Earth Day

It's a great day to celebrate all of our natural surroundings!   Here is our newsletter for the week!

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Wrapping Things Up

Final Newsletter

Newsletter for the week

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Next week we will be having a turtle pageant and turtle races.   See some examples below:

These can be as creative as you wish...I've seen scuba turtles, batman, TMNT, robot turtle, a hippie, and more!  

What was our week like?

WOW!  We just closed the doors on the 2^nd quarter (wrapped-up the 1^st semester) of the school year.  Let me just say that these 4^th graders are ON FIRE!  Seriously.  We took our STAR tests and the results have been shared with students.  We wrote animal reports that are outstanding (all in one week’s time).  As I evaluate each and every day there are some common themes for the good days and common characteristics of the not so good days.  See if these make sense: 

1-      We want our days to be HAPPY!

2-      We want to be part of the group.

This week we had some days that I left school celebrating---like floating on clouds celebrating.  There were also a couple of days where I left thinking, “what do I need to do differently because we cannot have another day like that?”  What happened on the days that we all left feeling happy?  It wasn’t that everything went our way.  We just chose to remember the good pieces.  I really believe this.  There were still rough parts of the happy days but somehow I chose to celebrate the way that Student A said, “thank you,” for something.  I chose to appreciate the time that Student B had worked on this week’s animal report.  I chose to acknowledge the great STAR scores that we had in our classroom.  What about the part of the group thing?   Well….that is definitely a little trickier with 4^th graders.  I saw it happen in an amazing way this week.  When Student C taught a lesson, the rest of the kids listened to directions and enjoyed what was taught (making paper airplanes is always fun for 4^th graders….).  There was evidence of mutual respect.  Everyone was included and students felt like they needed to do what was being done.  In Native American cultures belonging was so important.  Ella Doria, anthropologist, said, “Be related, somehow, to everyone you know.”  We are a family in this fabulous 4^th grade classroom.  The good days are definitely the ones where we choose happy and we include everyone.  Enough of my rambling---get out there and enjoy this LONG weekend!

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Every Friday your 4th grader will bring home a FRIDAY FOLDER.  In that folder will be a weekly newsletter and any graded papers from the previous week.  Please take some time to look through the folder with your student.  Return the folder and signed newsletter each Monday.  The link below has the 1st newsletter of the year:

Newsletter for Friday, September 5