CRCT Individual Student Scores will be available for you to pick up at our school on Tuesday - Thursday, June 9-11, 2009, from 9:30 to 12:30. Any reports not picked up between June 9-11 will be distributed at the beginning of the 2009-2010 school year.
Just a reminder that Boosterthon pledges are due on Monday! Also remember to send in your self addressed stamped envelope.
Revolutionary War play -dress rehearsal will be held on Monday morning. Please remember to bring your constumes!! Parents are invited to the play on Tuesday morning at 8:15 am.
Our fourth grade play will be in the cafeteria on May 19th at 8:30 am. The kids have done a great job with their songs and parts. Costume information will be coming home today.
Please send in a self addressed envelope with 2 postage stamps attached. Please remember that by time we send report cards home, postage stamps will be $0.44.
Parents,
If any of you have any digital pictures of our class from throughout the year, I would like to have some to include in our class memory book. If you could burn some of the best pictures to a CD, I would appreciate them so much! It's hard to believe that this year is about over! It's gone way too fast. You have the most AWESOME kids and I am going to miss them soooo... much next year.
Thank you ,
Mrs. Kindel
Parents,
Please remember to send in your students' artwork order no later than Friday, April 17th. If you do not wish to order anything, the magnet that was sent home last Friday, MUST be returned by Friday! Thanks so much for you help!
Also, our much anticipated field trip to The Huntsville Space Center is this Friday the 17th! Please be sure to pack several snacks for your child. You may want to include a peanut butter/jelly sandwich or something filling, as we will not be eating lunch until 1:30. They may bring snacks in a small bookbag or a plastic bag. Remember a snack for the ride home. We will eat dinner at Cici's Pizza around 5:00 pm in Huntsville.
We have finally received the login for students' to access the social studies text book online. (I know ...it's a little late! Follow the following link:
http://www.eduplace.com/eservices
Username: cobbstudent4
Password: password
I should have the math login this afternoon!
Please remember to go online and take the CRCT practice tests. I have made several tests in math, language arts, and reading. The science and social studies will be up soon. These tests include all areas that we have covered this year as well as areas that we will study after the CRCT in April.
Welcome to 2009! I hope everyone had a great holiday season! We talked about some of the fun things that the kids did over the holidays and they all seemed to enjoy their much needed rest! This past week was a little hard to get back into a routine, so we took it a little slow! We wrote a snowman story and did some fun activities to introduce Space and the Revolutionary War! I want to let you know what we will be doing in class over the next few weeks. We have started a novel study of Johnny Tremain. This book is a classic historical fiction novel about the events that led up to the Revolutionary War. Because it is a higher level book, I am reading the book to the students. We are discussing each chapter and the students are creating a diary as if they were Johnny Tremain. In science, we will be studying space. This will include the planets, stars, constellations, moon phases, and space technology. In social studies, we will be studying the Revolutionary War. This week we learned about the French and Indian War and "taxation without representation in the colonies" that both led to the War. In math, we are learning about fractions and decimals. This week we will work with improper fractions and mixed numbers. Our writing focus for this nine weeks is informational writing. The students will be researching a famous person or event of the Revolutionary War and writing an information paper about that person or event. We will also be researching planets. This next nine weeks will be busy!
Please remember to take the CRCT practice test online!
Needed!
Kleenex Tissues
Clorox Wipes
Color Ink Cartridge HP97
Welcome to one of the busiest months of the year! December marks the end of the second nine weeks of school and the half way point of 4th grade. It is also a very busy month and we have a lot of curriculum left to cover. In math, we are finishing our using on geometry by reviewing polygons, quadrilaterals, parallelograms, and will work on graphing coordinates on a grid. We will spend this week reviewing and will take our post math test online, next Tuesday, December 16th. In science, we finished sound last week and have begun light this week. We only have 3 standards in light and will finish the unit before we break for the holidays. Hopefully we will test next Friday, December 19th. In social studies, we are in the middle of colonization. The students have enjoyed the history of the United States and I think colonization is one of their favorite parts! I told them that it gets even better! We are in the middle of learning about heath and nutrition. Students should be keeping a food journal. Please stress to them the importance of doing their best work on this project. Next week, we will not have our regular spelling lesson. The vocabulary test will be on December the 16th.
I want you to know how extremely proud I am to have your students in my class. I enjoy every moment with them. Each one is so unique and special - and the year is going too fast!! I want to thank all of you for you overwhelming support. I couldn't do it without you! Happy Holidays!!
Last week all of you should have received a copy of your child's login to access our Online Assessment System. This system is developed for students to take practice tests that are very similar to what they will see on the CRCT in April. At this time, there are several benchmarks tests available, but there will be many more teacher made tests starting in January. This is a great way for your child to take practice tests on the 4th grade standards. If you have any questions, please let me know!
