Just a quick reminder. Mrs. Racignol is asking that all students wear dots tomorrow for "Dot Day". We will also be having our 2nd spelling test tomorrow. Remember to study!!

Looking forward to our field trip next Thursday!!

Yesterday we began our AR cart! The students each chose a book that suited their own reading level and interest. Make sure to ask your child what book they chose and why.

We had a great day in fourth grade today! Vocabulary words including fluke, glared, legendary, muttered, gaped, flinched, snickering and stunned were introduced during reading. We will continue to use these words as we read our upcoming story, "Mighty Jackie The Strike-Out Queen". During writing we continued to  read other personal narrative texts and each student wrote a draft of their own.

Our morning routine will now begin with star math. This is a math practice/ test program where students work at their own level. Each student has their own file containing their own practice sheets. This will help find key concepts that each student may be struggling with and give them extra practice in that area.

We have started our second week of school and I am happy to say WE HAVE BLUE BOOKS!!! Each student was given a blue book (assignment book) today and a letter of explanation on how these books work. Please take some time to look over the letter, sign it and sign the page for today in your child's blue book. Each student will bring their book home daily to be checked and signed. Parents will be able to see if their child has homework and any notes made by the teacher throughout the day. You will also be able to see if students missed any previous homework by looking back for highlighted assignments. This is a great way to help keep your child organized and help teach them responsibility. Please feel free to write messages to me as well. I will be checking blue books daily. Thanks for all you do and I look forward to another wonderful week with your children.

Today we began reading a story called "The Hot and Cold Summer". Ask your child their prediction about the pizza challenge between Rory and Derek. We also started working on ideas for our writing folders. Then continued talking about place value and we added a fourth way (or form) to write a number. Tomorrow we will continue this in math to make sure we have a better understanding of place value through hundred thousands.

We have been waiting anxiously for our blue books and found out today that there was a delivery issue. The order was fixed and they will hopefully be here ASAP. If they are not available on Monday we will send further information home. Thanks!!

The second day of fourth grade was full of new things and reviewing some of the old as well. We reviewed parts of the handbook that we discussed yesterday. During Language Arts, we read about character traits and held discussion about them as well. We took notes in our math notebooks on expanded form, word form and standard form while reviewing place value and finished with a math assignment. Lastly, we began learning about Michigan for social studies. We has an awesome day in fourth grade and I look forward to seeing everyone again tomorrow. Get some rest! :)

Thank you for all the classroom supplies!!! We will be putting these to good use throughout the year. :)