What a fun day in the 4th grade.
Tomorrow is cat/GRIZ day. Wear your favorite team's attire tomorrow. Show your spirit and earn $50.
We did a MT History lesson today on counties. We learned that the students live in Yellowstone County which is number 3. That is why we see the 3 on our their license plates. I live in a different county than them. Ask them what number my county is. If they can tell you, write it in the planner for $10.
I have put out a challenge to all students to keep their eyes on the road. We have a large map of MT in our room broke up in the 56 counties. Kids will try to fill in all 56 counties by finding them on the road and taking a picture of the license plate. Then, they need to have you text it to me, email it to me, or print it out and bring it in. If they are the FIRST one to get it to me, they will earn $50. I will only reward one kid per county. If you see them, you can also play on their behalf if they are not with you. :0) The goal is to just get all 56 by the end of the year! Ready, set, hunt!!!! (Remember, no photographing while driving!) We also talked about parking lots are a great place to find different counties. This is only for Montana. No other states will be taken. Have fun!
Speaking of taking pictures. As you begin to decorate your homes for the holidays, please take pictures of kids in action helping decorate the tree, making fun decorations, or baking fun holiday stuff. Then send them to me to put on the blog. I love to share all of these fun memories.
Homework tonight is for kids to design their own MT license plate. They can either use numbers (7 max) or make a word out of 7 letters or less to describe them or their life. I gave them the example of how I wish my license plate said BELIEVE. Unfortunately, it was all ready taken. Drats!!! There is more than one of me out there! If they choose a numbered plate, they need to start it with the correct county they live in (3). All plates must be colored and any designs are up to them. The sky is the limit! Kids also need to write one bucket slip. They know who they are writing to.
We continued our NE tour by traveling on our virtual train to Hershey, Pennsylvania. We made a stop at the Hershey chocolate factory. Kids each got a Hershey Kiss to enjoy as we watched a virtual tour. What a great place to take a vacation this summer! Fun, fun, and yum!
In math, we master tested out in rounding. We also reviewed reading and writing decimal numbers up to the hundredths place value. I noticed a lot of them struggled with this on their morning work the other day. A quick review proved helpful as they did great on their short quiz! Tomorrow…area!
In Fly Time, we tallied the votes. The kids were most thankful for Pumpkin Pie and the adults were most thankful for the same thing! Remind me not to forget the Pumpkin Pie!!! :0) I will have to bring one in next week for a snack. I love that kids love this!!! For me personally, it is my mom's stuffing! Even when we are invited somewhere else, I always make a batch and take it with me. It just isn't Thanksgiving without it!
Spelling tests tomorrow, along with Library.
I am planning on sharing the "bad news" with kids tomorrow at Fly Time. If you want to prep them before hand, please do. It will be a difficult discussion, but one that will be grade appropriate and quick and to the point. I want to do this as a class tomorrow so kids have the weekend to process and discuss it with you. That way we can all start fresh on Monday. I will not make a big drawn out tear fest out of it. Quick and done. Again, I apologize for making this uncomfortable for you and for them. There is a part of me that regrets sharing with anyone, but there is a larger part of me that realizes if I hadn't I would have missed out celebrating a small part of their life with some pretty super kids and parents! So instead of regret…I chose the word treasured.
Have a great, great night.
Mrs. Grewell
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