Academics and Tidbits

We are reading about finding the Titanic in our textbook and working on reading and grammar skills around the topic. We have ALL of the Titanic books checked out of the library to look at and learn more about this ever fascinating shipwreck.

Little House in the Big Woods is our new class set of books we are reading together. Laura Ingalls Wilder does an amazing job of describing life in the early days as a young girl in Wisconsin. She describes events and items in great detail. This book is a perfect example of the descriptive writing I am trying to teach in writing class. Since the writing prompt on the WKCE is to describe something, I am working with the kids on sensory descriptions of everything from a piece of candy to a person to a special place.

It is official: I am changing our class name from 4 Awesome A to 4A+. Thanks to the ever clever Miles Saylor for coining that one!

We have PLENTY of snacks now for a long time. Thanks to all the parents for your contributions. Thanks yous go to Lindsey, Miles, Ana, Noah, Tyler, and Everett for recent donations. (Hope I didn't miss anybody.) Hopefully you were not strong-armed by your fourth grader! :)

Happy Birthday to Lindsey Murphy on October 18th!! Also congrats to her for earning Student of the Month for September. It says a lot about her citizenship and academic efforts to be the first one chosen for this honor.

We will be getting slips out to you soon on the next few field trips. You can plan the dates for now:
October 23rd: Cutler Cranberry Marsh/ Cranberry Discovery Center
November 4th: play--Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing, Viterbo

Also keep in mind:
October 26, 27ish: WKCE testing
October 28: Halloween dress up and party
October 31: Trick-or-Treating in the village (4-6pm?)