#4 September 17-21, 2012
Fourth Grade Footnotes
Parents, I want to let you know that we WILL NOT have a story out of our books next week nor will the children have a spelling test. Therefore, the children will not have a Spelling list or a Family Times” coming home this week since we will not be doing a story out of our basal. Instead, we will be reading a novel unit entitled, “How to Eat Fried Worms.” YUMMY!!! I will be giving the children their D.R.A. test during this time so that I can evaluate their reading skills and begin working with them in groups. Your child may have reading to complete at home next week if it was their day to complete their D.R.A. test for me. The D.R.A.’s take a great deal of time and students may have extra free time next week so please make sure they have a reading book in their book bags each day.
Classroom Project for the Fall Festival
Dear Parents and/or Guardians, The 6th annual Fall Festival will be on Saturday, October 27 from 2-4 p.m. at the elementary school. Each teacher signs up to create a “themed basket” and then the basket is auctioned off to raise money which will support items that the teachers will utilize within their classrooms.Not only will you help raise money for items our students will use, but the class that brings in the most money with their basket will receive a pizza party. The theme for our silent auction basket is “CHRISTMASWRAPPING!!!”Our basket needs to be ready to be picked up by October 26th. Any donations to our “CHRISTMASWRAPPING!!!”basket would be greatly appreciated. We will be in need of a container to place all of our items inside. I realize that I have some super creative parents out there and I’m looking forward to seeing what fun items you come up with for your donations. Possible items to donate might include: wrapping paper, ribbon, bows, tape, gift tags, Christmas bags, tissue paper, Christmas stickers, etc. Have fun and I look forward to making a wonderful basket with all of you!!! Many thanks in advance, Mrs. Hemberger
Parents, I want you to know that it is never too early to start preparing your child for the I.S.A.T. tests. You child and utilize a program for home called “STUDY ISLAND.” To go to this website you child will need to type in . Here they can begin to practice for the fourth grade I.S.A.T. tests that will be coming up this spring. The child’s user name is the first two letters of their first name, then their entire last name, with no spaces, then the at sign followed by CUSD10. The CUSD must be in all caps. For example, my first name is Tricia and my last name is Hemberger so my user name would look like this trhemberger@CUSD10. Their password is the child’s lunch account number. If your child is new to the district the password is trojans. When they log in they will need to change their password to their lunch account. This site will definitely help them perform better on their I.S.A.T.
Students need to remember to copy all of the assignments off of the board and cross off the assignments that they get finished in class. Remember, students, you can bring home your work to be checked by your parents. The only work that you cannot have checked by your parents are the Smart Responses, Language quizzes, and tests.
WOW!!! We are starting to look like fourth graders. This is the first time this year that I have looked up to see all of my students working, rather than doing things they should not be doing, I’m so happy!!! This was a wonderful sight!!!
The children have also been asking me how to find out if a book is A.R. (Accelerated Reader) or not. If you would like to know whether or not a book is an A.R. book you can search the following url: Remember to use my website to help you with useful websites.
Our school is once again collecting Box Tops for Education. Please send all of your Box Tops to school. The money collected from the Box Tops goes right back to your child’s education. Thank you for your help!!!
Remember that you can keep track of your child’s Reading Selection Test scores simply by going to and logging in using your child’s name and password. You can find your child’s user name and password in their binders located in the reading section. Simply go to enter your child’s name and password, as it appears on the paper. Then you will go to another screen. From there you will need to click on “Parents.” In the box that says “View Student Progress” you will need to choose Mrs. Hemberger-Reading Success Tracker 2008 G4. Here you will be able to keep track of your child’s reading test scores.
If you are sending in a cake or a cookie cake for your child’s birthday please make sure that it is precut. It is very difficult to get 21 slices even and I do not have a knife in my classroom.
If you are sending in cash for lunch money it needs to be sent to school in an envelope with the students name on it, their lunch account number, and my name. When cash gets put in the envelope the secretary does not know who it comes from and which account to credit. Thank you for your help with this matter.
Don’t forget to order your books from Scholastic Books on-line. Simply go to click on the parent button and enter my code, which is L7GDY. Happy ordering!!!
Parents and Students, our Halloween Party is just around the corner, so I wanted to send you a reminder of who volunteered to bring goodies. Below you will find a list with the item that you volunteered to supply. Please look for your child’s name next to the item. Remember, we have 21 students in our classroom. Our party will be on Wednesday, October 31st from 2:30-3:00 p.m. Thank you in advance for helping us with our party.
Cupcakes – Conor
Cookies – Abby
Candy Treats – Kaity
Napkins – Carter
Juice Boxes – Liesl
Keep in mind these upcoming dates:
Friday, September 21st - Don’t forget to look at your child’s papers in the “Friday Folder.”
Keep the papers and then sign the “Friday Folder” so that it can be returned on
Monday. Please sign your child’s September Behavior Chart on the Week 3 line.
Friday, September 28th–Don’t forget to look at your child’s papers in the “Friday Folder.”
Keep the papers and then sign the “Friday Folder” so that it can be returned on
Monday. Please sign your child’s September Behavior Chart on the Week 4 line.
Saturday, September 29th – Book OrdersOn-Line are Due Today!!!
Monday, October 8th – NO SCHOOL due to Columbus Day!!!
Friday, October 19th – End of the 1st Quarter
Friday, October 26th – Report cards go home today.
Thursday, November 1st – No School for Students!!! All day Parent/Teacher Conferences.
Friday, November 1st – No School for Students!!! All day Parent/Teacher Conferences.
Friday, November 9th – We will have a Veterans Day assembly at 10 a.m. in the high school
gym. If you have special veteran in your family or a friend who is a veteran let them
know that we would like them to join us for our assembly and we will serve them
lunch afterwards.