Happy Wednesday!

Good Morning!

It has been a crazy couple of days.  I was out sick on Friday and took a personal day on Monday.  The kids were great for the subs!  I am so very proud of these guys!

We are working more with reader's workshop and fostering a love for reading.  In math we are starting division.  Please work with your child on their count bys!  EX 2 are 2, 4, 6, 8. 10, 12, etc.  This will help with their multiplication facts.  They need to know this information! Please continue to work with them on multiplication facts every school night for 20 minutes!  There are links under the resources pages to help the kids practice!!

Shhhhh don't tell the kids! I am not going to make them take the spelling test on Friday.  For the holidays I'm giving everyone an A for that test.  They have all been working so hard this quarter!  Everyone has improved their spelling grade!  I'm so proud of them!

Honors choir students are going to the holiday shop today.  The rest of my class will be going tomorrow.  If you would like for your child to have a chance to purchase items for their siblings and you please send money with them.  Everything in the shop is one dollar a piece. 

Holiday party is at 2:15 on Friday.  Jamie Keiter is in charge.  If you have any questions you can email her at mikjam1609@hughes.net

Shelly Frank you signed up to bring Plates and Napkins
Rachel Fogle you singed up to bring a Salty Snack
Jennille Wilt you signed up to bring a healthy snack
Jamie Wlaters you signed up to bring a Sweet snack
Julie Porter you signed up for a sweet snack
Michele Altendorf you signed up to bring juice box drinks

Party Volunteers are Jamie Keiter, Shelly Frank, Julie Porter, and
Wendy Rossman.

On Friday students will be bringing everything home from their locker.  The custodians will be disinfecting the lockers and will throw away anything that is not school property.  We are going to try and get a head start on this process today, but it must be done by Friday.

Over the break please continue to work with your child on their multiplication facts!!

Good Afternoon

Today we took our pretest in math over unit 6.  We are starting division, measuring angles, and multiplication.  Please continue to practice multiplication facts with your child.  Several of our 4th graders do not know their facts!!

In reading we are working on the prefixes anti (against or opposite) dis (opposite of) ex (out, from) non (not) under (below) and teh suffixes ful (filled with) less ( without) ment (act of, result of), and ness (quality or condition of being)

We are also out of dry erase markers.  If anyone has any laying around please consider donating them to our 4th grade class!! Thank you!!

Lattice Multiplication

The above link is also in the resources box.  A friend of mine teaches in Spring Hill and made this you tube video on how to do lattice multiplication.  You might find it very helpful! :0)

Wahoo!!! My computer is back

My computer had some issues so our tech department had it.  I forgot what it was like to teach with out technology!  It was an interesting past couple of days!

In math we have been working on partial products multiplication, lattice multiplication, and reading and writing large numbers. 

In reading this wee we have been talking about setting.  Next week we will be working with prefixes and suffixes.  We will be going over anti-, dis-, ex-, non-, under-, -ful, -less, -ment, -ness

I'm going to see if I can find some online resources to help work on these skills.  If you have any websites worthwhile please share!!!

Our Scentsy fundraiser is turned in and will hopefully be here soon.  Sarah did get an email saying that the Scentsy corporation had the largest snow storm in years at their packing plant.  Everything should still be here before Christmas.  As soon as I know our total about raised I will let you know!  Thank you to everyone who helped out!

Our Christmas party will be December 17th at 2ish.  I will be emailing everyone that signed up to bring/send items to remind them. 

Thank you so much for being such awesome parents!