Updates in Room 216

Upcoming Dates: 

• February 27th - Library Check-out 
• March 2nd - Dr. Seuss Dress Up Day 
• March 3rd -STAR Reading and Math 
• March 7th - Early Release 
• March 13th - Library Check-out 
• March 14th - Beulah Math Night 
• March 17th - 'Miles for Moms' Walk-a-Thon (4th grade service learning)
• March 22nd - Jefferson City Field Trip 
• March 27th - 31st - SPRING BREAK 

Service Learning Project Update: 

        We spoke with all 4th graders this week about starting the fundraising process for our Walk-a-Thon. Each class' goal is to raise $125 to meet our grade level goal of $500. Kids can return the money as they receive it. Let me know if you have any questions! 

What We Have Learned About this Week! 

• Writing: This we we continued to learn more about "Research-Based Editorials." We compared different essays and even held class debates to get us in the persuasive spirit. We build background knowledge about the Oregon Trail, since our next persuasive essay will involve researching the Westward Expansion.
• Science: We continued learning about waves this week. Kids learned about how the further away a wave gets from its energy source, the more the amplitude decreases. Next week we will begin studying sound waves! 
• Math: We are continuing the plug away on our fraction unit. They kids are working very hard on this material. we have spent a lot of time studying the relationship between percents and fractions. We found equivalent fractions and ordered landmark fractions. 
• Reading: This week we started back up with our Daily Interactive Grammar Notebooks. We spent time reviewing the different parts of speech and even got to play jeopardy during reading! Students learned about progressive tense verbs and added to our Interactive Notebooks. Next week, we will focus on elements of complete sentences. We will also be continuing our read aloud, The Mighty Miss Malone. The kids are really loving this book! 

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND! 

Go Timberwolves!

Our kiddos were lucky enough to be in this weeks Cool Tool singing our school song! 

They are always being complimented on what a great class they are to have, especially by their Specials teachers.

Upcoming Events:

• February 17th - No School 
• February 20th - No School, Presidents Day 
• February 27th - Library Check-Out 
• February 28th - Dental Clinic 
• March 2nd - Dr. Seuss Dress Up Day (our grade level book is Fox in Socks) 
• March 3rd - STAR Testing - Math and Reading
• March 7th - Early Release, Classes Dismissed 2.5 Hours Early 
• March 13th - Library Check Out 
• Mirach 14th - Family Math Night 6:00-7:30 
• March 17th - "Miles for Moms" Walk-a-Thon 
• March 22nd -- 4th Grade Field Trip to the Capital 

What we have done this week! 

• Writing: We worked on our Opinion writing pre-assessment writing. They are really excited to start a new writing unit and share their opinions on different topics. We will be looking at debate skills, research and social studies through this unit as well. 
• Social Studies: The Oregon Trail is our destination! We are going to begin learning about Westward Expansion and the role Missouri played in that. We will start by gaining some background knowledge next week through books and videos. 
• Science: We  loved making our own waves with ourselves and water this week! We are building great connection between how force/gravity affect the wave length and amplitude of a wave. 
• Math: We have started our new math unit! We are working on developing our background knowledge of what we know about fractions, decimals, and percents and how they relate to each other. We have started doing this by using a 100's grid to show that if I fill in 1/2 of the grid that is 50, which is also 50%. 
• Reading: We are still enjoying our read aloud book, The Mighty Miss Malone. With this book we are working on our monitoring skills. This means that we are making sure that when we get confused in a text that we have strategies on how to figure out where, how, and why I got confused. We are also working hard in our book clubs/guided reading groups. All of them are really enjoying their books. 

In conferences I mentioned our service leaning project. For our project we will be doing a walk-a-thon called "Miles for Moms." We are asking for parent volunteers to help with lap counting, music, snack/water station donations and helping at the water station. If you are interested please let me know. Also, if you want to join your student for the walk-a-thon you are more than welcome to. 

Have a great 4 day weekend! 

Here We Go February!

Upcoming Dates: 

• February 10th ~ Problem-Solver celebration, bring a puzzle/ puzzle game from home 
• February 13th ~ Parent-Teacher Conferences 
• February 14th ~ Spring Parties! 
• February 16th ~ Parent-Teacher Conferences
• February 17th ~ No School 
• February 20th ~ No School - President's Day 

What's going on this week in room 216! 

• This week we are going to be finishing up our writing piece on our Missouri cities. We will then be using that writing to create a fun finished piece, that looks like something out of a magazine or newspaper.
• We also just took a pre-test for our next unit in math, that we will officially start next week. This unit will be discovering and unfolding what fractions are and how they relate to percentages and decimals. 
• In science we just started our wave unit. The students have already had great investigations on what different types of waves there are and making their own waves.
• For reading, we are continuing with our read aloud book, The Mighty Miss Malone. We have been working on making efficient summaries and will begin working on reading monitoring skills this week. We are also working really hard in our book club groups.