4 January 25, 2010 th Grade Wildcat News!€¦ · This week we are reading "Marven and the Great North Woods." It is about a young city boy who moves to the wilderness for a little

January 25, 2010

4th Grade Wildcat News! Be sure to visit our webpage and see what is happening in our classroom!

This week we are reading "Marven and the Great North Woods." It is about a young city boy who moves to the wilderness for a little while to work with lumberjacks. The theme of our stories right now is "Problem Solvers" so we're discussing character's problems and the solutions they come up with. Dibels testing was last week and we've finally got our scores back. They were AWESOME!! I am very excited to see such progress from the beginning of the year and very proud of the students' hard work. Keep it up!! As usual, spelling test and oops quiz on Friday... along with fluency practice pages due on Friday.

Reading News: Math News:

What is Going on….. Mystery Celebration

This Friday is our Mystery Celebration. In the afternoon, students who are referral free for January will be allowed to wear their pajamas and slippers! For about 20 minutes, they will get to listen to stories read by Mr. Goss in the gym. Please send pajamas with your referral free student on Friday. We celebrate good choices at Wilcox!!

Book orders

Book orders should be in any day!

We will take our Topic 10 test this Friday. This test is over fractions. The class has been simplifying fractions, converting whole fractions to improper fractions and ordering fractions. Students have a review sheet on fractons in their Tuesday folders. Remember to use the online text book or have your child bring the hard class book home to review Thursday night.

I CAN name a triangle by it’s sides and angles.

I CAN know my math facts with 85% accuracy. (GOAL!!!!!)

I CAN find the numerator and denominator in all fractions.

Students of the Week for January 25th are: Way to go Haley!

Nice job Vontrez!

Breakfast with Books Mark your calendars! Our next breakfast with books will be January 28th. Hope to see everyone on Thursday!

Mrs.

Tuesday Feb. 2nd is a School improvement day. There will not be classes.

We are continuing to learn about the earth and what it is made up of. Students learned about crystals in last week’s lab. It was fun to see their crystals grow. It is an easy lab and can be done at home by using Epsom salts in hot water. Once the water evaporates, the crystals form.

This week we are learning about the Southeast region in Soc. Studies. There will be a map test on Friday. Students must know the state and it’s capital and put it in the correct plan on a map.

Last Wednesday we were able to get most of the students on the computer lab. This is our goal for each week. Tomorrow we will use Study Island and check out some great math websites. We may even get to try a science lab on line!

Science/Social Studies News

Reminders!!!!!

Jan. 28 Breakfast with Books

Feb. 2 No school

Feb. 11 Valentine’s Day Parties

Remember these dates:

PHONE: 525-3281

FAX:

E-MAIL: sbruns@springfield.

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http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/teachers

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Don’t forget to return your conference forms to school. Remember……we are only having conferences with a few students and their parents. If you did not get a form, but want to meet, please send us a note or email.

Spelling List

1. beauty 2. ugly 3. lazy 4. marry 5. ready 6. sorry 7. empty 8. honey 9. valley 10. movie 11. duty 12. hungry 13. lonely 14. alley 15. body 16. twenty 17. turkey 18. hockey 19. fifty 20. monkey

Test if Friday!!!!

New website for math facts…..

www.arcademicskillbuilders.com Also lots of fraction games on Mrs. Brunsman’s web site.