ROCK STAR GRACIE

Gracie is our Rock Star this week! Today the students wrote about the person they admire most. All of the stories were Fantastic!!

I admire my father. He has Japanese skin, black hair, whiskers, and his name is Aaron. He acts very silly! My father is very tall. He was born in 1963, on December 17th, and it is almost his birthday. He will be 48 years old. And I love my father like crazy!! by Gracie

Angelville News, December 12-16, 2011

Bon Dia

Week 15

This week our ROCK STAR IS GRACIE!!

Holiday Hoopla was a success last week and I'm sure many of you will be revceiving wonderful gifts under the tree this year:)

WOW! Hard to believe we are almost to Christmas Break! We have a full week of activities.

Thursday is our annual Christmas Concert in the Church. Please have your students at school in their classroom by 6:45pm.

Friday is our Christmas party! We will watch the movie Stone Fox, and enjoy some treats that Mrs. Blandford is preparing for us. Thank You! On Thursday we will take the Stone Fox test.

In Writers Workshop this month the students have been working on writing prompts. I am really enjoying their writing. Today they wrote about the person that they admire most. Many of you Mom's and Dad's would be very happy to hear how your students feel about you.

In Religion we continue to prepare for the coming of Jesus. We will complete our Advent chapter and have a quiz on Friday. We will cover the review this Wednesday.

In Math we continue to work with Fractions. Many of the students may also begin to work on a computer program called "Success Maker." This is a wonderful program which will increase math skills and give students who may be behind some extra support to move ahead.

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

ROCK STAR, BRYNNE

Last week Brynne was our rock star. Brynne shared her collection of rosary's with the class, along with some currency from Jamaica, where her father taught some years ago, and a VW parking sign. If anyone knows her father they know how much he loves the VW van.

Brynne is a wonderful part of the Angelville community. She is kind to all students and easy to be around. Brynne is eager to help in any way she can in the classroom, with teachers or peers. We are super luck to have her in 3/4 West!!

Northwest Boys Chior Performer

One of our very own students will be performing at St. Al's church in his holiday choir recital, Leo. Please come out and support Leo if at all possible next weekend. Leo would be more than happy to see some of his peeps! Good Luck Leo!

NW Boy Choir and they have their holiday recital this year in the St Als parish church. It's on Dec 18 at 3:30.http://www.northwestchoirs.org/events.php

Angelville News, December 5-9, 2011

Bon Dia

Week 14

2nd week in Advent.

In Religion we are celebrating Advent and the Jesse Tree, Jesus' tree of ancestors from thousands of years before. Each day in Advent we color a new symbol to add to our Jesse Tree followed by a reading in the bible. We will continue to celebrate Advent for the next two weeks. On Thursday we will celebrate at Mass the Celebration of the Immaculate Conception, when Angel Gabriel came to Mary telling her she would bare God's son.

In reading we will finish up the book Stone Fox. There are 10 chapters in Stone Fox and today we are working on Chapter 6 with vocab and comprehension questions. Next Thursday we will have the Stone Fox Book final. On Friday we will watch the movie.

In Writers workshop we celebrated our 3rd Published Party. Each student got up and read their final Personal Narrative where we have been working on paragraph structure; Topic Sentence, detailed sentences that support the Topic sentences, and a closing sentence. I will assess these stories with a rubric and I will be looking for all components of a good paragraph. This month we are moving on to "Prompt" writing. We will try and publish one more piece at the end of next week, time permitting.

In SS we will begin another newspaper in Studies Weekly. Our class has been chosen to work with a teacher from Korea for two weeks in January. We will team teach and work on lessons in collaboration that our students learn more about Korea, Korean culture, and traditions. Should be very FUN!!

In Math our 4th graders continue to work on fractions, and will until the end of the year.

In 3rd grade math they continue to work on multiplication. It is most important that all students coming into 4th grade know their multiplication facts.

Happy Holidays

Nutcracker Performance SOLD OUT

I am sorry to announce that the performance to see the Nutcracker on Friday, featuring our very own Genevieve has been SOLD OUT!! I will send the money/checks back with your student today. Guess we can try again next year. If you would still like to go and see the Nutcracker during a matinee there are two next week, on Tuesday and Thursday, however Genevieve will not be performing in either one of these.

