Fourth Grade School Suplie List

FOURTH GRADE

Please have students write their names on their spiral notebooks and composition books only. We will be using the other supplies as a classroom.

3 dozen #2 pencils
1 box facial tissue (large)
If your last name begins with:
A-M 1 box gallon Ziploc bags
N-Z 1 box sandwich Ziplock bags
2 packages of pencil tip erasers
1-4 pack glue sticks
1 pair Fiskars scissors
3 spiral notebooks, wide-ruled
1 subject (min. 70 pg)
1 spiral notebook of square centimeter graph paper (math)
1 pencil box or zipper bag
1 set of colored pencils
1 pencil sharpener with lid
2 containers of Clorox or Lysol wipes

Note: PLEASE do not bring a 3-ring binder
not needed this year.

Lista de útiles escolares 2011-2012

3 docenas de lápices #2
1 cajas de Kleenex (grande)
A-M 1 pkg. bolsas de galon Ziploc
N-Z 1 pkg. bolsas de sandwich Ziplock
2 paquetes de borradores para poner en el lápiz
2 paquetes de 4 tubos de pegamento
1 par de tijeras
3 cuadernos de espiral, de rengión ancho (min. 70 hojas)
1 cuadernos de espiral para matemáticas con centímetros cuadrados
1 caja o bolsa con cierre para los lápices
1 caja de lápices de color
1 sacapuntas con tapadera
2 botes de toallitas de cloro o lysol
Nota: Por favor no traiga cartapacios de 3 anillos/no los ocuparemos esta año.

APPs for your iTouch or iPad

Did you know you can get free educational apps on your iTouch or iPad? Here are just a couple that I've found to help students:

*Awesome Flash Cards for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
*My Math Flash Cards
*ArithmeTick-Math Flash Cards
*Flash Cards by Parents

*iCaramba Spanish Course
*iCaramba Spanish Course Dictionary
*1000 Spanish (flash cards)

Great Books to Read Over the Summer

Mrs. Velázquez will be starting a new with the 4th and 5th grader during the 2011-12 school year...Battle of the Books. Here's what she says about it:

Battle of the Books.....
is a voluntary reading incentive program for students. A battle is a game, like the College Bowl, in which student teams earn points by answering questions on the reading list. Classroom teams compete at the end of each trimester and get to keep the Battle of the Books Trophy in their classroom for the following trimester.

What fourth grade teachers are saying about it:
This is a great way to try out different genres and leveled books. Students do not have to participate in Battle of the Books, but we will be reading several of the books, from the reading list, for homework and students will be creating end of the book projects (like diaramas) to demonstrate what they read.

First Trimester Book List
*Midnight-The New Prophecy Warriors Series, by Erin Hunter
*Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn
*11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
*Revolutionary War on Wednesday, by Mary Pope Osborne
*Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
*Beastologist, by R.L. LaFevers
*The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi
*Our Strange New Land-Elizabeth's Diary, by Patricia Hermes
*Riding Freedon, by Pam Muñoz Ryan
*Benjamin Franklin, by David Adler

Museum Field Trip

We had a great day at the museum today. Students learned a lot about David Thompson, the British explorer who traveled (and mapped) the entire Columbia River. Lewis and Clark even used some of his maps. I think everyone's favorite part of the field trip was paddling the canoes in the Columbia River. One canoe was "American" and one was "British." The American canoe won, when my group did it anyway. I hear the British won with other groups.

New Safety Patrol Members

We will begin training on Thursday, June 2nd. You will be observing the 5th graders perform the safety patrol duties this week and will begin training in the different stations next week. It is important to be here every day, both in the morning or afternoon. Students who are not responsible cannot be on safety patrol. All new Safety Patrol members must be at school by 7:30 a.m. and you will work after school until 3:05, Thursday and Friday. I will be making a schedule next week for training and the week after that for working.

If you have any questions, you may call me at 669-3154.

Mrs. Jagla

Rocky Reach Dam

Yesterday was a great day to go to Rocky Reach Dam. We did have a little rain while we were at the discovery stations, outside, but the students still had an amazing time. They got to build dams, count fish, and learn about the optimum temperature fish like to live in. We then went into the dam and learned about saving electricity (we got to see the newest LED light bulbs that cost over $30 a piece but last 50,000 hours) and we toured the museum. It was a great day.

Today we have the BBQ and tomorrow we go to on our field trip to the Wenatchee Valley Museum.

FORGET THE NEW BLOG

Okay, I tried the other blog, but I like this one better. I guess people will not be able to access it from school and that's okay. This is for you at home.

I would like to say THANK YOU to Mrs. Jobe who provided snacks for the fourth graders on each MSP testing day!

Well, we finally finish all the MSP testing. We are going to celebrate all our hard work next Friday. We will have a Pajama Party in the afternoon.

Homework next week will be the reading logs for my homeroom. '

Math: We are working on organizing data. Students will be working in groups to find way to organize data that makes sense and helps us look at data effectively. We will also be working on finding the range, median and mode for the data.