First few days done!

These first few days have been great in our 4th grade room! I’m amazed at how QUIET your children are! Seriously?! :) We’ve been having fun though and are ready for a great week next week.

Spelling tests (pretests and post tests) will all take place on Wednesdays. Students have brought home this week’s pretest. The incorrect answers on the pretest have been spelled correctly and passed back. Please focus on these and prepare for the unit 1 post test on Wednesday! If you’d like them to practice online, visit www.spellingcity.com and type my name (Erika Haulk). You should be able to find your child’s list and activities for them to do with their words!

All fourth graders participated in our first STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) challenge on Wednesday. They were given 50 straws and some masking tape. They had about 45 minutes to plan and then construct a structure that would support a baseball using all their straws. These turned out really great and the kids had a blast! Check class dojo for pictures soon!

Our first writing unit this fall will be narrative writing. We opened this week with talking about genres, but focusing on realistic fiction. Students have been asked to think of a few “small moments” from this summer from which they can start a story.

4th graders are also in the process of selecting their first independent reading book. All students will be required to read a book at their lexile level each month. After reading this book they will complete a response sheet.

Class dojo!!! We are LOVING this!! Have you logged on yet? Have you seen what we are tracking? The kids are so excited and I hope you can log in and set up your account soon. I’m going to start sharing pictures of your child’s day with you through this app too!! Today was the first day that they got to turn their dojo points into dojo dollars to be used at the school store next Wednesday.

Mondays and Fridays are PE days - be sure to wear comfy clothes and sneakers as you may end up outside for PE these days that are still nice.

Please keep the following dates in mind:

9/4 - Monday - No School!

9/5 PTF meeting - 6 pm - Please come! We need more people! :)

9/6 Book orders due

9/14 Instrument Demos @ 9am  

Thanks for sharing your kiddos with me! What a blessing to be back!

~Mrs. Haulk