The Mayflower Journey

For the past few weeks the students here in 3/4 West traveled on the Mayflower to the new world. During the weeks we took virtual tours of the ship, and Plimith Plantation. We learned how the Pilgrims made their homes, what the Wampanoag Indians taught the Pilgrims and how they got along and shared their customs with one another. Ending in their first shared harvest and Thanksgiving Feast. Just as we did as a school community last week. The students became Pilgrims themselves, keeping journals as though they were individuals on the Mayflower, journeying to the new world and creating a new life. I have had the opportunity to read each students journal, they are GREAT!! Please spend time reading your students Mayflower Journal, my guess is that you will learn something you did not know prior.

State Fair Projects

WOW! Were these State Fair Projects good or what??? Thank you to all the parents who came and supported our wonderful students. We have moved the projects to the Library on display for other students and families to enjoy.

Angelville News, November 28-December 2, 2011

BON DIA WEEK 13!
November 28-2, 2011

Bon Dia, Good Day!

Hope Everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving. Many of you may have eaten yourselves into a food coma!

GREAT JOB ON THE STATE PROJECTS! THEY WERE ALL AWESOME!! There have been many staff members and parents who have commented on how well each and every one of you did on your states’ projects. WAY TO GO!!!


READERS/WRITERS WORKSHOP – This week we will publish our 3rd piece of writing. We are working on writing good solid paragraphs. Paragraphs are like the grids that hold a story and ideas together. When we look down on a page in a book from high above we see black lines divided by white lines. The black lines are our paragraphs; the white lines are the ones that separate one paragraph/thought from the next. It makes me think of flying in a plane, and as we fly over the earth we can see the grid of the land, separated by roads, and farms, and boundaries.

This week we will continue with our Stone Fox book. The students will show comprehension skills, vocabulary, character relations and connections. Many of the students were held in from break today since they had not completed a character grid from last Monday. We just finished our 1st Trimester in school. It is always important to show our best work, and work to our fullest potential.

MATH – We are all currently all in the fraction/decimal unit. The triangles are working on fractional parts of a number this week. The hexagons are looking at comparing fractions.
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RELIGION – This week we begin the season of Advent. We also began the beginning of our Liturgical year. During mass the students will carry with them little mass booklets since many of the prayers and responses in mass have changed. During Advent we are preparing for the coming of Jesus. We will work through many activities during advent.

SPELLING – There will be spelling this week.

SOCIAL STUDIES – Now that our State Fair is over, we will go back to our Studies Weekly. We will begin Studies Weekly 7 on Tuesday.

SCIENCE – Continuation of our Metric Unit.

ROCK STAR EMILY

Emily was our Rock Star this past week. Emily is one of our new favorite, best friends in 3/4 West. Emily's friends say over and over again that, "Emily is NICE!" We feel so blessed to have Emily in our St. Al's community.

Emily's Thanksgiving Poem

"Something is on my table, I don't know. What is it? I think it's a cornucopia. That's what it is. Cornucopias have pumpkins, apples, corn, grapes, and squash inside of them. I like Thanksgiving, it's my favorite Holiday!"

Angelville News, November 21-23, 2011

BON DIA WEEK 12!
November 21-23, 2011

Bon Dia, Good Day!

Did anyone get snow on Friday night? Miz Schmutz did! I still have residuals of it left in and around my yard. So cold, but so fun! Growing up in Spokane, Wa, this makes me feel right at home.

I would like to thank all of the families who worked so hard to make our Annual School Auction such a success!! “The Gifts You Have Received, You Gave As a Gift”

There will be no homework packet going home this week due to the short week. There will be a reading log to go home however.

This is a very exciting week since we are all going to enjoy the wonderful State projects each student has been working so hard on for the past two weeks. Our State Fair will begin at 1:45 – 2:45pm on Tuesday, November 22. Each student will have the opportunity to present their board to family members and other students in the school.

We have begun to collect Food for the Food Bank. Our class will be collecting Pasta and Sauce. I know we will do a great job since we collected so many soap bars to take to our One Saturday! BRING IN SOME PASTA AND SAUCES!!!!



READERS/WRITERS WORKSHOP – We continue with our ‘Slice of Life’ stories. These stories are still personal narratives, but with a kick, hoping to raise the quality of narrative writing.

This week we will continue with our Stone Fox book. The students will show comprehension skills, vocabulary, character relations and connections.

MATH – The triangle group will take their multiplication test on Tuesday, November 22 so that they can catch up with the Hexagons as we have started our fraction/decimal unit.
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RELIGION – This week we will be reading in our Religion books, Chapter 4 on Prayer. We will also continue with our Steps to Respect and Anti-Bully Plan.

