Thank you for the notes regarding Mid-terms. I am so glad you are taking an interest in your child's education. As I talked with the kids, there are 4 1/2 weeks for them to bring their grades up before report card time.
Heritage Day-I have set Heritage Day for Friday, October 10th. Students in my reading class are to bring something to share with the class that is a display of their culture/heritage. Please fill out the note that went home with your child today so I know that you are planning for this activity. Please return these to me by this Friday, October 3rd. Thank you.
IXL math computer program-students were given lots of standards to practice today in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, place value, decimals, and patterning. Please see to it that your child practices some of these skills on a nightly basis for at least 20-30 min. This is only going to make them more successful at math along with the math instruction in the classroom.
I can tell who is practicing by the reports I get so if you want to impress Mrs. Hankins-practice-practice!!!!!
Mrs. Neese came to us today and shared with students the story of Rachel's Challenge. Students are now ready to fill up the front bulletin board with the "paws-itive" choices slips.
Today we did a Geography Challenge in Social Studies. Ask your child which 2 states in the US are put into an inset map and why. If they can tell you, write the name of the states in the planner.
KIDS IN MY ROOM FOR READING-REMEMBER TO RETURN THOSE READING CALENDARS FILLED OUT AND SIGNED!!!!!!
Have a great night.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Monday, September 29, 2014
MId-terms Went Home
Not a lot to report today as it was a normal, busy day and everyone seemed a bit tired today. I think it is the weather. Hope for a bit nicer, warmer tomorrow.
The big thing today is that Mid-terms went home. Take a good look at them and if you have any questions, please call. Also, write mid-term in the planner if you saw them tonight.
Today in Social Studies, we learned about grid maps and this particular grid map went with the state of California. Ask your child what a grid map is and 3 new things they learned about California and if they can tell you, write CA in the planner. Also, there was a bonus question to look up at the bottom of the map and students will get $20 if they find the answer. If they do, write the answer in the planner too.
Great job to those of you practicing IXL math at home. This is an amazing program and will help students with their math skills so much so keep it up. I get daily reports so I can tell who is using it and who is not.
Student Council applications went home today with interested students. We had 13 show an interest which is great. This is a big responsibility as our room reps become our voice. So get those apps filled out and returned to me by October 8th.
Remember my reading kids to be filling out your nightly reading calendars. They are due on Wednesday for September. Don't forget to sign them.
Have a great night.
The big thing today is that Mid-terms went home. Take a good look at them and if you have any questions, please call. Also, write mid-term in the planner if you saw them tonight.
Today in Social Studies, we learned about grid maps and this particular grid map went with the state of California. Ask your child what a grid map is and 3 new things they learned about California and if they can tell you, write CA in the planner. Also, there was a bonus question to look up at the bottom of the map and students will get $20 if they find the answer. If they do, write the answer in the planner too.
Great job to those of you practicing IXL math at home. This is an amazing program and will help students with their math skills so much so keep it up. I get daily reports so I can tell who is using it and who is not.
Student Council applications went home today with interested students. We had 13 show an interest which is great. This is a big responsibility as our room reps become our voice. So get those apps filled out and returned to me by October 8th.
Remember my reading kids to be filling out your nightly reading calendars. They are due on Wednesday for September. Don't forget to sign them.
Have a great night.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Good Job Team Hankins
Once again these kids did a great job proving that they are displaying true positive character. I got back to school today to find a note from Mrs. Stott saying everything went great. I see a celebration on the horizon!!!!!
This coming week is once again going to be busy.
In Math, we are going to be starting money by counting different dollar & cents amounts as well as making change for up to $50. We will continue with review of past skills also.
In Social studies, we are going to do what is called Geography Challenges in which students will be partnered up and asked to do 10 map skill tasks now that we have learned about different maps and parts of maps.
In Science, we will continue our unit on Matter.
In Language, we are going to be working hard on compound sentences with compound subjects & predicates.
In Lead 21 Reading, continuation of Heritage. It is looking as though our Heritage Celebration will be next Friday, October 10th during our reading time so be thinking about what your child is going to share with us for that amazing day about your culture/heritage.
Spelling-Unit 4 words.
IXL-I hope your child is practicing math skills at home via this great program. It will so so help them with these Common Core Math skills. We are doing it in here daily too now that testing is over.
Speaking of testing, yes it is almost over, but we have some make-ups and those will be done this week.
Mid-terms are going home tomorrow. I know that they were to go home on Friday, but with me gone and all, I didn't want to send them so tomorrow is the day!!!!
Congratulations to Aaron our student of the week. I missed his sharing time so have your child tell you 3 things they learned about Aaron and put it in the planner for free money.
PTA Movie Night is on Friday, October 3rd at 6:00. Free money if you go.
Speaking of free money, if your child attended Saturday Live, write Saturday Live in the planner for free money. Can't wait to hear about it.
Have a great night.
This coming week is once again going to be busy.
In Math, we are going to be starting money by counting different dollar & cents amounts as well as making change for up to $50. We will continue with review of past skills also.
In Social studies, we are going to do what is called Geography Challenges in which students will be partnered up and asked to do 10 map skill tasks now that we have learned about different maps and parts of maps.
In Science, we will continue our unit on Matter.
In Language, we are going to be working hard on compound sentences with compound subjects & predicates.
In Lead 21 Reading, continuation of Heritage. It is looking as though our Heritage Celebration will be next Friday, October 10th during our reading time so be thinking about what your child is going to share with us for that amazing day about your culture/heritage.
Spelling-Unit 4 words.
