Welcome to our 1st class blog mates! I hope you are as excited as I am about this cool way of keeping up with what is going on in our room. Be sure to bookmark this site or visit regularly each week to download our class newsletter, print math timed tests to use at home for your math log, and check out extra credit opportunities and cool websites. I hope you will enjoy using our blog!
It's time for our 1st full week of school lessons and I am so excited! We have a lot to learn so we're going to jump right in! Here are a few reminders that are especially important during this busy week:
- Curriculum Night is Tuesday, August 10th from 7-8 p.m. so please invite your parents to attend.
- You will get your first morning work (Math for Today and Daily Language Practice) this week. We will complete a section each day and you will have a quiz on them each Friday. You will keep these sheets in your binder all week so please remember to review during the week to prepare for the Friday quiz.
- We will introduce our 1st spelling unit this week (Sort 1- Open and Closed syllables) and our test will be the Wednesday of the following week. You will need to know the spelling of the words, and know 3 examples each of closed and open syllables (from your list). We'll copy the words in our agendas and also sort them in our spelling journals.
- Please make sure your binder is organized by Monday. It should be set up with 2 clear sheet protectors for the math and reading log (I will give you them on Monday), your agenda, your labeled subject folders, and then some loose leaf paper in the back. Remember to make your important papers/homework folder the first folder behind your agenda. You will also keep your morning work in your agenda, right behind your math and reading log (I will give you the sheets each Monday).
- If you haven't already, please get all of your supplies by Monday. Remember, if you ordered the kit, there are some supplies that it may not contain. Check to see what you need by downloading the supply sheet of the blog.
- Students will copy agendas daily (most Fridays there will not be an agenda unless there is a reminder). Please share the agenda each night with your parents.
- Math and reading logs will go home this week. Reading logs are to be completed using reading done at home, not the material that we read in class that is used for lessons. Students may download timed tests off of the blog to use at home for the math log. Answers are included to help parents check the tests. Please have your parents time you while your work for 6 minutes. At the end, have them score your paper. Record your time and score along with a parent signature on your math log. You will need to take 5 timed tests (your choice but aim for variety) each 3 weeks to turn in. I do not need the timed tests back, just the log.
- Don't forget to return the school paperwork that was sent home at Meet and Greet and in the Cobb County school folder. This includes the pink class ARCH behavior plan, the ASP form, the small white Shallowford Falls behavior student guide, receipt of parent information, clinic card and inclement weather form. Also, if you haven't yet paid for your Wordly Wise vocabulary book, please do so.
Check out our class newsletter to view homework and what we are learning!
Download Newsletter 1 for 4th gr. 2010-11
Supply List for our class
Download Fourth Grade Supply List for Mrs. Yates
