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!!!!
Monday, September 8, 2014
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.
Friday, August 29, 2014
Academics Are in Full Swing
Welcome Back-I hope you all had a great 3 day weekend. Now that we have the start of school behind us, we are ready to start with all academic areas this week.
Our objectives/goals for the week are:
Math-we are starting place value and working with large numbers up into the millions. We will not only be able to say & write them, but to put them into expanded and word form as well. Also, we will be working hard on the "value" of the digits.
Reading/Lead 21: We will be taking our Group Placement test on Tues. & Wednesday to see what level we will be in for Lead 21. Also, this week we will be reading a Read-A-Loud chapter book and working on the strategies of predicting & summarizing.
Language: We will be learning the 4 types of sentences as well as starting parts of speech.
Spelling: Unit 1 word list will come home on Tuesday so study for test on Friday.
Montana History: We started this on Friday by students writing down all they know about Montana. I saw some good, interesting facts, but also got to see that they will be excited to learn many new, cool things about our magnificent state. They are actually going to have a journal of information to take with them at the end of the year. These are pretty amazing!!!!
Social Studies: We start out the year working with map skills like the continents, hemispheres, latitude/longitude, etc.
Science: We are going to start with fun experiment on Tuesday to introduce the Scientific Process. After that we are going to be learning about hurricanes.
Please make sure you get those getting to know you forms back by to me by Tuesday. Thank you.
Looking forward to a great week with lots of learning going on. Make sure you read this blog daily to keep up with our daily classroom happenings.
Our objectives/goals for the week are:
Math-we are starting place value and working with large numbers up into the millions. We will not only be able to say & write them, but to put them into expanded and word form as well. Also, we will be working hard on the "value" of the digits.
Reading/Lead 21: We will be taking our Group Placement test on Tues. & Wednesday to see what level we will be in for Lead 21. Also, this week we will be reading a Read-A-Loud chapter book and working on the strategies of predicting & summarizing.
Language: We will be learning the 4 types of sentences as well as starting parts of speech.
Spelling: Unit 1 word list will come home on Tuesday so study for test on Friday.
Montana History: We started this on Friday by students writing down all they know about Montana. I saw some good, interesting facts, but also got to see that they will be excited to learn many new, cool things about our magnificent state. They are actually going to have a journal of information to take with them at the end of the year. These are pretty amazing!!!!
Social Studies: We start out the year working with map skills like the continents, hemispheres, latitude/longitude, etc.
Science: We are going to start with fun experiment on Tuesday to introduce the Scientific Process. After that we are going to be learning about hurricanes.
Please make sure you get those getting to know you forms back by to me by Tuesday. Thank you.
Looking forward to a great week with lots of learning going on. Make sure you read this blog daily to keep up with our daily classroom happenings.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Terrific Thursday
Another great day today for Team Hankins. We finally were able to do more than just procedures-procedures-procedures today. We started off the day with some fun review math. I think these kids are ready for a math challenge!!!! Yay. It was so nice to see them come in right away and get to work on tasks at hand. Also, they were so helpful to each other without any complaining. Way to work on that positive character. We started a "getting to know you" project today where they are coming up with 10 cool things that we should know about them. We will continue these tomorrow and they will be ready for your viewing by Open House on September 9th. Ask them 3 things they learned about Mrs. Hankins today. If they can tell you, write in on a notecard or wherever and send it to school with them tomorrow for free money. (Eventually we will put these blog answers in our assignment notebooks when they arrive.)
Mrs. Neese came in for her first visit today to introduce herself and tell us about what she will be doing to help kids out here at Bitterroot School. She played a fun game too. Ask them about it and if they can tell you, write Mrs. Neese on the card for free money.
Then we moved on to more math and played an addition game with cards as you can see from the few pics I took.
My newsletter went home today for you to read. Has lots in it about our fake money system. We did have a few tickets & money taken today, but it is all a learning experience about making "good choices" and remaining positive. In the packet, please make sure you fill out the "All about you" form for me to put in my binder so I have your contact numbers & email. Thank you. These are due by Tuesday. Free money when they are returned by then.
Have a great night.
Mrs. Neese came in for her first visit today to introduce herself and tell us about what she will be doing to help kids out here at Bitterroot School. She played a fun game too. Ask them about it and if they can tell you, write Mrs. Neese on the card for free money.
Then we moved on to more math and played an addition game with cards as you can see from the few pics I took.
My newsletter went home today for you to read. Has lots in it about our fake money system. We did have a few tickets & money taken today, but it is all a learning experience about making "good choices" and remaining positive. In the packet, please make sure you fill out the "All about you" form for me to put in my binder so I have your contact numbers & email. Thank you. These are due by Tuesday. Free money when they are returned by then.
Have a great night.
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