Dear Families, November 1, 2024
Wow! There was SO much going on this week! Thank you SO much to the parents that volunteered for the field trip as well as the Halloween Party! We had SO much fun at each one of these! You were amazing at both of them!
Our class is responsible for the Veterans’ Day prayer service and their families on November 7th. Please invite anyone who is a veteran to it so we can honor them. Also, if your children are scouts, please have them wear their uniform! I sent home what they should practice. We will practice two times in the church on November 4th and 5th.
The Lane family generously obtained four full salmon for us to dissect on November 14th at 1:15. We will also be creating salmon prints. We need volunteers to do this! So, please go here to sign up for helping out at that time!
We will also be having a Salmon Feast on November 15th! We would love to have you bring something and/or just join us! It is a fabulous celebration to culminate our unit! Here is the link to sign up for that.
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Blessings,
Paula A. Martin-Zender
Academics
Religion – Fourth Grade Theologians are presenting their Power Points of their saint for All Saints Day, November 1st.
Language – Fourth grade readers are writing their book reports on Seesaw. They are also reading our book: My Father’s Dragon. We found the vocabulary words, and we are learning how to write responses to the literature questions. In Spelling, students studied the oi, oy and the ou, ow sounds In writing, students are writing their book report.
Math – Mathematicians are learning problem solve this week using multiplication with multi-step problems. They also learned about the Order of Operations. Keep practicing facts!
Science – Scientists were learned about the threats to salmon in class and then had our fun field trip!
Social Studies – Students will learn about how salmon are important to the Native Americans of Washington.
Every Wednesday – 2:00 dismissal and casual dress uniform
Thursday, November 7 – Veteran’s Day Prayer Service (The Fourth Graders are responsible for this!) Dress uniform
Friday, November 8 – No school – Accreditation work for the teachers
Monday, November 11 – No school – Veteran’s Day
Tuesday, November 12 – Field trip to Maritime Heritage Park to look at salmon and do service work
Thursday, November 14 – Dissection of salmon and salmon prints
Friday, November 15 – Salmon Feast 11:45-12:30
Specialists
Art – Students explored drawing bears behaving like hikers. They learned to use lines and shapes to create detailed backgrounds. Their artworks show creative interpretations of bears hiking safely, with accessories such as backpacks, maps, water bottles, and walking sticks.
Music – This week in music class we are singing Old Joe Clark, a song in two harmonic parts and learning a new rhythm notation.
Library –We read The Runaway Pumpkin together in class. We worked on our typing and talked about what kind of information we should share with others in terms of personal and private information.