Social Studies Trails Test - Sept. 28th

Living Things Review Sheet for test on Monday, Oct. 1st

Our test over living things will be Oct. 1st. I will also be sending home a paper copy of the study guide.

I-Pad Raffle at Carnival

West Elementary is raffling off a free IPad and $50.00 worth of I-Tunes. Chances for the iPad will be sold at $5 a chance or $20 for 5 chances! This will be for the iPad and $50 iTunes gift card combined! Please spread the word! Hope to see you at the carnival Friday, Sept. 21st at the Carnival here at West. The time is 5:00-7:30.

AIMS Testing

Your student is bringing home information from the AIMS testing they did at school this year. Their Lexile Level is listed. You can find resources and more information at these links below. Lexile Levels Made Easy article by Scholastic Find A Book State of KS Lexile Framework for Reading

Carnival Basket

Thank you for all the wonderful carnival items so far. This is what has been sent so far: Candy Land game, a bag of dry-erase games, Snakes and Ladders game, Art Memo game, Jumbling Tower game and a YoYo Ball.

Grandparent's Lunch- Sept. 7th

I apologize because our Grandparent's Day lunch is this Friday, Sept. the 7th not the 13th. Please send a note to let me know if your student's grandparent would like to be included in the lunch count for this Friday, Sept. 7th. We go to lunch at 12:05. We would like the note back tomorrow so we can inform the kitchen how many extra lunches we will need on Friday. Thanks to all of you who already sent your forms and money.

August/September Subjects

In math we are starting with graphing. Students are collecting numerical and categorical data from classmates to graph and get to know our classroom better. We are also finding the mean of a set of data. Students also read and adventure story from China about a giant. In the story the height of the giant was found by collecting data from others and finding the connection between hand length and height. This leads into our math lab which asks the question, "If you know a fourth grader's height can you predict their arm span." Data will be collected and graphed and our lab question will be answered. In writing class we have been turning themselves into super heros and writing about it. They shared their super powers, a description of themselves, and also how they would use their powers in the world. In language arts we will continue our weekly vocabulary quiz and daily DLR assignment. Our spelling tests take place on Friday where both the Posttest for the current week and the Pretest for the next week are given. Students will be given their weekly spelling list on Friday and we will also write the words in our agenda on Friday. In shared reading we are reading stories and doing language activities on stories of immigrants. Guided reading groups have been made and will start next week. Our study of the Santa Fe Trail continues and in science we have planted our pea seeds and will be reviewing life cycles of both plants and animals. Our weekly bullying meeting this week was a getting to know each other exercise.

Grandparent's Day