Happy 2nd Day of School!

Welcome to the 2014-15 school year! 

We are off to a wonderful start in 4th grade!

A HUGE thank you to all of you for the generous donations of supplies for our classroom. Our cabinets are well stocked and we should have enough for a large chink of the year!

I thought I would share a few things with you that I am starting to get questions about, we will get more in depth at our Parent Info Night, but for now:

-students may bring a snack each day, we will usually eat them during independent reading time, no candy, only water to drink (bugs are a big issue)

- our lunch time is 10:55, recess will usually follow (unless we go outside early to avoid the heat) and specials are from 12:05-12:50

-reading homework is for 20 minutes each night

- DON'T FORGET, we now get out of school at 2:35, not 2:20 like years past

-if you need extra copies of any beginning of the year forms, please let me know

Here's a little peek into our day...

We talked about math in general, and I had students write sticky notes about what they did and didn't like about math. Once we got each students ideas on the chart we grouped them based on repeated comments. This was VERY helpful for me to see that many of them prefer to work alone and many more dislike repetitive tasks. 

 My preferred way to teach math is through stations. This will each student spend time working the way they are comfortable, while also pushing to try new things as well.

Thank you again for a wonderful start to the 2014-2015 school year!