Wednesday Update

Today the students are helping me write this post so that we can start learning how to blog.  Starting next week we will be having a student post once a week on the blog as their class job!  :)  Here we go!  :)

Lily: We decorated our writing journals

Clara: We learned not to put more than 10 d-cell batteries together because you could hurt yourself

Hayley: Today was really really fun because I paid attention and it was really easy for me

Grant: We learned more about motors, d-cell batteries, and wires

Yumi: We learned all sorts of different ways to make the motor shaft spin

Annalise: When we were decorating our journals I stopped a lot of people and made them give me stickers

Keiana: We did math again and we did a math game with the cards.

Ben: We learned 4 or more ways to make a d-cell battery make a motor spin

Bailey: We did our bioglyph and tried to guess who was who.

We will continue to expand on our ideas to get ready for the blog posts starting next week!  :) 

Please make sure your students are starting to take more responsibility for their own homework/backpack/lunch/etc.  I have been flooded with "my mom forgot to put my homework in my backpack" excuses lately and we want to make sure that as fourth graders we are learning to become more independent in our daily lives since it's an important skill for the future.  We will be working on it a LOT this year but some ways you can help at home is to let students pack their own lunches, make sure that students are returning their homework and supplies to their backpack each night (with reminders at first and then natural consequences after that), and helping to make sure students are remembering all of their supplies/homework daily.  With your help we will make sure we have strong and independent fourth graders who are ready for their futures! :)  Thanks for your support!  :)