Hi, 4th grade parents! It has been quite a busy week, but I am thankful to GOD for His many blessings! I am reminded daily, especially this week, that we are BLESSED to be here at Timothy Lutheran with all of these wonderful students and teachers. God is working though us all daily. I get humbled by that so often…Thank you for your HUGE part in that!
• Our SPRING MUSICAL is TONIGHT at 6:30 P.M. Please have your child in our classroom at 6:00. Please have your child wear his or her black t-shirt (from Pastor Rod and Pastor Ryan) and jeans with no holes, please. If you did not request that I send your child’s t-shirt home, I will have it here in the classroom for your child. We are excited and ready!
- UPDATE TO THE CALENDAR: To help alleviate so much on our schedules, we will not have an evening Athletic/Academic Banquet this year. Similar to what we did last year, awards and recognition will be given out after the closing Chapel on the last day of school, May 17th. Chapel will begin at 9:00. If you were a coach this athletic school year, and have the opportunity, we would love to recognize you too! Thank you, parents, for all of your support and guidance! We have such a wonderful team here at Timothy!
- FUN DAY is next Friday, May 6! Please send your kiddo to school with play clothes and shoes, (that you don’t mind getting soaked, a towel, sunscreen, and a water gun if you have one! Here is the sign-up to help: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0E45ADAF22AAFD0-funday
• It’s YEARBOOK TIME! It is getting to be the end of our school year and it will soon be time to complete the yearbook. If you have any photos from this school year including: sports, field trips, Moms and Dads mornings, school and Christmas musical etc. Please send a copy of the photo to the following address: photos@timothylutheranschool.com. We have limited space, so not all the photos will be used. I appreciate your help! Order forms will be coming soon.
- TIMOTHY FOOD TRUCK AND FAMILY NIGHT! – May 11th-4:00-6:00—Please bring your blankets and lawn chairs and come for a “picnic-style” night of fun food and fellowship!
• If you
are able, please come to our 4TH GRADE’S FAMOUS MISSOURIAN LIVING MUSSUEM on
May 12th. It will be from 10:00-11:30 in
the 4-G’s Area outside of the school hallway.
The invitation is attached!
• I have talked to our (many) kiddos that have SUMMER BIRTHDAYS in here, and we will celebrate these students on two days, separating the boys and girls. Parents of these kiddos, if you choose to, please just send ion a small snack on these days, and we will have of two days of birthdays feasts! 😉 Thank you! Girls-Tuesday, May 16th; Boys-Thursday, May 17th
- STANDARDIZED ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES are coming home in a sealed envelope today. Please remember, these scores do not affect your child’s grade and are merely used as a tool to help us evaluate teaching, learning, and effective communication.
WHAT ACHIEVEMENT TESTS CAN AND CANNOT DO:
Remember that a standardized achievement test cannot
measure the sum total of your child’s progress. It is only one assessment tool
designed to measure a certain set of skills.
*Measure your child’s ability to recall certain
facts, basic skills, and concepts common to the grade tested.
*Compare your child’s scores with other students’
scores.
*Assess your child’s year-to-year development of
learning, if the same test is used for several years.
*Help you determine your child’s academic strengths
and weaknesses, as well as the effectiveness of your curriculum, teaching
methods, or emphasis, when results are combined with your own observations.
*Tell you if your child has achieved academically to
the level of his or her ability.
*Measure your child’s many other skills and abilities
not on the test.
*Replace your own informed evaluation of your child’s knowledge and skills gained from your daily observation of his or her work and more thorough and frequent review questions.
INTERPRETING THE SCORE:
Raw Scores: A raw score is the number of items
answered correctly on a given test. Raw scores by themselves have little or no
meaning. A child’s Raw Score (number correct) is compared to the original group
of students of the same age who first took the test. The averages of this
original group are called the “Norms”. Norm referred test scores compare a
child’s raw score to the norm group. Next, a child’s raw scores are converted
into scaled scores, grade equivalents, percentiles and stanines.
THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN A CHILD OBTAINS LOW TESTS
SCORES:
When reacting to low scores,
remember that scores have nothing to do with a child’s innate worth. God
created each and every child just as they are!
Your reaction, positive or negative, with influence your child’s sense
of self-worth and anxiety on future tests. Tell your child that you will try to
find the reason for the low scores, and help to improve the weak areas. Be sure
to include praise for the strong areas. Always take into account that no one
measure gets at the complete picture, and that the best measure of how a child
is performing will be the observation of the parent and teacher.
Please let me know if you have any
questions or concerns.
Here is what we have been up to this week:
RELIGION- This week, we discussed Jesus in the temple
teaching and admonishing the money changers, the Last Supper, and Jesus in
Gethsemane. We have been reminded of all
Christ has done for us, and are SO thankful!
MEMORY for next week:
5/3-
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.
5/6-
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
LANGUGAGE ART/MISSOURI HISTORY- We worked more on our final book report projects---our Biography Lap Books. Most students have read their entire biography are taking notes. We will use these in the reports and in our oral reports when we have our Living Museum. We also continued learning about Harry S. Truman this week. We learned about his first job at Clinton’s drugstore, and how he graduated from high school. It has been so informative for our class to hear about President Truman as a child! He had a “normal” life, and was hard-working, Christian young man. We also discussed his first “adult” jobs and his presidency. We will learn more specifics about Turman next week. We also will be learning all about the first communities that lived here in Missouri.
SPELLING WORDS for next THURSDAY, May 5th (from “Our First Communities”)
prehistory, mound, surplus, teepee, lodge, clan, explorer,
cede, trading post, expedition, *archeology
MATH- We finished up our chapter on fractions this week and have begun learning about decimals and how they directly relate to fractions. 😊 On that note, seventy-seven hundredths of the 4th graders have passed their multiplication test! Woohoo! We will have a party to celebrate after school the last week of school. We are holding out for all 100% of the kiddos! They can do it!
SCIENCE- We continue to learn about vertebrates and invertebrates. We went on a “hunt” through our Missouri Conservation magazines for these animals!
SPECIAL CLASSES
Art- We worked on our honeybees are excited to show these
off to you!
Music- MUSICAL, MUSICAL, MUSICAL!!!
Computer-We were able to get to the Computer Lab yesterday
and play some Prodigy!
(Next week, we will resume our regular Specials’ schedule.)
God's Blessings,
Kim
We had fun at the Rams Run!
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