Spelling City

Spelling City is a great way for your child to practice the spelling words for the week.  I am sending home the directions for how to log into the site.  We have created one site with the fourth grade spelling words, for all fourth grade students to use.  The site has both the regular spelling list and the list for the bonus words.  Your child will not need to do the regular spelling list of 20 words if they score a 100% on the pre-test.  If score 100% they move onto the bonus words.  This is a fun way to practice the words and study!  The link will be posted under Learning Links to the right.   Enjoy!

Welcome!

Welcome to Fourth Grade!  It is going to be a great year!  This is our classroom blog and I will use it as my main form of communication with parents and students.  You may susbscribe to this blog and that will allow you to receive an email notification when a new blog has been posted.  For those of you who purchased school packs from the school store, it is my understanding that they will be here waiting for you on the first day of school.  The PTO has already delivered the agendas for students to use. 

I have mailed out a letter to all the parents about a project we are going to be working on the first week.  We are each going to be creating a digital story about ourselves as a getting to know you activity.  Please encourage your child to be thinking about what they may want to include.  In addition, if you could gather pictures for this it would also be helpful.  If you can scan them onto a disk or CD it would be great.  If you cannot, please send the pictures in on the first day of school, in an envelope with their name and student number on it.  This will allow me time to scan them here at school.

If you have comments or questions please post them in the comment section after this post.  Your question may help others!

I am looking forward to a great year!
Ms. Bucci

Field Day

I never dreamed that so much trouble would be caused over wearing pink for Field Day.  Many teachers have done so in the past, so I did not think it was a big deal.  It certainly was not my intention to cause this much commotion.  I will change the color to ORANGE.   Please have your child come to school on Field Day in an ORANGE shirt.  We did not have many colors left to choose from so hopefully this works better than the previous color.  Again, sorry to have upset people. 

Ms. Bucci

Web Quest

In one of my Grad classes I found a web quest on electricity.  I would like to do it with the class but unfortunately we are out of time this year.  I am going to throw it out to the students as an opportunity to receive some extra credit.  If you child chooses to do this project, it MUST be turned in by June 18th.  I have to turn grades in on June 20th. 

I did not create this web quest, so you will not recognize the teacher's name.  This is ok.  We are allowed to use it even though I did not create it. 

Step 2 requires the student to take an on-line quiz.  Please record your child's score on the answer sheet I provided them.  All the other items I will score myself. 

Step 4 asks your child to create a safety poster.  They can either create an actual poster, or if they choose to they can create a glogster, which is an on-line poster.  We have done several of these in class so they will know what to do.

This can be a great project for you to do along with your child to see just how much they already know about electricity!  Hope you have fun!

Please contact me with any questions.  You may want to post questions here under the comment section so all students participating can benefit from it.

Thank you,
Ms. Bucci

Here it the link for the web quest:
http://www.coweta.k12.ga.us/eses/IT/Its%20Electric%20WebQuest.htm#eval

Testing Schedule

Even with the year winding down, we are still in full learning mode.  We have a lot of material to cover throughout the year and snow days and field trips always put us behind.  We are finishing our next social studies unit and will be having the test on Wednesday, June 9th.  I will be sending home papers that the students can complete to help as extra study practice.  I will again be sending home the open ended questions.  All the answers can be found in the book and through out our classroom learning. 

We will also be finishing a math unit this week.  I realize we just finished a math unit, but this unit is mostly review of multiplication, so it will flow quickly.  The test will be Friday, June 11th.

Finally, we are finishing up our magnetism and electricity unit, in science.  We have been working on this for quite some time and the students have learned a great deal of information.  Parts of the test will be hands on where they will actually be creating circuits.  This test will be Monday, June 14th.

OTHER EVENTS

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  June 9th- Library visit to discuss Summer Reading Program
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  June 14th- Science in Action assembly (?)
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  June 16th- Computer Expo, 6pm-8pm Fawn Hollow
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  June 17th- 4th Grade Picnic
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  June 21st- Field Day (rain date the 22nd)
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  June 23rd- Step-up Day
• June 24th- LAST DAY! 
  
  
  

Updates

I wanted to make you aware that I am going to be out for the next several days, because I will be having minor surgery.  The students are being left in the very capable hands of Mrs. Cordone.  I have no doubts that she will do a fabulous job.  I hope to return on Tuesday.

On another note, the students will be doing a review for this past math unit tomorrow and out test is scheduled for June 2, 2010.  

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me.  I will try to check my email and will be having contact with Mrs. Cordone.

Thank you and have a great Memorial Day Weekend!
Ms. Bucci

Social Studies Test

We will be having a Social Studies Test on Unit 5 on Friday.  Toward the middle of the week I will be sending home the EXACT essay question so the students are prepared for them.  They also will have a study guide.

Thank you!