God's Most Amazing Creatures...: Fourth Grade News!

Hello! We have had a great second week of school! We have been super-busy as we have transitioned into all the core classes, as well as beginning Specials!

*Please always check with your child to see if he or she has homework. Almost always, homework is just work that was not finished in class. Thank you for your help with this!

*As a reminder, Friday Folders will come home this afternoon filled with graded work. Please empty these and return the folder on Monday. Anything with a letter grade can be “redone” for half credit per answer, and turned back in on Tuesday. So far, everybody is doing very well and working very hard!

Here is what we have been up to this week:

Religion- We learned about the Tower of Babel and God’s mission for each of us--to spread the Good News of His saving grace and love! We talked about the many blessings God has given us today!

Memory for Next Week

September 4-

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Song of Solomon

Isaiah

Jeremiah

September 7-

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Daniel

Hosea

Joel

Amos

Obadiah

Language Arts- We read our first story from our reading basals, one of the chapters from “Because of Winn Dixie.” We loved this story! This week we analyzed the characters, wrote a summary of the story, and studied the new vocabulary words. We took our first reading and spelling tests today and the students did very well!

Spelling packets, containing activities to do with spelling words each week, will be handed out on Mondays (or the first day of the week). Students will have some class time to work on these daily, and they are due on Fridays. Students can take them home to work on them, but please make sure that they come back to school every day, because I do carve out class time for work. Thank you!

The students also received information about their first book reports. They have each picked out a Newbery Award winning book to read, and understand their project, to make a new book cover. These are due October 1st. This information should be in their homework folders.

Spelling Words for the Week of October 7th

Story: Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude

bunch, fruit, argue, crumb, crew, tune, juice, refuse, truth, young, clue, trunk, amuse, suit, rude, trust, dew, stuck, rescue, brush, computer, mustard

Challenge Word: omniscient

Math- This week, we worked with ordering numbers, and using place value to round. Next week, we will finish up this chapter, and will begin reviewing adding and subtracting whole numbers. Please continue to work on your child’s math facts at home! Flash cards are the best!

Social Studies- We completed our first Scholastic News this week. This is a great way to talk about current events. We will begin to learn all about Missouri next week!

SPECIAL CLASSES

Art- We made Cursive Creatures! Please check them out in the hallway, along with out “Who Am I?” artwork.

Music-We had our first classes with Ms. Judy MacLean. Fourth grade is going to learn so very much this year from this amazing teacher!

Writing-We shared our Summer Vacation stories in Readers' Theatre. We also learned the steps to Writers’ Workshop, and began our first stories.

P.E.-We have P.E. with the 2nd/3rd graders! This week we learned the correct way to stretch, run our laps, and then we participated in fun relays where we uses different body skills--skipping, jumping, hopping, gliding, the crab walk, etc. It was fun!

This was such a fun week! As always, thank you for your prayers and guidance as we travel through this school year together. Have a wonderful and safe, LONG weekend!

God’s Blessings!

Kim

Upcoming Events:

SEPTEMBER

3- No School or Childcare, Labor Day

7-Volleyball games at Timothy (5:30, 6:15, 8:30, 9:15)

8-Volleyball games at MLA (9:00, 9:45, 10:30, 11:15); Timothy soccer at LHS 10:15

10-6/7/8 volleyball game at Timothy against Plaza Heights

11-Volleyball and Soccer pictures 3:45

14-16- Fall Fun Fest Timmy Burger Booth

14-Volleyball games at Timothy (5:30, 6:15, 8:30, 9:15)

16- Blue Springs Fall Fun Fest Parade: 10:00 am