IXL-I hope your child is practicing math skills at home via this great program. It will so so help them with these Common Core Math skills. We are doing it in here daily too now that testing is over.
Speaking of testing, yes it is almost over, but we have some make-ups and those will be done this week.
Mid-terms are going home tomorrow. I know that they were to go home on Friday, but with me gone and all, I didn't want to send them so tomorrow is the day!!!!
Congratulations to Aaron our student of the week. I missed his sharing time so have your child tell you 3 things they learned about Aaron and put it in the planner for free money.
PTA Movie Night is on Friday, October 3rd at 6:00. Free money if you go.
Speaking of free money, if your child attended Saturday Live, write Saturday Live in the planner for free money. Can't wait to hear about it.
Have a great night.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Early Out Tomorrow & Guest Teacher on Thursday & Friday
Yes, it is an Early Out tomorrow with a 12:00 dismissal. Also, there will be a guest teacher tomorrow & Friday as I will be attending an out of town family wedding!!! I LOVE family time!!!!!
Please take the time to go over expectations with your child to help make the days go smoothly. They did AWESOME when I was gone a couple of weeks ago at our Bitterroot Leadership training so I am expecting the same thing. Thank you.
Emergency drills are going to be done tomorrow & Friday. One is "shelter in place" which will be done in the gym. The other is the off campus drill which will involve walking to the LDS Church on Wicks. This one is on Friday so make sure your child wears appropriate walking shoes. Mr. English will give guidelines to all students over the intercom before each of them to tell the expectations. Again remember they are practice drills-nothing to be alarmed about.
If you still have the coupon book packets at home, please return them tomorrow.
Saturday Live-thank you for bringing in candy and if you still wish to-tomorrow is the last day.
Saturday Live is on Saturday at Pioneer Park from 10:00-4:00. Maps of the activities went home today.
Also, going home today are letters about our new math computer program called IXL. I would like your child to practice their math at home. Just read the letter log-in information. If you have any questions, please ask.
Fun in Music today. Yes, they got to play the drums. They did a great job.
Have a good night.
No blog question tonight with me being gone tomorrow.
Also, I will blog on Sunday sometime for next week.
Please take the time to go over expectations with your child to help make the days go smoothly. They did AWESOME when I was gone a couple of weeks ago at our Bitterroot Leadership training so I am expecting the same thing. Thank you.
Emergency drills are going to be done tomorrow & Friday. One is "shelter in place" which will be done in the gym. The other is the off campus drill which will involve walking to the LDS Church on Wicks. This one is on Friday so make sure your child wears appropriate walking shoes. Mr. English will give guidelines to all students over the intercom before each of them to tell the expectations. Again remember they are practice drills-nothing to be alarmed about.
If you still have the coupon book packets at home, please return them tomorrow.
Saturday Live-thank you for bringing in candy and if you still wish to-tomorrow is the last day.
Saturday Live is on Saturday at Pioneer Park from 10:00-4:00. Maps of the activities went home today.
Also, going home today are letters about our new math computer program called IXL. I would like your child to practice their math at home. Just read the letter log-in information. If you have any questions, please ask.
Fun in Music today. Yes, they got to play the drums. They did a great job.
Have a good night.
No blog question tonight with me being gone tomorrow.
Also, I will blog on Sunday sometime for next week.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Terrific Tuesday
Great, busy day once again. In math, we worked hard on decimals and even found the correct correlations of their fractions. For example, we read 3.45 and wrote three and forty five hundreds and also wrote the fraction 3 45/100. Do some examples at home tonight for practice and if you do write decimals in the planner for free money.
In Science, we worked in groups with bags of objects describing them and then a sink/float activity and found out no matter what they all were, they all were MATTER. Ask your child what matter is and if they can tell you, write matter in the planner for money.
Today, Mrs. Neese came and did her first lesson with us talking about bucket filling. We now have Bitterroot "paws" that we will fill out for making "Paws-itive" choices. Ask your child about a positive choice they made today and if they can tell you, write "paws" in the planner.
Remember to get those fund raising envelopes/packets back tomorrow. Thank you.
Early Out Day is on Thursday, September 25th with a 12:00 dismissal. Please make arrangements to have your child picked up or walk home at that time.
Have a great night.
In Science, we worked in groups with bags of objects describing them and then a sink/float activity and found out no matter what they all were, they all were MATTER. Ask your child what matter is and if they can tell you, write matter in the planner for money.
Today, Mrs. Neese came and did her first lesson with us talking about bucket filling. We now have Bitterroot "paws" that we will fill out for making "Paws-itive" choices. Ask your child about a positive choice they made today and if they can tell you, write "paws" in the planner.
Remember to get those fund raising envelopes/packets back tomorrow. Thank you.
Early Out Day is on Thursday, September 25th with a 12:00 dismissal. Please make arrangements to have your child picked up or walk home at that time.
Have a great night.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Happy Monday
First of all, thank you to those of you that returned the PTA fundraising envelopes. Students received $200 free money for those. Great job!! If you haven't returned it yet, please do so by Wednesday. Also, thank you for sending in candy for the Saturday Live Candy Shack. Again, lots of free money given for that great cause.
Today, we started small groups in Lead 21. I am excited to read, discuss, and hear lots of great ideas from these small groups.
Character shields are mostly done. A few kids took them home to finish. They are hanging up in our room and look great. They also have lots of good ideas on them to as to how your child is going to be a positive character warrior. Ask your child how they are going to display the traits here at school. If they can give you some of their good ideas, write character warrior in the planner.
