Click here for your invitation to the 4th Grade Night at the Museum presentation on February 27th!

http://www.punchbowl.com/partypage/a88ea639c070c926

Wow, this time of year gets CRAZY!!!  With that being said, there is no Words Their Way homework this week because of the short/crazy schedule.  Reader Response Journals need to be done, but not necessarily on their assigned day.  Just have them turned in no later than Friday.  

For the Wax Museum:  If anyone would like to donate the small/personal (1/2 pint size) bottles of water to have for parent night, that would be GREATLY appreciated!  We will be serving water and cookies. (Mrs. Chidester’s class is in charge of cookies)

If any of you are super creative and would like to decorate our classroom door for the Dr. Seuss Week door decorating contest, let me know!!  I’d love the help!

Tri-Fold Guideline:

Tri-Board: 

*Tri-boards (approximately 4’ x 2’8”) may be purchased at office supply stores (Staple’s, Office Max, Wal-Mart, etc.) – let the teacher know if there is a problem in getting one

Things to include:

*Title- person’s name and date of birth and death.

*Report – Tri-Fold should include a typed PDF of the Biography bookmark. This will be completed and printed during class. The typed PDF should be attached to the tri-fold so that audience can clearly see the information.

*Pictures-portraits of character and/or things and places that pertain to the character

*Map- include one map that is relevant to his person. It can be a map of the state where they were born, or an area of the world they have influenced.  

*Five Questions- MUST HAVE FIVE QUESTIONS YOU CAN ANSWER ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER PREPARED AND POSTED ON TRI-BOARD IN LARGE FONT!

*Neatness/Creativity-should be neat, colorful, and show that you put effort into it

*Anything else you can think to display that will help the audience visualize your character and their life. 

Finish Valentine Boxes and Valentines (25 students)

Practice words/sorts for the test tomorrow

Bring Library Books-tomorrow is library!

Tomorrow is also Dollar Dress Down Day!!  Bring your Dollars!!

We are quickly approaching Parent/Teacher Conferences again!  

Sign up will be done online.  I have sent you an email with a link that will take you to the sign up times.  If you did not receive an email, please let me know!

I made a small mistake in the post about Valentine’s Day.  We have THREE categories in the Valentine Box Contest.

1-Most Creative

2-Funniest

3-Most Unique

There will be three winners out of the class.  🙂  

Here is what needs to be on the cover page for the Ancestor Essay:  
Title:
Written By:
Teacher:
School:

You can get as fancy or as plain as you’d like. 

ANCESTOR ESSAYS ARE DUE ON THURSDAY!!!

We are back into Words Their Way, full swing again this week!  Some of the videos are having some issues loading…I will work on this.  If they don’t get loaded, I will be pulling the kids back for a lesson tomorrow.  However…if you are in the Red Group, Yellow Group, or the Blue Group (top blue)…your videos are up and ready to be viewed.  🙂

We are still working out some bugs…so thanks for your patience ahead of time!  😉

Have I ever told you how much I LOVE your kids?!!  Because I do!  I was so proud of them today!  They were so well behaved (some other schools weren’t as awesome as us…) and they were such grown up fourth graders going to the theater.  Everyone looked so handsome/beautiful all dressed up!  I hope everyone had as great of a time as I did.  I know I heard a lot of positive things coming from your kids!!  Don’t forget to ask them to explain it to you!  It was a great day!  Have a GREAT weekend!!