I LOVED reading all the comments from everyone about the video games!!  You all did a FANTASTIC job!!

Kiddos,

Here are some fun facts for you to read about video games that you might find interesting!  🙂  Remember our deal: if you post an “accelerated fourth grade” comment you will receive 5 extra points or 3 tickets!  🙂

1-The first commercially successful home video game, Pong, became available in 1975.  

2-In 2013, Americans spent $21.5 billion on video games.

3-91% of kids ages 2 to 17 play video games.

4-About 60% of all Americans play video games.

5-There are more male (55%) than female (45%) gamers.

6-In 2013, teens spent an average of seven hours per week playing games on mobile devices.

7-A growing body of research suggests that playing video games can improve your ability to pay attention and make decisions.

I hope everyone enjoys their Spring Break!!  See you in April!!

If your student hasn’t mentioned it–you should check out the Science Tab!  We did a class activity to learn about soil.  I posted a question, and the students needed to read through their resources to find the answers and then post their answers to the blog!  It was an amazing activity that allowed students to work as groups, scan through and review information that they have already read, and a fun way (since they made it a race between the groups) to learn about soil!  🙂  We also talked about writing complete sentences and how to restate part of the question in the answer.  Fun times in Science!!  

(We also did an activity like this to review Main Idea!) 

Also, don’t forget to look over the class calendar–it’s really starting to fill up with some very important events.  🙂

Who can resist a catchy tune and cute puppies?! Enjoy!

Remember:

Tomorrow is $1 Dress Down Day–Money is going to help fund bullet proof glass in police vehicles.

Library is tomorrow:  Don’t forget your library books

Homework: Check the blog under the Homework Tab  

Tomorrow (Tuesday) is Spring Pictures Day.  It is a FREE DRESS DOWN DAY for pictures.  

Friday will be a $1 Dress Down Day.  The money will go to help police officers buy bullet proof glass for their vehicles.  

I just got this email!  In case you missed last Thursday’s book signing…there is another chance!!  Check it out!!

Just a few reminders:

Speeches are due this Wednesday the 19th!  We will be presenting them in class on Wednesday and Thursday to practice and polish up the speeches.  STUDENTS MUST HAVE THEM MEMORIZED FOR CLASS ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY!

Trifolds are due on the 24th.  The guidelines of what needs to be on the trifold is attached to this post.  Each piece gets graded!  

We will be doing our Wax Museum for the school on Tuesday the 25th.  Students will need to come to school in their costumes and bring uniforms to change into after 10:30.  Students may bring a water bottle to keep with them while presenting but it MUST have a sealable lid!

Parent night is on the 27th.  Students need to be here at 5:15 to get ready to present for parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, neighbors, etc. from 5:30-6:30.

If you haven’t gotten the email with the link…you can still email me and let me know, or you can go to http://www.signupgenius.com/.  When you get there you can “Find a SignUp” then search for our sign up with my email: sschneider@questac.org.  

Let me know if you have any problems!