Texas Hero Project due on Monday. Other school info also.

Hi,

The kids have been working hard in class on their Texas Hero Projects.

We will begin presentations on Monday.

The students will receive three grades.  One is for the planning sheet, the project, and the presentation (with three objects or pictures that represent your hero).

1. Texas Hero Planning Sheet-The planning sheet is in their google classroom.  Some people used a paper copy.  Either paper or electronic is fine as long as it gets turned in and is complete.  I attached a copy of the Texas Hero Planning Sheet.  Be sure to write the summary and other research in your own words.  Read some facts, then cover it up and rewrite them in your own words is one way to do this.  There should be no copy and pasting being done from websites and put into a summary.  Be sure that the bibliography is in the MLA format.  Easybib is a great site for this. To get to Google Classroom, search for Google Classroom or go through your child's google account.  The student's username is their email-s######@student.roundrockisd.org password is their two word password that they use to log onto the computers.  Go to the dark blue social studies google classroom for Bartholomew and the Texas Hero information is on that page. If more research needs to be done, go to the Forest Creek website, then directory, fourth grade, Bartholomew, and when on the Bat Cave Blog, go to the Social Studies Link and then scroll down and you will see all the Texas Hero names and three websites to try.

2.Project-The students can choose the manner in which they present their research on their Texas Hero.  They can make a poster, do a computer presentation, dress up as the hero, make a cereal box project, song, etc... They have to be able to share the information from the planning sheet in their presentation. Take pride in your project and put effort into it.  Be creative and do your best.

3. Presentation- We will begin presentations on Monday and will continue until we are complete.  The students will need to have three objects or pictures that represent the hero as part of the presentation.  Practice presenting. Work on eye contact, speaking loudly and clearly, and speaking with expression.  (Some students may want to try an accent.) Work on talking TO the audience and making like a conversation rather than talking AT the audience and just reading from your project.  It is fine to have notes, but try not to just read to us.  

I am so excited to see the final products of all the hard work and research. We all can't wait to learn more about some Texas Heroes!

  

Read the Coyote Call for important school information. Here is a link to the Coyote Call .

Here is the link to other school flyers. Peachjar.

Here is a link for sites for Early Voting. Early voting locations.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. 

Thanks,

Pam

Newsletter

HI,

I hope you all are enjoying your weekend and were able to enjoy time with family and friends.

Social Studies Projects:  We are working on Texas Hero projects.  Information is attached.  We are trying to use the Google Classroom Planning page to record research for our person, but if using a paper copy is better for your child, then that is fine.  This project will receive a grade for the planning paper (hard copy or turned into Google Classroom), the project (poster, cereal box, computer slide show, etc....) and the presentation.  The planning paper and project will be due on April 24.  Then we will begin presentations.  We will work on the projects in class, but the students may need to complete them at home.  There are websites for each Texas Hero on my website (Bartholomew Bat Cave) under the Social Studies Link.  Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.  I can't wait to see the creative ways that the kids show what they know and teach us about some Texas Heroes!

Earth Week!- COYOTES JOIN THE RACE TO MAKE EARTH A BETTER PLACE!

RACE TO RECYCLE!

Starting Monday, April 17th we will start a recycling contest for all grade levels.  HEB is partnering with us to recycle plastic grocery bags.  Students will be asked to bring their plastic grocery bags to school, and collect them as a class.  On Thursday, we will collect the bags to see which class class collected the most bags. The winner will be announced on Friday and the entire class will be awarded a prize.

DAILY ACTIVITIES APRIL 17TH - 21ST:

MONDAY: Give a hoot, don't pollute!  Students please pick up trash on your walk to school or during recess, to keep our environment clean.

TUESDAY: Earth Day every day!  Students please bring a reusable water bottle to school to prevent plastic pollution.

WEDNESDAY: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!  Students pack your lunches with reusable containers to reduce waste. 

THURSDAY: Get into the green scene!  Coyotes wear green today to celebrate Earth Week.  

FRIDAY: Show you care, do your share!  Turn off lights when you leave a room.  Save water by taking shorter showers, and turn the water off when brushing teeth or washing your face.  Students are also encouraged to plant the Sunflower seeds given out at the last Walk and Bike to school day with their family to show how we love our planet Earth.

HEB EARTH DAY PROJECT

Our neighborhood HEB will be taking all our plastic bags and recycling them.  On Earth Day, HEB provides paper bags for their customers.  They have asked our students to decorate brown bags to use in their store on EarthDay.  Thanks to Mrs. Arnold for including this project in her curriculum again this year.  

