states in it so I won't be sending home a study map for the states and capitals. They can use the one they already have.
Remember HE/PE tomorrow.


Have a great night.

Almost Made It!!

Well, we almost made it through the day today without anyone losing tickets. But, at the end of Science, we had a few students who chose not to listen and make good choices so unfortunately, we didn't make the goal of losing no tickets.
As I said yesterday, we started out with new money and our fines for consequences have remained the same, but I am going to add a new one and that is LISTENING!!! I feel that not everyone is listening to my instructions/directions the first time and that they are asking for repeats when they are to be beginning the task at hand. Trust me, I give clear, direct instructions and then ask for any questions before they are to begin. So from now on, anyone not sure of what to do because of lack of listening skills, they will be fined $100.
Now on the positive side, I am very proud of them and their scores thus far in the READABOUT computer program. They seem to be doing very well. We will have our SRI test for this on Thursday to see how much growth they are making. I can't wait to see the results.
Tomorrow in Math, we are beginning LONG DIVISION!! I have a fun way of teaching it using what is called "The Royal Family". I will video it sometime early next week of them doing it so that you can see how to help them if you need to. So please as of now, don't give them any help with this process. Thank you.
Today in Math we reviewed Congruent & Similar figures. If your child can draw 2 congruent figures, write congruent in the planner.
Tomorrow is tryouts for Venture Theater at 3:15. As I said yesterday, it is a 2 week commitment everyday for rehearsals from 3:15-5:15. The exciting thing is is that everyone makes it and what a great experience so I encouraged as many that can to try out. It is a musical this year and it is brought to us by our wonderful PTA!
Tomorrow we are finishing up our current book clubs and students will get to share projects they did and discuss how they rate the book together.
Have a great night.

Happy New Year!

First of all, Happy New Year to all of you. I hope you had a terrific holiday and created lots of memories. Arizona was fabulous and the sunshine, blue skies, and warm weather were awesome. I sure could get used to that kind of weather. But, I was anxious to get back and into a routine again.
Also, thank you for the Christmas gifts. I loved each and every one of them. They meant a lot.
Today was a great day and we started off with our new wallets of $200. We talked a lot about expectations again and went over guidelines for success.
The 2nd quarter is rapidly coming to an end and report cards will be going home soon, January 19th. I can't believe how time is flying by and how these kids are maturing and really getting ready to be closer to 5th graders.
Our curriculum guides will be as follows: In Math, we are still continuing geometry, time, multiplication, and starting LONG DIVISION.
Reading: Finishing these book club books and projects and starting our new book club books. We are also going to start READ-A-LOUD again as we are all missing that part of our reading block.
Language will continue with grammar skills, editing, and parts of speech.
Spelling-skills and weekly word lists.
Social Studies-we are going to review the NE, SE, and Midwest regions before we move on to the SW.
Science-Measurement/Metric Olympics.
Venture Theater: Tryouts are on Wednesday, January 4th from 3:15-5:15 for those interested in participating. These letters went home before break. It is a big time commitment so make sure your child is willing to donate 3 weeks of practice time. In the past, everyone that tries out gets a part.
Reading calendars for January went home today. Make sure the December ones come back TOMORROW for a grade.
Thank you again for all your help and support in helping to make these such awesome, responsible, hard-working students who are showing tons of growth all the time. They are amazing.
Today's blog question: Talk to your child about something they are going to work hard on this next quarter and write it in the planner for free money.
Have a great night.