Happy Halloween! 

Here we are at the end of another month. It was wonderful seeing all of you at conferences. I really enjoyed touching base early. I hope the new format worked well for you as well. Please feel free to send me an email and let me know what you thought. Your input is always valued.  

The Spokane Symphony dazzled us! 

What an awesome performance for an awesome audience!

Your fourth grader has been working hard. Here are some highlights.

Writing: The opinion piece on an owl adaptation is about complete. Many author's have finished typing it up. I will be reading them this week and doing the last bit of revising and editing with them. 

Reading: Have your reader share examples of terrestrial environments. All environments can be described in terms of living and nonliving factors. Ask your reader to share some living and nonliving factors in the tropical rainforest and the desert.

Math: We have moved on to measurement and the metric system. Ask your mathematician what we've learned about kilometers, meters, and centimeters.
Solve this one for This Week's One to Answer fourth graders.
Jason rode his bike 529 fewer meters than Allison. Jason rode 1 km 850 m.
How many meters did Allison ride?

Science: Scientists are always at work observing living organisms and thinking about the environmental factors affecting them.

Look at these cuties in costume celebrating a favorite holiday!
What a great party! Thank you again, Mrs. Dahle!

Congratulations Adam, Adrian, Tyler, and Gia!

October has fallen upon us!

The weather is changing and so is our fall schedule. Just wanted to remind you of the day off from school on Friday, Oct. 14th. It's a teacher work day. Also, our new conference schedule invites you to join us this month for an update on your child's learning journey. October 19th through Oct. 21st are the dates. The 19th will be an early dismissal day for students and the 20th and 21st are full days for teachers to conference. Students do not come to school on those days. 

It was great to see all the dads and special guests for owl pellet dissection! We also had a live owl visit,  thanks to the West Valley Learning Center. Our goal is to gather information from several sources to write an opinion piece on an owl adaptation.  Be sure to ask about everything we've learned so far about the owl's super powers.

Writing: Happily, we have finished going through the writing process. Working together we wrote an informational paragraph about Jackson Pollock and explored the different elaborations we'll be using this year in our writing. It is typed up and ready for conferences. Yay!

Math: Our target has been rounding to the nearest hundred, thousand, ten thousands, and hundred thousands place. Ask your mathematician how the latest assessment went. Other standards on the assessment included reading and writing numbers to the millions place in standard form, expanded form, unit form, and word form as well as comparing numbers using symbols.

Science: Isopods have joined our mealworms. We did an investigation to find out what moisture conditions they prefer. Have your scientist explain our investigation and what we discovered.

Reading: Congratulations to these readers! They all met the first goal. Thank you Mrs. Peffer and Mrs. Green for meeting with readers to check reading logs weekly!

So much fun wearing pjs, munching on popcorn, sipping juice and watching a movie!

Art: Mrs. DeGroat led us in a fun art lesson! Check out these creative monsters. Look for texture, color, and interesting features.

This week's one to answer: Name 2 super powers of the amazing owl.