After Conferences

It has been great to see everyone over conferences. The students have been working really hard in class, especially of recent, and I hope that shows in their grades and our conference. This is a great group of kids!

If you're looking for ways to help your students improve in certain areas, here are some online resources.

Communication Arts:

Reference the Home-Connection Letters - This is a great way to stay informed about the content for each week. We have our Unit 2 test next week. Please use these to review for the test.
http://www.abington.k12.pa.us/overlook/gradefour.shtml

Finding enjoyable books - This is mostly an issue for the "dudes." This website has a lot of fun books aimed at guys.
http://www.guysread.com/

Math:
My website - On my website I have many math games that align with what we are learning about for each unit. For this unit (Unit 4) I would recommend the ordering decimals game and the counting money one.
http://carroll-everydaymath.wikispaces.com/home

Everyday Math Online - The new online piece has games, references, and extra practice for every math lesson.
www.everydaymathonline.com

Science:
Learning Science - An area where a lot of students that struggled with science was with applying the science ideas we talked about in different scenarios. Learningscience.org is a fantastic website built by a former professor of mine that has many different interactive examples of science ideas.
www.learningscience.org

Ecosystems:http://www.learningscience.org/lifescience.htm

Electrical Circuits (Our upcoming unit): http://www.learningscience.org/psc2ctransferenergy.htm
P.S. - Launchball is a class favorite

Class Party
Tomorrow we are having a class party. The students voted on watching a movie (rated G) and eating some pizza. If anyone would like to send in a few dollars (no more than $5 please) to help spread around the cost of the pizza that would be great.

Holiday Hollow
Here is a great opportunity for the students to purchase different items for family members at school. There will be more information about this in homework folders tomorrow. Our date is 12/13 @ 1.

Barnes & Nobles Night
This upcoming Wednesday is Barnes and Nobles Night. It is always a lot of fun to see everyone at the store and find some great books together. 20% of all sales go to the school.

Also, I'm deactivating the blog email list. It seems that some parents were receiving the emails at midnight, many hours after I would send them. I'm going to keep the blog active, just send the emails from my account.