Welcome to Hogwarts!

Professor Beaudet welcomed the newest students to Hogwarts today!  It is going to be an exciting week!

Students visited Ollivander's Wand Shop and found their perfect wands.  The young witches and wizards spent their long-saved galleons on purchasing their new wands.  They then registered the wands with the Ministry of Magic.  In their registration paperwork, students needed to provide details of their wands such as: wand wood, wands core, wand length, wand characteristic, as well as what the wand is particularly good for.

The new students then took part in the Sorting Ceremony.  The Sorting Hat sorted them into the Hogwarts House that best suited their personality qualities.

Sytherin House

Tommi

Ravenclaw House

Meghan

Milly

Samee

Jesse

Lily

Gryffindor House

Gabe

Hayley

Shaun

Koner

Caleb

Libbey

Jason

Ammon

Jeremy

Devon

Hufflepuff House

Emma

Allison

Jasmyn

Busy Minion News - December 13

This Week  We read and performed the play, “Ranita, the Frog Princess” in Literacy.  We worked in two different groups to rehearse and perform this cute fairy tale.  We also worked on writing our Super Hero books and we learned about the Civil War.  We worked with Mr. Hazelton on our NH Cups song and reviewed all the skills for Unit 2 in Math: multiplication, division, multiples, prime/composite numbers, algebra and word problems.

Next Week  We will celebrate the end of 2013 with a Harry Potter/Hogwarts themed week.  We will have fun doing academic tasks related to our reading of Harry Potter, as well as work on many craft type projects for Christmas time.  We will be sorted, finally get wands…..and work on a number of other highly anticipated things.  There is a lot to look forward to next week!  We have many projects that we want to get finished...so we will be busy working like house elves!  We will end the week with our Christmas Brunch on Friday morning.

Christmas Brunch - Friday, Dec. 20th

Friday, December 20, 2013

For the week leading up to Christmas vacation, we will have Harry Potter themed academic activities and craft projects.   At some point during the week, we will be making classmate gifts to give one another at the Christmas Brunch. 

On Friday, we will celebrate Christmas as a class with a morning brunch (instead of the afternoon party)!  We will spend the rest of the day being busy - finishing up our gifts and getting them wrapped to bring home.  We might also enjoy a quiet movie in the afternoon.

For our brunch, we would very much appreciate the following breakfast type items:

Bagels with cream cheese - Tommi

muffins - Jesse, Jeremy, Samee, Meghan

yogurt - Milly

fruit - Milly

strawberries - Tommi
grapes - Lily

orange juice - Emma, Lily

milk - Jeremy, Samee

brown & serve sausages - Tyler, Gabe, Caleb

cinnamon rolls - Emma

English muffins with butter, jam & peanut butter - Gabe

coffee cake - Allison

                  

I will provide the toaster, griddle, and paper goods.  Thank you so much! 

Mrs. Beaudet

Please do not send in any candy or dessert.  Thank you so much for your help. 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to your families!

Checking out KHAN ACADEMY for Math Help!

I want to encourage all the students to visit www.khanacademy.org -OR- the free iTunes App Store Khan Academy app for GREAT math tutorial videos.  Watching the videos can help students grasp a better understanding of Math concepts and procedures - especially in long multiplication and division!  The website and app are easy to navigate and will be so helpful if you can have your child spend a little bit of time on watching some tutorial videos!

Here is a sample video from the 4th grade division menu, just follow the link:
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fourth-grade-math/cc-4th-mult-div-topic/cc-4th-division/v/dividing-3-digit-by-1-digit-without-remainder

Busy Minion News UPDATES

Week of November 22

This Week  We read the story, “When I Went to the Library,” in Literacy this week.  We started the epic task of learning long division….Karl the Knarl is helping us with that (hehe).  We also continued to work on mastering multiplication.  We started writing our Super Hero books with outlining and drafting Chapter 1 about our regular life as a kid.  Today we will create our Super Hero costumes…they should turn out incredible and amazing!  We worked on Revolutionary War code books – finishing our Tax issue page with a cipher disk and the No Representation page with Tallmadge’s Code.  Mr. Hazelton not only helped us learn the very cool Beatles tune, Octopus’s Garden, on the ukuleles  - but he also came in to give us extra, professional help with our NH Cups song.  Hopefully, with a few more practices, we will be able to record the song to share with everyone!  We also finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and we are creating our next “Favorite Moments” iMovie.

Next Week  We will not have a Literacy story next week, due to the 2 day week.  We will spend the couple of days before Thanksgiving finishing our Revolutionary Code books (with invisible ink and a pig pen/Free Mason cipher) as well as other projects.  We will work on our Super Hero stories, finish the Chamber of Secrets Moments iMovie, and some fun seasonal activities.  One piece of real school business that we need to take care of is in Math.  We will do a Math test before Thanksgiving so we can get an idea of what we still need to work on with multiplication and division.

 Week of December 6

This Week  We read the story, “Dear Mrs. LaRue,” in Literacy this week.  It was a fun story about a naughty doggie who had to go to obedience school – and was not very happy about it.  With our Work Plan, we had fun writing to some pictures of Mrs. Beaudet’s crazy dog Pudgie!  We are continuing to work on multiplication and division.  We completed our Revolutionary War code books –and they are pretty cool!  We have started our secret NH Crop project – we collected a lot of very yummy recipes!  We also finished the week enjoying some craft time making some things for special people in our lives.  It is a wonderful time of year!

