Newsletter

Hi,

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving Break!  We only have a few weeks until the winter holiday, so lots of learning and hard work will take place in that time!  

Remember to record time read over break and turn it in on Monday for prizes. ALL students who have read at least 150 minutes in the 9 days of break (less than 20 minutes a day) and turn in a reading paper, will get to choose a prize from our prize table.  The student who read the most amount of minutes over break will get to choose first!  We will choose from the table in order of minutes read from the most minutes read down to 150 minutes.  If you read less than 150 minutes, you will not get to choose a prize. You can fill out the Schlitterbahn Reading paper or just turn in another paper or your reading log with times read over break.

Remember to fill out notecards for books finished, so that they count in our 40 Book Challenge.

TAG Parent Nomination

TAG Parent Nomination is open from now until December 6th. View the powerpoint presentation slide.Please make sure to turn in your referral packet by December 6th. No late submissions will be accepted. For more information, please visit the Gifted and Talented website.

OMS Toy Drive for Dell Children's Hospital-We have over 150 toys donated already. Our goal is 200 toys and the toy drive ends this week. Please consider donating a toy for the children at the hospital. Thank you so much for helping us help others. From the FCE Service Club

Great job on our Boogie O"Rama performance. You worked hard and it was a fun and funky performance. Thank you to our music teachers, Mrs. McDaniel and Mrs. Crochet, and all the singers for their hard work.

Passport to Adventure-Forest Creek’s Annual Literacy and Multicultural Night will occur on Thursday, December 8th, 2016! Your trip through the continents will highlight our studies of varying countries and cultures, including presentations from our own FCE community.  If you’d like to host a table and share your culture, please view the informational flyer and email questions to girlieluna@gmail.com.

Read about our week:

Reading: In reading we will read some biographies and literary nonfiction books.  We will also research Asia as well as read and analyze fairy tales and folk tales from Asia for our literacy night projects. Fourth graders will highlight Asia for Literacy Night and will complete projects that will be on display.  Be sure to attend.

Spelling: We will work on words with silent letters this week.

Writing: We will continue to work on writing expository pieces and set writing goals for ourselves.  

Social Studies:  We will learn about missions and the positive and negative aspects of the Spanish Missions in Texas.

 Dates to remember:

Monday, Nov. 28-Thanksgiving Break Reading Challenge Minutes due for Prizes, Service Club and Running Club after school, College Shirt Day

Wednesday, Nov. 30-Picture Retakes

Friday, Dec. 2-Homework Packets due, Reading Response Letter due, Spelling test, Turn in reading logs as you finish them, FCE Spirit Day! Wear purple and green.

Monday, Dec. 5-College Shirt Day, Writing Club and Running Club after school

  

Wednesday, Dec. 7-PTA Family Fun Night at Zaxby's

Thursday, Dec. 8-Passport to Literacy Night at FCE-More info to come

Friday, Dec. 9-Homework packets due, Reading Response Letter due, Spelling test, Turn in reading logs as you finish them, FCE Spirit Day! Wear purple and green.  Ridgeview Band, Choir, and Orchestra Concert at 1:15 pm 

Monday, Dec. 12-College Shirt Day, Service Club 2:50-3:50 pm

Thursday, Dec. 15-Winter Party for fourth grade at 1:00 pm in classrooms

Friday, Dec. 16-Winter Break begins-Winter Break Reading Contest!

Tuesday, Jan. 3-Welcome back to school!

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.  I am thankful for having the opportunity to work with such wonderful students and families and am excited to be back with everyone on Monday.

See you soon.

Sincerely,

Pam