Mr. Fox’s Class Friday, September 3 rd , 2010

1. Fourth Grade Free Press Mr. Fox’s Class Friday, September 3rd, 2010 Upcoming Dates: September: Monday 6th – No School: Labor Day! Thursday 16th - PEP (Parent and Educator Partnership) have their first meeting. It is at 6:30pm in the school library. This groups is trying to improve the partnership between home and school. If you are interested in volunteering and staying connected, please come to our meeting. Wednesday 22nd – School Picture Day Monday 27th – No School: Staff Development Tuesday 28th– Coffee Night with Mr. Fox Hi Families, I hope that you all had a nice and relaxing summer with your kids! We have had a great first week of school together. It has been filled with projects and community building activities. Our classroom is already filling up with writing and artwork. We are just starting to use our assignment books and getting used to these. This is something that your students will bring home with them every day so you will be able to see what we are doing at school. Please be sure that you are looking at their planners every night and signing them at least two times a week. This will let me know that they are relaying information from school home to you. Everyday your students will have an ask me about question at the top of the column for that day. This will act as a prompt so you will have something to ask your student about as you look through their planner. Our class website is up and running. You are able to access that from our school districts website. The site will have all of my newsletter and has some great learning links on it. Our star of the week person next week will be Matt Myers. Thank you very much for everything you do for your kids! If you have any questions for me please don’t hesitate to e-mail or call. Have a great weekend! -Mr. Fox Language Arts: We are starting reading next week! Our first week is devoted to Mysteries. This should be a fun first chapter. Spelling Words for Next Week: Sum, flat, plum, bell, grim, plot, band, bluff, dock, blot, odd, left, cash, mill, past, shelf, wealth, crunch, hint, build, snack, step, pond, heavy, shovel Vocabulary Words for Next Week: Assignments, consideration, allergies, accuse, suspicious, evidence, and consume Math: We started math this week. We are reviewing addition and subtraction and move on to multiplication and division. We will be reviewing our facts for a few days and then we will be moving on to our first full Unit on solving Multiplication and Division word problems. Social Studies: I am hoping to start Social Studies by the end of next week. Our first topic will be about globes and maps! Science: Science and social studies will be alternating throughout the school year. I sent a class schedule and a communication letter home yesterday. Please take a look at these and keep them as a reference this school year! Remember to send $5 for party money if you have not done this!