Unit 3 spelling list again this week as we didn't do much anything with it last week due to testing.
Have a great night.
Today, we started small groups in Lead 21. I am excited to read, discuss, and hear lots of great ideas from these small groups.
Character shields are mostly done. A few kids took them home to finish. They are hanging up in our room and look great. They also have lots of good ideas on them to as to how your child is going to be a positive character warrior. Ask your child how they are going to display the traits here at school. If they can give you some of their good ideas, write character warrior in the planner.
Unit 3 spelling list again this week as we didn't do much anything with it last week due to testing.
Have a great night.
Friday, September 19, 2014
Happy TGIF!!
Great job today for Team Hankins! We have finished our testing and are now ready to hit the curriculum hard and starting learning all the many new things there are to learn here in Grade 4.
So next week's objectives look like this:
Math-we are moving into an introduction of decimals along with counting $ and making change.
Language-Simple subjects & predicates.
Spelling-we are going to do Chapter 3 this week as we didn't get to it at all last week due to testing during that time. So no new word list this week.
Reading-we are finally going to start small groups. Groups have been assigned using all the testing data. We will continue with the heritage theme. Some of you have been asking what our inquiry project is going to consist of. What I am going to be asking each of the kids in my reading is to share something about their heritage whether it be art work, food, traditional games, historical events, etc. Then once I have set the date for this to take place, each of them will show and share what they bring to display their family heritage. So at this time, just be talking about your heritage, culture, etc. and start thinking of what would be interesting & worthwhile sharing with the class. If it is food, then we ask that you have enough for a little taste for the class.
Social Studies-we continue to work on map skills. We are taking a break from Montana History as we will focus on Social Studies as there is not enough time in a day now that we will also be on our computer schedule along with Mrs. Neese starting her weekly visits to the classroom.
Science-we are moving into our unit on Matter. Some fun experiments ahead.
So as you can see, we have lots going on.
Today we started buddies with Mrs. Culp's 2nd graders-oh how we love our buddies. Today they played a fun math game together. Check out the pics.
Also, we started our Student of the Week sharing. We so enjoyed hearing all about Carson. As you can see by the pics, he does an amazing job in Tae Kwon Do-look at all those medals.
Some fun things we learned about Carson-he loves Science, the color Black, and Chinese Food. He wants to be a dentist when he grows up. Dream-Believe-Achieve--Anything is possible.
Also, remember to return the PTA fundraiser packets with the money on Monday. Thank you.
Also, send in that candy for the Candy Shack-$50/bag of free money.
Have a great weekend.
So next week's objectives look like this:
Math-we are moving into an introduction of decimals along with counting $ and making change.
Language-Simple subjects & predicates.
Spelling-we are going to do Chapter 3 this week as we didn't get to it at all last week due to testing during that time. So no new word list this week.
Reading-we are finally going to start small groups. Groups have been assigned using all the testing data. We will continue with the heritage theme. Some of you have been asking what our inquiry project is going to consist of. What I am going to be asking each of the kids in my reading is to share something about their heritage whether it be art work, food, traditional games, historical events, etc. Then once I have set the date for this to take place, each of them will show and share what they bring to display their family heritage. So at this time, just be talking about your heritage, culture, etc. and start thinking of what would be interesting & worthwhile sharing with the class. If it is food, then we ask that you have enough for a little taste for the class.
Social Studies-we continue to work on map skills. We are taking a break from Montana History as we will focus on Social Studies as there is not enough time in a day now that we will also be on our computer schedule along with Mrs. Neese starting her weekly visits to the classroom.
Science-we are moving into our unit on Matter. Some fun experiments ahead.
So as you can see, we have lots going on.
Today we started buddies with Mrs. Culp's 2nd graders-oh how we love our buddies. Today they played a fun math game together. Check out the pics.
Also, we started our Student of the Week sharing. We so enjoyed hearing all about Carson. As you can see by the pics, he does an amazing job in Tae Kwon Do-look at all those medals.
Some fun things we learned about Carson-he loves Science, the color Black, and Chinese Food. He wants to be a dentist when he grows up. Dream-Believe-Achieve--Anything is possible.
Also, remember to return the PTA fundraiser packets with the money on Monday. Thank you.
Also, send in that candy for the Candy Shack-$50/bag of free money.
Have a great weekend.
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Hurricane Quiz Tomorrow
Yes, we are finished with our short hurricane study. Students are working on their first writing of 4th Grade using the stoplight writing method and writing an informative paragraph about hurricanes. They have their study guides to use for the writing and to study for the quiz tomorrow. We have learned a lot and seen some pretty amazing videos of their powerfulness.
Today, we starting putting all our map skills into practice with our continents maps. Quiz your child on the 7 continents. If they can name them, write 7 in the planner.
Great job in math with rounding numbers. These kids have got it!!!! Super job-not sure if it is the song or them working hard in math or both, but I am proud of their efforts. We are moving on to decimals tomorrow.
Today we took the MAP Math test and have the Language one left tomorrow. WE CAN DO IT!!!
Saturday Live-yes, it is quickly approaching and we need candy for the Candy Shack. Please help us out. Students will get $50 free money for each bag they donate. Thank you-remember nothing that will melt!!!!
PTA fundraiser-a reminder went home today. It ends on Monday and envelopes/money are to be back on that day.
Remember Library books tomorrow.
Have a great night.
Today, we starting putting all our map skills into practice with our continents maps. Quiz your child on the 7 continents. If they can name them, write 7 in the planner.
