Weekly News

for November 24-25, 2008

 Important Information

Tests: The math test for ch 4 pgs 82-107 will be on Monday, November 24th.  The northeast region state / capital / great lakes / river test will be on Friday, December 5th. 

Friday Folder: Please sign and send back the religion, social studies and science tests.  Everything else can stay at home. 

Please send a water bottle with your child's name clearly written on it so they can stay hydrated during our lessons.  Each morning before recess we will have snack time.  While they are eating their HEALTHY (please) snacks, I will be reading to them from Double Fudge by Judy Blume, a chapter book on the Battle of the Books reading list. 

Links to content specific sites the students can explore on the internet will be input as the year progresses.  Longterm homework dates will be posted on this site but assignment notebooks should be checked nightly for daily homework.  

Birthdays - Celebrating birthdays during the month of November are: Eileen on the 1st and Steven on the 6th.

Art -  No art class this week.

Computers - No computer class this week.

K4 Buddies - No K4 Buddies this week.  This year's pairings are (fourth grader followed by their K4 Buddy(ies): Ben/George; Steven/Drew; McKenna/Micki; Sean/Owen; Elizabeth/Grace; David H/Cole; Jack/Nathan and Ben; Robbie/Reed; Martha/Jay and Molly; Nicholas/Sailor; David P/Jake; Catherine/Sofia and Megan; Eileen/Maeve and Helen; Seth/Keegan; Emily/Kaitlin and Sarah.  We meet with them and do activities in the cafeteria.     

Math - The test for ch 4 pgs 82-107 is on Monday, November 24th.  The rest of Monday and all of Tuesday will be spent doing the ch 5 pretest, doing a timed practice, practicing our problem solving and playing multiplication baseball. 

Meeting - No meeting this week.  Elizabeth G and John will share at our next meeting on December 10th. 

Penmanship - We practice our cursive hand writing so our letters are the correct size and shape, have the same slant and correct pacing which makes our writing a pleasure to read.  We'll be working on pages 59-60.

Reading - No reading test next week.  We finished reading Caddie Woodlawn.  We will watch the Caddie Woodlawn movie both days this week.    

Religion - No religion test this week.  Monday we will glue together our Advent Wreaths which we'll hang from our lockers.  We will also finish making beaded candy canes for our K4 Buddies for Christmas. 

Our class will be responsible for school masses on January 15th, February 5th, March 12th and May 7th.  Please come celebrate the Eucharist with us.  If families attend the school masses and would like to sit with their fourth grader, please feel free to come up and we'll welcome you into our pews.

Social Studies - No social studies test this week.  Monday, we will discuss and take class notes on the American Revolution vocab and reading we did last Friday.  Tuesday, we'll read about General Washington's troops as they wintered at Valley Forge. 

The northeast region state / capital / great lakes / river test will be on Friday, December 5th.  The must have the locations and spellings of the states memorized.  Then they use a word bank to match capitals to states and locate the great lakes and rivers.  They each have a list and map of the information they are responsible for. 

After the Christmas break, we will begin working on our State Fair projects.  A parent has asked that the states be picked before the holidays to allow time for those who want to order information from state tourism boards to receive the information without impacting the timeline of the project.  I think this is a great idea.  The states have been chosen: Ben A - North Carolina, Steven B - New Jersey, McKenna - Hawaii, Sean - Nevada, Elizabeth G - Virginia, David H - South Dakota, Jack - Indiana, Robbie - New York, Martha - Minnesota, Nicholas - Oklahoma, David P - Florida, Catherine - Oregon, Eileen - California, Seth - Illinois, Emily - Kentucky, Luke - Alabama, Tim - Pennsylvania, John - Texas, Michael - Washington, Stephen F - Ohio, Isabella - Maine, Elizabeth J - Alaska, Maddie K - New Mexico, Perrin - South Carolina, Ben L - Iowa, Matthew P - Colorado, Matt S - Massachusetts, Anne - Arkansas, Maddie T - Utah.     

Spelling - No spelling test this week. 

November - Our class will be exploring Cooperation during November.  After determining meanings for the word, we will do activities and practice what it means, and what it doesn't mean, to be cooperative.