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Welcome Back!! I hope you all had a restful winter break and are ready to hit the ground running.
Information about conferences will be going home this week. I have scheduled your time- please me know if the time scheduled will work. We tried to but all families together. Report Cards will be given at the conferences.
There are a few things we could use for our classroom, if you would like to donate:
Playground Balls
Electric Pencil Sharpener
Socks (To Erase Desks)
Games for indoor recess
Pencils
Copy Paper
One week down- one more to go :)
Remember that our holiday party will be this coming Friday (12/19/08). If you would like to help out in any way with that please let me know! Our class needs to bring in pastries and donuts next week.
We will not be having a spelling test next week.
We are currently collecting coats and jackets for less fortunate families. This is being put on by the student council. What a great way to help at this holiday season.
Next Thursday will be our end of the second nine week tests in both language arts and math. Please help your child review long division and three by two multiplication.
I will be sending information about conferences after the winter break. :)
Thank you!
Kimberly Mitchell
Hello Everyone!
First thing, I want to apologize for sending home the parent-teacher conference forms. They were placed in the take home stack unintentionally Friday. Information in regards to Parent-Teacher Conferences will be sent home after the winter break.
Also, I sent home a sheet about our grade level classroom holiday party. It did not include the date though! It will be on December 19, 2008. The last day before the break. If you are interested in assisting please contact myself or Mrs. Williams.
We have fully started our Read 180 program. We are still working out the kinks- but so far it is going well. When we meet in January I will show you the in's and out's of our new program.
This week's spelling words:
There, their, using, through, again, usually, perhaps, certain, past, instead, either, understand, animals, outside, concave, convex, lens, reflection, refraction, waves
I hope that you all had a restful break!
This weeks spelling words are:
Unit 15
Their
Would
Its
Write
Right
Because
Between
Show
Don’t
Second
It’s
Example
Already
Finally
You’re
Coordinate
Plane
Graphing
Point
Measurement
We will be starting our new Read 180 Pprogram today! There are a few students who will be going to Ms. Droms for this part of the day- you will get a note home from me today if this is you! :)
This new program incorporates a mini-lesson, then three 20-minute segments - guided reading in a small group, the Read 180 program on the computer then a 20-minute segment of independent work.
Thank you! Feel free to contact me with any questions!
Kimberly Mitchell
Hello! I hope that you all are doing well!
A big thank you to those who were able to come for the VIP lunch yesterday! I know that the students had a wonderful time and I hope you did as well.
Remember that next week is our Fall Break! I am sure you all are looking forward to that.
As it is getting colder- please make sure your child comes to school with a heavy jacket.
Friday we will be having "Thanksgiving" Rotations tomorrow. The class will move together through all of the classes and participate in holiday themed activities.
Also- our holiday party will be coming up quickly after Thanksgiving break. We do ours as a grade level- be looking for information on this after we return! :)
Remember also- that students need to practice their recorder for music through the week to prepare for the next meeting.
Academic alerts went home this week. Please make sure that if your child received one the bottom part is signed and returned to me.
If you did not receive one, your child has nothing below a B average in all subject areas. If you would like to know their averages please email me and I will send one home for you. (kimberly1.mitchell@cobbk12.org) Our server will be down the week we are out- so I will not be able to see email sent after Friday until December 1, 2009.
When we return we will be starting a great new program called Read 180. It is a Scholastic Reading Program. There is a small mini-lesson- then three rotations of computer, independent work then small group meeting. We already do rotations, so it will not be a huge adjustment for them.
Thank you!
Have a happy Thanksgiving! J
Report Cards went home Friday- they were overall great! Let's keep up the good work for the second nine weeks :)
The Veteran’s Wall is going up in our main hallway. I sent home a form asking if you would like a scroll to display a family member or anyone who has or currently is serving in one of our armed forces. If you need a scroll and do not have the form any longer- email me (kimberly1.mitchell@cobbk12.org) and I will get one to you ASAP!
Tomorrow we will be selling Chick-Fil-A biscuits for The Wounded Warrior Fund- Bring your $2.50 and support a great cause!
Next week it Red Ribbon Week! A note on a RED sheet of paper is going home today that gives a breakdown of each day's events!
Monday- Wear a sports jersey
Tuesday- wear red, white, and blue
Wednesday- wear a sweat shirt and sweat pants
Thursday- Bring stuffed animal
Friday- Wear red and have crazy hair
This week’s spelling words:
Unit 10
There
Their
Others
Its
Every
Until
Almost
It’s
whole
Because
Among
Special
Person
Probably
Matter
Lever
Fulcrum
Pulley
Screw
Incline Plane
Next week’s words are: (Oct. 27)
there's
their
through
because
thought
both
children
lives
across
that's
piece
surface
river
common
hundred
machine
wheel
axle
wedge
motion
Also- please remember healthy snacks! :)
Parents-
Here is a great web-site to use with your students! We have been focusing on functions-- input/output and discovering the rules.
Check it out!
Hello Everyone!
I just wanted to remind you that this Friday (September 26) Dowell will be having our Fall Festival. There will be a fitness area in the gym, inflatables, as well as many other very fun activities!! It is from 5-8 pm at Dowell. Tickets are $7.00 at the door!
The book fair will be there as well. I sent home the Scholastic Book order form- only to find out that we no longer are able to order them through the school. I sent the money and order form back home with the student if they brought that it. I am sorry for the confusion. This is the first year they are doing it differently. On the plus side!! The Scholastic Book Fair will be here starting during the Fall Festival and all the way through the next week. They are able to purchase the books there. :)
Also coming up is Dowell Math Night at Publix. It will be at the Publix on Dallas Highway on October 9, 2008.
Here is the schedule for that:
6-6:45 Last Names N-Z
6:45-7:00 PTA Meeting
7:00-7:45 Last Names A-M
Please come out and show your Dowell Support!!! :)
Here are this weeks spelling words
addition, appear, asks, catalog, certainly, collecting, complicated, detailed, encountered, filing, foundation, children, however, usually, fall, late, into, shout, summer, weather
We do not have vocabulary words this week. Our day is very full and I have not had the time I would like to fully cover these words. Hopefully, next week I will have a literacy center set up that will focus on the weeks vocabulary words.
Also- I am looking for a room parent- please let me know if you are interested in this! I have one parent who can help on the side- but would need another parent to be the main room parent and she could help on the side :)
Please feel free to contact me if you have any more questions!
I hope you all had a very restful long weekend!
We are well into the grove of things in the 4th grade. The rules, routines and expectations are set and the students know them. They are doing wonderfully.
Please make sure you initial student agendas nightly. They receive marbles each day it is signed. This also makes sure you know what they are doing here at school and what their homework assignments are.
Thank you for doing such a great job bringing in healthy snacks!! I have seen lots of fruits and veggies :)
This weeks spelling words are:
baggage
campus
capital
celebrate
comment
faithful
favors
feature
lapse
objections
pause
regret
regulation
remembered
people
through
something
example
several
Vocabulary-
Grateful
Shabby
Tidy
Thank you!
Please feel free to contact me if you have and questions or concerns.
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