Week of Sept 8-11

Hello!

We are off to a shining start!  I feel so luck to have this group of kids.   They have been a joy so far!  This week we will continue to learn routines and how to be in the 4th grade.  

Last week, you should have received something about Classroom Dojo from your student.  It is an online behavior management system that I am going to use at least through the duration of the first quarter.   Please ask your student about it.  You can also check it out by clicking here. 

Starting tonight (Tuesday, September 8), you can expect some form of math homework to come home almost nightly.  We will not start our new spelling curriculum until next week.  We will only have formal spelling lessons during weeks that we meet all five days.  To clarify, we didn't meet Monday this week, so we won't start spelling until next week when we meet M-F.  We briefly began our ELA unit in class today and we will dive deeper into in as the week goes on.   We also started Writer's Workshop this morning.  It has been a BUSY day! 

Your child has had the opportunity to check out a couple of books from the library, so please encourage nightly reading.  Reading out loud makes a HUGE difference if your son/daughter wants to strengthen their reading abilities.  It's simple, free, and very effective. 

Speaking of reading and improving skills, please ask your son/daughter about a new program we talked about today called Lyrics2Learn.  It's a program that the 4th grade uses that combines catchy music and reading to make engaging reading practice.  I will send home more information about that later this week, so be looking for it!   :)

Please make sure all forms from the school are turned in asap.  Also, if you get the chance, please complete the 1,000,000 words or less "assignment" and turn in to me.  You can even email it if that's easier to bmarienfeld@hayward.k12.wi.us. 

Picture day is next Friday, September 18! 

Make it a wonderful week!