Happy Friday! I was out of the building yesterday, in Des Moines for work. I didn't even think on Wednesday to do the blog early, so here it is a day late. I apologize! I did have a great day yesterday catching up with other 4th grade teachers from the Diocese. I had to end my day freezing at a track meet in Osceola though. I am happy it is the weekend. Though not happy about the snowflakes in the forecast! Thank goodness it is not much!
Language Arts- This week we are reading one of my favorite stories of the year. It is called The World According to Humphrey. It is about a hamster that is a class pet and each kid get to take it home on a weekend to care for it and clean the cage. He is in a particular house where everything centers around the TV and it is loud all the time. Humphrey (the hamster) unplugs the TV and the family thinks something is wrong with it so they find other things to do like play games, cards and go outside. It is a great story with a definite theme or lesson for the kids. In grammar we are reviewing comparative and superlative adjectives, which they are good at they may just forget what they are called. Our vocabulary strategy this week was about using the context of a sentence to figure out the correct meaning of multiple meaning words. Today will be a normal Friday with a spelling post test and end of the week assessment. I expect the scores for today to be pretty high because the students did enjoy the story.
Math- You should have found the results of your student's math test in their folders. They all did quite well on this test. We have begun in chapter 13 working on perimeter. Today I plan to start Area. We will have one more lesson in this chapter then we will take our post test, so we are looking at doing that at the end of the week next week or beginning of the following week. I think they thought perimeter was easy but one asked why we have to use the formula and not just add the sides together. My answer was because we are trying to teach you what a formula is and how to use them. This will get them ready for the higher grades for sure. This is consider a little bit of algebra. When I told them that they all sat up a little straighter in their chairs ready to learn. They love knowing this is "big kid" stuff!!!
Social Studies - We are to have a map test today, but since i wasn't here to remind them I may move it to Monday. If that is the case we will do a map skill today on Map Scale. This will take a little teaching and then some partner work to help each other with the skill. We will be finishing up this chapter the next week and begin working on studying for the test. The next set of states we cover will be the Midwest.
Food Pantry - I hope you have seen the flyer that showed the items that we collecting for the Food Pantry. It would have come home in a Thursday folder. We are collecting, baby items ( diapers, wipes, bathwash), also, toothpaste, tooth brushes, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, bathwash, and bars of soap. As you can see it is mainly Health and beauty products. They give these items out once a month. Our table is pretty bare so please be thinking about donating an item.
The next couple weeks are busy weeks. Next Thursday we have reconciliation and on Friday we go to the Food Pantry. April 8-12 is our Iowa Assessment Week. We will be testing on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday of that week. We will still have some other lessons sprinkled in that week also. I feel April is a month that is going to go by quickly because we have lots of things on the calendar. Also don't forget, St. Malachy is closed April 22-24 as the teachers will be attending NCEA in Chicago.
I hope all of you have a great weekend!
God Bless,
Mrs. Sickels
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