We had a great time our last day of fourth grade! Everyone had their fill at our potluck picnic. Then we ran ourselves silly playing games in the courtyard!

Thanks to all the families that brought a dish to pass, helped with food preparation and cleanup, and helped with the games.

I wish everyone all the best over the summer and into fifth grade! We’ll make our fifth grade year even better!

Here are some memories from our fourth grade year:

See all our class photos from 2009-2010.

• Straits of Mackinac Trip
• Hawaiian Beach Bash
• Feb Factor
• Space Fashion Show
• Capitol and Museum field trip
• I-Search Conference

Here are all the sets from this year.

Where are we now?

Visit our Flickr page to see notes we added to the images about the contractions we left off. Click each image and move your mouse cursor over the images to see the notes.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due on Fridays.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles; some groups worked on making connections as a reading strategy.

Writing: Students continued to collect research for their I-Search projects. View our I-Search 2010 Research website. Here are more details about the I-Search project. Our general timeline :

1. Week 1: Collect research
2. Week 2: Select research, plan presentation, start draft of presentation
3. Week 3: Finalize presentation, present at our I-Search Conference

Math: Students continued to use the Partial Products method of multiplication. Here’s a video tutorial. Homework is to a 10-problem multiplication worksheet.

Science: None due to library.

Social Studies: We read Ox-Cart Man and looked at how his family exhanged good and services for money.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 6

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with SnapGrades?

Notes:

• Find more information about Summer School, including dates and payment options.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 5th grade.

Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due on Fridays.

Reading: Today, students finished their Literature Circles project presentations. View some videos and photos of the projects below:

Writing: None today due to the half-day schedule.

The novel project that students have been working on is due Monday, March 29.

Math: None today due to the half-day schedule.

Science: Students worked in their groups to write their  Space Fashion Show script. Here is more about this project. The Space Fashion Show will be on Wednesday at 10am in the small gym.

Social Studies: None today due to the half-day schedule.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 4

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with SnapGrades?

Notes:

• Thanks to all the families that visited during Spring Parent Teacher Conferences! Report cards will be emailed Friday, April 16.
• Find more information about Summer School, including dates and payment options.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 5th grade.

Cursive: Cursive worksheet pp. 21-23 are available and due Friday.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles. Some groups worked on making inferences using clues from the text.

Writing: None today due to technology.

The next piece of writing will be a fiction piece, due Monday, November 30. Students should be drafting by now.

Math: None today due to practice for the Fourth Grade Musical.

Science: Students completed an experiment using graduated cylinders to measure and mix colored water. The result was a spectrum of colored water. The students then measured the amount of colored water in each container.

Social Studies: We finished learning about immigration and migration to Michigan. We found out that immigrants and African Americans came to Michigan for factory jobs and more freedom. Students completed the SQ3R (survey, question, read, recite, review) organizer and it was collected for a grade.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 1

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with SnapGrades?

Notes:

• The Fourth Grade Musical is tonight, November 12 at 7:30 pm.
• Need to make, change or check your Fall Parent Teacher Conference time? See here.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.

Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 5th grade.

End of the Year 2008-2009 from Christian Howd on Vimeo.

Fourth grade with Mr. Howd, McGrath Elementary, 2008-2009.

Thanks to all the families that brought a dish to pass, helped with food preparation and cleanup, and helped with the games.

I wish everyone all the best over the summer and into fifth grade!

Here are some memories from our fourth grade year: