WEEKEND NEWS

September 24, 2010

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

• The fourth grade classes will be going on our first field trip on Thursday, Sept. 30th. Farm Bureau and the Portneuf Soil and Water Conservation District are sponsoring “Fall Ag Field Days” for all 4th graders. We will be visiting Swore Farm. We leave school at 9:00 and return around 1:40. If you would like to go with us, please send a note or give me a call. Please sign and return the attached slip as soon as possible. Voluntary donations of 1-can of food per person will be accepted at the farm from those who wish to participate in the Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers food drive. Students will need to bring a sack lunch. They may purchase one from school or bring a sack lunch from home. Students are encouraged to wear long pants, a long sleeved shirt or a jacket, and closed toed shoes (such as sneakers).

• Book Orders due back to school on Monday, September 27th. You may order out of any or all of them. You will only need to write one check for all the book orders. You can make checks payable to Scholastic Book Clubs.

• Please remember to send in the $4.50 for your child’s yearly subscription to Scholastic News as soon as possible. Thank you for your support!


HOMEWORK:

• Math: “Drops In The Bucket” #28
• Math: Homework and Remembering #7
• Language: “Types of Sentences”
• Language: “Drops In The Bucket” Lesson C4
• Reading: read 15-30 minutes every night and fill in your reading log. Remember to return daily because this is part of your reading grade!

SPELLING WORDS:
brush, juice, fruit, tube, lunch,, crumb, few, true, truth, done, suit, pump, due, dull, tune, blew, trunk, sum, glue, threw
BONUS WORDS:
newscast, commute, continue, attitude, slumber

Have a fun weekend,
Denise Thompson

“WEEKEND NEWS”
September17, 2010

Dear Parents,
• Our 4th Graders will be going to Swore Farms on Friday, Sept. 30th. We will leave at 9:00 and return at 1:30. The permission slip will be sent home next week. This field trip is sponsored by Farm Bureau.
• Please remember to send in the $4.50 for your child’s yearly subscription to Scholastic News as soon as possible. Thank you for your support!
• I’m sending home a set of Book Orders. You may order out of any or all of them. You will only need to write one check for all the book orders. You can make checks payable to Scholastic Book Clubs. The orders will be due back to school by Monday, September 27th.
• Our Math program starts right off with multiplication and division facts. The students are bringing home flash cards for facts we have already introduced in class. Please help your child memorize these facts for both multiplication and division. More will be sent home in the following weeks.
• I will try and have the Weekend News ready to go via e-mail next Friday for those of you who have signed up for e-mail. If you haven’t already responded to my test e-mail I sent out yesterday, please do so that I know you are able to receive the messages and open up the letter attachments.
• Please read the Science note from Mrs. Kinghorn that is attached to this packet.

THIS WEEK’S HOMEWORK:
• Math: “Drops In The Bucket” #27
• Math: Homework and Remembering 4 (both sides of the paper)
• Language: Types of Sentences pg. 1
• Language: “Drops In The Bucket” Lesson C3
• Reading: read 15-30 minutes every night and fill in your reading log. Remember to return daily because this is part of your reading grade!

SPELLING WORDS:
snow, grind, still, coast, odd, crime, gold, wrote, flight, build, broke, blind, folk, grown, shock, ripe, coal, inch, sigh, built
BONUS WORDS:
remind, approach, rigid, recognize, continent
Enjoy your family this weekend!
Denise Thompson

September 10, 2010


WELCOME TO 4TH GRADE!!
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A TERRIFIC YEAR TOGETHER!!

AR GOALS: Students will be STAR testing this week, and then we will be setting AR goals for the first 6 weeks of school. Students will be bringing home AR home logs on Monday. They will need to read for 20-30 minutes each night, fill out their log each night, and have parents initial their reading log each night.

SCIENCE: Plants and animals

MATH: We are working on strategies for multiplication and division.

IDAHO HISTORY: Symbols of Idaho: we are learning about all of the symbols associated with our state.

LANGUAGE: We are learning about the four types of sentences: declarative (telling), interrogative (asking), imperative (command), and exclamatory (exciting).

WRITING: writer's notebook entries

SPELLING LIST for Sept. 13-17: Long and short vowel /a/ and /e/ words.

SPELLING TEST: given on Friday, Sept. 17th.

WORDS: gain, cream, sweet, safe, past, reach, kept, gray, field, break, east, shape, step, pray, pain, glass, west, cheap, steak, chief
BONUS WORDS: graceful, descent, athletic, knead, activity

Complete homework Math Drops In The Bucket #26 and Language Drops In The Bucket C2.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO SEND BACK PERMISSION SLIPS FOR FRIDAY'S READING MOVIE: "EIGHT BELOW"