Ready...Set...GO~!

Parents, the state testing is upon us. Our lessons are taught, pencils are sharpened, and we’re ready!

If you missed the blog series about our State Testing, check these out! Students will complete the Reading/Writing portion of the test this week with a morning and afternoon session on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Next week students will complete the math session in the mornings on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Reminders to make our week as successful as possible:

Get to bed on time

Eat a healthy breakfast

Send kids to school mentally and emotionally prepared

Get to school on time (we're hoping for 100% attendance!)

Keep it positive!

Brain Activity

Keeping your brain working is a healthy thing to do, just like exercise.

Try one of these, write it down, and bring it to school!

Thinking Activities

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Storytown Lesson 21

A favorite student week...

We're reading a selection from Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo.  If your child has not read this whole story I would encourage you to check it out!  It is a great family read!

More information about the book, movie, and others who enjoyed the book are here!

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Our 44 Presidents

This President's Day learn something about a President.

Check out Social Studies for Kids

or the White House Historical Page with a GREAT SONG!

or watch these YouTube video's

The first 43 presidents with sillouette outlines.  Certainly a song that could be memorized! 

Starts at :15 seconds.

This video includes all 44 presidents with their presidential portraits but could be harder to memorize!





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Free Weekend Fun

The Cripple Creek Ice Festival is in Cripple Creek this weekend through the 21st~!
I went last weekend with a friend, and combined with a hike near Divide it was a great afternoon.

One Fish

Two Fish

"red" fish

"blue" fish


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Yummy Thank You

Families

Thank you for the delicious treats and fun decorations to make our Valentine's party a delicious success on Friday!

Look at all those healthy snacks!

I heard we had one of the highest populations of healthy food in our room on Friday!

To everyone who brought the healthy, sweet, savory, salty, colorful food on Friday ~Thank You!

To everyone who brought the thirst quenching drinks and cups~Thank You!

To everyone who brought dishware to eat with~Thank You!

To everyone who brought decorations for our boxes~ Thank You!

I'm such a lucky teacher to have parents like YOU involved with our class!




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Valentine's Party

We will be enjoying a Valentine's Day party this FRIDAY February 11th.

I am encouraging families to bring healthy snacks and not JUST cookies and cupcakes.  Please consider a healthy alternative to candy and chocolate! 

Student names for Valentine's Day were sent home last week.

Valentines are an all or nothing deal.  Bring one for everyone, or don't bring any. 

Your choice.

We will begin our celebration at 1:45 on Friday. 

Parents are welcome to join us at that time.

If you have questions or concerns please contact Mrs. Rose!

BOXES:

We are decorating our boxes on Wednesday.  Bring any craft supplies to share. 

We've got PLENTY of boxes!

Library

Wednesday Library

Our goal is to visit the library each week.

Students may check out up to two books and may return one and check out more before our next library date.

Have you seen your child reading a library book recently?  If not, find out why!!  We want them to be reading interesting material each night at home

Birthday Treats

We've had A LOT of birthday's the last few weeks, and it is wonderful to celebrate those with our class.

All our recent treats have been a success, thanks!

Reminders:

• Please bring enough for our whole class (right now 24)
• If your snack requires spoons, napkins, forks, plates, etc. please provide them
• We'll enjoy sweet treats at the end of the day!

Birthday's are a great time for a small treat.  Want to keep it healthy?  Here are 30 healthy snack ideas~

  

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State Testing Series III

Handwriting

Some say it is a lost art....but in the 4th grade it is still a necessity!

Want a peculiar family activity?

Have a handwriting challenge. 

See who makes the neatest letters, who holds their pencil correctly,

who knows how to make all the cursive letters....

On the state tests, and daily assignments handwriting is what communicates ideas clearly.  It doesn't have to be perfect script, but we need to be able to read it.

Handwriting practice...

It might not be the most exciting activity, but it could be interesting!

Research with Netbooks

Our Science Space Reports are going well and should be finished soon.

We checked out the Netbook mobile lab and finished up some research in class.  Students went to our school homepage and then logged into WorldBook Kids Encyclopedia.  They were able to research the planets, asteroids, black holes, comets, and much more!  They are working on research skills, non-fiction reading, and technical expository writing. 

They were able to take the notes directly from the computer to their projects.

Right in our classroom!  Isn't technology great?
We aren't quiet at 1:1 technology to student ratio's, but we can for some lessons!  Who knows what they'll be doing by high school!

Learn more about what 1:1 is here!

Vision and Hearing

Just a reminder Vision and Hearing Health Screening is soon approaching us. 
Wear your glasses!!!!

It will be held on February 2nd ; 3^rd. 

3^RD, 4^TH , 5^th grades will be done on Wednesday, February 2^nd

K, 1^st,  2^nd will be done on Thursday, February 3^rd.