Saturday, November 1, 2008

Photos




The students had great fun measuring, weighing and gutting their pumpkins. Surprisingly, the pumpkin with the most seeds was not the biggest in terms of weight or height. Terra's medium sized pie pumpkin won the contest!
The concert is behind us and the kids worked really hard to do such a great job. I hope everyone enjoyed the show:)

Friday, October 31, 2008

Happy Halloween!



Cookie Dough Fund Raiser: The PTO would like you to know that this fundraiser is the BIG fundraiser for the PTO grades K through 4. This fundraiser does not include the middle school. So please push, push, push!!!!
The sale is through November 14th and the orders will be in on December 16th.

Spirit Wear Sale: One week only! All orders must be turned in by next Friday!

Thank you so much to all who supported our students' efforts in both the Walk-a-thon and the Harvest for Hunger! With the economy affecting everyone, it's nice to experience the generosity that the CNE Elementary community has offered. Our class was the top collector for the school in the Walk-a-thon and placed second school-wide for the Harvest for Hunger:)

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Analogies

The class asked for this website to be posted since they had such fun playing it today: Analogies Jeopardy.
We have been working very hard getting ready for our programs today. We will be performing for the other classes at school and of course the grandparents! I hope everyone can attend the evening performance. We have asked the students to look their best, so everyone can take great pictures to remember one part of their fourth grade year.

In math class we have completed and tested on chapter 2. Some of the students are still struggling with addition and subtraction with regrouping. Please continue to work on this at home in the evening. If you can only spend 15 minutes it still will help! We will be moving on to multiplication next week, but will review other concepts frequently.

This week in reading we have been incorporating a bit of Spanish with a historical fiction story entitled Coyote School News. The students have enjoyed listening, reading and learning a little bit of Spanish every day!

Reminders!

*Market Day orders have to be placed by this Saturday at noon. All profit will go directly to the fourth grade classrooms. This is one of the best ways you could help out our classrooms and you don't have to do anything, but order great food to eat! We can also use parent volunteers to help unload the trucks and sort the food:-)

*We are beginning to finalize pricing for the extended day trip to Camp Campbell Gard on May 20, 2009. The estimated cost of the trip is $50.00. This includes lunch and dinner. We will leave at approximately 8:45 and return that same evening at approximately 8:00.

*Washington D.C. deposits are due to Crosswell by December 1!

Monday, October 27, 2008

Math Day

Thanks to Mrs. Maciag, a former CNE teacher, our students in grades 1-4 were able to participate in Math Day. Stations were set up around the school for students to practice their math skills using hands-on activities. Our class's favorite activities were problem solving with fruit loops and making a scarecrow after figuring out how much it cost to build one. Thanks too, to the volunteers who worked with our students today, especially Mr. Browning.

We recently received more postcards from Washington D.C. (Terra), Sterling, Kentucky(Haley) , Cottonwood, Arizona (Casey) and Seattle, Washington (Abbey).

Congratulations to Westin, Hailey and Terra for moving up in multiplication times tables.

This week's spelling words are irregular plurals. For more practice with irregular plurals, click here or here or here or here or here.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Coyote School News


This week's story is Coyote School News. For helpful study guides and other information, check out the links below.
Powerpoint on Coyote School News
Vocabulary Study
Vocabulary Quizlet
Coyote School News Hangman

Biography Literature Project

This week every student made a literature project kit with all of the materials and instructions to make a hero sandwich. This project is optional-if a student would rather create his/her own project, that is great! Projects can be presented at any time before the due date-ask Lydia how good it feels to have hers finished!

On Thursday, the fourth grade students will perform their show "All About Ohio" three times-once for the second and third graders, once for their grandparents and in the evening at 7:00 for their families. Please take the time to come to one of the performances-the students have really been working hard to learn their parts and songs.

We will have a math test on Wednesday. It will cover addition and subtraction with regrouping, rounding and estimation, beginning algebra and properties of addition and multiplication.
Commutative Property
Commutative Property video
Distributive Property
Distributive Property video
Associative Property
Associative Property video