Week 4 in Review

Hello!

We had a great week! As you will see, the  highlights are typcially around dramatics!  We have enjoyed using funny voices and accents.  We greeted each other in operatic voices, did book talks in fun voices and have generally enjoyed being dramatic.  This class loves to sing and act things out.  I'm looking for ways to capitalize on those passions with our learners.  They are also very pleased to be using the Chrome Books more and more.  They have been incredibly careful and responsible while using them.  Ms. Hennig, our librarian went out of her way to give us positive feedback

She wrote:
"I had to email you to tell you how AMAZING your students just were in my Library Exploratory class...They were all model students, and I am so proud of them and just had to tell you."  We loved getting that email!

Thank you for your support of the Weekly Reading and Math Logs!  We are glad to be getting that started.  We are still working out the Fourth Grade Math homework.  This week we did a better job of matching it with the work we are doing in class.  This week we spent several days building arrays and talking about dimensions, factor pairs, prime, composite and square numbers.

On Friday we had our first Kiva Awards and Team Time.  All students participated.  It was a blast!  Ms. Weegar and I also taught two parts of a four part song.

Reminders:

• Picture day is this Wednesday, 9/24
• Fourth graders may want their own bike helmets for PE this week.
• Please send a note to me with your child in the morning if there is an end of day change whenever possible.  Or send me an early morning email.  Here is why:  students are typically anxious about these changes and check in with me repeatedly throughout the day.  When I don't know about the change, it is difficult to be reassuring.  Thanks for your help with this.  
• This week we shall work on decorating our Writer's Notebooks.  We will use magazine pictures, colored paper and such.  Students are welcome to bring photos from home too.  

As always, thanks for your support!  Have a great week.