Great job in math with rounding numbers. These kids have got it!!!! Super job-not sure if it is the song or them working hard in math or both, but I am proud of their efforts. We are moving on to decimals tomorrow.
Today we took the MAP Math test and have the Language one left tomorrow. WE CAN DO IT!!!
Saturday Live-yes, it is quickly approaching and we need candy for the Candy Shack. Please help us out. Students will get $50 free money for each bag they donate. Thank you-remember nothing that will melt!!!!
PTA fundraiser-a reminder went home today. It ends on Monday and envelopes/money are to be back on that day.
Remember Library books tomorrow.
Have a great night.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Day 1 of Testing Done
Yes, one day of testing down and 2 to go. We did the Reading test today, we will do the Math tomorrow, and then the Language on Friday. Please make sure your child is here on these test days as they do have to be made up which means missing class time to make them up and then they get farther behind.
Part 1 of Montana History is complete with our state symbols. Had our quiz today-will check them tonight so will get them back tomorrow.
We will now take a break from Montana History and focus more on Social Studies. Ask your child their 3 favorite things they learned about Montana so far and write them in the planner for free money.
Exciting news: We are reading a whole class book called "The Journey of Fallen Rock" which is a great book that teaches a lot about character as well focusing on the regions of the U.S. which is where we are heading in Social Studies. The exciting part of this is that the author, Bill Merical, is going to be coming to our classroom here at Bitterroot School on October 10th. More on that as it gets closer.
CONGRATULATIONS to Jenna, Megan, Kailynn, & Cole for making it to the 2nd round of Honor Choir try outs. We are so proud of you! Great job to all those that tried out. It takes a lot of courage to get up in front of peers and sing.
Remember testing tomorrow-good night's rest, healthy breakfast/snack.
PE tomorrow.
Have a great night.
Part 1 of Montana History is complete with our state symbols. Had our quiz today-will check them tonight so will get them back tomorrow.
We will now take a break from Montana History and focus more on Social Studies. Ask your child their 3 favorite things they learned about Montana so far and write them in the planner for free money.
Exciting news: We are reading a whole class book called "The Journey of Fallen Rock" which is a great book that teaches a lot about character as well focusing on the regions of the U.S. which is where we are heading in Social Studies. The exciting part of this is that the author, Bill Merical, is going to be coming to our classroom here at Bitterroot School on October 10th. More on that as it gets closer.
CONGRATULATIONS to Jenna, Megan, Kailynn, & Cole for making it to the 2nd round of Honor Choir try outs. We are so proud of you! Great job to all those that tried out. It takes a lot of courage to get up in front of peers and sing.
Remember testing tomorrow-good night's rest, healthy breakfast/snack.
PE tomorrow.
Have a great night.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Proud Teacher Here
Yes, I am very proud of these kids as it was so nice to come back to school today with a fantastic sub note today. These kids did an amazing job and earned 3 celebration points as well as fake $ for themselves.
Today in math we had some fun with our rounding numbers song. If you choose to check it out on the side of the blog under my favorite websites. It is kind of an addicting song-once you get it in your head-it will be there so have some fun at home tonight and check it out!!!
Character Warriors-we are almost ready to be full blown character warriors. Tomorrow we are going to read our book on Respect and then we are ready to make our shields.
Tomorrow in Montana History is a quiz over the state symbols. Many of the kids took their notebooks home to study and show you what they have done so far and if your child was one of them, write studied in the planner.
Speaking of tests-yes, tomorrow we begin our Fall MAP testing. We will be doing the reading portion during our reading block time tomorrow. So make sure your child gets a good night's rest, healthy breakfast, and bring a healthy snack to school. Also, they may bring gum as I allow them to chew gum while they test. (NO BUBBLE GUM)!!!!!
Today in Social Studies, we learned some great facts about the history of the Start Spangled Banner. Have a discussion with your child about who wrote and why he wrote it and if they can tell you, write flag in the planner.
Duct tape tomorrow for Art-this is optional, but Mrs. Fischer is asking kids to bring in fun duct tape to use on their art folders to decorate them. They made these folders with the cereal boxes. This great project continues.
Great job to those students who tried out for Honor Choir. They seemed a bit nervous, but will find out tomorrow if they made it to the 2nd try out.
Have a great night.
Today in math we had some fun with our rounding numbers song. If you choose to check it out on the side of the blog under my favorite websites. It is kind of an addicting song-once you get it in your head-it will be there so have some fun at home tonight and check it out!!!
Character Warriors-we are almost ready to be full blown character warriors. Tomorrow we are going to read our book on Respect and then we are ready to make our shields.
Tomorrow in Montana History is a quiz over the state symbols. Many of the kids took their notebooks home to study and show you what they have done so far and if your child was one of them, write studied in the planner.
Speaking of tests-yes, tomorrow we begin our Fall MAP testing. We will be doing the reading portion during our reading block time tomorrow. So make sure your child gets a good night's rest, healthy breakfast, and bring a healthy snack to school. Also, they may bring gum as I allow them to chew gum while they test. (NO BUBBLE GUM)!!!!!
Today in Social Studies, we learned some great facts about the history of the Start Spangled Banner. Have a discussion with your child about who wrote and why he wrote it and if they can tell you, write flag in the planner.
Duct tape tomorrow for Art-this is optional, but Mrs. Fischer is asking kids to bring in fun duct tape to use on their art folders to decorate them. They made these folders with the cereal boxes. This great project continues.
Great job to those students who tried out for Honor Choir. They seemed a bit nervous, but will find out tomorrow if they made it to the 2nd try out.
Have a great night.
