Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Week of November 13th

Happy Wednesday!

We had quite a busy day today in 4th grade!  Along with our busy normal morning, our gentlemen enjoyed a presentation from Father John all about seminaries.  Our ladies went to the LRC during that time and had lots of fun as well- ask them about their Turkey dance.... :)  They will enjoy a visit from some area Sisters later in the year.

Miss Winter's class is in charge of the Mary bulletin board in the hallway downstairs.  Our feast day that we have is the Presentation of Our Lady.  We briefly discussed that today and learned that one way to honor the day is by doing acts of service.  We realized that it is very simple to do and one thing we do as a school is our annual donations to the food pantry at Thanksgiving.  So please remember that fourth grade is in change of paper products if you can donate!

Mrs. Carbone's class will be in charge of the bulletin board after Thanksgiving break.

Please check out the tabs on the top of our blog.  We have one for spelling that gives a link to a website called spelling city- it is free and no need to enter an email.  They have TONS of resources for students to use to practice their spelling words from each lesson!  Our one for reading has a link to our textbook site with games and resources.  We also have a link to have the stories read to you out loud or you can read them by yourself on the computer!  We also put up a few great math practice websites and math games.  Cool math is a great website that students seem to enjoy. More tabs will be coming soon!

Also thank you for attending conferences last Friday, we truly enjoyed meeting with all of you!

This week in:

Spelling: Lesson 13

Reading: We are reading the nonfiction story Mimicry and Camouflage  Our story skill is a tricky one- cause and effect.

Math: They are still working on time.  The projects that some students took advantage of look awesome by the way!

Science:  They are continuing their study of Force and Motion

Social Studies:  Our region tour has begun!  If you haven't brought a 1 1/2 inch binder into school and a set of 5 dividers please do so ASAP.

Language Arts:  The students learned about Veteran's day and are continuing learning all about grammar!