Week of September 23rd

Show-n-tell: Angelica
Angelica brought in her India drum she bought in Santa Fe. It was fun listening to her play it.

Cool drum Angelica!

Thanks for sharing! 

Remember there are lots of exciting things coming up:

• October 4th- Jog-a-thon
• October 7th-9th- Student led conferences
• October 10th and 11th- Fall Break
• October 16th- Picture Day
• October 24th- Field Trip- McCall's Pumpkin Patch
• October 25th- Harvest Fest 6-8pm
• October 31st- Costume Parade 1:30

Congratulations student council representatives!

Congratulations to our new Vice President and our class representatives!

Lynnise will be the elementary school vice-president!

Tim, Florent and Brayden will represent our class in student council. 

Way to go guys! We are excited you are representing us. 

Engineering a Ferris Wheel

As many of you know, Friday's we have the students in 4th and 5th grade switch classrooms. The teachers focus on one part of S.T.E.M./Study Skills (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). This month the topic in my classroom was E for engineering. 

September is the month the state fair is in town and what better way to celebrate, than to learn about one of the most popular fair rides: Ferris Wheels.

We learned about Mr. George Ferris and the history behind these magnificent structures. But there is no fun learning about it unless you actually get to build it. 

So students were given: toilet paper/ paper towel rolls, Popsicle sticks, string, tape, and glue. Their goal this week: build the base of their Ferris Wheel. 

As we work together to build our Ferris Wheels, we are leaning teamwork, cooperation and the engineering behind building the famous Ferris Wheel.  

Stay tuned for the final products. 

Wonderful Memories!

Wow, what a great turn out we had for Open House! It was so much fun watching parents guess what their child wants to be when they grow up and watching the kids show parents all around our classroom!
Here are two of the families that came: Kailey and Brayden with their parents. Who guessed right about what their child wants to be when they grow up?

Kailey's mom, Jennie guessed Vet, but Kailey wants to be a teacher.

 

Brayden's soon to be stepdad, Jason guessed President and Brayden's mom, Jennie guessed Archaeologist, who was right......Jennie was right! Nice job mom.



                      
Thanks again to all the families that came. It was a wonderful turn out.

Show-N-Tell: Ava
Ava brought in her Marionette this week. It was so cute how she made it walk.

Ava is explaining how she made her Marionette.

She is making him walk. Cool!

Honoring September 11th, 2001

We proudly honored the men and women who fought and died this day 12 years ago. 

But we also got to learn about one African tribe who gave America 14 cows in honor of those who died.

We are saluting those who have helped our country, especially the Maasai tribe in Kenya who gave 14 cows to America. 

NVA Open House and so much more...

Upcoming events:
This week we have Open House. It is on Thursday, September 12th. There will be a light dinner served beginning at 5:40-6:15. You are then free to come by the classroom and hear all about the wonderful things that we have planned for the year.

Scholastic Book Fair is here!!! Our class will visit on Tuesday for ideas of any books that the students might like to purchase. On Thursday we will again visit but this time to purchase. If you plan on purchasing please send money with your child on Thursday.

I have gotten some great feedback about homework and adjusted it this week. Please feel free to leave me comments on the first page. It helps me adjust to a more manageable workload for your children. I can't emphasis enough the importance of the reading part. If for some reason your child is unable to complete a box but is able to read their 20 minutes. I am okay with this. But please note in the comments section.

Show-n-tell last week:

Brayden shared his Yugio cards. I was amazed at the number of cards he has. He even has some from Japan. WOW!

"Water" cards

Brayden has over a hundred cards!

Thanks for sharing Brayden.

Week of September 3rd

I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day. Just a few things I want to share with you.

• Show-n-tell will be every Friday. One student will bring in his/her item to share with the class. Here is a list when your child has show-n-tell:

1. September 6th- Brayden
2. September 13th- Ava
3. September 20th- Lorenzo
4. September 27th- Angelica
5. October 4th- Lucky
6. October 18th-Alejandro
7. October 25th- Isabella
8. November 1st- Travis
9. November 8th- Lynnise
10. November 15th- Kailey
11. November 22nd- Florent
12. December 6th- Aspen
13. December 13th-Celina
14. January 17th-Maddi
15. January 24th- Steph
16. January 31st- Tim

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about the date of your child's show-n-tell. 

Here is last week's show-n-tell: Isaac brought in his G.I.Joe classics

Thanks for sharing Isaac!

• Below is the newsletter. I am trying to cut down on papers sent home. 

Ms. Seeley’s Fourth Grade Class

• Week of September 3rd, 2013
                                                                      
  Upcoming Events   
  • September 9^th: Jean Monday- pay $1 to wear jeans
  • September 9^th-13^th- Scholastic Book Fair
  • September 12^th- Open House: 5:00 Dinner, 5:45 Meeting, 6-7 Meet the teacher
  
  
  
  
  Updates:
  ·         Monthly theme: Africa. Each month we will focus on an area around the world. This focus will be found in all subject areas.
  ·         If you would like to contribute anything for our focus on Africa please contact me. This might be a book, a recipe, show and tell of items you might have from Africa.
  
  
  
  
  News
  
  
  ·        Math:  We will be reviewing comparing, ordering and rounding numbers for our test on Wednesday. Thursday we will begin our new unit on addition and subtraction with larger numbers.
  
  
  ·        Writing:  We will fully immerse ourselves in memoirs this week. We are looking at characteristics of memoirs and the different ways memoir authors "reflect" on their moment in time.
  
  
  ·        Reading:  We will continue our “Life as a Reader” unit. We are talking about just right books, which are books are our level and we are able to comprehend as well as read fluently. We will be talking about what our strategy is when we get to a tricky word and how readers move past the tricky word.
  
  
  ·        Science:  This week we are looking at ecosystems and the flow of energy through those ecosystems.
  
  
  ·        Social Studies: We start our new unit study on Africa. As you can imagine there are many different tribes and countries in Africa but we will be focusing on West Africa. This is to prepare us for a visit from a West African drum and dance group from Mali, Africa.