If  you have any questions, please contact Whitney Kelley at whitneyclaire7@yahoo.com

Monthly Reading Challenge for April is to read an award winning book. (novel-about 100 pages) Mrs. Smith has also given the students an April Book Bingo Challenge. They can win food coupons for Mighty Fine and other places for completing the Book Bingo. The kids can turn in notecards for books read to have them count for the 40 Book Challenge. Have fun and keep reading!!!!!

Field Trip forms came home on Thursday.  The permission slip is pink. We will travel to the Bob Bullock Museum on Tuesday, May 2.  Let me know if you want to be a volunteer chaperone for the trip.  Be sure that you are up to date with your Volunteer Application through RRISD and are an approved volunteer.  Here is the link: RRISD volunteer application

Kids Kicking Out Hunger Kickball Tournament-On May 7, we will participate in a kickball tournament against Gattis, Blackland Prairie, and Cactus Ranch Elementary Schools. To play, fill out the form and bring it in with $10.  All money will go to Copprome Orphanage in Honduras. We will also collect food for the Round Rock Serving Center. Our sponsors will provide you with a FCE Kickball t-shirt to wear on the day of the event. When you register, you will get an email with a google form to fill out t-shirt sizes and give you more information.  You can create your own team or register and we will place you on a team. We can't wait to see you there!!!!!! Ask me or Mrs. Shogan if you have any  questions.

FCE Coyote Carnival-April 21-Thank you to the people who were able to donate items and/or gift cards for our Sweet Treats Class Auction Basket.  Thank you to Mrs. Alexander for putting our basket together. Food will be sold the night of the carnival - check out this flyer for all the details! Questions?  Please contact Laila Gregory at fcepta.carnival@gmail.com.

Volunteers needed for the Carnival on April 21-We cannot pull off this huge event without your help!

• We need 107 Adult volunteer hours and we only have 42% filled.  Even if you can’t help the evening of the carnival, we need lots of help during the day, too!

Adult Volunteers -

• We need another 96 Student volunteer hours so please have your middle school and/or high school students sign up here
• If you can’t give your time, please consider volunteering baked goods for our Bake Sale -
• Ask your child’s teacher if they need help putting together their silent auction item
• Ask your child’s homeroom parent if they need help putting together the class basket for the raffle

Please contact Danielle Martinez at fcepta.volunteer@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Read about our week:

Reading-We had a fun egg hunt while practicing for STAAR.  We read a poem from a released STAAR test and I cut the questions and answer choices and put them into plastic eggs.  I hd the eggs around the room and the kids found them and answered the questions.  It was a fun way to practice some test taking strategies.  We will continue to practice test taking strategies as we read our book club books and talk about them.  Ask your child about his/her reading.

Writing-We will continue to work on poems, narratives, and expository pieces for Rising Star and we will write about our mentors. We will also work on writing some fantasy stories.

Vocabulary- We worked on multiple meaning words last week and will practice academic reading words this week.  Go to quizlet.com and practice using some fun games.  We will have a test on 4/21/17 on the Reading Review Words and Academic Vocabulary for Reading Words.

Spelling-Comparatives and Superlatives are words that we will study this week for spelling. Comparatives compare two things.  My cat is softer than your cat.  Your house is bigger than my house.  Superlatives are words that compare more than two things.  Joe is the oldest brother in the family.  She is the smartest person on the team.  We will practice spelling these types of words as well as some of our individual words this week.  

Social Studies-Texas Heroes Projects-We will continue researching a Texas Hero for a project due on April 24, 2017.  The kids will choose a hero, will research that hero, and choose a way to present the hero to the class.  See the note above.

Dates to remember:

Monday, April 17-Wear College Shirts, Service Club from 2:50-3:50-Rising Star Entries due to teachers-Return field trip permission slips. 

Thursday, April 20-Wear Green and bring in those plastic grocery bags to recycle!

Friday, April 21-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Vocabulary Test on Reading Vocabulary Words. Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green-Kickball Tournament Registration Due on Monday-FCE Coyote Carnival from 5:30-9:00  

Monday, April 24-Wear College Shirts, Writing Club from 2:50-3:50-Bond Election Early Voting Opens

Friday, April 28-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green.STEAM DAY-Presenters needed- contact lorilyn_brown@roundrockisd.org or laura_queton@roundrockisd.org.

volunteers needed: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4aa8ab2aaaf58-forest

Monday, May 1-Wear College Shirts, Service Club from 2:50-3:50

Tuesday, May 2-4th Grade Field Trip to the Bob Bullock Museum

Friday, May 5-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green

Sunday, May 7-Kids Kicking Out Hunger Kickball Tournament 12-4pm at Gattis Elementary School