Next Week  We will read and perform the play, “Ranita the Frog Princess” in Literacy.  We will try to make some good progress on our Super Hero project.  We will review our multiplication and division skills and get ready to take the Unit 2 test before vacation. We also hope to meet up with Mr. Hazelton again to perfect our NH Cups song.  We really hope to create a music video with our song so we can share it!  We will also work on our NH Crop project and some other holiday fun projects that we will integrate into some writing and reading.

SPECIAL THANK YOU: to all the parents and families that came to meet with me for Report Card conferences!  It was really wonderful to talk with you all and celebrate your children’s progress so far in 4^th grade.  They are great kids – thank you for sharing them with me!  We are having a terrific year!

Thanksgiving Message

Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm sorry I missed our last day before Thanksgiving Break.  Mr. Beaudet lost his mother and my kids lost their Nana Beaudet yesterday.  Thank you to all the teachers who helped cover the class and give you activities to work on so I could be there for my family on such a tough day.

I had planned to have the class create a Thanksgiving iMovie with all the things we are thankful for.  And while we certainly couldn't do that this year, I hope all the kids will reflect on the wonderful things they have in their lives.  Be sure to enjoy family time, a yummy meal, and some well deserved time off from school!

I am surely thankful for such wonderful kids to work with every day.  Thank you to all the kids for your hard work everyday on the simple, boring, routine classroom jobs.  While it is so important to learn all the essential skills for 4th grade, it also lets us have time for great projects like the Revolutionary War Code book, as well as our Super Hero project.

 I am also thankful for all the parents and the great job that they do with their kids.  Thank you to all of you that help with the regular homework assignments - as well as encourage your kids to read and become interested in fun hobbies and topics.  I also appreciate so much your efforts to support my crazy ideas and projects that I give your kids.  Thank you for all the big things and little things you do to help your kids every single day!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!  Mrs. Beaudet

Our Favorite Moments - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Today we finished our Chamber of Secrets Favorite Moments iMovie.  We even added some fancy sound effects.  Be sure to check it out!

http://youtu.be/cfznOliRcvE

We are saving all of our own personal favorite moment paintings to put into individual books at the end of the year.  We'll see how far we get....JK Rowling wrote some pretty massive books!  Last year's class got part way through #5 Order of the Phoenix.

The Anti Villain League's Newest Super Heroes

The Anti Villain League is proud to announce its newest class of Super Heroes.  Our newest candidates have gone through a rigorous screening process and have been successfully accepted into the world's most respected Super Hero organization!  Congratulations to:

Analizebith

Mind Man

Speedy Samee

Mega Woman

Girl Paws

Tazer Guy

Cheesey Man

Mini Jack

Gadget Guy

Multitask Woman

Speedy Healer

XR

MInd Reader

Awesome Ally

Fire Freeze

Coconut Man

Magnificent Milly

Lazer Woman

Our Favorite Moments - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Every day after lunch, Mrs. Beaudet reads Harry Potter to us.  We created paintings of our favorite moments of the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - after Mrs. Beaudet finished reading it to us.  Then we created this iMovie showing our paintings and the recordings of what our favorite moments were.  Mrs. Beaudet had trouble uploading it...so we weren't able to share it until today!  Please enjoy!  The next iMovie will be created soon...as we are on the last chapter of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqww7jKYCd0

Octopus's Garden...with Ukuleles in Music Class

We have been learning how to play ukuleles in Music Class with Mr. Hazelton.  We learned how to play The Beatles song "Octopus's Garden."  We got it on video...and here is the link for you to check it out!

http://youtu.be/aNmzjWtvToE

We rocked it out!  Under the Sea!!!!

Going Away Suprise for Miss Kingston

We enjoyed having Miss Kingston in our class this fall.  She is studying to be a teacher at Plymouth State University.  She taught us a bunch of lessons and helped our class when she visited.  To wish her luck as she gets ready for student teaching in January, we created the ultimate iTeach phone for her, complete with all the apps she will need to run her next classroom!  The students brainstormed the apps and then designed them and together put them on a big iTeach phone poster.  We also created a small book to tell her all about what the apps will do.

Best of luck to you Miss Kingston!

Busy Minion News - Week of November 15

This Week  We read the story, “Mystic Horse.”  We worked on sequencing events as well as reviewed plurals and possessives.  In Math, we worked on mastering double digit multiplication and started division with remainders.  We never got very far this week with our Super Hero project, but we made a great going away project for Miss Kingston, our Methods student from Plymouth State.  Also, in the spirit of George Washington’s Patriot spy ring, we have also started working on a coded book of the reasons that led to the Revolutionary War.

Next Week  We will read the funny story, “When I Went to the Library,” next week and we will work on the skill of making inferences and action verbs. We will continue to work on mastering multiplication, and continue to learn how to do longer division. We will hopefully continue working on our Super Hero project by starting to formulate a plan for our super hero costumes, as well as starting to write our first chapter in our Super Hero Adventure.  We will also continue to work on our Revolutionary Secret Code books.

REMINDER: We have Phys Ed on Mondays –remember sneakers!  First term will end on Nov. 26 and Report Cards will go home on Dec 6.  Don’t forget to regularly check the updates on our class website: mrsbeaudet.blogspot.com

 
READING MINUTES:  Please keep track of reading minutes at home with “Reading Riches”  For every 100 minutes read at home, students will collect a jewel to add to their Reading Riches medallion here at school.  Please just sign off on the number of minutes read each night and we will keep track of them here at school.  I know families are busy and have a lot going on.  If there is a night when you just simply don’t have time to read, that’s ok – just sign off when your child gets a chance to read! 

PLEASE WORK ON:  Everyone can always work on their Reading Minutes, practice multiplication facts, spelling words, and complete HW!  You can review our Reading stories before each test by asking your child to tell you about the characters and what details happened in the story.