12/23/21 Fourth Grade

 

12/23/21

Dear Families,

It's hard to believe that holidays are here!  We wanted to take a moment to tell you how grateful we are that we get to work with your amazing kiddos each and every day!  We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and we will see you in the new year!

Upcoming Dates:

1/3 School resumes

High/Low

High- it’s PJ day

High- we can go sledding again

Low- it’s the end of the week

High- It’s Christmas time

High- it’s PJ day today, we have PE, and we are going to explode volcanoes after break

High- the Montshire

High- it’s PJ day

Low- no volcanoes yet

High- everything!

Low- I don’t have a low…it’s Christmas!

High- Christmas

Low- my mom has to work on Christmas

High- making a gingerbread house

Low- it kind of collapsed

High- It’s PJ day

High- it’s PJ day, early dismissal, no school tomorrow

Low- I won’t get to see my friends over Christmas break

High- it’s PJ day 

Low- I miss the Montshire Museum

High- PJ day

Low- Oliver is not going to be here anymore and I’m going to miss him

High- PJ day, gingerbread house making, snow for sledding, museum

Low- no stuffed animals 

High- in science we did coding, we went to the Montshire Museum

Low- no school tomorrow

High- PJ day

High- PE, no school tomorrow

Low- I am not going to get to see Oliver 

High- PJ day

Low- Oliver is leaving to go to a new school

High- Spending the week with fourth grade and the field trip

Low- I am going to miss Oliver, and I will miss you over break

12/17/2021 Fourth Grade

 

12/17/21

Dear Families,

Here is what we've been up to this week:

Farm to School: Miss Kelly came in to help us make potato leek soup for all of the teachers in our school! We also made cards of gratitude for local farmers.

Humanities: Students have worked through the entire writing process with their narrative writing pieces. They have drafted, revised, completed partner revisions, and worked with Mrs. T. to do final edits! Look for those to be coming home soon.

Upcoming Dates:

12/20 Science Field Trip

12/23 Noon Dismissal

12/24-1/2 Winter Break

High/Low

High- Today is Friday

Low- Ms. Kauffman wasn’t here yesterday

High- exploding volcanoes

Low- parents can’t come to see

High- exploding volcanoes, field trip Monday

High- Going on our field trip

Low- our parents can’t come to see our volcanoes

High- it’s Friday

Low- parents can't come for volcanoes

High- volcanoes

Low- PE has been in the gym

High- exploding volcanoes

High- it’s Friday

High- we can go on the field trip

High- volcanoes

High- exploding our volcanoes

Low- our parents can’t come 

High- I get to leave early, volcanoes

High- we are going on our field trip soon, making the farm to school soup

Low- getting up early

High- we get to go on the field trip, exploding volcanoes

High- having Ms. Kelly in to make the soup

Low- no snow to play in at recess

High- learning to play row, row, row your boat on the ukulele

High- Getting a fabulous report back from the guest teacher in Ms. Kauffman’s room!

12/3/21

Dear Families,

We were excited  to have a normal, full week!  We had our first Farm to School activity on Monday. Students prepared seasoned potatoes and were able to taste test!  We look forward to more Farm to School days.  Here's an update:

Humanities:  We are studying Vermont through our read aloud and other activities.  Students are creating  Vermont books.  We finished, Cave of Falling Water today and will use that to begin our narrative writing piece next week.

Upcoming Dates:

12/8     1 pm Dismissal

12/23    NOON dismissal 

High/Low

High- sledding

Low- basketball in PE

High- we go to go outside and do a scavenger hunt in special

High- sledding

Low- not going outside for PE

High- Sledding and picture day

Low- inside for PE

High- doing volcano stuff in science

High- Making paper mache volcanoes, picture day

High- making volcanoes in science

High- making volcanoes in science

High- we got to make models of the Grand Canyon

Low- we didn’t go outside for PE

High- making volcanoes

High- sledding at recess

Low- picture day

High- we get to go ice skating eventually

Low- Picture Day

High- making volcanoes, and I am looking very handsome today

Low- Taking pictures

High- volcanoes in science

Low- PE indoors

High- making a Grand Canyon model in science

High- the connections you are making during read aloud! I’ve been so impressed.

High- We had a full normal week!

Low- Scholastic News Videos

High- sledding with fourth graders