Monday, May 11, 2015

May 18-22



Class News! 

Happy Mother's Day to all my students wonderful Mom's! I hope you enjoyed your biographies. The children worked very hard on them. We love you! 

Thank you so much for all of the kind cards, treats, and surprises for teacher appreciation week! I felt so special and appreciated! I love all of you. Thank you for the lovely surprises. Also, Thank you so much for the donations for the waffle party. It was a lot of work making 30 waffles! Ha! The kids loved it and that made it worthwhile. Thank you! 

The $1000 party has been scheduled for Wednesday, (1/2 day) May 20, 2015 if your child has earned $1000 class cash they are invited to the pool party and have been given the information for the party. It will be at my community pool from 3-4:30. I hope everyone makes it! This is not a drop your child off type of party a parent must be in attendance for safety reasons. Also, everyone is invited to come swim! Please bring a snack to share and drinks for your family. I will bring a whole bunch of Popsicles.  I won't provide drinks, there is a drinking fountain outside of the pool area. The address for the party is on the invitation. Thanks! I hope to see everyone there to celebrate a great 4th grade year! Please let me know if you are coming so I can get a head count for Popsicles. 

Important Dates:

Thursday, May 14- 6:00 pm Spring Sing all students are required to come in Sunday dress or uniform. No Jeans. We are going for a dressy casual look! :) A quick note: PLEASE pick up your children right after the performance. Mrs. Broby is helping me as my daughters performance is at the exact same time as ours. I will be here to line up the class and take them into the Spring Sing. Mrs. Broby is going to help me as they are dismissed to you. 

Wednesday, May 20th- Half Day-early release and $1000 party
$1000 party 3-4:30pm ( Please let me know if you are coming and roughly how many so I can get a head count) *** The flyer says Saturday the 23rd but I had SO many people that are going out of town for Memorial Day I thought the half day would be better.

Monday, May 25th- NO SCHOOL- MEMORIAL DAY

****** DATE CHANGE*******This was due the 18th but with Galileo testing and trying to get the Mother's Day biographies done I decided we needed more time in class to work on this. 
Wednesday, May 26th-Research projects and visual aid due. We will complete the rough drafts in class. The students will have ample time in class to finish their work. If they have not finished they will have to complete their research paper at home.  The visual aid is to be completed at home. The information is outlined in the research packet your child has. I also emailed it to you. It is number 11 on the second page. 

Friday, May 29th- Last Day of school-early release


We will be having a short spelling test this week due to the Spring Concert. Also, because of the concert I will be giving the pre-test on Wednesday and the final test Friday. I don't like assigning homework on concert nights. It is just too much! 

Spelling List:

  1. tear
  2. tear
  3. telephone
  4. throughout
  5. traffic
  6. United States
  7. unite
  8. unit
  9. valuable
  10. value
  11. wore
  12. worn
  13. circular
  14. circle
  15. argument
  16. argue
  17. volume
  18. organize
  19. summon
  20. official
  21. officer
  22. office














Monday, May 4, 2015

May 4-May 8

Happy May 4th!

NEWS!

This week we will be Galileo testing beginning Tuesday. It is our last bunch of tests, hooray! Please help your children be ready by getting a good nights sleep and having a good breakfast. There are a lot of tests the next few weeks including monthly spelling and phonogram tests. I will also be administering the Dibels reading test this week and next. So, with all of this testing going on I am not going to give a spelling test or list this week. We will be concentrating on learning vocabulary words and spelling for our research projects. Speaking of research projects.......

We had so much fun at the library! Thank you to my chaperons who were a HUGE help! Trust me I know sitting in the library helping kids find resource books and fill out note cards is less than fun. I appreciate you SO much! Plus, I know how tricky it is because I had a group of students too. The kids were SO well behaved and I was beaming with pride. I would say it was a success!

There will be homework this week it will mostly be research report and math related. Please note each student is assigned a visual aid for their research paper. They can work on this in class if it is a poster or picture. However, other than that it will need to be completed at home. I would like them to be working on their visual aid this week for homework. We will be completing most of the writing in class, I will be modeling how to write the essay. We will be writing a portion each day. The only other part they will need your help with is editing the rough draft. I sort of despise "projects" for homework so I want most of the work to be completed in school. I know you have a lot of things to accomplish at home as well!! :) 

Friday is our WAFFLE PARTY and Princess Bride movie. The movie is rated PG. A permission slip was sent home last week with a waffle topping/paper product sign up. I only assigned items to students who volunteered to bring something in. If you have a topping your family loves please bring it! If not we have plenty! Students will not be permitted to eat waffles or watch the movie if they do not have permission from you. I handed out extra permission slips today. They are due no later than Thursday. This is a party to celebrate the END of state and Galileo testing! What an amazing, smart, hard working group of kids we have! I just love them. 

Have a wonderful week! 

Ms. Tidwell