Mr. Sassman's 4th Grade Class Blog
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PARENT-TEACHER
CONFERENCES THIS
MONDAY AND TUESDAY!
OCTOBER 26th and 27th!
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Report Cards went home last Friday, October 25, 2015. Please check with your student!!!
This Wednesday, in the afternoon, I will be kicking off the start to my Masters project: STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Integration in our class. Our first lesson is called Towers and features the Engineering Design Process. It is a fully integrated (incorporating all STEM fields in one lesson) STEM lesson. It should be engaging and exciting. Feel free to come in and get involved!!!
I would like to do pumpkin carving with the kiddos on Thursday so please send your student in with a pumpkin on Wednesday...I am hoping to have a total of 15, one for every two students so they may work with a partner. Thank you!
HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL - FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015
I would like to take the opportunity for class fundraising during the carnival because attendance is usually excellent. The plan is to sell grocery bag holders and to create an obstacle course (class project)...We will need two more parent volunteers along with their student(s) for booths that night. Thanks so much in advance! We can also meet up. AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO KARA BECK AND JAMIE BOYLE for making so many bags to sell! Hopefully we sell out, and this will get us started for our proposed Angel Rocks hike and Twin Bears Camping Trip in the spring!
SCHOOL COSTUME POLICY for Friday, October 30, 2015
Please help students celebrate in a comfortable and school appropriate way. Each teacher will determine when costumes are aloud for their class. Students must be able to participate in regular school activities including PE and recess if they wear their costume all day.
- NO all over face paint during school day
- NO fake or toy weapons
For our class: Costumes will be allowed to be worn throughout the day. Masks and accessories will be restricted until the afternoon. The students filled the marble jar and elected to have a classroom Halloween Party and this would be an appropriate time for full costumes. I would like to get pizza and snacks for the event and we will celebrate with costumes and activities that the students design and choose. Please send in $5 with you student for food and festivities. Thank you.
I have registered the domain and started forwarding the class blog at www.puffinclassblog.com to make things a bit easier to follow. The blog will stay the same, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CHANGE ANYTHING. This is just another (shorter name) way to access the same page. The site address is also and still www.mrsassmansclass.blogspot.com, this is just an FYI.
AS ALWAYS, PLEASE check your child's planner for homework and correspondence!
Wednesday looks like:
9:00 - 9:10
Planners
Class Meeting
9:10 - 11:40
Pen Pal Letters
StoryTown Lesson 4
Counselors
11:40 - 12:10
Lunch
12:10 - 12:40
Recess
12:40 - 2:00
Math Block Lesson 4-6
2:00 - 3:30
Recess Part II
Towers (STEM: The Engineering Design Process)
*Please note that Math, Specials, Lunch, and Recess are Intermediate schedules and stay in blocks. At times, curriculum instruction will be shuffled to accommodate different initiatives. For example, Monday 8-24-15, we had a special Pearl Creek Garden Tour at 10:20 am - 10:50 am, so English/Language Arts was moved to the afternoon.
If you have any questions, concerns, or comments, please feel free to call or email me anytime to discuss things further. I hope you find this information helpful and useful.
FOR Friday, October 30, 2015
-- GeoNotes Lesson 4 (in-class)
-- StoryTown Lesson 4 (in-class this week and next)
-- State Report Phase 2 (in-class this week and next)
FOR Friday, October 30, 2015
-- GeoNotes Lesson 4 (in-class)
-- StoryTown Lesson 4 (in-class this week and next)
-- State Report Phase 2 (in-class this week and next)
MATH HOMEWORK DUE THIS WEEK (only if you are in my math class)
Homework due Thursday, October 29, 2015
-- Reteach/Practice 4-6
Homework due Friday, October 30, 2015
-- Topic 4 Review
Homework due Friday, October 30, 2015
-- Topic 4 Review
*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:
Monday, October 26, 2015 and Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Parent/Teacher Conferences
Friday, October 30, 2015 (5:30-7:30 PM)
Annual Pearl Creek Halloween Carnival
Class Party - Marble Jar Reward Celebration
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 (5-7 PM)
States Pot Luck - more details to follow
It's a good life!
Mr. Sassman
