November 19

This week we wrapped up many ideas and are ready to finish out our quarter with a bang! 

Ms. Hayes' Fourth Grade Class Presents... A Thanksgiving Readers' Theater

Where: Room 117, English Landing

When: Monday, November 22nd at 2:20pm

Why: A chance to show how we have improved our reading fluency!

Brrrr!- As the temperatures in November get colder, make sure your child comes to school prepared for the weather with coats, gloves and hats for recess.

November 12

School Picture Retakes November 18th.


Thanks to all Veteran's who participated in the Veteran's Day celebration! Our kiddos enjoyed the experience and were able to share the things that they learned later in the day. Student's sucked up the information like sponges and I was pleased to hear the discussion that took place between them. 

Our Class with CPT Brooks and CPT Hutchison

In Science we are working with Electricity still. This will be our last week in this unit. We will be taking our Electricity assessment at the end of this week. To review we will do several more experiments. Key terms for this unit are: Parallel Circuits, Series Circuits, Open Circuits, Closed Circuits, Insulator and Conductor. 

We are beginning a new unit that will cover the first Missourians. 

In Math we continue to dive into the world of 2 digit multiplication. Students are learning a variety of ways to solve the problems. It is important that we show students a variety of ways to solve these problems, to help them understand what multiplication represents. We have worked with Standard "Old School" format, Lattice and Box Method. Ask your students to show you the difference. 

This week in Communication Arts we are going to be Starting Reader's Theatres. We will be doing several Thanksgiving plays. Reader's Theatre helps students to develop their fluency as well as their oral presenation skills. We will be presenting our Reader's Theatres on Monday November 22 at 2:20pm. If you are interested in attending please let me know so that we can plan for the event. 

Thanks so much to those who have already sent in bottle caps and volunteered! 

November 7, 2010

 

THANK YOU for taking time out of your busy schedule to attend Parent-Teacher Conferences.

The Park Hill School District Parent Survey which came home was due back Friday of this week. We had a 94% return rate. In the future we will continue to strive for a 100% participation rate in school activities.

Thanks to those who signed up a relative/friend for our Veteran’s Day presentation.  That presentation will take place at 9:00 in our classroom on Thursday, November 11.

 

PTA Family Movie Night reservations were due today.  “Toy Story 3” will be shown in the gym on Friday at 7:30 pm. 

 

English Landing’s year to date daily attendance average was 97.52% with the district average being 96.17%.  School attendance does count and is calculated not only at the school level, but the district level, too.

 

Looking into next week we continue to discuss electricity, making change and time. We look towards wrapping up these units this week.