Friday, September 12, 2014
Guest Teacher on Monday
Yes, we am going to be gone on Monday to a Leadership training here in Billings with Mr. English as well as some other Bitterroot Teachers. So please take some time this weekend or on Monday morning to talk to your children about "expectations". Remember to remind them about what we are always saying-"True character shines when no one is watching"!!!!! I look forward to a good report when I get back. Students have been told that they may not be eligible for the upcoming field trip if I can't trust them when I am gone.
Today in Montana History we learned that the first capital of Montana was not Helena. Ask your child what now ghost town was the first territorial capital. Write it in the planner for free money.
On Friday, we had a great time playing "Car Lot" for our teamwork/building activity & Fun Friday. I am so excited that these kids are really coming along with their maturity.
Happenings for the upcoming week.
Math-we are going to be starting rounding numbers on Tuesday. Wait till you hear our fun song to go with it!!!!
Lead 21-continuing with heritage & starting small group rotations on Tuesday.
Spelling-Unit 3 words
Language-review of nouns/verbs and starting subjects/predicates.
Social Studies-world maps & hemisphere maps
Montana History-we will finished with our state symbols on Monday so then we will have a test over all of them this week.
Science-we are going to take all we learned about hurricanes and turn it into a stoplight writing project.
As you can see, another busy week ahead.
Today, your child came home with a paper that has all the information on it to access their grades online. As of now, I don't have many grades yet, but will later next week so if you access it now, there will be no grades posted but soon to be.
"Dug"-yes Mr. English's dog is going to be a guest here at school at times throughout the year so please take time to read the note that came home with your child today.
Have a great weekend.
Today in Montana History we learned that the first capital of Montana was not Helena. Ask your child what now ghost town was the first territorial capital. Write it in the planner for free money.
On Friday, we had a great time playing "Car Lot" for our teamwork/building activity & Fun Friday. I am so excited that these kids are really coming along with their maturity.
Happenings for the upcoming week.
Math-we are going to be starting rounding numbers on Tuesday. Wait till you hear our fun song to go with it!!!!
Lead 21-continuing with heritage & starting small group rotations on Tuesday.
Spelling-Unit 3 words
Language-review of nouns/verbs and starting subjects/predicates.
Social Studies-world maps & hemisphere maps
Montana History-we will finished with our state symbols on Monday so then we will have a test over all of them this week.
Science-we are going to take all we learned about hurricanes and turn it into a stoplight writing project.
As you can see, another busy week ahead.
Today, your child came home with a paper that has all the information on it to access their grades online. As of now, I don't have many grades yet, but will later next week so if you access it now, there will be no grades posted but soon to be.
"Dug"-yes Mr. English's dog is going to be a guest here at school at times throughout the year so please take time to read the note that came home with your child today.
Have a great weekend.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
YAYYYY!!!
Yaayy-today was an exciting day as we got to use the brand new Chrome books for the first time. They are so clean & shiny and we are going to do our very best to be extra super careful with them. In fact, we did such a great job handling them today, we earned a class celebration point.
Today in Social Studies we learned some new map vocabulary. Yes, we learned all about latitude/longitude/ and hemispheres. So ask your child what 2 hemispheres MT is in and write them in the planner for free money.
In Reading today the kids in here for reading learned about I-V-F summaries. Ask them what a summary is and what adventure Fallen Rock did today. Also in reading, we are talking about heritage. Visit with your child tonight about something special in your family's heritage for them to share with the group tomorrow.
C.C meeting today we read a book about caring. Ask your child the name of it and how Rainbow Fish showed that he/she was a caring person. Write it in the planner. We are almost done with our character traits -2 left. Then we will be on to making our shields to become true character warriors.
Library tomorrow so get those books back.
Also remember Unit 2 spelling test tomorrow.
Have a great night.
Today in Social Studies we learned some new map vocabulary. Yes, we learned all about latitude/longitude/ and hemispheres. So ask your child what 2 hemispheres MT is in and write them in the planner for free money.
In Reading today the kids in here for reading learned about I-V-F summaries. Ask them what a summary is and what adventure Fallen Rock did today. Also in reading, we are talking about heritage. Visit with your child tonight about something special in your family's heritage for them to share with the group tomorrow.
C.C meeting today we read a book about caring. Ask your child the name of it and how Rainbow Fish showed that he/she was a caring person. Write it in the planner. We are almost done with our character traits -2 left. Then we will be on to making our shields to become true character warriors.
Library tomorrow so get those books back.
Also remember Unit 2 spelling test tomorrow.
Have a great night.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Happy Wednesday
Great to see many of you last night at Open House. If you were not able to make it, I hope you will be able to take time each day to read the blog and to help me work hard with your child this year on being amazing, strong Character Warriors and keeping the lines of communication open.
Today in Math, we worked hard on comparing numbers into the millions place. Students are doing a good job of this by putting in the correct sign, but having more difficulty reading the larger numbers so I sent a practice page home with your child tonight for them to practice with you for tonight & tomorrow and then to have them back to school signed by you by Friday. Thank you. If you practiced these LARGE numbers tonight, write numbers in the planner for free money.
In Lead 21, we started our unit on Heritage. This is going to be a fun unit as students will learn about their own ancestors & heritage. Fun project to come with this later.
Monthly reading calendars went home today with my reading kids. Students are to read at least 30/night for at least 5 days/week which will add up to 600 minutes which is the minimum requirement for the month. Since it is already the 10th of the month, I am requiring only 400 for this month only!!!! Please write down the number of minutes read and initial it each day your child reads. Of course, yes, they can read way more than the minimum-in fact-that would be AWESOME!!!!!