SPELLING – There will be no spelling this week! There will be MSL

SOCIAL STUDIES – State Fair on Tuesday. We will continue our Journey through the lives of the Pilgrims as they ventured across the Atlantic to settle at Plimoth Plantation. Each student has been keeping a journal as if they were one of the pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. We have seen wonderful visual tours of this amazing journey and where the pilgrims eventually settled. This week we will meet the Native Americans, Wampanoag, who helped the Pilgrims with crops, hunting, games, and their first Thanksgiving Harvest Feast. This will prepare us as we sit down to the table on Wednesday, November 23, to share in our very own St. Alphonsus Thanksgiving Dinner at 11am. Please join us. There will also be a Thanksgiving Prayer Service at 9am for those of you who are interested.

SCIENCE – Last week we started a science
Experiment, “What happens to a pumpkin after Halloween?” Many things, all ending up very gross. The students kept a log of different pumpkin parts being exposed to different variables. They became so smelly by Friday we logged and tossed them all out. Those logs you will see in their Friday Folders.

May you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families and Friends, God Bless!!

State Fair/ Thanksgiving Feast

November 16, 2011


Dear ¾ Grade Families,

The students in both ¾ classes have been working very hard on their States project to present at out State Fair on Tuesday, November 22, from 1:45-2:45pm. We would like to invite all of the families who are available to come and support these wonderful students who have worked so diligently.

The poster boards will be posted up in the hall and in the library. The students will take turns standing by their boards and explaining their states to those students and family members who will be touring the Fair.

We need all boards to school no later than Monday, November 21.

Thank you and we hope to see many of you at school on Tuesday.


Miz Schmutz, Mrs. Connell, and Mrs. Weber


P.S. Please also don’t forget to join us at our Thanksgiving Feast on Wednesday, November 23 from 11-12pm. This is a wonderful time to share our many blessings with our students and other families in our St. Alphonsus Community.

Angelville News, November 14-18th

BON DIA WEEK 11!
November 14, 2011

Bon Dia, Good Day!

I am sorry for the late post. Sick kids at home!

This week there will be no homework packet so that the students can spend time working on their State poster boards. We spent some time yesterday on the computers and I hope to give them all one more day in class to work as well.

We will begin to collect Food for the Food Bank. Our class will be collecting Pasta and Sauce. I know we will do a great job since we collected so many soap bars to take to our One Saturday! BRING IN SOME PASTA AND SAUCES!!!!



READERS/WRITERS WORKSHOP – We continue with our ‘Slice of Life’ stories. These stories are still personal narratives, but with a kick, hoping to raise the quality of narrative writing.

Last week we started the Stone Fox book. We will continue with this book. The students will show comprehension skills, vocabulary, character relations and connections.

MATH – I have decided to divide my 4th grade students up into 2 different math groups. I was very happy with the results of the first Unit test by many of my students. I am hoping the triangle group will be ready to take their test early next week so that they can catch up with the Hexagons as we started our fraction/decimal unit yesterday.
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RELIGION – This week we will be reading in our Religion books, Chapter 4 on Prayer. We will also continue with our Steps to Respect and Anti-Bully Plan.

SPELLING – (NOT FOR MSL STUDENTS, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN WORK) each week a new list of spelling words is given. Monday is a pre-test and spelling assignment. Tuesday and Wednesday they are writing spelling sentences. Thursday is an additional spelling worksheet. Fridays we have our spelling test, turn in all of our spelling from the week, and then are able to play word games. Each day an assignment is assigned to work on in class. If they are unable to complete the assignment, they need to complete it at home. At the end of the week all of the spelling work is neatly put together, stapled and turned in.

SOCIAL STUDIES – Please read through the Homework packet with your student. The students will be researching their ‘state’ from home and at school. All of the information they need for this project they have in their binders. I do not think I can post it on the blog since it is so many pages long. This week we will also take a visual tour of the Mayflower. We will be keeping journals as if we all were on the Mayflower.

SCIENCE – Last week we started a science
Experiment, “What happens to a pumpkin after Halloween?” We are watching pumpkins with different variables (air, water, cold, and heat, dirt…) to see what happens to them over time. We will also continue with the Metric System Foss Kit. We continue our Metric Unit. We enjoyed a Metric experiment last week as well.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!

Angelville News November 7-11, 2011

BON DIA WEEK 10!
November 7, 2011

Bon Dia, Good Day!

Our ONE SATURDAY went well. We had many volunteers from St. Alphonsus, and one Super Start student from our class, Brynne. Brynne came to share the gifts she herself has received as a gift. Thank You Brynne, it was great to see you up there.

HUGE, HUGE, thanks to all of the students who brought in SOAP for our One Saturday Drive, there was so much soap, and it was GREAT!!!!

