Hi, 4th grade families! It feels like the BUSY just started, and we are part of a marathon, doesn’t it? We have had some fun this week!
*We have been learning about the upcoming solar eclipse in class. We will be viewing this eclipse on Monday, April 8th, with medically approved glasses that were purchased for your child. Your child has to have permission to attend this event. If you choose not to let your child attend, he or she will be able to work on work in the school office. A permission slip is coming home today to be signed and returned on Monday! Thank you so much!
*If you have not already sent in the permission slip and the $5 for our School of Economics field trip, please do so. I have attached another permission slip. We also need a few more drivers to transport us there on that Monday morning (May 15th.) We only need rides there, as the group of parents going in to train that morning can bring us back to school afterwards. If you are able to help, here is the link: (SOE is just down 7 Hwy! Thanks!)
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4DADAB2DA7F58-school#/
If you have any questions regarding Fun Day, please contact
Melissa Struewe at
melissa.struewe@gmail.com.
*It is YEARBOOK ordering Time!!
Order your yearbook online (inter-state.com/order) enter
this code: 83993Q or send cash or check
in the flyer pocket to order this year’s yearbook for $14 each copy. Orders are due on May 10, 2024. Yearbooks will be delivered in the fall. Be sure to list your student’s name and
current teacher on the form.
*Pastor Rocco Mallardi from HEIT’S POINT LUTHERAN SUMMER CAMP
came and let Chapel this week. He had a beautiful
Easter message of Jesus’ love and resurrection!
He also shared with us the many fun summer opportunities that Heit’s
Point has for our kiddos. Please check
it out:
https://www.heitspoint.com/home
Here is what we have been up to:
RELIGION: This week, we learned the parables of The Foolish Rich Man, and Jesus and the Lost Sheep. Our God is such an awesome God! He always works in these mysterious ways, and just gives His God winks to us when we need them. I sometimes insert a particular Religion lesson plan into our 4th grade schedule, if the students (or I!) need something in particular, but usually, I just follow them in the order our Religion series gives us. Early this week, our lesson was so near and dear to our hearts, and SO PRECISELY what we needed to hear, that it brought me to tears, and will be just something that resonates with me for such a long time… The discussion was about giving all of our worries and fears over to God. We wrote them all down on this web of fears, and then our lesson told us to use our finger to “write” our name on the palm of our hand. God holds us ALL in His hands. We looked back at our webs of worries and then gave those worries to the Lord by “writing” them on our hands as well. As we wrote each one, we quietly asked God to help us to trust Him to help us with the problem, rather than worry about it. It was silent in here for a long time , as each of us “wrote” these fears to God. I could feel our Heavenly Father wrapping His arms around each of us as we gave our silent worries and fears to Him. God is good all the time…and ALL the time God is good!
MEMORY for next week:
4/9-
The 23rd Psalm
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie
down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul.
4/12-He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's
sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
death,
I will fear no evil, for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
LANGUAGE ARTS: We began learning about Harry S. Truman this
week! While learning about his
childhood, it has been fun reading about places in the Missouri that we are
familiar with! We will continue in this
chapter book for the next few weeks…
We worked in Literature groups this week!
SPELLING WORDS for next Friday, April 12th: (from the book Harry S. Truman: Thirty-Third President of the United States)
although, magazine, introduce, predicted, tremendous, stomach, disease, probably, gradually, difficult, *diphtheria
MATH: We learned how to multiply whole numbers and fractions, and then how to take the improper fraction and divide it to make a mixed number. We have been solving numerous word problems including these skills. We have had three people pass their mad minute tests! Woohoo!
MO HISTORY: We finished up working on our projects, over Missouri’s Natural Resources, Missouri’s Recreational Opportunities, and Missouri’s Tourist Attractions. We will share these next week.
Yesterday, each fourth grader received a biography of a famous Missourian. Your kiddo’s job is to read the biography, take notes about this person, and then, in class, we will begin writing about the person we studied. We will create a Biography Lap Book, which we will begin in class, but will need to be finished at home. They have been given a due date of May 8th. In the meantime, please help your child come up with a plan to dress up as his or her famous Missourian. Please use resources you have at home or borrow from a friend. We will be reciting the facts we have learned about these people, dressed as them, at our Famous Missourian Living Museum on May 15th. (Think: Night at the Museum!) Along with the other 4th graders, will meet Josephine Baker, Vinnie Ream, Calamity Jane, Charles Lindbergh, George Washington Carver, Dick Van Dyke, Patrick MaHomes, Ulysses S. Grant, Yogi Berra, Harry S. Truman, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Maya Angelou, Molly Brown, Daniel Boone, Mary Engelbreit, Mark Twain, Walt Disney, Sacagawea, Lewis Meriwether, William Clark, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Joyce Clyde Hall, George Brett, Scott Joplin, Joseph Pulitzer, Walter Cronkite, Langston Hughes, Emmett Kelly, Satchel Paige, Dred and Harriet Scott, and Helen Stephens! I have some excited kiddos in here!!! (Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. In the past, I have had students wear a track uniform for Helen Stephens, bring a bat for Yogi, a suit for Harry Truman, a head scarf for Maya Angelo, a coon skin cap for Daniel Boone, etc.) 😊
SCHOOL of ECONOMICS: This week, we met with our shops and filled out Loan Applications and made our Shop Supply Lists. We had discussions about what we needed to price our items in order to pay off our loans and make a profit.
ART: This week, we studied Missouri’s insect, the honeybee, and drew them along with some honeycomb. These will be displayed out our museum!
MUSIC: We practiced singing some our songs for our upcoming
Spring Musical.
WRITERS’ WORKSHOP: We worked on our Biography Lap books and
MO History projects.
Yours in Christ,
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