Dear Parents,
On April 2, Ms Swank's class and my class will be going to the State House in Concord. In order to go on this exciting, educational field trip, we need to have a CPR certified person as a chaperone. If you are willing to go with us, please send me a note or e-mail. We also will be going to Strawberry Banke in June and will need someone for that trip too.
Many people are finding good websites for the children to practice their math facts and spelling words. If you need help with Everyday math, you can go to the Everydaymathonline.com and they will walk you through the process for partial sums, product, or quotients. We are now working with fractions and will soon be moving on to measurements.
The children are working on their Personal Narrative. Some of the stories are very emotional and have a lot of voice to them. We have gone to the Smart Room to type them, and I hope to finish that up soon.
After vacation we will start a project involving the geographical regions of the United States. This project will be done mostly in class, but may need to have some research done at home.
The school year seems to be flying by now! We have a lot to do, yet.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Dear Parents,
The children had a great week, ending in a Valentine party. Thank you to all who supplied goodies for the children and thank you to Kim Kaslowski for organizing it. On Friday, we also baked bread to coincide with our reading unit on microbes.
We got the results back from the online reading test and all the children did very well. I was very pleased with the results. Then I received more good news when I scored the mid-year math test. It looks like the kids are secure in the skills that they need for fourth grade, so far. Soon you will be receiving the results of the NECAP testing which they participated in this fall. I am sure you will be pleasantly surprised, too.
Some students have been telling me that they would like to do some more math practice on line.
I have given them some sites, but would also like to share with you the Everyday math site.
You can get some tutorials there for anything we teach in fourth grade. Just go to Everydaymathonline.com and then click on algorithms. It is free!
The children had a great week, ending in a Valentine party. Thank you to all who supplied goodies for the children and thank you to Kim Kaslowski for organizing it. On Friday, we also baked bread to coincide with our reading unit on microbes.
We got the results back from the online reading test and all the children did very well. I was very pleased with the results. Then I received more good news when I scored the mid-year math test. It looks like the kids are secure in the skills that they need for fourth grade, so far. Soon you will be receiving the results of the NECAP testing which they participated in this fall. I am sure you will be pleasantly surprised, too.
Some students have been telling me that they would like to do some more math practice on line.
I have given them some sites, but would also like to share with you the Everyday math site.
You can get some tutorials there for anything we teach in fourth grade. Just go to Everydaymathonline.com and then click on algorithms. It is free!
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