This week will also be a short week. Friday is Veterans Day and a Holiday. Make sure you thank any Veterans in your life who have served in the armed forces. Because of them, we continue to life a life of freedom. Thank You!!!


Notices
*Please join us for our Veterans Day Assembly in the Auditorium on Thursday, November 10 at 8:45am



READERS/WRITERS WORKSHOP – Starting this month we will be working on ‘Slice of Life’ stories. These stories are still personal narratives, but with a kick, hoping to raise the quality of narrative writing. I love to hear the students say, “I love Writers Workshop!” I know they do, because it really shows in their writing. This week we will work on another strategy. When we need help getting started writing we can think of a strong feeling to write about. This week we will be writing about strong feelings.


In Readers Workshop we finished our Judy Moody book. We will demonstrate that fluent reading involves pausing after an independent and meaningful flow of words, rather than after every word. This week we will begin the Stone Fox book.

MATH – I have decided to divide my 4th grade students up into 2 different math groups. I will send out a review sheet to those who will be taking the Math Unit Final on Thursday. For those who do not receive a math review sheet, I will be working with them further in the multiplication unit. 3rd graders coming into 4th grade need to have their multiplication facts mastered. For those who do not have their multiplication facts mastered, they will receive extra support until they have them mastered.
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RELIGION – This week we will be reading in our Religion books, Chapter 4 on Prayer. We will also continue with our Steps to Respect and Anti-Bully Plan.

SPELLING – (NOT FOR MSL STUDENTS, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN WORK) each week a new list of spelling words is given. Monday is a pre-test and spelling assignment. Tuesday and Wednesday they are writing spelling sentences. Thursday is an additional spelling worksheet. Fridays we have our spelling test, turn in all of our spelling from the week, and then are able to play word games. Each day an assignment is assigned to work on in class. If they are unable to complete the assignment, they need to complete it at home. At the end of the week all of the spelling work is neatly put together, stapled and turned in.

SOCIAL STUDIES – Please read through the Homework packet with your student. The students will be researching their ‘state’ from home and at school. All of the information they need for this project they have in their binders.

SCIENCE – Last week we started a science
Experiment, “What happens to a pumpkin after Halloween?” We are watching pumpkins with different variables (air, water, cold, and heat, dirt…) to see what happens to them over time. We will also continue with the Metric System Foss Kit.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!

Rock Star Carolyn!

We are becoming such writers here in 3/4 West and I couldn't be more happy with each students' progress. This week Carolyn is our ROCK STAR! I wanted to share a published piece of work created by Carolyn.

It was a Saturday, my family and I drove to Canada. We stayed at a hotel for two days and one night. We stayed in one big room. The hotel had three pools. One pool was three feet deep, the second pool was four feet deep and the biggest pool was five feet deep. There was also a large hot tub. For dinner we went to this really fancy restaurant and they had somebody playing the piano. Restaurant had rocking food. After we ate, we went for ice-cream! We got back to the hotel and went night swimming. I think the most fun part of the trip was when we spent time together and when we went for ice-cream!

Cornell Notes for our Noun Quiz on Friday

This year I have been teaching the students how to take notes, Cornell Notes. Left column is for learning, right column is for recording all of the information, and we add a summary to the bottom of the page to let us know what this pages notes are all about. This system was started by a professor from Cornell Univeristy. It is proven to be a wonderful way to take notes and learn information. There are many utube videos on this type of note taking system. I teach this note taking system to Middle School and HIgh School students during the summer time. My hope is that my students will learn and use this system throughout thier middle school/high school/ and on to college years. These are the notes that we took today to prepare for our noun quiz on Friday.

Rock Star Julian

Julian was our Rock Star last week. Julian brought us in some very exciting eyeballs to enjoy while we were carving our pumpkins last week. Julian has been a wonderful addition to our classroom this year.

BON DIA WEEK 9!
October 31, 2011

Bon Dia, Good Day! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

I just wanted to say that it was great getting to meet all of you at conferences.

Last week was a very short week and I failed to post a blog, but we had a great time carving pumpkins on Tuesday afternoon. I want to thank Mrs. Rappe and Mrs. Thomas for coming in and helping us with the carving. All the pumpkins turned out amazing, and the students should be so proud of them selves.


Notices
*I will not be sending home a homework packet this week! I will send home a reading log, students need to document their reading each night after reading.
*Science club for 3-4.
*Please bring in your soap for One Saturday. Our first One Saturday is this coming Saturday, November 5th.


READERS/WRITERS WORKSHOP – Starting this month we will be working on ‘Slice of Life’ stories. These stories are still personal narratives, but with a kick, hoping to raise the quality of narrative writing.


