We had a wonderful time attending the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra and participating in the Link Up experience. Our 3rd & 4th graders were excited to play their recorders along with the orchestra and several other students from the area! We are looking forward to working on tying our blankets for the children at Children’s Mercy Hospital. Thank you so much to those who helped cut fabric so that it is ready for tying! We also plan on creating cards to send along with the blankets. From April 7-12, our Hope students will be the hands and feet of Jesus, serving local nonprofits while raising support for our school’s technology program. Please share your child’s special website with family and friends and allow them the opportunity to support our school and raise your child’s donation amount. Please refer to the website information that was sent out by email. This is more than a fundraiser—it’s a chance to make a lasting impact in our community!With every act of service, our students will be a light to others, and in the spirit of giving, 10% of all proceeds will be donated to one of the nonprofits we serve.Together, we can inspire generosity in our students, transform lives in our community, and strengthen our mission to be a beacon to others. Our 4th grade class is hoping to raise $2,750 to help purchase a laptop and dock. Students will receive individual prizes for the donations they receive. The class with the highest donation will also receive a Silly String fight with the principal. If our entire student body raises our goal of $33,000, we will have a Day Off of school on Friday, April 25th, which is our snow make-up day. Let’s make it happen!
4th Grade International Day Project- Diorama
The students are busy planning for their International Fair projects. Each 4th grader is creating a diorama of a special landmark or famous place in France. The information and rubric was sent home in each child’s binder this week. Projects are due on Friday, April 25th. (If we reach our school-wide goal of $33,000 for the Serve-a-thon, we will push the due date of the project to Monday, April 28th.) Parents will receive a copy of the project information through email to use for reference. Thank you, parents, for all you are doing to support our activities for this busy quarter!
Student of the Week- VIP / Classroom Visits
Thank you to Christine Truitt and Christine & Will Davidson for coming to share with the class and tell us more about Jayelle and Kaydence! We enjoyed photos, stories, snacks, and fun S.W.A.G. from our parents’ work places. It is so fun to see the parents’ and children’s faces light up with joy when they talk about their families! The entire class gains so much from this experience! Our 4th Quarter will go by quickly, and we want to be sure to honor each of our 4th graders and their VIP’s! Please use the Signup Genius link to set your appointment for your 4th grader’s VIP to come visit our classroom and honor your child as one of our Students of the Week! Please set aside one of the times offered and sign up to come into the classroom, share with the class about family, work, world travels, experiences, …and let us get to know you better! Please let me know if you have any questions. We can’t wait to visit with our VIP’s! Please use this link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084EACA82CA1FFC16-55644924-student
4th Grade Field Trips: We have set the dates for our 4th grade’s two May Field Trips! Please consider driving and chaperoning for one or both of these days: Tuesday, May 6th – Topeka – Capital Tour, Dome Tour, Brown vs. Bd of Ed. National Park & Thursday, May 8th – DAY AT THE K White Sox vs. Royals Look for more information and permission slips to be coming home soon!
Cross-Curricular Project – International Fair– We will be learning to dance the minuet and will be wearing berets (black for boys and red for girsl) and scarves that will be purchased for the students. We would like the fourth graders to be ready to dress in white button shirts or blouses (Short sleeves are fine and will suit the season.) with black pants for the boys and red skirts for the girls. If anyone would like to coordinate this effort, please let the teacher know.
Reading/ Spelling We are continuing our study and reading of the novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio. The book is divided into parts rather than chapters. We will be studying the Vocabulary and Spelling the words in each part or parts as we read the novel. Your child will be completing a novel study workbook to follow the reading. We will also be taking a Vocabulary/Comprehension Test over each of the 8 parts of the novel. This Monday, April 14th we will be taking our Vocabulary Test over Parts 2 & 3. Please review the words and their meanings with your child this weekend. There will not be a Final Comprehension Test over the novel. This week we will be covering Parts 6 & 7 and will have a Spelling / Vocabulary List with 20 words. Please start going over them with your child this weekend to prepare for the Pretest on Monday. We will not have a new Spelling List the following week due to no school on Easter Monday and projects due on April 25th.
Spelling List – April 14th – April 18th Wonder – Part 6 – August & Part 7- Miranda
molecule* diorama* substitute* pathetic* audiology*
transmitter* mass* understudy* ovation* suffocate*
awkward* semester* bittersweet* mayhem* euphoric*
admirer* nickname* skeleton* astronaut* galaxy
Bonus Words: admirer* nickname* skeleton*
No Spelling April 22nd – 25th Happy Easter!
Memory Work for April 15th & 17th
Tuesday, April 15th
The Fifth Petition pg. 21 “And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. What does this mean? We pray in this petition that our Father in heaven would not look at our sins, or deny our prayer because of them.”
Thursday, April 17th
The Fifth Petition pg. 21 “We are neither worthy of the things for which we pray, nor have we deserved them, but we ask that He would give them all to us by grace, for we daily sin much and surely deserve nothing but punishment. So we too will sincerely forgive and gladly do good to those who sin against us.”
Coming up:
April 7 – 11 Serve-a-thon
April 14- PTL Open Meeting
April 18 – No School – Good Friday
April 20 – NO School – Easter Monday
April 25 – 4th Grade Diorama Due, STUCO Nonuniform Day, Talent Show (2 PM) – OR – Maybe a Day Off as a Serve-a-thon reward??
Thursday, May 1 – International Fair
Tuesday, May 6th – Topeka – Capital Tour, Dome Tour, Brown vs. Bd of Ed. National Park
Thursday, May 8th – DAY AT THE K – White Sox vs. Royals
Fine Arts Night – Thursday, May 15th
