Our Valentine's Day party was a great success. The kids enjoyed every single second of it. My slideshow maker is not working at the moment, and I have a million and one pictures to share. So, I will just share some each day instead. In the hallway, Arrowhead had a fun photo spot that had some fun props kids could use to enhance a single or group photo. Check these out! How fun!
A HUGE thank you to Mrs. Egan, Haarr, Crawford, Kimball, and Swanson for helping out to make the day for these 4th graders such a fun day! My favorite part was watching them pass out their valentine cards into their AMAZINGLY creative boxes. I LOVE watching them share those with others. A big congratulations for Taryn, Casasha, and Trevor for winning the box competitions. Taryn took the prize for most original use of Valentine theme with her "Love Bus." Trevor took the Most Creative and Original design with his porta potty! So fun! Lastly, Casasha took the last prize with her little Valentine Piggy! All the boxes were so fun to look at. One creative bunch in here!
This week, we will be back on track academically.
Math: Geometry. This is a new unit for us. We will continue to review all of our fraction concepts throughout the week during our morning work. After doing that all week, we will test out of those concepts on Friday. In math though, we will be getting out the protractors, compasses, rulers, scissors and glue to learn all those angles, lines, shapes, and polygons.
Lead 21: Continuing with the Midwest and how its geography connects to its economy. In small groups, we will be finding examples of cause and effect, facts and opinions, and reviewing all types of figurative language.
Language: Appositives. We will take a deeper look into what these are and how to identify them. What are these? When an author says…The boy, Fred, ate his sandwich…Fred is the appositive. It is added information that is separated out by commas. It is not needed to make the sentence make sense, but instead gives the reader more information. We will also look at Interjections in our DOL rotations. Words like Wow, Yikes, For Reals, and so on are interjections when separated out with a comma as well. All parts of speech will be reviewed in our spelling work and DOL rotations.
Spelling: Our skill in the book this week is suffixes. The test is this Friday. Alternates will take test 3 this week. They are doing a great job. :0)
Social Studies: MT History-Horse and Guns, and Regional Studies-Midwest Region. A project will be assigned in Regional S.S. Part of it will be done at school, and part will be done at home. Be watching for an explanation sheet coming home this week (Probably Thursday or Friday).
C.C. Meeting-Paying attention in class and respecting the teacher.
Upcoming Events:
This Wednesday: Coffee with the Principal. This will be the one to attend. The topics are: Project Lead the Way and Common Core. Please RSVP with the office or by emailing Mrs. Meier directly at meierp@billingsschools.org if you are planning on attending. It is at 8:30 a.m.
This Thursday: FBI agents will present to the parents. We did some training on this at the beginning of the year. Very interesting stuff that is happening all around us. So, how do we keep our kids safe? Come find out. 6:30 p.m. PARENTS ONLY PLEASE!
Science Fair: March 27th in the gym.
March 6th: Arrowhead Family FUN Night. Check this out:
Well, I think that about wraps up the need to knows for the week. Have a wonderful Monday! By the way, why were we off today? Why was there no mail today? If you child can figure it out, write it in the planner for $10 tomorrow. Enjoy the Sun!!!
Look at that…I fixed the slideshow. Here are the rest of the pictures. Enjoy and be ready to laugh a little. :0)
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