God's Most Amazing Creatures...: Have a wonderful weekend! :)

Hello, 4th grade family! It has been another busy week!

Upcoming Events:

*The annual AUCTION, “Boots and Bling,” to support our scholarship fund, is TONIGHT! You can still bid online. Please use this link to sign-up: https://event.auctria.com/7624b890-1b60-48c0-96b1-908c4ef96a58/aa6cd270-8751-11e9-a741-3fcfcb35cbb0

*MORNINGS WITH MOM-is this upcoming Wednesday, March 4th, from 7:45-8:15. Please join us for some bagels, coffee, milk, and a fun game or two! Then, please stay for Chapel if you can. (8:45-9:15.)

*4th GRADE HOSTS CHAPEL on Wednesday, March 11^th at 8:45. If you are able, please come!

Here is what we have been up to in the classroom:

RELIGION- This week, we dug deeper into the Lord's Prayer as we discussed the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6^th petitions. We reviewed the stories of Saul becoming Paul and how he shared God's Word. We reviewed all of God's gifts to us, and how He daily supplies us with our "daily bread," and all of life's needs and gifts.

MEMORY-3/3- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ~John 1:1

3/6- The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these. ~ Mark 12:31

LANGUAGE ARTS- This week, we read the biography, “Harvesting Hope,” which is about Cesar Chavez and his quest to find equal rights form migrant farm workers. We had wonderful discussions about peaceful protests, U.S. citizenship, and God creating us all equal. We worked on these skills: conclusions and generalizations, finding solutions, using suffixes, and idioms. We shared our February Mystery Movie Poster book reports! They are awesome! We learned all about what we are doing for our March reports too!

SPELLING WORDS for Friday, March 6th: Story: Ramona and Her Father

genuine, anxious, comet, pretend, utilize, cross, urge, coax, swifter, outrunning, Challenge Word: unfortunately

MATH- We learned how to take an improper fraction and turn it into a mixed number and how to multiply fractions. We are almost finished memorizing those multiplication facts! Next week, we will have completed 100 mad minutes! Woohoo!

SCIENCE- We shared our STEM experiments, where we were challenged to design a tool that would disperse seeds at least 1 meter, using only wind. These were amazing! (Thanks for your help on these!) We completed Chapter 2. We reviewed today and played Jeopardy to prepare for the test next Monday. Here is the link to practice at home: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rtJgryQGhec1TSR_cWl88v10tuqkxgIr7_Ot3x5SMgY/edit?usp=sharing

SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS-We learned what School of Economics is this week, and this got us VERY EXCITED! We are headed to the School of Economics on Tuesday, March 31st! We will start preparing in the classrooms next week! We will be meeting with the 5th and 6th graders twice a week, (Tuesdays and Thursdays), and learning skills such as making a budget, buying supplies, understanding supply/demand, writing checks, selling goods, working cooperatively, HAVING A TON OF FUN, and much more! It takes a lot of work in class to make this special day flow, and we are getting ready!

We will need some of you to help that day! We will need between 8-13 parent volunteers for this trip. Parent help is needed ALL DAY, but space is limited, so slots will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. THANK YOU for all of you that have signed up. We still have a few spots left. These parents will have training at the School of Economics at 8:45, the day of our visit. We will meet them there, which also means we need some parents that will only be able to drive us there and drop us off. We will need to leave school no later than 9:10.

Here is the link to sign-up to help: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4DADAB2DA7F58-school

A paper copy permission slip is coming home today that all students have to have in order to attend.

Other important information:

-There is not a cost for you, as you paid for this field trip in your enrichment fees this fall.

-Students will NOT need to pack a lunch, as they will be making their own lunches that day. **If your child has food allergies and would rather bring in their own food out of safety concerns, that is preferred - please speak with your child's teacher. (Volunteers will be given School of Economics money that day to buy lunch too!)

-Our day ends there at 1:30, so we should return to school about 2:00.

-If you want to help, but all the spots are taken, please contact your child's teacher, and we'll put you on a "will-call" list in the case that another parent has to back out. Thank you in advance for your help!! Please let me know if you have any questions.

Date: 3/31/26 (Tuesday)

Time: 9:00am - 1:30pm

Location: School of Economics, 200 NW 14 St, Blue Springs, MO 64015

Special Classes:

MUSIC- Students worked on the songs for Palm Sunday.

P.E.-We have been practicing Physical Fitness skills: Sit and Reach, Standing Broad Jump, the Shuttle Run, and the 800 meter run.

SPANISH- Students discussed phrases that match with the gender of the nouns in Spanish.

ART- We drew and used oil pastels to color in some beautiful honeycomb for our honeybees that we made last week! We completed these masterpieces and will have them on display at our Missouri History Museum later this spring.

WRITERS' WORKSHOP- We are writing our first research papers—about our moms! ;) Be prepared to be interviewed!

COMPUTER LAB-We published our papers and narratives, and worked on our All-About-Me slideshows on Google Slides.

God's Blessings,

Kim

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