February 7-11

 February 7-11

Valentine’s Day Celebration

Our Valentine’s day celebration will be happening at 12:30 on Monday February 14th. We will be making bags ourselves for Valentine’s in class. If you are in need of Valentine’s Day Cards for your students please let me know and I am more than happy to get extras. If you would like to volunteer and come up with an activity/game, or run the snack station please sign up below. Thanks for all your support!

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Planetarium

As a reminder we will be going to Upton Middle School this Thursday (2/10)at 10:30 for our planetarium visit.

 

Share Your Stories Night-Update

Our Brown School  “Share Your Stories Night”that was scheduled for Tuesday, January 25th has been postponed. The date has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 26.  For more information please see Mrs. Bawks’ Brown School Family Blog.

 

4th Grade Swimming

*Please read the following note from our PE teachers.

The permission slip mentioned in the letter will be sent home this week.

Dear Parent or Guardian,

Your child will soon be participating in our third grade water safety and swimming program (This program is traditionally held for 3rd graders, however, this program was suspended last year).  Classes will be held at the St. Joseph High School pool.  Students are transported to the pool on St. Joseph School buses, with teachers accompanying the classes.

Our water safety and swimming course offers instruction in survival swimming.  No individual is ever drown-proof.  We discuss various water related emergencies as well as practical life saving skills.

Classes will start on Wednesdays April 27, May 11, May 18, and May 25 for Brown School.  Each class will meet for four days. 

Your child will need a swimsuit, towel, plastic bag (for wet swimsuit and towel) and swim cap (if they want one).  Please put your child’s name on all of these items, so lost items can be returned.

Please fill out the slip below and return it by Friday April 22.  If you know of any problem, physical or mental, that might interfere with your child’s participation in this program, please inform us.  All students are expected to participate in this unit.

-Mr. Pfahler and Ms. Pagel (P.E. Teachers)

 

Dressing for the Weather

As winter approaches, please make sure your child is dressed appropriately.  All students are expected to be outside at all 3 recesses and often times during P.E. Once the snow begins, students will not be allowed to play beyond the blacktop without boots and snow pants. If your child is in need of a winter coat or any other winter apparel, please let me know.

Please talk to your students about their responsibility in wearing what you send/expect them to wear during recesses. Brown School is focused on teaching personal responsibility/natural consequences for student choices. For instance, if their pants get wet going down the slide when they chose not to wear their snow pants, they will be sitting in wet pants for the day. We will not call home for dry clothing.

 

Homework Reminder

Homework each week consists of reading 20+ minutes at home (this can be a library book, magazine, newspaper, online book, etc) and practicing multiplication and division facts 1 through 12. Mastering multiplication and division facts is vital to our learning this year.

 

Mrs. Bawks' Brown School Family Blog:

Please don't forget to take a peek at Mrs. Bawks' Brown School Family Blog each week. CLICK HERE to read it.

 

What Are We Learning This Week

Math: This week we will continue working on breaking down multi-digit numbers and writing them in expanded form. We will also complete section B and have our check point on Thursday before moving on to our next section. You can view some materials to help you support our child's learning by CLICKING HERE.

 

ELA: Our genre study on Pourquoi Tales will begin this week. We will talk about their different features and work with our skill of cause and effect within pourquoi tales. 

 

Writing: We will continue work on our persuasive essay by generating topics this week. Students will begin brainstorming of topics and create pro and cons list to their ideas. 

 

Science: In the lesson this week, students explore how energy can be stored as height. In the activity, Bumper Coasters (Part I), students build paper roller coasters. Students release marbles down the roller coaster track to understand height energy and energy transfer we will then transition to Bumper Coaster Part 2 adding in other elements to their roller coaster.

 

Social Studies:  We will continue our study of human geography.

 

Important Upcoming Dates:

Wed. 2/9 - Late Start (school begins at 9:20 am)

Mon. 2/14 - Valentine’s Day Party

Wed. 2/16-Late Start (school begins at 9:20 am) and P.E. make-up day

Fri. 2/18- No School

Mon. 2/21- No School

We. 2/23 - Late Start (school begins at 9:20am)