Dear 4th Grade Parents,
HAPPY
OCTOBER! It has been a wonderful
week! Crazy busy, as most of you would
agree, but wonderful! Our best
news: We have a new 4th
grader student! Welcome, Addley! We are so happy that you have joined us! It has been fun getting to know her this
week, and I am so proud of our class, as they have welcomed her with open
arms. This truly is a special group of
kiddos. Thank you for sharing them with
me every day!
*Monday night, October 4th--Everybody’s eating at
(or from) Vito’s Original Pizza! From 4
– 9pm, mention Timothy Lutheran School and 10% of your order will come back to
TLS. Their pizza is amazing – it is what we have at school every Wednesday.
However, they have lasagna, Stromboli, gyros, baklava, and lots of other yummy
stuff! (I personally love their big ol’ combo pizza!)
*Thank you, again for your help with the Walk-A-Thon next
week! We are so blessed by all of
you. As a reminder: All money is due October 6th. Mrs. Barnett and will count money and let you
know totals soon!
*October 6th is our annual Doughnuts With Dads. This will be from 7:45-8:25. This is an opportunity for dads to hang out
with their child at school, do some fun activities, and enjoy some
breakfast! If dad is working and cannot
attend, a substitute is welcome to come and enjoy a LaMars’s doughnut
instead. See you there!
*Parent/Teacher conferences are coming up next week--October
7th and 8th. Being the volleyball
coach, I do have some conflicts, as we have games both evenings. I have added some other time slots to
hopefully aid you in finding a time that is suitable for your family. This is a parent/teacher conference only, but
children are welcome to hang out in the hallways during the conference. There will some books and other materials out
there to keep them busy. We will be
discussing grades, classroom behavior, and some of their special work. I am looking forward to visiting with each of
you! Thank you! Please use this link to sign-up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c4dadab2da7f58-1stquarter1
*The next PTL meeting is Tuesday, October 12 at 6pm here at
school.
Here is what we have been up to this week:
Religion-This week, we discussed the lives of Jacob,
Joseph, and Job. The lessons focused on
having a “hard knock life,” yet leaning on God to get through… That despite the
circumstances, these men leaned on God, and in turn are examples for us to
follow. We had some beautiful , yet
mature, discussions about hardships, and
how to face them. We even watch the clip
from the old Orphan Annie movie, and listened to the song “It’s A Hard
Knock Life.” (Then it proceeded to play
in our heads ALL DAY.) ;) The bottom line: God LOVES us and is ALWAYS with us.
On another note, I was SO proud of our class and how well
they recited the books of the Old Testament.
We will tackle all of the New Testament books next week!
Memory for Next Week:
10/5-
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
1 & 2 Thessalonians
1 & 2 Timothy
Titus
Philemon
10/8-
Hebrews
James
1 & 2 Peter
1 , 2, & 3 John
Jude
Revelation
Language Arts- We read a new genre of story this
week: a fractured fairytale! It is
titled, Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude. It was one of those stories that was a blast
to read, and really just gets kids on fire for reading! They loved it! I also found two other stories written by
Kevin O’Malley that I shared with the class today! We had some fun. We also learned how to compare and contrast
using Venn diagrams and how to make predictions. We reviewed hyperboles. We also discussed different types of
verbs—action, helping, and linking. We
reviewed cursive letters m, n, x, q, y, and g.
We shared 4th grade Newbery book reports this week, and
learned all about our next book report, where the main character is an
animal. These books should be coming
home this weekend to start enjoying!
Spelling Words for Friday, October 8th: Story: “Coming Distractions”
bloom, cookbook, tool, shampoo, put, wool, stool, proof,
prove, group, brook, foolish, bush, crooked, booth, raccoon, hook, groom, roof,
soup, bulletin, cocoon
Challenge Word: omnipotent
Math- We learned how to solve multi-step word
problems and discussed real world scenarios for these. We reviewed regrouping—adding while carrying,
and borrowing with subtractions. Those
zeroes were giving us some trouble, but we’ve got it now! We reviewed over Chapter 2 today and will
test on Monday.
Social Studies- We’ve studied the Midwest states and
learned about their economy, their climate, and their geography. We had some fun labeling maps with states and
capitals! Next week, we will tackled the
Mountain States.
SPECIAL CLASSES
Art- We learned all about line! We practiced different types of line and then
created animal contours with line. We
water colored the backgrounds and will display these for you next week at
conferences.
Music- The students are practicing songs for the
Veteran’s Day program in November.
We LOVE Miss Rathke!
Writing- This week, we continued learning about
fictional narratives by learning how to use graphic organizers. We analyzed some popular fairytales
:
Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and The Three
Little Pigs.
Computer Lab- We worked on www.typing.com and really focused on those
home keys!
P.E.- We began soccer skills—dribbling and kicking!
Have a blessed weekend,
Kim
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