Just a few thoughts...I am sending home a Scholastic book order form. As last time, you may order online instead of having your child return the form to school--choose the method that works best for you! If you'd like to order online, go to www.scholastic.com/bookclubs. Our class username is spry 4 and the class password is room 11. One additional benefit for our classroom of ordering online is that it earns us extra books :)

Although students have taken the chapter 15 math test, please continue helping them hone their measurement skills (estimating distances, quantities, etc.). They will see these kinds of problems again, and knowing measurement units and being able to appropriately compare them are very useful life skills. We are now studying negative and positive integers. Students love the relative novelty of negative numbers!

If you have any ideas about a Spring Fling project for our class, please let our room moms, Mrs. Sullivan and Mrs. Van Weele, know. We don't want to wait until the last minute!

We will be joining the other 4th grade classes for a "Pioneer Picnic" for our Valentine's Day party, on Thursday, Feb. 11. Students will still exchange cards, and we will do some pioneer-related activities at different stations in the morning--probably starting after morning recess, 10:50 A.M.--and then have pioneer-appropriate food for lunch. More information will be sent home next week. I'm hoping to get several parent volunteers to help with the activities and the lunch, so check your schedule and if you can help, please contact Kristin, Amy, or me. Thanks!

Enjoy another 3-day weekend!