In Readers Workshop we are going to finish the Judy Moody book and then go into Stone Fox, and follow it by watching the movie.

MATH – 4th grade mathers this week will continue working on function tables, simplifying equations, evaluating expressions, solving equations, and beginning to solve long multiplication problems. We will finish up our multiplication unit next week and have our test Friday, November 11th.
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RELIGION – This week we will continue with our Steps to Respect program along with understanding the different parts of the Rosary.

SPELLING – (NOT FOR MSL STUDENTS, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN WORK) each week a new list of spelling words is given. Monday is a pre-test and spelling assignment. Tuesday and Wednesday they are writing spelling sentences. Thursday is an additional spelling worksheet. Fridays we have our spelling test, turn in all of our spelling from the week, and then are able to play word games. Each day an assignment is assigned to work on in class. If they are unable to complete the assignment, they need to complete it at home. At the end of the week all of the spelling work is neatly put together, stapled and turned in.

SOCIAL STUDIES – This week we are going over our new Mid -Trimester for Studies Weekly. I am also going to introduce a STATE research project that they will be doing from home. We may have some time in class to do some research as well. The idea is that they will do most of their research from home.

SCIENCE – Metric System Foss Kit we will continue with!

May you all have a safe HALLOWEEN tonight!!!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!

Angelville News October 24-28

Bon Dia

Week 8

October 24-28

I want to give a HUGE thank you to Mrs. van Hollebeke!!! She was so kind to bring in the 3 hay bales to school, unfortunately there was a hay bale disaster. Needless to say, the hay bales are no longer in the classroom. We had some trouble baling the hay, but unbaleing, not so much trouble. My grand ideas don't always pan out!! Oh well!

Don't forget to bring in your pumpkins for pumpkin carving at 1:45pm Tuesday the 25th.

Scary Cakes are to be turned in to the office tomorrow for our Halloween Fun night! Tuesday, October 25th in the cafeteria.

Our class is bringing in SOAP for One Saturday. The more soap the better! Thank you.

Student conferences this week. Short week for the students, it's really a Thursday for them, what fun to be young again!

Writers Workshop

Since the beginning of the year in our Writers Workshop class we have been working on Personal Narratives. Currently we are working on Publishing our second writing piece to share with our parents who attend our party on Monday, October 31. When I witness great writing coming from my students I am propelled to share. This is a must share..........

"I can go to far away castles, surrounded by bubbling hot lava pools, protected by an enormous fire breathing dragon."

Yes, we are getting it!!!!

Rock Star Samantha

Samantha is a wonderful artist. She shares with us her gifts in her scare crow and poem. Thank you for being our rock star Samantha.

Studies Weekly Review guide

Studies Weekly Mid-quarter Test

What to expect on the test.

1. What is a wilderness?
2. What is an urban area?
3. What is a rural area?
4. What is a suburban area?
5. What makes up an ecosystem?
6. How did humans change land so that they could get the things they needed?
7. What are the 5 regions of Washington? What region do we live in?
8. Weather over a long period of time is called what?

From previous week 4

1. What are the 5 regions of the United States?
2. What is the man made lines drawn to divide areas called? Where do we see them?
3. Name the gadget that tells you in which direction you are going?
4. The land forms of an area (mountains, rivers, lakes, deserts)?
5. What borders Washington to the N, E, S, and W?

Week 3
6. The line that divides the earth in half going North and South?
7. The imaginary line that divides the earth in half going East and West?
8. What are the seven continents?
9. What are the sections of the earth?

Week 2
10. What are the cardinal directions?
11. What are the intermediate directions?
12. A maps, grid system, shows us numbered and lettered lines to find places more easily.

Week 1
13. Washington is made up of hundreds of communities.
14. What do communities share?
15. Washington became the 42nd state in 1889.

Angelville New October 17-21

BON DIA WEEK 7!
October 17, 2011

Bon Dia, Good Day!


Notices
* Each week we will have a new ROCK STAR! Our Rock Star this week is Julian! Julian will be featured all week. He is also able to bring in things to share with the other students. Each student will have the opportunity to be the Angelville Community Rock Star!

*Each week a Homework packet will go home on Monday to be returned on Friday. This week our Homework packet consists of a Science measurement worksheet, and reading log.
*Studies Weekly Mid Quarter test over first 5 weeks is this Friday. The students have a review sheet and we started our notes today.

*Chapter 1 Religion book test on Friday.

*The conference schedules have been made and the slips will do out tomorrow.

