Attention all Parents!!! The yearbook committee is asking for an individual snapshot of each student in our classroom for a collage page in this year's yearbook. Please send in a photo that can be cut to fit our class page. These photos will not be able to be returned. The picture needs to be in by this Friday, January 25th. Thanks for your help!
(Oh Jackson! Not your picture....my student's pictures!)
Thank you for making this a successful week of sharing and caring about your child's progress so far this year. We have really become a "team" in our class and we all encourage each other to better understand what we are learning each day. I have enjoyed speaking with each of you about your child's progress and look forward to a successful second half of fourth grade with your child. Together we can accomplish more! Please remember, I am available to meet with you again when or if you feel the need. My door is always open. Just send a note to me in the planner or via e-mail. I can be reached at holly.holston@cobbk12.org. Thanks again for your support of your child in his/her learning process. You have been a terrific help this year.
What! Fun Learning Sites....how can this be?
Remember all those worksheets that used to come home for homework practice? I do. I only wish that my daughters had so many wonderful websites to go to to practice what we used to spend hours on with paper and pencil AND erasers and tears. Don't get me wrong. There is still plenty of pencil and paperwork happening in our folders and notebooks each day at school and sometimes for homework but for really interactive and motivating practice, check out the websites your child has posted in his/her planner and on our blog to help them reinforce what we are learning in our class. We have visited the Math book's very own website full of interactive practice and have tried out the Vocabulary Book's practice site. It does keep me busy "trying out" the games before I show them to the students. If you cannot not get these sites to work, please send me a note so I can verify their address. Thanks again for all you do to suppo
rt what your child is learning in school. We are off to a great start!
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Our fourth graders had a great time learning about the three states of water.....solid, liquid and gas. Their assignment was to first change solid to liquid (without touching the ice) then after pouring the water on the sidewalk, they had to turn the liquid into a gas(they huffed and puffed) and finally (it took a while to figure it out) they had to turn the gas back into a liquid. Now, where does that water on the outside of a glass of cold water come from??? Just ask your child to explain it to you and don't forget to listen for the words.....temperature change required!! We also learned about the freezing point and the boiling point of liquids .....just ask our experts and see if they can teach you! Here are some pictures of the experiment in action.
Learning is not an individual task in our Fourth Grade. We love to "team up" and work together to become better learners and help each other understand the concepts we are learning. Mrs. E's class came into our room to learn a new place value game and we practiced matching up word form, standard form and expanded form to create teams. Then we worked together as a new team to write numbers (big, large, huge numbers) in all three forms . Can you name the three forms?? (standard, expanded, and word form) Talk about needing our thinking caps and teamwork. We all enjoyed putting our minds together and trying to be the first team ready to share. Enjoy our pictures taken while we were hard at work playing the game!
