Welcome!

I had such a wonderful time meeting many of you during our Welcome Walk or on Meet the Teacher night.  I am thrilled to be your child's teacher for this school year and am looking forward to all of the great learning that is going to take place.  Please know that I understand the amount of trust that a parent puts into their child's teacher, and I am honored to be a part of your child's life. 

Over the next week, we will be spending much of our time learning about classroom and school procedures as well as doing community building activities.  Additionally, we will begin our place value unit in math. This year we will add, subtract, compare, order, and round numbers all the way up to the hundred millions place. Place value is an essential building block for the rest of the fourth grade content. Please work with your child nightly to ensure he/she grasps this concept. In science we will begin setting up our science notebooks which will be used during scientific inquiry for the rest of the year. We will also discuss lab safety and a safety contract will be sent home during the first week for you and your child to sign. This week in language arts we will discuss how to choose books that match our levels and interest. We will be reading and discussing The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes and writing in our notebooks in response to the text. Fourth grade social studies is all about Texas history. We will begin our study by reading and analyzing maps of Texas.

Homework this week will include nightly reading for at least 20 minutes and a name poster. Please make sure to record the time your child has read and initial in his/her agenda every night. The name poster assignment will be discussed in class on Tuesday and due Friday. As always, please practice multiplication facts with your child nightly.  If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me. Thank you for your support and I am looking forward to a very successful year!