I want to thank the parents who have sent dry-erase markers this week for our class! What a blessing! Your generosity and kindness is much appreciated!
Also, I want to thank Mrs. Downs for coming and working with the kids to make the class project for the carnival. I can't wait to see how everything turns out!
What's going on this week?
1) Club Pictures are Monday. The office will be calling different groups throughout the day to take care of this.
2) The School Carnival is Saturday from 11:00 - 2:00! (Yippee!) At 2:30, they will have the Snoopy Dance and auction. This event should be a blast, and I really hope that you and your family can make it. Just so you know, one of the auction items you can bid on is a movie night for your child and me. (Actually, there are 3 different ones you can try for since Mrs. Smalley, Mrs. Brannum, and I are going together and each taking a winning bidder.) I did this last year, and it was super fun!
3) This week's homework menu has 2 spelling options that are due Friday. Kids who are starting on these assignments early in the week (or on the weekend) are finding themselves much less stressed throughout the week. Thank you for all that you are doing to help your child set aside time and make this a priority. Please remember, if your child is going to come to the Homework Hotline Tuesday afternoon, please print off, fill out, and send back the permission slip by Tuesday.
4) Kids should have 10 books on the wikispace by now. I am so proud of some of the detailed paragraphs I am seeing from some of the kids. Thank you again for helping your child learn to set aside time for this regularly to meet this goal.
5) The new blog question will be ready sometime this weekend. Almost all kids have posted for Week 11 now. If your child did not finish posting for last week yet, please make sure he/she does so by Sunday.
6) We still have a few students who have not yet met the 5-minute goals for addition and subtraction facts. All of the kids are improving, and I am so proud of their continued effort to reach these goals. Please remember, all 4th graders should be able to complete 100 addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts in 5 minutes by the end of this Nine Weeks. Your child should be practicing flash cards daily or printing off and practicing sample tests from the link on my website.
