Happy Texas Independence Day! Mrs. Tennyson's last day with us was Friday, and Mrs. Moellenberg comes back on Monday! Spring break starts next Monday....but we still have a very busy and fun-filled week ahead!
Monthly Reading Challenge for March-Read a book with at least 300 pages! We had a great time celebrating reading informational books and now will work on our stamina and our March challenge is to read a book with at least 300 pages. This will count as 2 books on our 40 book challenge. Since we have spring break, you will have more time to read!!!!! I can't wait to read your notecard about your book! Happy Reading!!!!
Spring Break Challenge-A reading log will come home this week for our Spring Break Challenge! Be sure to read at least 100 minutes over spring break. All students who read at least 100 minutes and turn in a completed log, will get to choose a prize. The students, who challenge themselves and read the most, will get to choose first. My hope is that students are motivated to push themselves to read A LOT over spring break (and always) and get lost in their books. I am excited to read more over spring break! Students are welcome to send me an email and share about their books. They are also encouraged to share their books on Google Classroom!
Author Visit on Wednesday-Nathan Hale-Nathan Hale, author of One Dead Spy and Alamo All-Stars, will visit our school on Wednesday. The third, fourth, and fifth graders will hear him speak. There will be books on sale. An order form came home last week. We are excited to hear him speak and tell about his Alamo book!
STAAR Ready Math Test on Tuesday-We will take this test on Tuesday to determine each child's strengths and areas that still need work.
Writing Camp!!!!!!-Camp Write Along is our fourth grade activity to help us have fun as we get ready for Writing STAAR. Our classroom will be transformed into a campground. The students may bring sleeping bags and pillows. Wear camping clothes and get ready to write! We will have camp sing alongs with the whole fourth grade. It is a great time to pull together all we've learned and practice some more to be able to show our stuff on March 28. Writing Camp will be March 20, 21, and 22. Get ready campers!!!!!
Let's read about our week:
Reading-We will continue to read and discuss dramas and compare them to fiction writing.
Writing-We will examine expository writing and highlight and label parts of an expository. We will also read the introduction, reasons, and conclusion of an essay. The details sentences will be cut into strips and the students will organize the details and examples by putting them with the appropriate reason and put them in order create a strong flow. We will also write using sensory details and figurative language. Be sure to write over spring break!
Grammar-We will continue to work with apostrophes and compare possessives and contractions. We are also discussing differences between plurals and possessives. We will look at lots of sentences and notice when a comma is used because the sentence is compound or a list of actions or things. We will also notice when a comma is not needed and as always we will identify complete sentences (independent clauses) and incomplete sentences (dependent clauses).
Spelling-This week we will review tricky words and most of our lists will be independent words. Be sure to practice at home.
Social Studies-We and will perform a reader's theater of the book, Voices of the Alamo. We also will choose a hero for our Texas Heroes projects. There are websites bookmarked for each of the Texas Heroes on our Bartholomew Bat Blog. http://pambartholomew.
Dates to remember:
Monday, March 6-Wear college shirts. Service Club from 2:50-3:50 PTA Family Fun NIght at Hat Creek
Tuesday, March 7-STAAR Ready Math test-PTA Meeting at 3:15
Friday, March 10--Reading Response Letters due, Revising and Editing Homework Due, Reading Passage due, Spelling test, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple and green.
Monday, March 13-Friday, March 17-Spring Break-Spring Break Reading Challenge!
Monday, March 20-Writing Camp-Wear camp clothes. Service Club from 2:50-3:50-Spring Break Reading Challenge Logs are due!
Tuesday, March 21-Writing Camp
Wednesday, March 22-Writing Camp
Friday, March 24--Reading Response Letters due, Revising and Editing Homework Due, Spelling test, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple and green.
Monday, March 27-Wear college shirts. Writing Club 2:50-3:50.
Tuesday, March 28-STAAR Writing Test
Hope you had a great weekend! Thank you for sharing your child with me. Let me know if you have any concerns.
Sincerely,
Pam
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