Monday, May 8-STAAR Testing-4th grade Math-No Writing Club

Tuesday, May 9-STAAR Testing-4th grade Reading

Thursday, May 11-Rising Star Night-6:00 pm

Friday, May 12-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green

Monday, May 15-Wear College Shirts, Last Service Club of the year from 2:50-3:50

Friday, May 19-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green-Field Day 4th Grade-12:30-2:30

Monday, May 22-Wear College Shirts, Last Writing Club of the year from 2:50-3:50

Thursday, May 25-Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast-7:30, PTA General Meeting at 8:00

Friday, May 26-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green

Monday, May 29-No school-Memorial Day

Thursday, June 1-Last Day of School- End of the year party TBA

Thank you for sharing your child with me.  Let me know if you have any concerns.

Sincerely,

Pam

Newsletter

HI,

I hope you all are enjoying your weekend. 

Food Drive: Thank you for donating for our food drive.  We donated about 300 items to the Round Rock Serving Center.  

Mentors: We had a great time with our mentors on Tuesday.  We will create a book about them. Each child will write a page about their mentor and we will include photos. We will print a few copies of  our book to keep in the classrooms and we will give each mentor a book.  We enjoy learning from them and playing games with them and the mentors look forward to coming to see the kids each month. It is a win/win situation!

Monthly Reading Challenge for April is to read an award winning book. (novel-about 100 pages) Mrs. Smith has also given the students an April Book Bingo Challenge. They can win food coupons for Mighty Fine and other places for completing the Book Bingo. The kids can turn in notecards for books read to have them count for the 40 Book Challenge. Have fun and keep reading!!!!!

*Reading Response Letters will be due on Thursday this week, since we don't have school on Friday.

Field Trip forms came home on Thursday.  The permission slip is pink. We will travel to the Bob Bullock Museum on Tuesday, May 2.  Let me know if you want to be a volunteer chaperone for the trip.  Be sure that you are up to date with your Volunteer Application through RRISD and are an approved volunteer.  Here is the link: RRISD volunteer application

Report Cards also came home on Thursday.  Please return the envelope and one copy signed.

Kids Kicking Out Hunger Kickball Tournament-On May 7, we will participate in a kickball tournament against Gattis, Blackland Prairie, and Cactus Ranch Elementary Schools. To play, fill out the form and bring it in with $10.  All money will go to Copprome Orphanage in Honduras. We will also collect food for the Round Rock Serving Center. Our sponsors will provide you with a FCE Kickball t-shirt to wear on the day of the event. When you register, you will get an email with a google form to fill out t-shirt sizes and give you more information.  You can create your own team or register and we will place you on a team. We can't wait to see you there!!!!!! Ask me or Mrs. Shogan if you have any  questions.

FCE Coyote Carnival-April 21-Please send in items and/or gift cards for our Sweet Treats Class Auction Basket.  Thank you!!! We will be selling all-access wristbands and raffle tickets at DISCOUNTED prices on the following days:

April 7th, April 12th, and April 13th. Food will be sold the night of the carnival - check out this flyer for all the details! Questions?  Please contact Laila Gregory at fcepta.carnival@gmail.com.

Volunteers needed for the Carnival on April 21-We cannot pull off this huge event without your help!

• We need 107 Adult volunteer hours and we only have 42% filled.  Even if you can’t help the evening of the carnival, we need lots of help during the day, too!

Adult Volunteers -

• We need another 96 Student volunteer hours so please have your middle school and/or high school students sign up here
• If you can’t give your time, please consider volunteering baked goods for our Bake Sale -
• Ask your child’s teacher if they need help putting together their silent auction item
• Ask your child’s homeroom parent if they need help putting together the class basket for the raffle

Please contact Danielle Martinez at fcepta.volunteer@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Read about our week:

Reading-We are continuing to read Number the Stars. We are enjoying our book club books and are meeting with our groups to discuss the plot, tricky words, questions, the characters, the theme, and make predictions.  We read The Butterfly this week and wrote responses about it. This book is about a girl in France during WWII who discovers that her mother is working with the resistance and hiding Jewish families in their basement.  The story is based on the lives of author, Patricia Polacco's family.  This week, we will continue reading our book club books, do some STAAR practice, and will read a book called Baseball Saved Us which is about the Japanese Internment Camps.  Ask your child about his/her reading.

Writing-We will continue to work on poems, narratives, and expository pieces for Rising Star and we will write about our mentors.

