Mrs. Clark's

Our T-t-t-t-test Video!!!
WE are getting excited to start our end of year testing!  It is fun to show off what we know!  Make sure you are eating a good breakfast and getting enough sleep.  We have four tests this week, today, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.  ALSO, our field trip is Wednesday!!!

Field trip info: May 2nd

• Meet at the Roy Frontrunner station on 4000 South: 8:15-8:25 
• Bring a small water bottle, sack lunch (none refrigerated) that can be thrown away afterwards. Include a napkin and plastic fork if needed. If you ordered a lunch from the school, I will bring it to the train and give it to them to put into their packs.
• Chaperones remember to bring your own lunch.
• Light jacket and a small backpack to hold your things (no electronics but playing card are great)
• Pick kiddos up at the Roy Frontrunner station at: 3:10
• *There will NOT be any rides from the school to the station or back*
• Chaperones will get their group assignments at the station. Please don’t take the kids into the gift shop at the museum to purchase souvenirs.
• Uniforms are required for field trips. Our class will be wearing RED shirts and TAN pants/shorts/skirts. If you don’t have a red shirt, wear white or blue.
• We will arrive at Thanksgiving Point at about 10:15, leaving the museum at 1:15 to make the 1:45 train.
• AGAIN No Electronics, only playing cards/small book. They may bring a camera but not a phone with a camera.

Homework this week is: 
Read for 20 minutes.  *Keep working on your book reports.
IXL Mastery cards 10 minutes
Prodigy 10 minutes OR MORE PRODIGY THE BETTER! AS PER BECKHAM
 

MAY 8 @ 6:30 Save the Date!

We are having a Utah Program on May 8th. All of the 4th grade students will be singing different Utah songs for you. It is at 6:30 in the Q2 gym. Best dress (like you would wear to a wedding or church) or school uniform please. Along with singing, seven students from our room were randomly picked to have speaking parts. These parts need to be memorized. WE are excited to entertain you all! Invite everyone you know to come-no limit! All of the 4th grades kids have created something to show you about our beautiful state.  Come earlier enough to walk around and see their creations. 

The speaking parts are listed below:

Paige-Student #1: The Navajo people lived in dwellings called hogans. Their hogans were filled with happiness, and the people would sing songs while they built them. The doors would always face East, and the mud all around the house connected them to Mother Earth. Beauty and harmony are important to the Navajo people.

Addie-Student #2: The Paiute people moved around a lot and lived in wickiups, made of branches and brush. They travelled in small groups of 15-30 people. Plants were very important to them, and they used over 96 species of plants for medicine or food. When Mormon pioneers came to their lands, they made friends and worked for the pioneers on their farms, sharing their great knowledge of Utah.

Jazmin-Student #3: The Goshute people also lived in wickiups, and moved around in small groups. But Goshutes were specialists in desert living. They knew how to find food and water when it was scarce. They used sweat lodges, and had religious leaders called shamans. They also played fun games, including one with a hoop and a pole.

London-Student #4: The Shoshone people lived in wickiups, teepees, and caves. They stayed in family groups and worked hard to find food. They laughed and played games made from sticks, roots, and clay. They respected parents and grandparents and took care of family members when they were sick.

Damian-Student #5: Utah is named after the Ute people. Utes lived in teepees. They didn’t really have chiefs in their tribes, but they did have medicine men. They told stories of creation around the fire, and they dried meat and fruit to eat during the winter. Utes gathered horses, and learned to use them to travel far, and they knew the mountains well.

Summer-Student #6: In 1850, the United States organized the region as a territory and named it Utah in honor of Ute Indians living here. Later, Utah was admitted to the Union as the 45th state on January 4, 1896. Utah has gone through a lot of changes since the pioneers first entered the Salt Lake Valley. Look back for a moment at Utah’s history…We’ve come a long way since yesterday!

Aiden-Student #7: Utah has an area of 84,990 square miles, and is divided into 29 counties.  Some of these counties were given Indian names and some were named after explorers and trappers.  Others were named after minerals, trees, lakes, rivers, and animals. We are able to name each one!