Ask your child what character trait we did today for C.C. meeting and one way they are going to show this trait personally and if they can tell you, write the name of the trait in the planner for free money.
We finished reading our great fact book today on hurricanes and taking notes. Students will now use these notes for a writing project using our stoplight writing method.
PTA fundraiser packets-please keep selling those coupon books to help us get great things for our kids here at Bitterroot School. This will end on September 22nd.
HE/PE tomorrow so remember those tennis shoes!!!!!
Have a great night.
Today in Math, we worked hard on comparing numbers into the millions place. Students are doing a good job of this by putting in the correct sign, but having more difficulty reading the larger numbers so I sent a practice page home with your child tonight for them to practice with you for tonight & tomorrow and then to have them back to school signed by you by Friday. Thank you. If you practiced these LARGE numbers tonight, write numbers in the planner for free money.
In Lead 21, we started our unit on Heritage. This is going to be a fun unit as students will learn about their own ancestors & heritage. Fun project to come with this later.
Monthly reading calendars went home today with my reading kids. Students are to read at least 30/night for at least 5 days/week which will add up to 600 minutes which is the minimum requirement for the month. Since it is already the 10th of the month, I am requiring only 400 for this month only!!!! Please write down the number of minutes read and initial it each day your child reads. Of course, yes, they can read way more than the minimum-in fact-that would be AWESOME!!!!!
Ask your child what character trait we did today for C.C. meeting and one way they are going to show this trait personally and if they can tell you, write the name of the trait in the planner for free money.
We finished reading our great fact book today on hurricanes and taking notes. Students will now use these notes for a writing project using our stoplight writing method.
PTA fundraiser packets-please keep selling those coupon books to help us get great things for our kids here at Bitterroot School. This will end on September 22nd.
HE/PE tomorrow so remember those tennis shoes!!!!!
Have a great night.
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Cya Tonight
Yes, due to Open House tonight, this is going to be a short post. I hope to see each of you for one of the 15 min. sessions between 5:30-6:30.
Monday, September 8, 2014
Assignment Notebooks
Yes, the assignment notebooks have finally arrived!!!! How these work in 4th grade is that we fill them out together at the end of the day. Students will write down what we did in each subject for the day and if they have an uncompleted assignment in that subject, they will circle the box by the word completed. If they have it done, they will put a check mark in the box. So this way, you can tell if your child has homework or not. Remember homework is mostly work that is not finished in school that day. Also, you need to initial these each day so I know you saw it and visited with your child about the day. They will get $20 if signed or $20 taken away if not.
Speaking of homework-yes, it was quite an awakening this morning when I took lots of tickets for incomplete math from last Friday that went home for homework, but never showed up to school. Ouch-this is loss of money and an opportunity to complete it during their fun-free time.
So please have a talk with your child about this and how to work hard at becoming responsible. Also, during your little visit with them, have a discussion about expectations & respect. I was a bit frustrated today as many of them totally interrupted a read-a-loud book I was reading in Science on Hurricanes because they had info. they wanted to share. Needless to say, that is not going to happen so unfortunately they missed some recess/fun time. Believe me-I want to hear what they have to say, but not all 24 at once!!!!!!!!!!! We will keep working on it, but I would like you to visit with your child about what is appropriate and what is not. Thank you. If you do, then write visit in the planner for free money. This is our system now for communicating and for me to know if you are reading the blog or not. It is very important that you do to stay in touch with your child's learning and the happenings of our classroom.
Remember tomorrow is Open House so please plan on being here for one of the 15 min. sessions from 5:30-6:30.
HR today on the Pledge of Allegiance. Have a discussion about why we say the pledge daily and if they can tell you, write pledge in the planner.
Unit 2 spelling list came home today so study for Friday.
Read 180/System 44 started today so if your child goes to these they are not in here for Reading, Language, Spelling so their assignment notebooks will be blank for the subject areas.
Have a great night and let's hope for a much better day tomorrow overall for Team Hankins!!!!
Speaking of homework-yes, it was quite an awakening this morning when I took lots of tickets for incomplete math from last Friday that went home for homework, but never showed up to school. Ouch-this is loss of money and an opportunity to complete it during their fun-free time.
So please have a talk with your child about this and how to work hard at becoming responsible. Also, during your little visit with them, have a discussion about expectations & respect. I was a bit frustrated today as many of them totally interrupted a read-a-loud book I was reading in Science on Hurricanes because they had info. they wanted to share. Needless to say, that is not going to happen so unfortunately they missed some recess/fun time. Believe me-I want to hear what they have to say, but not all 24 at once!!!!!!!!!!! We will keep working on it, but I would like you to visit with your child about what is appropriate and what is not. Thank you. If you do, then write visit in the planner for free money. This is our system now for communicating and for me to know if you are reading the blog or not. It is very important that you do to stay in touch with your child's learning and the happenings of our classroom.
Remember tomorrow is Open House so please plan on being here for one of the 15 min. sessions from 5:30-6:30.
HR today on the Pledge of Allegiance. Have a discussion about why we say the pledge daily and if they can tell you, write pledge in the planner.
Unit 2 spelling list came home today so study for Friday.
Read 180/System 44 started today so if your child goes to these they are not in here for Reading, Language, Spelling so their assignment notebooks will be blank for the subject areas.
Have a great night and let's hope for a much better day tomorrow overall for Team Hankins!!!!
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Thank you-Thank you!!
Yes, great job on your homework Thursday night, parents. The students as well as myself enjoyed hearing all about how each of them got their names. Fun-fun and some great family traditions being passed down from generation to generation.