Spelling/Vocabulary-We will learn about and practice using multiple meaning words and dictionary definitions this week as part of our word study.  Practice on Quizlet and we will have a test on Thursday. https://quizlet.com/class/3493745/  Look for the set called Multiple Meaning Words.  We will have a test on 4/21/17 on the Reading Review Words and Academic Vocabulary for Reading Words.

Social Studies-Texas Heroes Projects-We will begin researching a Texas Hero for a project due on April 24, 2017.  The kids will choose a hero, will research that hero, and choose a way to present the hero to the class.  The PM class already brought home information about the project and chose their heroes.  The AM class will do this on Monday.  This will give us all a chance to research and be creative as we learn about some important people in Texas history.

Dates to remember:

Monday, April 10-Wear College Shirts, Writing Club from 2:50-3:50

Wednesday, April 12-Family Night at Zaxby's

Thursday, April 13-Reading Response Letters Due, Multiple Meaning Words Test, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green.

Friday, April 14-No School-Keep reading and enjoy time with family and friends.

Monday, April 17-Wear College Shirts, Service Club from 2:50-3:50-Rising Star Entries due to teachers

Friday, April 21-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Vocabulary Test on Reading Vocabulary Words. Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green-Kickball Tournament Registration Due-FCE Coyote Carnival from 5:30-9:00  

Monday, April 24-Wear College Shirts, Writing Club from 2:50-3:50-Bond Election Early Voting Opens

Friday, April 28-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green.STEAM DAY-Presenters needed- contact lorilyn_brown@roundrockisd.org or laura_queton@roundrockisd.org.

volunteers needed: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4aa8ab2aaaf58-forest

Monday, May 1-Wear College Shirts, Service Club from 2:50-3:50

Tuesday, May 2-4th Grade Field Trip to the Bob Bullock Museum

Friday, May 5-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green

Sunday, May 7-Kids Kicking Out Hunger Kickball Tournament 12-4pm at Gattis Elementary School

Monday, May 8-STAAR Testing-4th grade Math-No Writing Club

Tuesday, May 9-STAAR Testing-4th grade Reading

Thursday, May 11-Rising Star Night-6:00 pm

Friday, May 12-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green

Monday, May 15-Wear College Shirts, Last Service Club of the year from 2:50-3:50

Friday, May 19-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green-Field Day 4th Grade-12:30-2:30

Monday, May 22-Wear College Shirts, Last Writing Club of the year from 2:50-3:50

Thursday, May 25-Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast-7:30, PTA General Meeting at 8:00

Friday, May 26-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green

Monday, May 29-No school-Memorial Day

Thursday, June 1-Last Day of School- End of the year party TBA

Thank you for sharing your child with me.  Let me know if you have any concerns.

Sincerely,

Pam

Newsletter

Hi,

I hope you all are enjoying your weekend. 

Food Drive-Bring in canned goods by Thursday for our food drive for the Round Rock Serving Center.

Early Release Day on Wednesday

Mentors are coming on Tuesday-We are so excited to see our mentors again.  You are welcome to come meet our mentors.  They will be here from about 9:30-10:30 in the library.

Monthly Reading Challenge for March-Read a book with at least 300 pages!  Notecards are due on Monday!  We will have a special treat at lunchtime on Monday, April 3. Happy Reading!!!!  

Read about our week:

Reading-We are continuing to read Number the Stars and started our book club books.  We will also work in small groups to read books and articles about WWII.  

Writing-We are writing poems and narratives that could be submitted to Rising Star.  We are reviewing elements of story and figurative language which also supports our reading work.

Spelling-We will learn about the Greek and Latin roots-hydr and aqua, which both relate to water. We will have a test on Friday.

Social Studies-We worked in groups to create an original battle flag for the Texas Revolution. Then presented our flags to the class and explained the colors and symbols used.  Working in groups can be challenging for many people.  It was tricky at times, but everyone found ways to work together and create something new and original.  I was very impressed with their efforts. We will start our Texas heroes research by the end of the week, but the projects won't be due for a few weeks.

Dates to remember:

Monday, April 3-Wear College Shirts, Service Club from 2:50-3:50

Tuesday, April 4-9:00 PTA General Meeting

Wednesday, April 5-Early Release Day, Kona Ice Sales

Thursday, April 6-Food Drive Ends

Friday, April 7-Reading Response Letters Due, Spelling Test, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green.

Saturday, April 8-Empty Bowl Event-We hope many of you will join us at The Festival on April 8 from 11-2pm at Cedar Ridge High School - for more information, visit emptybowlsroundrock.com or on social media @rremptybowls

Thank you for sharing your child with me.  Let me know if you have any concerns.

Sincerely,

Pam