Old Pueblo Dig!

We had such an amazing day at the Archaeology Center.  We excavated an ancient Pit House and Ramada.  Some of the artifacts we found were pottery shards, bones, pots, skulls, toys/sculptures, charcoal, etc.  When we were finished excavating we mapped the location of the artifacts in our sites.  We did this using string and then created a grid plot.  We were able to tell where they cooked, played, and even kept their storage based on the artifacts in the different sites.  We were FULL of dirt but it was FULL of fun!  

Old Pueblo Field Trip is tomorrow!

We will be digging in the dirt and excavating an ancient pit house.   Be sure to check the bright green reminder that came home today.  You need your Rascals shirt, a sack lunch, apply sunscreen before leaving the house also bring a hat and close toed shoes. 

Be in the classroom by 8:45.  We are so excited for this journey!

AIMS is OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today we had our last tests of AIMS!!! We think we did very well!!!  We had a morning dounut recess. It was fun when we had art. Exactly before lunch we had computers and worked on our powerpiont presentation. Then we had a fantastico lunch and a marvelous recess. Also we corrected our Brain Pop worksheets. (Robert was the only 1 who got it all right!!!) (Great job!!!) Second 2 last we did logic problems. Finally we......................................................................left!!!

ANA ANA ANA ANA MARCELLA MARCELLA MARCELLA (2morrow we have game day, bring fun math and reading games)   

News.....news.....news!

Hi Everyone!

With the fourth quarter being so busy I wanted to touch base with you about some important upcoming events and where we're heading with our learning!

Report cards went home on Friday.  Please sign and return the envelope and report card feedback paper ASAP.  If you have any questions about the new report card please let me know.

AIMS testing is next week!  In 4th and 8th grades the students are tested on Science as well.  We will take the Science test on Monday and the Reading and Math tests Tuesday-Thursday.  It is SO SO important that each kiddo is here on time and has a balanced breakfast.  I will be sending home a letter this week with our schedule and some helpful tips for food, rest, etc.  There will be no homework this week to help take away any stress!

We will be going on our field trip to the Old Pueblo Archaeology site on April 28th.  The letter and permission slip went home today.  Please return at your earliest convenience. 

We have been working on our published books for the last two weeks.  We are writing an A-Z book about Arizona!  Each kiddo picked a letter of the alphabet, researched information, and started their rough drafts.  They will start their final drafts this week.  Everyone has the opportunity to purchase a book.  The order form went home in today's homework folder.  The books are $14.95 + $2.95 shipping and handling.  The order forms are due Friday, April 8th.   These are a wonderful keepsake for your child!

Our class has been blessed with field trips and guest speakers this year because of tax credit money.  Some of the things we've been able to do are........Kartchner, Mad Science, AZ Historical Society, Old Pueblo Dig, etc.   I can't tell you what an impact it makes on their learning.  Thank you so much for donating!

*Be sure to see the previous post's Smilebox from the third quarter!
*Student Council is sponsoring a coin drive for the next two weeks.  All proceeds will go to the Red Cross to help the victims of Japan's earthquake and tsunami.  We'll take change or bills.  The winning class gets an Eegees party!
*Book orders are due Friday, April 8th.
*The T-bird Trot is Saturday, April 16th. 
*Spring Fling is Friday, May 13th.   

Here are some of the skills your child is working on!

Math:  We started chapter 9 today.  This chapter will cover converting %, fractions, and decimals as well as multiplying and dividing decimals.  We continue to take our multiplication timed tests.  More and more kiddos are testing out of the multiplication and division every week!  Ask your child to show you how to convert 53% to a decimal and a fraction.  Then ask them to convert 0.04 to a fraction and a %. 

Reading:  see teacher's website.  We are working on our Power Point Book Reports here in class.  They are turing out awesome!  They've incorporated pictures, sounds, movie clips, etc.!

Language Arts:  We are continuing to work on Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and the parts of speech.  We are on Unit 12 for spelling. 