We have a field trip right around the corner. Wednesday, April 25, I need to turn in a sack lunch count. Please make sure your student knows if they are ordering one tomorrow morning. They are the same price as regular school lunch $2.00, they usually get a uncrustable, a veggie in a little sack, some crackers maybe and a small treat. They need to know if they want a chocolate milk or reg milk too. I will bring them to the FrontRunner station that morning.  

Also, the FREE chaperones are: Congrats, you get to ride the FrontRunner and get into the Museum for FREE!!!
Evan gets one of his guest free
Misty Price-Noah
Kellie Norton-Hailee
London’s guest


Here are the groups for our field trip.  We need a 4 Student to 1 chaperone, 4-1 ratio
Please let me know if you can’t make it 😉

Elizabeth Wood
Audrea Hodson
Amanda Robison
Misty Price
London’s guest
Evan’s guests (2)
Codie Davis
Derek Love
Kellie Norton, Hailee’s Aunt
Mike Vernieuw, Kelcey’s Grandfather

The Loveland Living Planet Aquarium came today!!!! 

We ARE GETTING READY TO SMASH SAGE!!!
BOOK FAIR IS BACK! It’s BOGO Book Fair Time!!
Monday May 7-Friday May 11 8:00 am-4:00 pm
It will be Teacher Appreciation week.  We will be selling gift certificates that you may purchase for teachers before and after school on Friday, May 4.  We will have teacher’s picks boxes during the fair.

Tuesday and Thursday POQA is hosting doughnut for breakfast. Watch for details! *Need volunteer hours? Please contact Lyndsay Ehinger (989) 915-4420-text and Courtney Petersen (435) 720-2535-text or e-mail Qabookfair@yahoo.com to volunteer at the book fair.

HOMEWORK: 
Read for 20 minutes each night and work on your book reports.
Prodigy, Prodigy, and more Prodigy.
IXL towards your MASTERY PRIZE! (optional)
Also, Education Galaxy Science work. This is a new program that they will be working on the rest of the year. It is great for review. They worked on this in the classroom and know how to login and what I want worked on 😉 
User names: It is their first name and last initial, then a number was added on some of them.  For example AngieC4  (not all of them had a number added to their names)
The password:Rams
Earth’s Surface 4.6, Weather 4.8, The Water Cycle 4.9, Adaptations 4.13, Behavior/Traits 4.14.


THANKS

Make sure you have ALL submitted your permission slip to go on the Field Trip to Thanksgiving Point!
Here is the link again FIELD TRIP PERMISSION FORM

Tomorrow, April 17 it is a free dress down day! Bell Photographers will be taking Spring pictures or personality portraits. The order forms were sent home on Friday. All students will have their pictures taken but their is no obligation to buy them. The proofs will be sent home a in few weeks.  At that point, you can order what you like or send them back to the school.

We have started a STEM project about the RMS Titanic (wall sized diorama of the Titanic). Student’s will be working in the classroom on a writing assignment and creating “rooms” of the ship. We will also be creating the image below.  Student’s have already been put into 2-man groups to “create” a room from the ship. Please send colored paper/scrapbooking paper to donate, any modeling clay, or even doll furniture or legos can be brought. If they have a room, they will need to bring popsicle sticks (or something) that they can use to make bunkbeds. Also, small squares of fabric for bedding.  Have them look around the house for supplies and be creative. I will send home anything that they don’t use. We need tape too! All of the furniture/legos will be taped into the box and returned afterwards.  The paper creations will be sent home as will. We need them in the classroom by Thursday. **Don’t send valuables.  We will be displaying this in the foyer of the school. There is a chance, it could go missing.**

Additionally, if you upgraded your child’s Prodigy account, they are activated and ready to use.

Homework:
Read for 20 minutes each night.  Don’t forget to turn in your minutes on Thursday evening.

Finish any missing/unfinished FrontRowED assignments.
Finish any ReadWorks assignments-you can only miss one.

Play Prodigy for 20 minutes each night.

IXL-keep working on filling up your card until you have completed 40 minutes of homework each night 😉

We are heading out on a field trip May 2nd!  We will be going to Museum of Natural Life.  Please take a minute and fill out this Permission Form.

Please read through the ENTIRE permission form before you agree to be a parent volunteer for this trip.

WE HAD SO MUCH FUN!!! THANKS FOR BEING OUR LEARNING PARTNER!!!