Code Red Drill

As a school we will have a Code Red Drill in the near future and fourth grade worked with students and had run through today in homeroom, B1 & B2.  We talked students through the procedure before hand, explaining the difference between a code yellow (event in the community) and a code red (event in the school).

The procedure is for students to get on floor & out of view, quickly & quietly. We emphasized that their job to get quickly in place & stay still and quiet.  Be assured that we are working to have students prepared in the case of an emergency as we already have tornado & fire drills.

My classroom would love help building our technology resources

I want to make sure my students have the materials they need to succeed. So I've created a classroom project request at DonorsChoose.org, an award-winning charity.

I'm asking for donations of any size to help my kids. For the next four days, any donation you make to my project will be doubled! If you know anyone who is passionate about education, please pass this along. Your donation will brighten my students' school year, and you'll get photos and thank yous from our class.

Here's my classroom request:

http://www.donorschoose.org/project/reading-technology/941765/

To have your donation matched dollar for dollar, enter the match code INSPIRE on the payment screen. This awesome match offer lasts through January 7.

My students and I greatly appreciate your support.

elective registration

Your child will be bringing home 2nd semester elective registration information on Monday which is due back on or before Friday, December 21st.  They will be registering for electives right after winter break.

A child that is AG identified can sign up for AG electives.  All other students must have a letter stating that  they have been selected to take an AG elective in order to register for an AG elective.

Research Projects

The fourth graders are beginning research projects this quarter. The first step is to send a letter of request to the county they have chosen to research. We are hoping to get the letters written and in the mail in the next week. We are in need of stamps.  We are hoping that you'd help the team out by sending a stamp, or two, or more to school to help us out.

30 Book Challenge

We are challenging your fourth grader to read 30 books by the end of the school year. We know they can do it!  To make this more manageable and to encourage everyone to participate, we are breaking this down into 10 books each for 2^nd, 3^rd & 4^th quarters.  Easy right?  Students will be required to read a certain number of different genres each quarter!

For more information see the links on the right under the 30 Book Challenge label.  If you have any questions, please contact your child's language arts teacher. Reading logs must contain the titles of the books read & have parent initials in all boxes.  Completed reading logs are due on Friday, January 18th.

We will have a celebration on Friday, January 25, 2013 for all that complete the challenge.  

We'd love to have you accept the challenge & participate with your child.