I can’t believe how fast our first week flew by! I have absolutely loved getting to know these fantastic 4th graders! They are amazing! Shhh…don’t tell anyone, but I think I have the best 4th grade class ever!

This week was filled with getting to know all about each other and getting to know our new school. We spent time getting to know each other by sharing our “All About Me” bags, we also talked about how each of us matters in this world and the ways we are genius! We read the book “The Best Part of Me” and each student chose their best part and wrote a poem or short narrative about it. We will be sharing these next week. We spent time getting to know our school by taking a tour and checking out all of the cool new spaces! We even watched a Reading Rainbow video in the Collaboration Studio with some of the other 4th grade classes!

We also spent some time talking about the need for rules in the world and we created a Classroom Constitution with the rules the students created for our classroom. We did an activity that helped us think about what our classroom should be like and what we needed from each other to be successful this year. Then we wrote our class constitution together and signed it.

Each day we read a book that dealt with bullying and discussed the theme (the author’s message). We talked about how themes should be universal and created a “bumper sticker” for each book that states the theme of the book.

Students also took a Multiple Intelligences survey and we talked about all of the different ways that people can be smart. We tied this back into our discussion about how we are all geniuses in our own way. Ask your child how they are smart!

Please mark your calendars for our Community Open House on Sunday, September 18th from 2-4pm. You will be able to check out some of our work from this first week!

 

IMPORTANT DATES:

Sunday, September 18 – Community Open House  2-4 pm

Wednesday and Thursday, Septemeber 21 and 22 – School Pictures