Dini Howell - Grade 4

Parents & Students,  Welcome to 4th Grade!  Here are some notes about Book Day that should help the morning go more smoothly for you.

1.  Please make sure the school roadmap is completed before coming to the 4th grade for textbooks.  I am not suppose to distribute textbooks until all boxes on the roadmap have been initialed.

2.  There will be directions on the 4th grade board instructing what to do.

3.  Each child's desk is labeled with their name & a #.  The desks are in alphabetical order for the first week(s) only. 

I hope everyone is enjoying a fun & relaxing summer!  I just wanted to remind everyone of the wonderful summer reading books required for upcoming 4th graders: 

Our Strange New Land, Elizabeth's Diary, Jamestown, Virginia 1609 (A My America book) &

The Starving Time, Elizabeth's Diary, Book Two, Jamestown, Virginia 1609 (A My America book)

Both books are by Patricia Hermes.

Parents,

Please be on the lookout for a permission slip regarding 2 practices for Minds in Motion at the Authur Ashe Center next week.  We will be using a Benedictine bus and there will be instructions on what the children need to bring (and not to bring) to the practices.

Thank you

Ms. Howell 

Parents,  Please mark your calendars for the following event!

St. Benedict School Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Bookfair

Tuesday, May 19th from 4-7

Barnes & Noble Libbie Place

5501 West Broad Street (at the corner of West Broad Street and Libbie Avenue)

Dear Parents,

Please plan to attend the Gym Show.  It proves to be a fun & exciting event!  The 4th graders will perform a dance they have learned in Minds in Motion.  This will be a great dress rehearsal for the real performance in May!  Hope to see you there!

Ms. Howell

Language Arts - verbs, poetry, continued practice with cursive handwriting and beginning this quarter all turn-in assignments are to be in cursive, Reading Counts! reading program - 2 books are required for this quarter (any extra books read will receive extra credit toward reading grade), spelling weekly

Math - multiplication with multiple digits X one digit, continued timed multiplication quizzes every Wed. & Fri., after basic facts of multiplication are mastered timed division quizzes of the basic facts will begin

The 4th grade made 100 lunches for the homeless in our area this morning.  Thank you for your time &/or contributions.  The opportunity to make these lunches fit beautifully with our February Virtue of the Month - Charity.  We also had a mini math lesson from Ms. Cook when she explained the food items needed and how she divided our assembly line stations :)  

Ms. Howell

If you haven't had the opportunity and would like to purchase books for our school library you can visit   www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1A9G8S51IGXVY

Thank you. 

Ms. Howell

All classes will be collecting canned goods for the Little Sisters of the Poor until Friday, Jan. 23.  There is a competition among the grades for the class that can bring the most cans per student.  For example,  we have 11 students and if we were to collect 22 cans, we will have collected 2 per student.  I explained this to the students so they would understand that they are not at a disadvantage being a smaller class.  It also gave us a great opportunity to do a little math with several different student #s & canned good #s :)