Dear Parents,
I can hardly believe that our 4th grade year is over. It feels like yesterday that your children came into the 4th grade classroom excited to be a big kid in the big kid courtyard. But when I look at our class picture from September, I can see how each of them has grown physically and think about how much each of them has grown in knowledge, responsibility, and maturity. I am very proud of them and will truly miss them. This class has an enthusiastic, caring and inclusive spirit that is very special and I am sad to see them leave fourth grade.
Your children learned a lot about graphing with positive and negative numbers last week. They caught on very quickly and really enjoyed it.
Tomorrow is our class picnic at Las Palmas Park. Your children should bring a towel, sunscreen (please apply this before your child comes to school), and dry clothes to change into at the end of the party. Please label all items clearly. I would like to thank all our volunteers. If you volunteered to drive or chaperone, your child has another letter containing directions and a list of which children you will be driving. Thank you for your help.
I have included in this final Monday packet some ideas about simple and fun ways that you can continue your child’s learning this summer at home. Mathletics is a great way to help your children stay sharp with their math skills. I have included a copy of the Mathletics website with your child’s user name and password in today’s packet.
Thank you so much for all of the support that you shared with your children and me this year. I feel that the work that you do at home with your children has enabled them to learn so much more than most 4th graders. Both your children and I are very, very lucky to have you. Thank you for a wonderful year at St Joseph.
Sincerely,
Tricia Heissenbuttel
triciaheis@aol.com
READING: read for 20 minutes; NO log
LA: Thursday Cursive
SPELLING: NONE
MATH: wkbk pages 203 and 204
RELGION: Be thoughtful to those who need it
THINGS TO TAKE HOME:
THINGS TO BRING TO SCHOOL:
Permission slip
Volleyball or track uniform
Yellow goal card
READING: read for 20 minutes; NO log
LA: Wednesday Cursive
SPELLING: NONE
MATH: wkbk pages
RELIGION: be thoughtful to those who need it
THINGS TO TAKE HOME:
Tuesday Envelope
Spelling book
Reading workbook
THINGS TO BRING TO SCHOOL:
Yellow goal card
Permission slip
Volleyball or track uniform
READING: read for 20 minutes; NO log
LA: Monday Cursive
SPELLING: NONE
MATH: wkbk pages 197 and 199
SS: wksh
RELIGION: be thoughtful to those on your paper
THINGS TO TAKE HOME:
Monday Packet
THINGS TO BRING TO SCHOOL:
Tuesday Envelope
Permission slip
Volleyball or track uniform
Dear Parents,
The end of this school year is bittersweet for me. Although I am happy for summer and to see such growth in all of your children this year, I am also very sad for them to leave fourth grade. Your children are a very bright and enthusiastic group who really treat each other with such love and kindness. They really are a special group and I have LOVED being their teacher. Thank you for sharing them with me this year.
In Religion this week we will learn about the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy. They will discover that our job as Christians is to love completely, just as Jesus does.
Last week’s geometry test is in this packet. Please review it with your children. This week we will learn how to graph ordered pairs of integers, negative and positive numbers. There will not be a math test this week.
Your children have shown incredible improvement in their writing ability since the beginning of the year. This week your children will bring home their writing folders that contain the final drafts of all the formal writing assignments that they have completed this year. Take some time to review it with your child and celebrate his or her successes.
In Science we learned about how magnets interact with each other and our Earth. This week we will how magnets and electricity work together to make electromagnets.
On Tuesday, June 9, we will be going to Las Palmas Park. I want to extend a special thanks to all of you who volunteered to help at our picnic. Since we have some extra money left over in our fieldtrip fund this year (thanks to all of you that came to our 4th grade Bingo nights), lunch will be provided to all of your children. Our room moms, Sally Cincu and Renee Fujii, have arranged for a pizza lunch with juice and/or water and plenty of choices for dessert. We will have fruit and otter pops for snacks.
As I mentioned in last week’s letter, there is a creek and a water sprayer so dry shoes may be helpful. Your child should also bring a towel, sunscreen (please apply this before your child comes to school), and dry clothes to change into at the end of the party. Please label all clothing items clearly.
Please send your child’s 4th quarter goal card into school by Wednesday of this week. Thanks again for all of your support. If you have any questions or concerns please drop by, or e-mail me at triciaheis@aol.com.
Sincerely,
Tricia Heissenbuttel
Monday Letter | Tricia Heissenbuttel | 
June 6, 2010 5:39 pm | 
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