*A slip went home today about your student being able to bring in a pumpkin and carving tools to carve our pumpkins next Tuesday in the afternoon.
*Would still love for a few people to donate a few hay bales if possible.

READERS/WRITERS WORKSHOP – In writers workshop this week we will be working on our second personal narrative published piece. We will combine this party with our Halloween party on October 31 in the afternoon. All parents are welcome to attend. I will send home more notice on this later this week.


In Readers Workshop we are doing a read aloud called Judy Moody. We will talk about different characters in our own books, and when they have been happy or sad.

MATH – In 4th grade math we are learning about equations. This week we will be working on function tables with variables.
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RELIGION – Chapter 1 Test Friday. Steps to Respect.

SPELLING – (NOT FOR MSL STUDENTS, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN WORK) each week a new list of spelling words is given. Monday is a pre-test and spelling assignment. Tuesday and Wednesday they are writing spelling sentences. Thursday is an additional spelling worksheet. Fridays we have our spelling test, turn in all of our spelling from the week, and then are able to play word games. Each day an assignment is assigned to work on in class. If they are unable to complete the assignment, they need to complete it at home. At the end of the week all of the spelling work is neatly put together, stapled and turned in.

SOCIAL STUDIES – Studies Weekly Test review for Friday. Test on Friday.

SCIENCE – Metric System! There is a worksheet in homework packet. We will continue to read about the metric system. Why is the United States one of the only countries that does not use the metric system????

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!

Studies Weekly Study Guide for 10/14

Studies Weekly Quiz #2

What to expect to know for the quiz on Friday.

1. What is a wilderness?
2. What is an urban area?
3. What is a rural area?
4. What is a suburban area?
5. What makes up an ecosystem?
6. How did humans change land so that they could get the things they needed?
7. What are the 5 regions of Washington? What region do we live in?
8. Weather over a long period of time is called what?

Haunted House

Once there was a mouse named Pumpkin and a mouse named Mousey. One day Pumpkin and Mousey walked by a haunted house, and they wanted to explore it so they went inside. When they got inside it was dusty and they could see lots of cob webs. They found some stairs that went upstairs so they went up the stairs. Upstairs they found a door. They went through the door and they found some stairs that went down into the back yard. Pumpkin and Mousey had a race down the stairs. Pumpkin won! And when they got down they found a pumpkin patch. When they went into the pumpkin patch they saw lots of different shaped pumpkins. Some were tall, and some were short. Some were little and some were big. While they were walking around the pumpkin patch they heard something. Mousey climbed on a tall pumpkin and saw a mouse walking through the pumpkin patch. "Hi my name is Mousey, what is your name?"

"Hello, my name is Cheeseball," said the other mouse.

"Come over here and meet Cheesball" Mousey said to Pumpkin. Pumpkin climbed over the pumpkin.

"Hello Cheeseball," said Pumpkin. Mousey asked Cheeseball where where she lived and she told them that she lived in the Haunted House. Pumpkin and Mousey became friends with Cheeseball and visited her every time they could. by, Vivian

Angelville News, October 10-14

BON DIA WEEK 6!
October 10, 2011

Bon Dia, Good Day!


Notices
* Each week we will have a new ROCK STAR! Our Rock Star this week is Samantha! Samantha will be featured all week. She is also able to bring in things to share with the other students. Each student will have the opportunity to be the Angelville Community Rock Star!

*Each week a Homework packet will go home on Monday to be returned on Friday. This week our Homework packet consists of a reading log, and a T-shirt design activity.

*The conference schedules have been made and the slips will do out next week.
*Friday the 5/6 Girls will lead us in our Prayer Service beginning at 8:45am.
*Parents, please wait for your students at the end of the day by the flag pole. As the classes unfold into the courtyard we need to be able get through and dismiss our students one at a time. Thank you for your cooperation.

READERS/WRITERS WORKSHOP – In writers workshop we continue to write different kinds of stories. We are working on a Bravery story and will begin an embarrassed story later this week. Before the end of the month each student will have the opportunity to choose one story they wrote to edit and publish for our next Published Party.


In Readers Workshop we put up our Mental Movies. I am working with each one of the students to listen to them read and talk about ways in which they can improve their reading. I plan to re-assess all students prior to conferences. We will also demonstrate that we can pause when reading to recap main characters and events. We will also look to see how new parts of a book fit with old ones.

MATH – In 4th gr
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RELIGION – Last week we started our Steps to Respect Program. We will continue with talking about friendship and what is a FRIEND?
This week we will finish up our first chapter in our Religion books, The Holy Spirit guides us to become Church. Early next week will be our first test.

