Dear Families,
Hello and Happy week before break! Students are finishing up many important things this week. We’re:
• Finishing up our decimal unit
• publishing the 2nd drafts of our Response to Literature. Thank you for supporting your child in this assignment at home
• Completing the construction of our state site brochure. Hopefully, when complete, these will look like real tourist attraction brochures!
• Exploring the rest of the artifacts in the Abenaki kit!
• Continuing to work in our VT historical fiction reading groups – (and getting assessed on their participation, preparation, and quality of work).
After break, students will be:
• Focusing on math problem solving. We will focus on this the entire week after break. Following the “focus week”, we will be working on math p.s on Friday afternoons. Students will also be starting to learn more about division and fractions.
• Working on a 2nd Response to literature. This one will be based on their current VT books and will be put into their writing portfolio.
• Studying Vermont in the 1800’s using another kit from the VHS.
• Creating mini-projects to go with their VT books.
• Starting a new team time!

IMPORTANT!

Report cards will come home the 2nd week of March. Conferences will be held on Wed, Thurs, and Friday the week of the 16th. Sign ups for conferences will be done on my new WIKI PAGE. You can find a link on our website or can use this link: http://mrscrowther.pbwiki.com/. The WiKI page is kind of like an interactive website. Parents and students can add to it/edit it. Each “editor” needs to log in. I have created 2 log-ins for parents.

Username: parent1 password:Crowther1
Username2: parent2 password: Crowther2

IT doesn’t matter which one you use. I’ve created 2 in case one is already being used.
In order to put your name into a slot, you’ll have to find the “Conferences” page (You can find the link on the sidebar) and then go to the edit tab. While under the edit tab, you may type your name into the timeslot of your choice. Then, DON”T FORGET to click SAVE!!. That’s it – your signed up! And you can always check your time by going back onto the Wiki page.
I look forward to using my new technology learning to make this process easier for all of us. Please contact me if you have any trouble using it.

REMINDER:-the 4th graders will be going to the VHS museum and statehouse in Montpelier on Tuesday, March 10! Please be sure that your child has turned in their permission slip and $2 (by Friday). We have enough drivers now too, so no need to sign up to drive if you haven’t already.