Newsletter

Hi,

I can't believe we only have three days left of fourth grade!  We will have some fun, but will continue learning.  

Teacher Appreciation Week:  Teacher Appreciation Week was amazing and you all went above and beyond to make me feel so special. Thank you for the flowers, notes, gift cards, candy, presents, and especially the notes.  I love working with your children and I appreciate all of your support.  Thank you everyone.  It has been a wonderful year!

End of the Year Party-Our end of the year party will be on June 1, 2017 at 9:15 am-10:15 am.  We will have brunch/breakfast type snacks and have some fun activities.  We will do autographs in the afternoon on Wednesday. It will be a great wrap up to a wonderful year of learning together.  Thank you to everyone who signed up to help or donate.  It is going to be a great party!  Here is the sign up genius: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b054ea4a923aa8-endofyear

Thank you, Mrs. Alexander: Thank you to our homeroom mom, Mrs. Alexander, for your help with this party as well as all of our homeroom needs this year.  Thank you for organizing the Teacher Appreciation Week activities. The carnival basket was wonderful and the parties have been so much fun!   Thank you for all your hard work.

Autograph Signing on Wednesday-Bring in your yearbooks.  If you don't have a yearbook, don't worry.  We will provide paper autographs books to anyone who needs one or who doesn't want to write in his/her yearbook.

40 Book Challenge-We are wrapping up our 40 Book Challenge.  Lillian, Jaida, Gage, and Divya have passed the 40 Book Mark!  Many students are very close.  Continue to read and turn in notecards!  We will have a celebration on Wednesday during lunch for everyone who read an award winning book in April or May and will have a special celebration for everyone who read 40 Books!  I hope that everyone enjoyed reading this year and tried some new genres.  Even if you didn't read 40 books, hopefully everyone read a few more than they may have in the past and found some new favorites.  Keep reading all summer.  I will set up a chat in our Google Classroom, so that everyone can share and comment on great books that they read during the break.  Happy Reading!

Read about our week:

Reading and Writing-We are working on the 40 Book Challenge and sharing our favorite books with each other. A video of the book, Tuesday, was enjoyed and then we wrote our own stories inspired by the  We will continue to read and discuss Chris Van Allsburg's books and will write creative stories based on some of Chris Van Allsburg's illustrations.  On Tuesday, we will watch the movie based on the book, Watson's Go to Birmingham.  Many of the students read this book and we will use it to continue to talk about acceptance and understanding others. 

Social Studies-We will continue to learn about the Republic of Texas.  We will also use Google Translate to continue to write letters in Spanish and English to children in an orphanage in Honduras.  

FYI-Your child will bring home a white grammar book this week.  In class we use mentor sentences from books that we've read to teach grammar in an authentic way, so we don't use this book very often.  Your child will enjoy using this book this summer to practice many of the skills taught this year.  

Dates to remember:

Monday, May 29-No school-Memorial Day

Wednesday, May 31-Reading Challenge Lunch Treat-Award Winning Book and Students who met the 40 Challenge Goal-Autograph signing at 1:00 pm

Thursday, June 1-Last Day of School- End of the year party 9:15 am-10:15 am, Report cards will be in Thursday Folders

Thank you for a wonderful year!  Read everyday all summer! Work on Think Through Math and Istation.  Practice reading, writing, and math in different ways and keep talking to others about your learning and your questions.Thank you for sharing your child with me.  Let me know if you have any concerns.

Sincerely,

Pam