SPELLING – (NOT FOR MSL STUDENTS, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN WORK) each week a new list of spelling words is given. Monday is a pre-test and spelling assignment. Tuesday and Wednesday they are writing spelling sentences. Thursday is an additional spelling worksheet. Fridays we have our spelling test, turn in all of our spelling from the week, and then are able to play word games. Each day an assignment is assigned to work on in class. If they are unable to complete the assignment, they need to complete it at home. At the end of the week all of the spelling work is neatly put together, stapled and turned in.

SOCIAL STUDIES – This week in Social Studies we will read week 5 of our Studies Weekly Newspaper on region in Washington. We will have a quiz on Friday. I will post a review sheet on the blog. We will also work on one in class.

SCIENCE – Last week we made metric sticks in science and started to measure different things in the classroom. First, by estimating how many meters or centimeters something is, and then by actually measuring the objects with our meter sticks.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!

ROCK STAR Sam!

Our second ROCK STAR in Angelville this week was Sam. Last week we wrote stories in writers workshop about our Hello, Good-bye Windows in our home. Sam's window in his home is in his bedroom. This week the students described the type of ROCK STAR that Sam is. Some of the words that were used to describe Sam were, "Easy to be friends with, nice to all people, plays with everyone, funny and never argues when playing soccer." We are so thankful to have Sam in Angelville. Thanks Sam for being our ROCK STAR this week!

Senses of the SEASON

Last week Miz Schmutz taught an art class with acrylic pastels. We wanted to capture not only the colors of the season, but the objects as well. WOW! These students are amazing artists. Once our pictures were complete we took it one step further and wrote poems using all of our senses. What do we see, smell, taste, touch, and hear in Autum. So FUN!!!!

BON DIA WEEK 5!
October 3, 2011

Bon Dia, Good Day!


Notices
* Each week we will have a new ROCK STAR! Our Rock Star this week is Sam! Sam will be featured all week. He is also able to bring in things to share with the other students. Each student will have the opportunity to be the Angelville Community Rock Star!

*Each week a Homework packet will go home on Monday to be returned on Friday. This week our Homework packet consists of a reading log, writing assignment and a worksheet on Subjects of a sentence. The subject states WHO or WHAT the sentence is about. Students need to make sure they are logging their reading each night.

READERS/WRITERS WORKSHOP –
I am happy to announce that the students completed their first published pieces last week and we were able to share in our first Published Piece Party. I plan to have a Published Piece Party each month (PPP). Currently we are working on Sensory poems to go with our very colorful Autum art. If in the building please stop by to see our poems and art outside our classroom wall.

In Readers Workshop this week we will complete our Mental Movies and put those up. We will also demonstrate that we can pause when reading to recap main characters and events. We will also look to see how new parts of a book fit with old ones.

MATH – In 4th grade math this week will be reviewing for a test on Friday. The test will consist of money, time and place value, mental multiplication, ordering numbers and comparing >, <, =.

RELIGION – Last week we started our Steps to Respect Program. We will continue with talking about friendship and what is a FRIEND?
Last week I talked about having the students get help from home their family members up to their great grandparents. I have only had very few students bring those in to class. Please help your student with this this week so that we can get started on our own family trees. I will make sure this goes home in the planners as well.

SPELLING – (NOT FOR MSL STUDENTS, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN WORK) Each week a new list of spelling words are given. Monday is a pre-test and spelling assignment. Tuesday and Wednesday they are wrSOCIAL STUDIES – This week in Social Studies we will read week 4 of our Studies Weekly Newspaper on borders in the US.

SCIENCE – Last week in Science we talked about what scientists do and then the students drew pictures of what they thought scientists looked like. This week we will continue with the metric system, the standard unit of measurement that scientists use.iting spelling sentences. Thursday is an additional spelling worksheet. Fridays we have our spelling test, turn in all of our spelling from the week, and then are able to play word games. Each day an assignment is assigned to work on in class. If they are unable to complete the assignment, they need to complete it at home. At the end of the week all of the spelling work is neatly put together, stapled and turned in.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!

Angelville's First Published Party!

This morning we celebrated our very first Published Writing Party! We have had a month of writers workshop and 3/4 West completed their first published piece. The pieces are all about their Hello, Goodbye Windows in their homes. We all have that one window that gets more attention than the others. We might check to see that the mail man came, or watch our students playing out front, or feel the excitement as we wait for the UPS driver to deliver a special package. What a great way to highlight each student and the great jobs they have done, than with Top Pot donuts and 15 seconds of fame. Thank you writers for sharing today!!! We even had the Principal for a day come in and listen to our stories, very exciting:)

I'm a ROCK STAR!

