Back to Normal Schedule This Week

Hope you are enjoying your weekend. This week we are back to our regular schedule and routine. First of all, I enjoyed visiting with each of personally at conferences about the successes your child is having thus far in 4th grade. I am extremely proud of each and every one of them. On Friday, students were able to spend their fake money on items that were auctioned off. Many of them walked away with lots of fun items. They realized the importance of making positive choices and earning money for those kinds of things. Tomorrow they are starting off with $100 and money made this quarter will be able to be spent on fun days here in the classroom. They will not be an auction this next quarter. Like always, it is easy to earn money in here if you are respectful, responsible, and make good choices. We are starting book clubs this week now that we have learned lots of skills and strategies in our read-a-louds and whole group, we are ready to apply them into our small book club groups. This is so fun and one of my favorite parts of teaching reading. The discussions that go on about what they read is incredible. In math, this week we continuing with multiplication and getting into 2 digit x 2 digit. Also, we are starting to do some problem solving strategies. This week we will start with "making an organized list". In Science, we are starting a unit on wolves. We will learn about how they impact the food chain/web and listen to different debates from farmers and wildlife biologists to see the pros & cons of their reintroduction back into Yellowstone National Park. In Social Studies, we are continuing with our Montana History study. We are learning about the people of Montana in the 1700's. In Language, we are moving into Verbs, verb tenses, and linking and helping verbs. As you can see, we have lots going on this week. Thank you to all of you who donated items for the bake sale. It was very successful. We made $191 to add to our 4th grade field trip account. Congratulations to Denara, our student of the week. We enjoyed hearing all about you. She even spoke "Tonga" for us. Have a great rest of the weekend.