The fourth grade team is focusing on improving our students’ reading fluency. Reading fluency is when children are able to read quickly and accurately with expression. Research shows that when students read texts multiple times, their fluency increases. This in turn improves comprehension or understanding of what has been read. Because fluency leads to comprehension, fluent readers enjoy reading more than students who devote all their energy to sounding out words.

Beginning Tuesday, November 29, 2011, your child will receive one poem each week. As a part of their daily homefun they will you to listen to them read the poem three times. This is called Repeated Reading. We encourage you to read the poem with them! Encourage your child to read with prosody, expression, and have fun with it! Sign the back of your child’s poem each night, and feel free to make a comment as well!

Once a month, the students will participate the The Great Poetry Race. Your child's goal will be to read the poem to as many adults as possible throughout the week. After your child reads the poem, his or her "audience" must sign the back of the poem sheet. The goal is to read to as many different adults as possible, so only one signature per adult per night will be allowed. Also, only one signature per reading. For example, in order to get a signature from two people listening at the same time, the student would need to read the poem twice. Feel free to call relatives or family friends and your child can read to them over the phone! You can “sign” for that person. At the end of " The Great Poetry Race," students will participate in an optional Poetry Slam, and the students with the most signatures will receive recognition for their achievement!

HEALTHY CHOICES WEEK

Tuesday, Nov 29- Red Ribbon Day "Sock it to Drugs"

Wear red shirts and crazy socks

Wednesday, Nov 30- Walk for a Healthy Body Day

Walk-a-thon during P.E.

Wear jersey from any sport you participate in and uniform pants

Thursday, Dec 1- Healthy Spirit Day

Wear Campus School spirit shirt and jeans

U of M Marching Band

JUST A REMINDER

Friday, Dec 2- Confucius Classroom Dedication and Reception

Campus School Playroom: 8am

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am thankful every day for the opportunity to work with each and every child in our fourth grade class. I want to wish everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving!

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder

No one has ever become poor from giving ~ Ann Frank

Last Friday the students visited Engineer Day on Campus. During E-Day, the Herff College of Engineering opened its doors to the students and the community, where displays, demonstrations, lab tours, competitions and more revealed the wide world of engineering. A special thanks to Dr. Ivey, fourth grader Noah Ivey's mom, for getting Campus School involved in this special event! Our fourth grade students had a wonderful time and learned a great deal as well!

This Week!

I hope all of you have are having a lovely weekend. Below are a few things to keep in mind this week!

• The students will take their second Discovery Assessments on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Make sure the students get plenty of rest this week so that they may do their personal best on the assessments!
• Friday the students will not only get another visit from the Philosophy Department, but they will visit the Engineering Department as well! The students will take a tour of several competetion between several schools. Some of the competitions include flash building, lego robotics, KNEX, and transportation. It is sure to be an exciting morning!
• Thanksgiving break is November 23-27