We welcomed our first ROCK STAR into 3/4 West this week, Catherine. We also had the opportunity to meet Fuzzy, Catherine's Guinea pig! Thank you for being you Catherine, and we are all so glad that you are one of our new friends here in Angelville and St. Al's!!

Fruits from the Garden

It is always fun when the garden fruits and veggies transform into a different kind of food. This week we enjoyed zucchini bread. The zucchini was freshly picked from the school garden. Thank you Maya for taking time to bake and share your gift with others here at school. Such a treat!! Yummo!!!

Studies Weekly Quiz on Friday 9/30/11

There will be a Social Studies Quiz on Friday over what we have been learning in our Social Studies Weekly Newspapers. This year in SS we will study Maps/globes/atlases, and learn about communities in Washington and the US along with various communities in other parts of the world and how they are similar or different from ours.

What to Expect to know for the quiz: ( we will also go over this in class)

*List several things community members share.

* What does a compass rose show?

*Name the seven continents

*What are the cardinal directions?

*What are the intermediate directions?

*What is the line that divides the Western Hemisphere from the Eastern Hemisphere?

*What is the name of the line that divides the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern Hemisphere?

*What hemisphere do you live in?

*What are the names of the vertical lines that run across the globe East and West.

*What are the horizontal lines that run across the glob going North and South.

BON DIA WEEK 4!
September 26, 2011

Bon Dia, Good Day!

It was wonderful to see all of you at Curriculum Night last week! Thank you again for sharing your wonderful students with me this year. The #1 teacher in a student’s life is their parents. I look forward to being your partner this year as we work together to support your student

Notices
* Each week we will have a new ROCK STAR! Our first Rock Star this week is Catherine! Catherine will be featured all week. She is also able to bring in things to share with the other students. Each student will have the opportunity to be the Angelville Community Rock Star!

*Each week a Homework packet will go home on Monday to be returned on Friday. This week they will have a reading log to keep track of as well as a TFK (Time for Kids Magazine). There is a worksheet attached to the magazine. They will also need to complete the questions that are also in the magazine.

READERS/WRITERS WORKSHOP – EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT!!! Last week in Writers Workshop we were working on mini stories. The students finished their Front Page News Papers! They are on display for you all to enjoy outside of the classroom on the wall. We continue to work on Personal mini stories. This week we will talk about writing little ‘seed’ stories, not big ‘watermelon’ stories. We will also finish up our ‘Hello Good-bye Window’ stories. I hope to create a window outside the classroom to put these stories up for all to enjoy.

In Readers Workshop this week we will concentrate on the world in which we are transported to when we read our books. We will also be looking at the Mental Movie that is playing in our heads as we read our books. I will spend time going around and conferencing with all of the students about their books.

MATH – In 4th grade math this week we will continue to work on rounding and place value, multi-step word problems, money, time and multiplying factors.

RELIGION – This week we will start our Steps to Respect, anti-bullying program. Last week we talked about the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit lives in each and every one of us. The Holy Spirit guides us in making the right choices and decisions. I had asked the students to bring in the names of their family members including their grandparents and great-grandparents. I told them that they may need some help from home with all of the names and on which side of the family they are on. We will be talking about out own family Trees.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!

Angelville News September 19-23

BON DIA WEEK 3!
September 19, 2011

Bon Dia, Good Day!

We had a great 2nd week of school!!! The students are getting into the routine of things! Looking forward to another one this week!!![

Notices
*Each week a Homework packet will go home on Monday to be returned on Friday. This week they will have a reading log to keep track of their reading at home. Students need to be recording their reading onto their reading logs. This week in the homework packet is a writing assignment. We have been talking about writing strategies in Writers Workshop. Please read through the homework packet with your student this week.
*Back to School Night 7-9pm on Wednesday, September 21, hope to see you all there.

READERS/WRITERS WORKSHOP – EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT!!! This week in Writers Workshop we are working on mini stories. The students are also working on their own Front Page News Papers! They will be on display for you all to enjoy on Wednesday. In Readers Workshop we will be looking at different types of stories; Parts go together to make a book flow; beginning, middle and end.

MATH – This year the 3rd and 4th graders are split up for math. In 4th grade math this week we will continue to work on rounding and place value, multi-step word problems and multiplying factors.

RELIGION – This week we completed our Angelville Community Rules and Jobs. We will begin the Steps to Respect Curriculum as well.

Good WIll Hunting

Fourth Graders work together in Math class to solve a Brain Teaser!

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