JANUARY 2014

Hampton Elementary School

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Grade 4 Classroom Newsletter

Happy New Year!
I cant believe it is January. How quickly the months are passing by! We have completed our round of skating for the 2013-2014 school year. THANK YOU to all those parents who took time out of their schedule to come to the rink to tie skates, participate in skating or just cheer on our students. I was so pleased to see how much the students improved with their skating from this weekly event.

Literacy Place

In Literacy we will continue working on our reading strategies but will be doing a 6 week writing blitz. The 6 traits of writing include: conventions, ideas, organization, sentence fluency, voice and word choice. The first blitz will focus on the writing traits of ideas and conventions.

Math Corner
In Math, we are starting the New Year with estimating differences as well as a quick review of addition using 4-digit numbers. Mid-month we will begin our study of multiplication and division. Students are required to know their basic facts up to 9x9 as well as the related division number sentence. http://www.quia.com/jg/66145.html

Social Studies
This month in Social Studies we will be continuing our study of Exploration. Students will be assigned a project to research an explorer or inventor and create a project to present to the class. In class, we will be discussing topics such as plagiarism, note taking, and presentation skills to support the development of this project. As a result of these presentations, we will learn about 27 different explorers and inventors!

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Skillstreaming
Skills and Routines for January and February: Skill#53: Reacting to Failure Skill #54: Accepting No Skill #55 Saying No Skill #60 Being Honest These skills come from the book SkillStreaming: The Elementary School Child. The skill is first defined, modeled, practiced and then expected of each of our students.

This Months Highlights

PSSC Meeting Monday, January 13 Home and School Meeting Tuesday, January 14

Reminders to Students
Bring a fresh water bottle Dress for the weather Brrr! Think of an inventor or explorer

Upcoming Events
No school for students Monday, February 17th Art Richard Performance Tuesday, February 18, A.M National Pink Shirt Day Wednesday, February 26th March Break March 3-7 World Curling Championship - Harbour Station Field Trip (whole school) March 18 A.M.

for our upcoming project

Reminders to Parents
On Monday students are able to purchase hot lunch tickets by packs of 10. These are $25. Students should be bringing home their water bottle regularly for cleaning.

Thank You!
Special thanks are due the following students: All students for their hard work in the first 4 months of school! Keep up the wonderful work! Thank you also to Mrs. Ketch for continuing to visit each week as our classroom library volunteer.