Mr. Sassman's 4th Grade Class Blog
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Last week was a good one! Root beer float parties, coding on the computers, snowshoeing, art lessons, reading, writing, and arithmetic! We had better get back to work!
- Moon Journals start Tuesday. Please look for your students' materials as they will need to fill out an entry every night for the next month! This is going to be quite an ambitious project, but a little work each night will make for a big, beautiful, outcome! Our Solar System reading/papers will also be coming home each night until next week.
- Our class been selected for a lunch menu tasting/feedback program from the school district and I will be sending the kiddos home with permission slips and information about their allergies, diets, and preferences. We will (next Monday and Tuesday) sample potential lunch items that the district may add next year. This seems to be a really fun opportunity. Our facilitator also mentioned that the kids should come prepared with their own lunches (or hot lunch as normal) for those days in the event dates or things change last minute.
- We will be starting PenPal letters this week and I will have the students making DOL corrections to their own work as well as their peers...interesting concept? This was the students' idea!
Read-a-thon
We will in fact have a read-a-thon fundraiser this quarter...more details at parent-teacher conferences.
Parent-teacher conferences by the way...Mrs. Lisa Corbett in the office has the master schedule. The "time slots," are currently the same as the fall conferences, so if you would like to make a change, please call her at 907.479.4234 x222. I will send home notices and time confirmations with the kiddos soon. Thanks and I look forward to seeing each and every one of you! This is a student-led conference, so please check and see if your student will be able to be present as well.
Tuesday looks like:
9 - 9:20
Jobs
Planners
9:20 - 10:55
Science: Our Solar System Textbook Q&A
ELA: PenPals Brainstorming
10:55 - 11:30
PE
11:30 - 12:00
TFK: Inventions of 2014
12:00 - 12:30
Lunch
12:30 - 1:00
Recess
1:05 - 2:15
Math Block: Benchmark Review Topics 5-8
2:15 - 2:30
Movement
2:30 - 3:30
Moon Journals
Mars
Homework due Wednesday, January 21, 2015
-- Moon Journals Entry 1
-- Mars
Homework due Thursday, January 22, 2015
-- Moon Journals Entry 2
-- Jupiter
Homework due Friday, January 23, 2015
-- Moon Journals Entry 3
-- Saturn
-- TFK: Best Inventions of 2014
-- PenPals Letter
MATH HOMEWORK DUE THIS WEEK (only if you are in my math class)
Homework due Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Homework due Wednesday, January 21, 2015
-- Benchmark Review Topics 5-8
Homework due Thursday, January 22, 2015
Homework due Thursday, January 22, 2015
-- Reteach/Practice 9-1 Using Mental Math to Divide
Homework due Friday, January 23, 2015
-- Reteach/Practice 9-2 Estimating Quotients
*Please keep in mind, projects or tests we have in class may have to be brought home to be finished or to study. Please ask your child if they have completed their work before you have signed their planner.
Dates to Remember:
Friday, January 30, 2015
Field Trip to Herring Auditorium - The Intergalactic Nemesis (10:00 - 11:00)
Friday, February 6, 2015
Teacher In-Service - Professional Development (no school)
Monday, February 16, 2015 and Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Student-Led, Parent-Teacher Conferences
Friday, February 27, 2015
Walk to a local lake - to be determined - with our first grade buddy class. Parent volunteers needed for the morning please!
If you are interested in volunteering on a field trip, you must be cleared with the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District...see me for a packet. If you would like to simply help out in class or volunteer, just let me know, and we can arrange it so!
It's a good life!
Mr. Sassman
