Attention Fourth Grade Families!

Tomorrow is the field trip the American Indian Museum in Washington DC. Here is a list of things to remember:

• ·      Students should wear comfortable walking shoes preferably black or brown in color. Complete Imagine Andrews uniform is required other than the shoes.
• ·      Students will be visiting the gift shop, please bring no more than $10.00.
• ·      No electronics are to be brought other than a camera. (bring at the student’s risk)
• ·      Students may bring a book to read on the bus.
• ·      No backpacks
• ·      No cellphones

·      BRING LUNCH UNLESS YOU ALREADY ORDERED ONE FROM THE CAFETERIA. No last minute orders will be accepted. All lunch material should be disposable including paper bags. (no lunch boxes) No soda for drinks please. J 

·      Please have your students in the building by 8:20 (all chaperones as well)

Please email your child’s homeroom teacher if you have any questions.

Permission Slips for Field Trip

Good evening parents,
The permission slips for our trip to the National Museum of the American Indian that will be held on March 23rd are due promptly on March 21st. It is important that we receive them on time so that we will know who is coming on the trip. If your child is not going on the field trip, March 23rd is still considered a regular school day.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Congratulations!

Congratulations to the finalists who made to last night's STEM fair. It was a very nice program. Our fourth grade winners were:
1st place: Jerome Linear
2nd Place: Tayla Lawton
3rd Place: Bryce Elazier
Honorable Mention: Maryah Wimbush

Congratulations to our winners!

Update on the End of the year 4th grade field trip

ATTENTION 4^th grade parents:

We recently were approved for the end of the year 4th grade class trip to Terrapin Adventures. We are looking really looking forward to going on our end of the year trip. We need a head count of 31 students to be able to go on the field trip. Please let us know if you would like your child to go on this trip by March 22nd. Scholars went last year and had a BLAST!! It is a trip about team building, communication and overcoming obstacles/fears. Scholars will be participating in zip lining, the giant swing and team building activities. The following is the website. It provides video clips, answers to questions, and other useful information.
http://www.terrapinadventures.com/
Click on the Team building link
Then school and youth field trips
We are doing the Basic Package

The tentative date is Thursday, May 19th, 2016. We are informing parents now, as it is a costly field trip. The cost was $54 to include the activities ($35 goes to Terrapin) and the cost of the bus.

March Scholastic Book Orders

March Scholastic Book Orders
 I will be placing the March Scholastic Book Orders this Friday, March 18th. If you would like to place an order online, our class code is JKKPC. Thank you for your continued support in your child's love of reading across all content areas. If our order is over $100 we get 5 new books for our class library and every scholar receives a $5.00 coupon code for April if your order is $10 or more.

STEM Fair Update!

Today, we announced the finalists who will represent either Ms. Nauman's Homeroom or Ms. Kirchner's Homeroom in the STEM fair. It was a close race but these are our finalists:

Finalists

Ms. Nauman's Class

Bryce Elazier

Alyssa Field

Jerome Linear-Owens

Jaerel Reyes

Joshua Whitaker

Wesley Wilson

Ms. Kirchner's Class

Daija Allen

Jesus Berlanga

Jayden Bury

Tayla Lawton

Rayna Martin 

Maryah Wimbush

Destiny Wright

Congratulations to the Finalists! Here are some important dates and information that they need to know. First, They should review notes and information about their project to get prepared for the judges. For the children who took their boards home, they need to be back by Monday March 14th. On March 16th, the 13 finalists will be pulled out of class to present their board to judges. On March 17th, The finalists will present their final presentation at the STEM Fair. The STEM fair will be from 5pm-7pm. A flyer should be coming home on Monday about it. 

Also, I would like to say it was great to see all the different science fair projects. It was good to see that the children were enthused about their projects. Thank you, the parents, for being patient with your children and helping with their projects as well. On Monday, the students will be able to take home their boards. 

Change to Reading Logs

Reading logs still need to be completed as usual, with parents signatures, time read, book title, and overall time read throughout the week. HOWEVER, the summary no longer needs to be written on the log.
Instead, the Book a Day worksheet must be filled out and stapled to the reading log. This will serve as their summary. We are working on retelling and looking for the beginning, middle, and end. We have also been working on thinking about key events and cause and effect. This new worksheet will help students to do this. The sheet should be filled in throughout the week as the students read. They will be sequencing the events in what they read.

This is will helpful practice for the PARCC and help them develop their writing skills.
I ask that ALL students are reading a chapter book at their level. They should read one book throughout the week, rather than skipping around and reading multiple books.

Important Updates

Field Trip
A letter was sent home on Friday about the upcoming field trip. Please read the letter attached. Due to unforeseen circumstances out of our control, the food field trip was never rescheduled. If you paid for that field trip and would like to attend this field trip, a signed permission slip is required. The money paid before will apply to this trip. If you have any questions or concerns, please email me or call the school 301-350-6002.

Progress Reports
Progress reports will be sent home soon. Please check schoolmax as this is the most recent update of your child's grades. When you receive the progress reports, they are about 1-2 weeks old. Additional grades have been inputted since then.

Scholastic Book Orders
March book orders are due MARCH 20th. I will be placing all orders then. I will continue to place Scholastic orders even when Ms. Hayes takes over. She will be getting the boxes and handing out all the books when she receives the box. Thank you for your continued support and helping to build our class library.

Elementary STEM Fair
Just a friendly reminder the STEM Fair is March 17th from 5-7pm. This year's winners will be announced at this time. We hope to see you there!!