We are GOAL busters!!  As a class, we have met our magazine sale goal!  Thank you for all of your hard work and support!  Mrs. Merritt will reward the students with a movie soon.  We are still trying to win the fourth grade "Big Dog".  


We wrapped up our Book Clubs this week.  The students' comments were very positive about their Book Club book and they are eager to have Book Club again, soon!  As I told them, I would like to have Book Club after Spring Break.  Next week,  the students will be reading "Mom's Best Friend".  I will introduce some new reading skills such as determining important/unimportant information in a story and identifying figurative language.  Additional skills that will be reviewed are vocabulary, using context clues, reading a newspaper article, and making inferences.  In this week's graded papers, students brought home their Unit 4 Reading Test.  Some students are still struggling with drawing conclusions based on story clues.  Next week, I will reteach this skills and give the students additional practice with drawing conclusions.  


Math news from Mrs. Drake: We are finishing chapter 8 on fractions and decimals this week. For the next two weeks, I plan on reviewing skills and highlighting additional concepts that we have not yet covered this school year. My objective of these mini quick lessons is to give the students some exposure to concepts that may be on the Stanford Achievement Test. The homework will reflect the skills we work on that particular day. After the test, I will continue teaching, in detail, the remaining chapters of the Go Math curriculum.


Next we will be celebrating Dr. Seuss & Read Me Week!  Mrs. Merritt has designated each day as a special "dress up"  day.  While it is optional, the following information gives details about each day:


     Monday:  "Whoville Hair Day"  Students may wear wigs, have hair paint, or 
                  wear goofy hairdos.  No face paint on any day.
    
     Tuesday:  "Thing 1 & Thing 2/Red Fish, Blue Fish Day"  Students may    wear 
                   Thing wigs, Thing shirts, or all red or all blue.  No face paint.


    Wednesday:  "Wednesday Wacky Sock Day!"  Students wear crazy socks 
                        only with uniform shirts.


    Thursday:  "Reading is Cool!"  Wear sunglasses day!  Students wear uniform 
                    clothes.


    Friday:  "Black & White with Red Cat in the Hat Day!"  Students wear black 
                and white with a red accent or any combination of the 3 colors.  If
                students have Cat in the Hat outfits or hats, they may wear those,
                too!