Thursday, September 30, 2011

Today we worked on rounding in math and went to PE and science.  This afternoon included our first chances to really work in our reading journals, practice with cause and effect, and Haiku writing.


-Miss Staudt (hoping Amber is feeling better tomorrow!)

PS.  Thanks to everyone who came to back to school night tonight!  It was fun to see you all again and hear the kids talk about our room!

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

We started the morning reviewing our social studies.  We did a math test and a fun social studies test!  We read On the Banks of Plum Creek and did a worksheet to practice our rereading skills.  It was Mrs. Shannon's Birthday!

-Amber

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

We had music today.  We had guidance, which was really fun.  We watched a fun video and the second time we watched it some people sang along!

-Amber

Monday, September 26, 2011

We got up to 4 stars today - that is excellent!  We also finished our acrostics.  In social studies we reviewed landforms.  We had Mrs. Zanios come in and we did better listening to her.  We did a spelling pretest and learned our vocabulary.  After last recess we did an amazing fun dance!

-Amber

Friday, September 23, 2011

We worked on greater than or less than in math.  Went to Mrs. Long's room for science.  We took our reading and spelling tests.  We had PE today!

-Serenity

(Thanks for blogging this week Serenity! - Miss Staudt)

Thursday, September 22, 2011

We had a fundraiser kickoff and reading buddies today.  We did our vocabulary test and worked on our acrostics.  It was raining at recess.

-Serenity

Today we got our notebooks out and started sketching a river.  We started counting by twos and writing numbers.  We went to PE and had a tornado drill afterward.  We played Sparkle, went to science, and talked about how to get stronger with character.  We worked on our acrostics and read in our books.

-Serenity

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

We worked on writing place values, went to IC Skills, and practiced our spelling words.  We talked about our reading logs and then did activities and did reading at the same time. 

-Serenity

Monday, September 19, 2011

Today we started by counting by 20's and working on place value.  We went to music!  We had a spelling pretest and science.  We wrote acrostic poems and reached our token goal.

-Serenity

Friday, September 16

We had fun at PE.  We played a fun game.  We made a river in social studies.  It was fun.  Blogging is fun.  I was first to blog but this is my last blog.

-Kylie

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Today we had pictures.  Miss Zanios came and read us a book after lunch.  We read for a long time.  We had celery for a snack.

We got 5 stars today!

-Kylie

Wednesday, September 14

Today we had music and art.  We got another star and token for lining up quietly today.  We had a lot of fun in social studies.  We had fun at art.  We had bananas for a snack.  We are doing good!

-Kylie

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

We did math with blocks and had PE.  Since we got another star we played a spelling game.  It was fun.  The boys had a boy scout meeting during recess.

-Kylie

Monday, September 12, 2011

We did a lot of math.  Then we went to IC and had lunch in the courtyard.  We took 2 tests today.

-Kylie

Friday, September 9, 2011

This morning we took a test with Mrs. Hansen, took a spelling test, took a multiplication test, and we went to music.  After lunch we had our first guidance class, we took our first vocabulary and reading comprehension tests, and played games to review.

We are excited for the weekend!

-Miss Staudt's class

Thursday, September 8, 2011

We finally had a day spent almost entirely in our room working!  We worked on learning the names of place values in math, named the 5 regions of the United States in social studies, and began our study of poetry in writing by reading poems with a partner - including some written by Miss Staudt!

Tomorrow we have our first spelling, vocabulary, and reading comprehension tests - I hope the students study tonight!

-Miss Staudt

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

What a long day!  It felt like we were hardly in our room with our first assembly, IC Checkout, computer lab time, going to Mrs. Long's classroom for science AND our afternoon PE time!  It is so interesting to see what our schedules are going to be like for each cycle day.   Apparently Day D will always be one spent mostly out of our room!

-Miss Staudt

September 6, 2011

Everyone was quiet Tuesday morning after the long weekend - that extra day of fun must have worn them out!  We had Mrs. Hansen visit our room to do a fun math lesson, took our first spelling pretest (the word list went home with everyone!), and began reading our first story in reading (vocabulary words went home too!).

The students also brought home a sheet of 'mystery numbers' to do as homework this week.  We're just doing one problem a night as we get used to doing homework again.

-Miss Staudt

Day 2

We had another busy day today!  Lots of review and practice of procedures around the classroom including a role play of what to do if Miss Staudt suddenly got sick!  The kids are catching on to how we do things quickly and we're working on getting back in school mode with our volume levels and talking - we certainly have a chatty class! 

We did get a chance to learn about each other with some sharing this afternoon and together we reached our first mini goal of 10 tokens for good behavior.  Because of our success with tokens, the students got to use the last five minutes of the day as 'free' time to draw, read, or talk quietly with a friend.  We've set our new goal at 50 tokens and are working toward getting to have lunch in the courtyard!

Enjoy the long weekend!  We'll be back in action on Tuesday at 9:15!

-Miss Staudt

First Day of School!

We made it through our first day of 4th grade!  The day involved a lot of talking about rules and expectations in our classroom and around the school.  We got to learn about each other a little bit and used our planners for the first time!

This is going to be a great year!

-Miss Staudt