PTA movie night-if you & your child went to the PTA movie on Friday night, please write it on a piece of paper and send it to school with your child for a $200 bonus. I love to support our wonderful PTA.
First full week ahead of us: yes, this will be our first full week and I am excited to get into our routine and actually be able to get in all our subjects more than just once or twice/week.
In math this week, we are going to continue with place value of numbers into the millions as well as computation practice and patterning as our problem solving skill. Along with place value will be comparing them and putting them in order from least to greatest.
Lead 21-we are starting our Lead 21 unit on Wednesday. Students took their group placement test and now we are going to do the computer generated SRI test on Tuesday.
For now in reading, we started our new Read-a-Loud called: "The Journey of Fallen Rock". It is a great book about 2 brothers who have a friendly competition with one another to see who will be the next chief of their indian village. We are going to use it not only for CC meetings, but also to learn our reading strategies. This week we are going to work on predictions & summarizing.
Language is taking us to nouns and verbs for parts of speech and then all the spelling rules for plural nouns.
Writing will be tied into Science as we are doing Hurricanes in Science and then going to integrate our writing there.
In Social Studies, we are going to map the continents, oceans, hemispheres, latitudes, longitudes.
Montana History-continuing with our state symbols.
As you can see we will have a busy week.
Remember the Open House on Tuesday, September 9th from 5:30-6:30. Hope to see all or most of you there.
HE/PE tomorrow.
Have a great night.
PTA movie night-if you & your child went to the PTA movie on Friday night, please write it on a piece of paper and send it to school with your child for a $200 bonus. I love to support our wonderful PTA.
First full week ahead of us: yes, this will be our first full week and I am excited to get into our routine and actually be able to get in all our subjects more than just once or twice/week.
In math this week, we are going to continue with place value of numbers into the millions as well as computation practice and patterning as our problem solving skill. Along with place value will be comparing them and putting them in order from least to greatest.
Lead 21-we are starting our Lead 21 unit on Wednesday. Students took their group placement test and now we are going to do the computer generated SRI test on Tuesday.
For now in reading, we started our new Read-a-Loud called: "The Journey of Fallen Rock". It is a great book about 2 brothers who have a friendly competition with one another to see who will be the next chief of their indian village. We are going to use it not only for CC meetings, but also to learn our reading strategies. This week we are going to work on predictions & summarizing.
Language is taking us to nouns and verbs for parts of speech and then all the spelling rules for plural nouns.
Writing will be tied into Science as we are doing Hurricanes in Science and then going to integrate our writing there.
In Social Studies, we are going to map the continents, oceans, hemispheres, latitudes, longitudes.
Montana History-continuing with our state symbols.
As you can see we will have a busy week.
Remember the Open House on Tuesday, September 9th from 5:30-6:30. Hope to see all or most of you there.
HE/PE tomorrow.
Have a great night.
Thursday, September 4, 2014
PARENT HOMEWORK TONIGHT!!!!!
Yes, parents you have homework tonight. We read a great book in class today called Chrysanthemum. It is about how a girl gets her name and that a name stands for something. So your job tonight is to read the note on the colored note card about how your child got their name. You can do just their first name or include the middle name too. Please write your answers on the back of the card. Students will get to share these tomorrow in class. This ties in with our "Top 10 Things About ______ project as well as our 1st Lead 21 unit on heritage/culture.
Tomorrow is our first spelling test. Don't fret too much about it as it is the first one and I may not even take grades due to the fact that all students have been in the regular classroom so far as no interventions have started yet, but they will be starting on Monday. If your child is going to be in a Reading intervention you will be getting a letter tomorrow explaining that.
Today we did our first HR (which is non-fiction reading on some great topics & people). This one was on the Treaty of Paris. Ask your child what war this treaty ended along with your was the commander in chief. Write the answers on paper for free money.
Fundraising Packets went home today. Yes, our wonderful PTA's fundraiser has started and it goes from today until September 22nd. There will be prizes for classroom & individual winners so let's GO TEAM HANKINS!!!!!!!
Tomorrow is Library so get those books back.
Have a great night.
Tomorrow is our first spelling test. Don't fret too much about it as it is the first one and I may not even take grades due to the fact that all students have been in the regular classroom so far as no interventions have started yet, but they will be starting on Monday. If your child is going to be in a Reading intervention you will be getting a letter tomorrow explaining that.
Today we did our first HR (which is non-fiction reading on some great topics & people). This one was on the Treaty of Paris. Ask your child what war this treaty ended along with your was the commander in chief. Write the answers on paper for free money.
Fundraising Packets went home today. Yes, our wonderful PTA's fundraiser has started and it goes from today until September 22nd. There will be prizes for classroom & individual winners so let's GO TEAM HANKINS!!!!!!!
Tomorrow is Library so get those books back.
Have a great night.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Quick Post -Staff Meeting Tonight
Yes, today is Wednesday which means staff meeting day with Mr. English so I tend to make these days shorter posts.
We had a good day today once again and are making good progress with making positive choices as a 4th grader and displaying good character. Today we talked about how "true character shines when no one is watching". Have a discussion about what this means with your child. I am enjoying having your child in class and I hope they are enjoying it too. I am sure they will agree that 4th grade expectations and the work load are quite different from primary grades. But I truly BELIEVE that each and every one of your children are going to make amazing growth this year academically, socially, and emotionally.
In math today we had fun reading some very large numbers and working with standard, expanded, word form and place value. Tomorrow will be our first real math assignment for the year. I heard lots of Yaayyyys on that one today!!! So glad they like to work.
We are almost finished with our Top 10 All About ________. Yes, they wrote the top 10 things about themselves and then made name glyphs. Ask them what a name glyph is. Then we partnered up to share name glyphs and to interview one another. Then students took all they learned about their partner and wrote it into a biography. Great first writing project of the year. They will be on display at Open House which is September 9th from 5:30-6:30. Hope to see you all there. Ask your child who their partner is and 2 things they learned about them. Write them on a piece of paper for free money. Oh how I hope those assignment notebooks get here soon to make this blog reading so much easier!!!!!
Tomorrow is PE so bring those tennis shoes.
Have a great night.
We had a good day today once again and are making good progress with making positive choices as a 4th grader and displaying good character. Today we talked about how "true character shines when no one is watching". Have a discussion about what this means with your child. I am enjoying having your child in class and I hope they are enjoying it too. I am sure they will agree that 4th grade expectations and the work load are quite different from primary grades. But I truly BELIEVE that each and every one of your children are going to make amazing growth this year academically, socially, and emotionally.
In math today we had fun reading some very large numbers and working with standard, expanded, word form and place value. Tomorrow will be our first real math assignment for the year. I heard lots of Yaayyyys on that one today!!! So glad they like to work.
We are almost finished with our Top 10 All About ________. Yes, they wrote the top 10 things about themselves and then made name glyphs. Ask them what a name glyph is. Then we partnered up to share name glyphs and to interview one another. Then students took all they learned about their partner and wrote it into a biography. Great first writing project of the year. They will be on display at Open House which is September 9th from 5:30-6:30. Hope to see you all there. Ask your child who their partner is and 2 things they learned about them. Write them on a piece of paper for free money. Oh how I hope those assignment notebooks get here soon to make this blog reading so much easier!!!!!
Tomorrow is PE so bring those tennis shoes.
Have a great night.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Happy Terrific Tuesday
Great day today in Room 6. We had a practice fire drill along with a lockdown drill. For the most part, students did great with a few exceptions of talking while we were supposed to be walking outside quietly to our safe location. So these students lost $ for that today as this is a huge issue for safety. Hopefully next time they will do what is expected. Please visit with your child about emergency drills to review with them the importance of them. Thank you.
Math today was a great day as we learned 7 new math vocabulary terms. One of them being digits. Ask your child what the 10 digits are and then what the difference between digits and numbers are. If they can tell you, write digits on a paper for free money.
Then we made our place value charts that go up into the billions period. Yes, we will be writing very large numbers this year. Also ask them how many digits make up a period. If they can tell you, write period down for free money.
For reading today, we started our Lead 21 placement test. We will finish it tomorrow and then I will be able to get our small reading groups assigned.
We read the book called "How to be a Bucket Filler" today. Now we are all ready to be bucket fillers rather than bucket dippers. Have a great discussion about the difference and how your child is going to work on being a BUCKET FILLER!!!!
Spelling-Unit 1 word list went home today. Start studying for Friday's assessment.
Montana History-we found out when Montana's birthday is. Again if they can tell you, write it on the paper along with what number state we are. Also we have a student in here whose birthday is on the same day. HMMMM-who was it?
Science fun-today students started their illustrations of what they think a scientist looks like, what they where, and where they work along with tools they use. We are going to share these tomorrow. Then we did a fun experiment to introduce the "scientific process". Ask your child what we experimented with and what the outcome was. I think we have some pretty good taste testers in here or should I say good pop drinkers!!!!
Purple sheets came home today with your child regarding honor choir for boys/girls. If your child is interested, fill them out and send them back to school with your child by Friday.
Also coming home today was an invite to the PTA sponsored movie on Friday, September 5th. It is from 6-8 and the best part is it is FREE!!!!
Also was a green paper with websites for you to view to stay connected with PTA happenings. Put this in a safe place for reference.
Have a great night.
Math today was a great day as we learned 7 new math vocabulary terms. One of them being digits. Ask your child what the 10 digits are and then what the difference between digits and numbers are. If they can tell you, write digits on a paper for free money.
Then we made our place value charts that go up into the billions period. Yes, we will be writing very large numbers this year. Also ask them how many digits make up a period. If they can tell you, write period down for free money.
For reading today, we started our Lead 21 placement test. We will finish it tomorrow and then I will be able to get our small reading groups assigned.
We read the book called "How to be a Bucket Filler" today. Now we are all ready to be bucket fillers rather than bucket dippers. Have a great discussion about the difference and how your child is going to work on being a BUCKET FILLER!!!!
Spelling-Unit 1 word list went home today. Start studying for Friday's assessment.
Montana History-we found out when Montana's birthday is. Again if they can tell you, write it on the paper along with what number state we are. Also we have a student in here whose birthday is on the same day. HMMMM-who was it?
Science fun-today students started their illustrations of what they think a scientist looks like, what they where, and where they work along with tools they use. We are going to share these tomorrow. Then we did a fun experiment to introduce the "scientific process". Ask your child what we experimented with and what the outcome was. I think we have some pretty good taste testers in here or should I say good pop drinkers!!!!
Purple sheets came home today with your child regarding honor choir for boys/girls. If your child is interested, fill them out and send them back to school with your child by Friday.
Also coming home today was an invite to the PTA sponsored movie on Friday, September 5th. It is from 6-8 and the best part is it is FREE!!!!
Also was a green paper with websites for you to view to stay connected with PTA happenings. Put this in a safe place for reference.
Have a great night.
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