Sunday, June 22, 2014
Last Week?!?!
I can't not believe this is the last week of 4th grade for all of us! WOW!
You have amazing children and I am so lucky you shared them with me this year. Thank you.
This week we will be finishing Survivor. There will be mental and physical challenges. There will be no official HW but if your tribe mate would like to work on mental challenges at home, they can!
I will be packing up my room and hope to have all of my books returned by Tuesday... please do a whole house search for anything that you may have at home!
I am going to update my photos on Snapfish and send out the link later this week. You will be able to see and print any photos from this year.
Thank you for your support and encouragement of your Team Jones member this year.
You rock!
Love, Laurel Jones
You have amazing children and I am so lucky you shared them with me this year. Thank you.
This week we will be finishing Survivor. There will be mental and physical challenges. There will be no official HW but if your tribe mate would like to work on mental challenges at home, they can!
I will be packing up my room and hope to have all of my books returned by Tuesday... please do a whole house search for anything that you may have at home!
I am going to update my photos on Snapfish and send out the link later this week. You will be able to see and print any photos from this year.
Thank you for your support and encouragement of your Team Jones member this year.
You rock!
Love, Laurel Jones
Friday, June 13, 2014
Sunday, June 8, 2014
I'm Back!!
I can't wait to see my team tomorrow... I'll greet them at the door!
This week we will be wrapping up a few things from Mrs. Higgs' time with us:
This week we will be wrapping up a few things from Mrs. Higgs' time with us:
- Math - finish Geometry, review the chapter, and take a test on Wednesday
- Social Studies - finish our last lesson in Government on Rights and Responsibilities
- Writing Workshop - finish up Historical Fiction - students will edit and revise their work Monday and Tuesday before publishing on Wednesday. Some of this may come home for HW this week.
A few new things:
My scientists have been patiently awaiting our critters for their ecosystems. I am hoping they arrive on Monday. We will be making observations of them and how they interact with their surroundings.
In Reading Workshop we will be spending a few intensive days on poetry. We will be both reading it and writing it.
Beginning on Wednesday we will play SURVIVOR!!! I have 4 parent volunteers for correcting. I really need 8 so that it is not too much work for a few families. Let me know if you are willing to help out!
See everyone soon! - Laurel
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Monday, May 5, 2014
The next 4 weeks
We are powering through the units that we are working on... American Revolution, Literary Essay, Historical Fiction and our Read Aloud. I am trying to get to a great place for Mrs. Higgs to start up on Thursday.
Mrs. Higgs is going to cover the following items:
Mrs. Higgs is going to cover the following items:
- Historical Fiction - writing unit
- Ecosystems (Science)
- Decimals
- Geometry
- Science Review - Test May 1st
- Government (SS)
- Reading content area materials (Reading)
She has email and will be in contact with you!
I am so glad that we are finished with the math and ELA state tests! Great job Team Jones!!!
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Math Test week
We had a great a week last week with reading Historical Fiction, planning our literary essay, starting a Revolution project with a partner, and making dinosaur eggs with our buddies!
This week will bring some more fun as well...
All of that review and it is finally time for the math test!!! This week we will wrap up our review and quick study of geometry and take the test Wed, Thurs, and Friday. One book per day.
In Reading Workshop, we will continue our class study of The Matchlock Gun. I hope your reader has told you about it. We are working on reading historical fiction because after our literary essay we will be writing historical fiction. We are working on this unit as a whole class and in small groups.
In Writing Workshop, we have mapped out a literary essay about the picture book The Other Side. After students complete this essay, they will write another one on their independent book as a book letter on the blog.
Our new American Revolution project is a newspaper - we hope to send home "the news" late next week. We hope you enjoy reading about the American Revolution!
On a side note, I think you will really love their next choir concert... I watched some of their practice on Thursday and it was wonderful!
Enjoy the rest of this rainy weekend.
This week will bring some more fun as well...
All of that review and it is finally time for the math test!!! This week we will wrap up our review and quick study of geometry and take the test Wed, Thurs, and Friday. One book per day.
In Reading Workshop, we will continue our class study of The Matchlock Gun. I hope your reader has told you about it. We are working on reading historical fiction because after our literary essay we will be writing historical fiction. We are working on this unit as a whole class and in small groups.
In Writing Workshop, we have mapped out a literary essay about the picture book The Other Side. After students complete this essay, they will write another one on their independent book as a book letter on the blog.
Our new American Revolution project is a newspaper - we hope to send home "the news" late next week. We hope you enjoy reading about the American Revolution!
On a side note, I think you will really love their next choir concert... I watched some of their practice on Thursday and it was wonderful!
Enjoy the rest of this rainy weekend.
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