We are enjoying the beautiful fall weather and beginning to need our fall jackets! Please be sure your child comes to school with layers so we have options as the weather fluctuates. We have finished our first quarter and have already learned so much! This quarter will go fast, so let’s take time to enjoy all the fesitvities and also stay on top of schoolwork and special deadlines! We look forward to Trunk-or-Treat this Friday. Please be sure to add it to your calendar: 3rd-5th sing at 10:30 on November 2nd. Thank you again to all those who have donated to our 4th grade auction basket! We are grateful for all God has done for us here at Hope!
Report Cards
Report cards were sent home today in the Thursday envelope. Please sign and return the unsealed envelope but keep the report card. Keeo up the great effort, 4th grade!
Spelling Bee
We will have a classroom Spelling Bee on Monday, November 3rd. We will determine our classroom 1st place winner, second place, and alternate. The school wide Spelling Bee will be held on Wednesday, November 19th.
Reading
We are finished reading the novel Because of Winn-Dixie. Thank you for sending in your permission slip to allow your child to view the movie with the class! We have been creating large “Character Studies” poster people with partners and are hoping to present them in class on Monday, October 27th. We will begin a new novel study for “My Side of the Mountain” by Jean Craighead George. We will be taking a Vocabulary Test each week on Friday. The students will be making Vocabulary Flash Cards to help them prepare. We will be answer story questions as we read and will be typing them into a journal in our 4th grade Google Classroom. Each student will be making a Final Project, which is due on Wednesday, November 19th. More information will be coming soon!
Book-It
Your child’s October Book-It Calendar is being stored in your child’s binder and is due by Friday, November 8th. Our new calendar for November will be coming home next week. Please help keep track of the minutes of reading your child does each day of the month. Record the minutes on the calendar, and return it to the teacher with your signature and your child’s signature. Your child will need to complete 600 minutes of reading outside of school hours to receive the Pizza Hut Personal Pan Pizza. Please support your child in taking on this project and completing it. Thank you!
Veteran’s Day
Our school would like to honor the Veteran’s here in our Hope family. We will have a special program for them on Tuesday, November 11th, which includes breakfast and music performances from our children’s choirs and the band. Please inform the office of the names and addresses of your Vets so that we may include them in our special day! The students will be creating special art projects to decorate Concord Hall and are looking forward to honoring our Vets!
Operation Christmas Child
Operation Christmas Child – Hope is again collecting Operation Christmas Child boxes this year. We are asking each family to take a shoebox home to fill for a child overseas to help him/her celebrate Christmas and hear the message of Jesus’ love at Christmas. The shoeboxes are stacked up in front of the office waiting to be filled! We will bring them to chapel on November 12 to pray for the children who will receive them. This is a great opportunity for us to share the Good News of Christ with others! So I am challenging our classroom to fill 10 boxes. If we make or surpass our goal, the class will earn a game/activity time in the classroom. If you have more items than you can fit in a shoebox, but not enough to fill another, send them into our classroom and we will put them all together to fill additional boxes.
Calendar of Events
Friday, October 24 – Trunk or Treat (5:30 – 7 PM
October 29 – Reformation Chapel and Activity
October 31st – Reformation Day
Sunday, November 2 – Daylight Savings Time–Change the clocks
3rd-5th choir sings at Hope, meet at 10:15 in the Luther Room
November 8 -PAHS Auction
November 11- Veteran’s Day breakfast
November 19 – School Spelling Bee, Novel Project Due
November 24 – 28 THANKSGIVING BREAK
