REMINDER

Character Essays are due tomorrow Thursday, February 19, 2015.  Essays turned in after the due date will receive no credit and will be graded with a zero.

Valentine's Day

Fourth Grade will be exchanging Valentine's Day cards on Thursday, February 12th. Participating Scholars may address all cards with "To My Friend (or Classmate)" or "student's name".  Along with the card exchange, we will serve Scholars cookies, chips, and drinks. We have enough snacks from the previous donations.  Thank you. :-)

Thank you

Thank you to all parents who completed the online survey regarding the possible field trip to Terrapin Adventures. 

Also, there was a change to the distribution of 2nd quarter report cards. They will be sent home on February 11th. 

Washington, D.C. is having a Math festival on April 18th. It is free. I thought some scholars would love to attend. I will be there!:0) The following is the website where you can view the schedule, activities, and speakers. Best of all, it is FREE!
http://www.dcthriftymom.com/2015/02/03/national-math-festival-washington-dc-2015/

FYIs and Reminders

Report card grades were submitted Monday, January 26.  If you would like to see your child's grades,  please visit SchoolMax. Report cards are scheduled to be released Thursday, February 5th.


The Baltimore Aquarium field trip is this Thursday, February 5th. Please be sure your child arrives to school on time.  If your child is not attending the field trip and plan to attend school, please let us know. 

Now that all Winter assessment testing is complete, STAR Reading and Math reports will be sent home this week.  Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) Lexile scores (Fall & Winter) will be handwritten on the STAR Reading report.  

According to the STEM Fair project timeline, the Procedures and Data Collection components are due tomorrow, February 2.  Also, to stay on schedule, STEM Fair project investigations should begin this week. 

Instead of the Quarterly Oral Recitation, Scholars will write a Character Education Essay.  Scholars will receive more information about this long-term assignment Monday, February 2.  

If you have any questions or concerns about any of this information, please free feel to contact us.

Field Trip Parent Survey

To ALL parents!! Currently, we are working on a possible field trip to Terrapin Adventures. We are hoping this could be the “4^th grade class trip” for this year and years to come. We would appreciate if you could take 5 minutes and fill out this quick survey with your thoughts/feelings about this trip.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7CKKZQW

We have provided the following link to help with any additional questions you may have about the field trip. 

http://www.terrapinadventures.com/team-building/school-youth-group-field-trips/

Mrs. Nauman and Ms. Carter

Scholastic Orders

Just a friendly reminder, if you would like to place a scholastic book order, please do so by January 31st! The new order forms for February will be going home next Monday. Thank you for your continued support in the love of reading!:)

STEM Fair Deadlines

Attention Parents, 
   The following are the due dates for STEM fair. There is no late work. All questions were due today. Please sign your child's book, so there is communication between you and me. 
**Scholars have some very interesting questions! I can't wait to see their STEM Fair projects!

Question Tues. 1/20- 10 pts HW

Hypothesis Thurs 1/22- 10 pts HW

Variables Tues. 1/27- 10 pts HW

Materials Thurs. 1/29- 10 pts HW

Procedures Mon. 2/2- 10 pts HW

Data Collection Mon. 2/2- 20 pts HW

Results, Actual Investigation Mon. 2/23- 10 pts HW

Results, Graph of Data Mon. 2/23- 10 pts HW

Results, Written Explanation Mon. 2/23- 10 pts. HW

Conclusion Thurs. 2/26- 20 pts CW

Research Paper Thurs. 3/5 Assessment

Display Board/Presentation Thurs. 3/5- 40 pts Assessment