Science:  We just finished our unit on Weather and the kiddos did a fabulous job!  Ask your child about the 4 cloud types.  This week we are working with Vertebrates/Invertebrates and Renewable/Nonrenewable Resources.  Ask your child to compare and contrast the difference between each of these.  Next week we will begin our study on Animal Adaptation (mimicry, camoflauge, etc.). 

Social Studies:  We just finished learning about Modern Arizona!  Our study took us from 1900-2011.  We have been researching and writing our rough drafts for our published books about Arizona.  We will be finishing these next week and then learning more about the Economics of Arizona.  Ask your child which letter they picked for the A-Z book and then read their rough draft.  They took these home as homework tonight.

The year is flying by.  Our class is an AMAZING one and I look forward to finishing this last quarter with them.  Please let me know if you have any questions!

Mrs. Ronnie


*This is one of my favorites!

Third Quarter Fun!

Here is a look at some of the amazing things we did in the third quarter!  A lot of these things were possible  because of tax credit donations.  Thank you!

The introductory video is the cutest thing!

This free photo slideshow created with Smilebox

Our Awesome Day 2day

Today in the morning, we did a spelling test. Sadly, we forgot to do our DOL test. After that, we did 8.5 or 8.6 mathboxes and we drew rectangles and used the formula to find the area of them.  These drawings were to scale! After that, everyone switched 4 reading. We switched to ethier Ms. Vanselow's, Mrs. Ronnie's, Ms. Wilson's, Ms.Bertram(like me), and Ms. Gaff. We also stayed in from recess because we decided to give up our 15 minutes of recess to watch 15 minutes of the UofA game. Also, in Social Studies we chose our letters for the published books. Then, we gave up 15 minute recess for 15 minutes of the Wildcats game before lunch. After that, we went to lunch. After that, we went to music. After music we watched the last 15 seconds of the AZ Wildcats game and we won 77 to 75. YAHHHH
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Then, we had buddies come over to our room and big buddies read to them. Now, we are doing this by staying in from freaky to do this as i said before it was an awesome learning day today!


P.S. Memphis shot a basket ball across the whole court and almost made it.


Have an awesome Spring Break!


                        Rico, Max, Emily and Jeffrey.   :0   :)   

The book fair ends tommorow dudes so go to the book fair!!

WARNING!!! the book fair ends tommorow. BRing in money for the one for one books so our class gets a pizza party.  PLEASE, PLEASEE!!  Well don;t forget the S.S. test tommorow so study for test guys or you might fail...... bummer. Can't you guys wait for aims week well this blogger cant!! NO HOMEWORK!!! So what are you guys going to do this spring break?  Dont forget to study for the cloud test after the break.  Do your homework bring your "foot" home.  Wear green tomorrow for ST.Pattys day and friday is UofA day!!!!

Travis and Dustin

Monday

Today we did our unit #10 test.We also had our amazing authers about their books. Wow we hve been on chapter 8 for S.S for a week. Don't forget S.S test on thurs.BOOK FAIR TONIGHT 5:30 to 8:30 AUTHERS THERE IF WANTED BOOK SIGHNED. We went to P.E and raced and also played crab volleball. Wow people persented K Caverns pictures.ohh don't forget bookmens challenge!

Mikey and Skylar

Freaked Out Friday!!!

First we did our Spelling test!!!
Then we did our math review and our tests.
I hope evryone did good!!!
Then after the test we did social studies lesson 5 in Chapter 9 (AZ's growing cities).
Then we went to the book fair. Hooory!!
After the book fair we went to lunch.
Then we we played with fly swatters in music!!!!Splat
After that we made our own clouds with foam.  The four cloud types are Cirrus,Stratus,cululonimbus and culumus.
Then FREAKY!!!!!!!



Marcella and Tarriq ARE AWESOME!

Territorial Days

Today we had a guest speaker his nickname is Grandpa Lary .He showed us some old toys from the territorial days. He also told us about territorial school days. In the end we got to play with the territorial toys.




In computer we took a star reader test we also went to freerice.com wich gives free rice to peoples . Don't forget to study for the chapter 8 test.


Abby and Kiara

















By Abby and Kiara