It is good to be back. I woke up on Friday and felt great. So...I went to school and surprised the kids! I was greeted with big hugs and happy "Mrs. Grewell...we missed you!" Warmed my heart. I took it easy, and we had a great day together.
The quarter ends on Tuesday. All missing work is due tomorrow. Please check online to make your sure your kiddo has everything turned in. I also printed a missing work report for kids that have it. It is on their desk waiting for them.
Kids will also be greeted with a new wallet and $200 start up money tomorrow. Kids spent all their money buying into the upcoming April field trip to Plenty Coup State Park and buying coupons. We now have blue money. Those that were absent will buy their coupons tomorrow, but past that old money will no longer be accepted.
Quarter 4 means we are in the homestretch. Expectations won't get any higher than they are this quarter. It is time to pull out all the stops and push, push, push one last time. Kids will show just how much they have grown in the 4th grade on the upcoming MONTCas Smarter Balanced testing and the MAP NWEA tests in April and May. I can't wait to see the results. Whoohoooo!
Fines have also been raised from $50 to $100. Kids should not have any reason to not know our classroom expectations now. They also need to be ready for the 5th grade classrooms. Missing work, talking out in class, forgetting things at home, not having planners signed, and just all around behaving in class should be easy as pie these days. Those that are still having issues with these skills will be fined heavily to help drive it home one more time. It is imperative that kids earn their money and keep it as we have some upcoming field trips this quarter that will require buy ins. Positive choices...no issues buying in! Negative choices...might have to stay behind. BELIEVE!
Report cards come home not this week, but next week.
Don't forget this week is a short week. Kids have a half day on Thursday, off Friday, and off the following Monday. Enjoy your Easter Break.
Academically...
Math: We will try to finish up our geometry unit and take the final test.
Reading/Lead 21: We will finish up our Unit 5 reading and skill work and begin our inquiry projects.
Spelling: We will begin our new program. We will test tomorrow without studying. Kids that miss two or less, will be done for the week. Those that don't will need to study and will take the same test again on Thursday. These are 20 words that 4th graders use every day. Many of them are homophones. We will continue skill work as well.
Language: Pronouns.
Science: We are ready to test out our cars and their restraining devices on a raw egg in PLTW. Kids have designed ideas and will test them out. Then, they will go back and decide if they were successful or need a bit of tweaking before trying again. After trying it twice, we will take the cars apart and begin to build the next devise.
MT History: Native Americans in the 1820s. We will see what happens when the gun and horse are introduced by early Europeans. Hint...it changes everything!
SS-We will begin our tour of the SW region. The states and capitals test will be not this Friday, but next Friday. There are only 4 states in this region: Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Arizona.
Fly Time: We will take a look at this cause and effect sequence: struggles-perseverance-character-hope. There are reasons we struggle, and that is to build ourselves up. We will take a look at how we can be compared to a lump of coal. coal-pressure-heat-diamond!
Miss. Emily was our star of the week last week. She brought in her sweet puppy dog and a ton of stuffed animals. So precious! Emily sure loves her animals...real and stuffed! Thanks for sharing with us Emily!
I was so sad to miss the science fair. I was able to slide down their this weekend and check out all the creativity done. Wow!!!! I could not believe all the different boards and projects in there. I was able to grade all the boards that I could find. I am super proud of all those that did a board this year! I also gave each child extra credit by changing their lowest science grade to a 100% as promised. Great job to all kids. If you were at the Billings Clinic Science Fair on Friday or Saturday, please write FAIR in the planner for $100. (Your child did not have to do a project for you to go!)
Happy Birthday to Miss. Hanna. Thank you so much for the yum, yum, yummy donuts! She made a killing right before buying coupons! Sweet time to have a birthday! Hanna also got a pretty cool birthday present this weekend. Check this out! Whoa! Pretty grown up their Hanna!
Reece we sure hope you had a great time skiing. We missed you on Friday. Sure glad you were not up at Red Lodge when the wind and fires hit! I am hoping no one was. Wow!!! Pretty smokey in our neck of the woods!
Have a wonderful week!
Mrs. Grewell
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