Information went home about this year's Read-a-thon last week. Your child has already set up his or her fundraising page, thank you to everyone who has ALREADY donated money! To access your child's page, visit: http://www.read-a-thon.com/readers/ Your child has the code to login to his or her page in the back of his or her homework folder.
REWARDS!
The Read-a-Thon is an amazing fundraiser because it truly promotes students to READ! Last year I rewarded three students who went above and beyond and spent a Saturday afternoon with them at The Zone bowling. THIS year, I've changed up the reward a little bit.
This year my prize is a movie afternoon with me (on a Saturday!) and a trip to get frozen yogurt for the following students:
1) The top fundraiser - the child who raises the most money
2) The student with the MOST sponsors
3) The student who READS the most!
My class was the winner in the whole school last year, and I'd like to remain undefeated!
SECOND THINGS SECOND!!! TURKEY OF THE YEAR HAS BEGUN TOO!
I was fortunate enough to be nominated for the third year in a row to be Turkey of the Year! Students may bring in their slips on Friday that has the total number of hours they read with a parent signature to receive tickets to vote! If you misplaced the paper, just send in a note with the amount of hours your child read with a signature and I will accept that. Will this be the year I finally win?!
THIRD THINGS THIRD! CONFERENCES!
If your conference is after 4:00 pm, please text me at 703-307-1113 so I can let you in! Please text me as well if you are running late.
The rest of the weekly update....
What a beautiful weekend, I hope everyone spent some of it outside! I had fun trick-or-treating with this two-year old dinosaur:
A HUGE thank you to Claudia Thomas for all the planning and execution of an AMAZING Fall Party! Thank you also to Christine Curtis for all the help setting up, cleaning up, and operating the donut eating challenge! The kids obviously had a great time and enjoyed all the food and games. Thank you also to all the parents who contributed goodies!
This week in...
Virginia studies: Students are loving learning about Jamestown! I've been reading Blood on the River, a historical fiction novel about the colonization of Jamestown and the hardships faced by the colonists. Students received week 7 of their Virginia Studies Weekly last week, they will have an open-note quiz on Tuesday. .
Science: Students began learning about some vocabulary related to our next unit about the Earth, moon, and sun. Students will have a quiz on these vocabulary words on Thursday, all of the words and definitions are in their science notebook. The words are: axis, phases, rotation, revolution, satellite, orbit, earth-centered model, and sun-centered model. .
Reading: Students began practicing differentiating between fact and opinion this week within their reading. Additionally, students will continue to show me how they are making predictions within their reading to demonstrate their comprehension. We will focus on reviewing a lot of reading strategies we've learned this first quarter this week in Reader's Workshop. New reading logs will go home tomorrow! Make sure your child is reading AS MUCH AS HE OR SHE CAN EACH NIGHT!! Children should also be filling out the BACK of their reading log each night as well.
Writing: Students will receive new word study words tomorrow and have a test on Friday as usual. Students will focus on how to use reference materials this week, specifically the dictionary, thesaurus, and glossary.
Math: All fourth grade students are expected to complete three sessions of Reflex Math per week unless they are 100% fluent with their multiplication and division facts.
Upcoming Dates:
Wednesday, November 2 at 7:10: Walk to School Day
Friday, November 4: End of first grading period
Friday, November 4: Read-a-Thon Begins!
Monday, November 7: Student Holiday
Tuesday, November 8: Student Holiday
Wednesday, November 9: Monday Schedule AND Family Life Education Class
Thursday, November 10: Family Life Education Class
Thursday, November 10 at 11:30 am: Parent Coffee "BYOT"
Thursday, November 10 at 6:30 pm: Family Reading Night
Friday, November 11 from 8:00 to 9:45: Veteran's Day Parade and Speakers
Monday, November 14 at 6:30 pm: PTA Meeting
Tuesday, November 15: American Education Week Activity from 12:35 to 1:35 PLEASE COME VISIT OUR CLASS! I'll send out more information at a later date about this!
Wednesday November 16: Report Cards Go Home
Friday, November 18 at 6:00 pm: Basket Bingo Fundraiser
Wednesday November 23-27: Thanksgiving Break
Tuesday, November 29 at 10:15: Author Visit Jennifer O'Connell
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