September 4th-7th, 2012

Fourth Grade News

September 4th –September 7th, 2012

• What a delight this week has been! It was wonderful meeting you all at the Ice Cream Social and look forward to talking to you at parent orientation. I feel honored to be teaching at VanArsdale and look forward to working with your son or daughter and you this school year.
• Parent Orientation Night: In the library from 5:30-6:10 p.m.


• Needed: paper towel rolls (one for each student).


• Book orders: through scholastic book orders, our class will use extra “book points” to fill our classroom library with the top ten books we select each order we make. So, by placing an individual order, we are adding books to our library! Look for a flyer in the next couple of weeks
• Our Fourth Grade Homework and news from our classroom will be sent electronically via this blog each week. Please assist your son/daughter in logging onto the blog especially as they get used to the process.
• In addition to the homework found on our blog, we will be sending home math homework (this math homework will directly relate to what we are studying that day in math and due the very next day) throughout the week and any assignments not completed in class should also be taken home and finished there. This math homework will directly relate to what we are studying that day in math and due the very next day.

Suzanne Nisely

School Number: 303 – 982-1080

Homework

(Due: Friday September 7, 2012)

• Please read the following text. Complete the graphic organizer on a sheet of notebook paper writing the main idea and supporting details.

The fastest wind ever recorded was on Mount Washington in New Hampshire. In 1934, the wind blew 231 miles an hour across the top of the mountain. The wind is so fierce there that chains are anchored in solid rock to keep the weather station from blowing away.

• In math, we are focusing on factors, which are numbers you multiply together to get an answer in multiplication. The answer is called a product. The following game asks you to think of factors for different products. Click here: http://hoodamath.com/games/factorfeeder.php

*Remember: Reading logs are due on Friday, September 7.

August 27 to August 31

August 27 to August 31

• Labor Day September 3rd No School
• Field Day September 26 Wear a hat and sunscreen, remember your water bottle
• Order your Field Day T-shirts this week :)
• Early Release Day September 28 1:10 Dismissal 5:30 to 6:10 p.m.
• Parent Orientation, Wednesday, September 5th. In the library from

Dear Students,

1.   Our first math unit is all about Place Value!  Play the game below to sharpen your skills.  Have Fun!

http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=503&engine=15

2.   Please continue to work on your multiplication facts to 12 x 12 = 144

Visit the link below for a fun game:
http://hoodamath.com/games/multiplicationgrandprix.php

3.   Below is a list of math words that you need to know how to spell correctly.  Print off the list and ask mom or dad, nicely, to quiz you.  We'll play Sparkle with the list on Friday.  There might be prizes...

ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, million, billions
one, two , three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine
eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen
twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety

4.   Keyboarding!

Follow the link below for some fun keyboarding practice. 
Try really hard to keep your fingers positioned properly on the home row keys.

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games/keyboarding_games_typing_adventure1.html

Well, I don't know about you, but I think we had a FANTASTIC first week of fourth grade.  I can't wait to see you dayTuesday. 

Joyfully,
Mrs. Nisely