2014 Winter Olympics Event Schedule

EVENT	TASK	INDIVIDUAL/TEAM	DUE DATE
Ski Jumping	Olympic Sport Lesson – research an Olympic Sport, teach the class about it	Pairs or Individual, working on project at school	Presentations start on Friday, Feb 7, will take place through week of Feb 10
Snowshoeing	Building own snowshoes, then racing them	Individual, working on project at school	Building on Feb 7, 14, Racing on Tues, Feb 18
Luge	Spelling Bee with Olympic words	Individual, study at home, event is at school	Tues, Feb 11
Skiing	Math Facts, best out of 3 days	Individual, study at home, event at school	Tues, Feb 11-Thurs, Feb 13
Biathlon	Picturing Writing with Olympic theme	Individual, working on project at school	Wed, Feb 12-Thurs, Feb 13
Bobsled	Math Word Problems	Team event, working on project at school	Friday, Feb 14
Speed Skating	Olympic Athlete Profile	Pairs, independent project at school and home	Due Friday, Feb 14
Curling	Reading at Home	Individual, independent, read  at home	Due Monday, Feb 17
Ice Hockey	Olympic Scavenger Hunt	Team event, working at school AND at home	Due Tues, Feb 18
Snowboarding	Book Report	Individual, working at home	Due Wed, Feb 19
Figure Skating	Winter Olympic History	Pairs, working independently school and home	Due Thurs, Feb 20

Busy Minion News - Week of Jan. 15th

This Week  We took the January Benchmark Dibels test this week.  Every single student improved in their fluency – and that proves we have been working hard!  I am constantly thankful for the kids who are giving their best day in and day out!  Wonderful progress Minions!  Congratulations!  While we were dibeling, students chose a Carole Marsh mystery book to read and do a project with, so those books made up our Literacy activities this week.  We also worked on our Multicultural Week Ancestral country research this week.  We also continued to make a ton of progress on our Super Hero chapter books.  In Math, we continued working on equivalent fractions.  We have also added cups and background music to our NH Cups song so we are getting very close to being able to share it!  Can’t wait!  (The lyrics are constantly going through my head…every hour of every day!!!!)

Next Week  In Literacy for the short three day week, students will finish their Carole Marsh mystery project.  We will finish our work on equivalent fractions in Math and get ready to take the Unit 3 test.  We will continue to write our Super Hero adventures and begin our ancestral country book paintings and pages.  And, of course…we will be practicing our NH Cups song.  “We were there, Now we’re here, We’re gonna explore everywhere, We’re gonna clear out the land, We’re gonna build our new homes, We call this place New Hampshire….”

REMINDER: No School on Monday, Jan. 20 for MLK Jr. Day.  Also No School on Friday, Jan. 24 due to the Teacher Workshop.  Family Heritage Museum Display Project due on Wed., Jan. 29, Multicultural Night – January 30 (Snow Day Feb. 6) 5:30-7. 

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!