I am sending home new book order catalogs today.  Orders are due by MONDAY, MARCH 8TH.  In addition to the usual Click and Arrow catalogs, I have added a HUMOR catalog.  We have been working on recognizing and analyzing an author’s use of humor lately.  (The graded HOT – higher order thinking – responses that I sent home yesterday about the Stormalong story were essays interpreting the author’s use of humor.)  This can be a great way for you to reinforce the skills we are working on in school.  You can user the HOT questions toward the bottom of the reading skill resources page.

To order online, visit this webpage.

This is a multi-week assignment, so you will have plenty of time!

When you chose your animal on the eNature website, you aught to have saved the Microsoft Word document that you typed your information in.  Look at the questions on the second page.  Go back top the eNature website and look up some information about your animal.  Use that information to answer the questions on the second page of the Word document.  Remember, make sure that you understand the information that you are planning to use to answer the questions. You do NOT need to use any other sources besides eNature; We will do more research in school.

Print out page 2 and bring it to school on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25th.  If you have trouble with this assignment, please see me IN ADVANCE (rather than waiting until the last minute!)  If you need the Microsoft Word document again, you can download it here.

Please be advised that all Jump Rope for Heart collection envelopes are due back to Mr. Feshler by THIS Friday.  If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Feshler directly, at tfeshler@avon.k12.ct.us

Please read this memo for information about our Valentine’s Day celebration on Friday.

Valentine’s Day and Mardi Gras Celebration

We did not have time for a spelling pre-test today.  I will try to fit it in tomorrow. Here are this week’s spelling words.

For homework, please access the “Planning Worksheet” (below).  Here are the special directions.

1. Open the Planning Worksheet in Microsoft Word and enter your name, teacher, and room number.
2. Then, follow the directions on the page and choose your animal to research AFTER looking through several choices on the eNature website.
3. Make good choices!  Don’t just pick an animal without looking on the website.  In order to make an INFORMED decision, you need to look at several choices!
4. Save the document on your home computer, because you will need to continue working on it another time!
5. Print out the first page and bring it to school.

DUE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8th

Download the Planning Worksheet here: Planning Worksheet

Over the past few weeks, I have seen a big increase in student difficulty with timeliness – both in their timely completion of homework and in their timely arrival at school.  Please help your child to make sure that he or she is completing his or her homework every night and that the completed assignments make their way into school in the morning.  Click here for a reminder of the Gr. 4 policy on homework completion.  Homework should ALWAYS be recorded in the student’s homework planner.  If he or she has lost his or her planner, please consider buying him or her a new agenda from an office store so that he or she doesn’t need to write assignments on random sheets of paper.

It’s also VERY important that your child arrives to school ON TIME each morning. School starts promptly at 8:50 AM, and students who arrive late are marked tardy. Remember, our morning work is intended to be a review of recently learned material, or a preparation for new learning.  So when your child arrives to school late, he or she is missing important learning opportunities.