First Day of School!!!

A wonderful first day of school.  Students spent a lot of the day in homeroom but did spend 40 minutes in language arts and math today.

It was a pleasure to meet the kids today.  We primarily worked on team building, school & classroom rules, and procedures.  We will begin our regular schedule on Monday. 

Thank you to all that have sent in supplies for your child and for the classroom.

Summer's Almost Over

I hope everyone has had a restful summer.  I can't believe that summer is almost over.  I can't believe that I start back on the 17th!

I will post important/upcoming dates as events are planned under the Upcoming Dates heading on the left.  Please note that Meet the Teacher is on Tuesday, August 23rd from 10:00 am to 10:45 am.  Come by and meet your teachers and say hi to your friends!

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I am looking forward to a great year!  Enjoy your next couple of weeks.

Great Year!

Thanks to all for a great year!

Thank you to everyone for your patience during the 4th quarter.  It was particularly challenging for me with my ankle and my physical limitations. The students were great which made it possible for me to come back to work.

A special thank you for your kind words and gifts!

Enjoy your summer.

Pam

Wow!  I can't believe that school is almost over!  We have a busy 3 weeks ahead of us.  Monday the 23rd is the last day to sign up for talent show tryouts!  Tryouts begin on Tuesday at recess, students must sign up on Monday in order to tryout for the talent show. 

Students will be working on their book buddy books this week. 

Homework for language arts is to pick a two stanza (or more poem) to memorize to recite on Thursday, May 26th, rename and explain why they picked the new title for the poem.  Everyone must be ready to present on Thursday in order to receive a 3 or better for the assignment.  Anyone not ready to present when called on will receive an incomplete (1) for the graded assignment.

Students are working in teams to complete quiz bowl study guides to prepare for the grade level wide quiz bowl on Thursday, June 9th.  Each homeroom will have quiz bowl teams competing against other teams in their homeroom in order to select one team to represent each homeroom to compete against other classes on Thursday, June 9th.  Teachers have selected each team in their homerooms.

Students should be practicing/studying spelling lists that were sent home a few weeks ago. We will begin spelling bees in the classroom over the next 2 weeks in order to come up with 5 winners to send to represent each homeroom in the grade level wide spelling bee on Wednesday, June 8th.

Happy Monday!

Grant Writing

The fourth grade team is searching for grants to supplement our curriculum.  If anyone knows of any grants that we could apply for or has grant writing experience and is willing to help us out, please let us know.  I am searching the Internet for available grants and am willing to submit as many as possible but don't have any grant writing experience. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Pam