Third and Fourth Grade News
From the Week
of February 7, 2014
Dear Parents,
Hello! We have had an interesting week! I hope you were able to enjoy some of the
days off with your kiddos… It was almost
like having a weekend in the middle of the week! Our time here this week, was fun and
eventful, though!
On Monday, we celebrated the 100th Day
of School! We had “One-Hundred Day
Centers,” including finding 100 words we could read, rolling the die 100 times
and tallying up the numbers, flipping a coin one hundred times, doing a
100-piece puzzle, filling in a 100 piece graph, and reading a book about the
100th Day. We also made
portraits of what we may look like when we are 100 years old! These are so humorous and are hanging in the
hallway right next to the portraits we made of our grandparents. Please come down to our end of the hallway to
check them out!
You may have heard, but this week, we have had a
lot of visitors in the building. We are
going through the reaccreditation process, so we have had some other adults,
fellow teachers, principals, district friends in our building today looking at
our program. The children have been
amazing, absolutely welcoming, and on task!
Their behavior has been so great!
They are able to see the kids hard at work in Math, Reading, and Religion. We introduced our new friends to our Friday
Dance today, too! J They
will be in our building again on Monday and then we will have their exit review
on Monday afternoon.
We had a wonderful Religion lesson today! We have been talking about David and Jonathan
and their amazing friendship… This led us into a wonderful discussion about
what a good friend is and how they treat one another. There was a segment in our Religion book today,
where we had to then think of at least 3 people that popped into our minds that
needed a friend. If they felt that
“nudge” about that person, I shared with them that I believe it is truly the
Holy Spirit nudging them to step “outside of their boxes” and reach out to that
person or people. I urged the children
to be honest…they did not have to show me what they wrote, but we talked about
how we all know people who may sit by themselves or play by themselves, or
really just don’t seem to have many friends, either here at school, or in our
neighborhoods, or even our families. It
was such a blessing for me to see their little light bulbs go off….and for some
of them to say, “I felt the nudge!” This
afternoon, I asked them to just give me a thumbs up or down of those of them
that tried to connect with someone to let me know if they had succeeded or
not! I got some of both…which is
awesome that so many had tried! I am so proud of them!
Next week is already student-led parent/teacher
conferences. I am sorry about my mix-up
with the sign-up genius! If you have not
already signed up, or if you want to make sure your sign-up is correct, please
check this site:
Thank you so much!
Please let me know if any of those dates do not work for you…
On this same note, the students have been busy
picking out work that they are proud of to share with you at their
conferences. There are some that are
missing some assignments, so please urge them to get caught up and turn all of
those in! If they seem to be missing
some test scores, those may be ones that they have been holding back to share
with you!
In math, we have been working with
multiplication! The third graders have
learned 0-3 and the fourth graders are working with rounding and estimating
products. I cannot stress enough to the
children that they practice their math facts at home!!!! This week was tough
for the 4th graders who do not have theirs memorized. Their assignments took while to complete,
especially now that they are getting into more specialized, detailed work. At the end of the year, we will celebrate all
of the students that have memorized their facts with a Winstead’s party! They can do this if they put their minds to
it! Thank you SO much for your help with
this!
Reading and Spelling tests over this week’s words
and stories will be on Tuesday. We will
not have a new story or words next week.
We have finished up chapter 3 in our Missouri
History books this week and will test over this material on Friday. Study guides and flash cards will come home
on Monday. Your child will be working on
studying the people in the text as well as dates of events.
Valentine’s Day is next Friday! We will have a party in the
morning. I will have some fun valentine
centers, and math centers for the students.
Because the students have also earned a STAR party for awesome behavior,
we will also watch a movie! Each child
should bring a Valentine for each member of the class. (I have included a
list of the children below.) Thank you!
Also, if you have an empty tissue box at home, please send one to
school. I have been collecting them at
school too, so we should be okay, even if you do not have one!
Achievement
tests are coming up! These will be
February 24th-28th.
The testing will be in the mornings from 8:30-12:00 every day.
Timothy is also offering an Education Night to any interested
families on February 27. The focus of this night is sex education.
We separate the kids according to age and gender, keeping the students
with their parents. This is meant to help you discuss the changes your
child will be (or already is) experiencing in a Christian yet factual manner.
We use materials supplied by CPH, which are available for preview as you
determine whether or not your family is interested in attending. More
information will come home prior to this night.
Because of our snow day
this past Wednesday, we have rescheduled Morning with Mom (donuts and fun!) for
Wednesday, February 19. The fun starts at 7:45. Hope to see you
there!!
Here
is what we did in our special classes this week:
Art-woven
paper hearts
P.E.-jump
roping skills
Music-Practiced
the songs’ “We Are,” and “Voice of the Lord,” will have try-outs for the Spring
Musical soon!
Upcoming
Events:
FEBRUARY
7-8-7th/8th tournament games
at Hope Lutheran
13-P/T conferences-1:00 dismissal
14- P/T conferences-1:00 dismissal, Valentine’s
party
17-President’s Day-no school
24-28-Achievement tests
27-Sex Education Night at 6:30 (more info to come)
Have a great weekend!
Yours in Christ,
Kim Brunkhorst
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