Our 11th Day of School – And They Lived Happily Ever After

• We finished There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom   (195 pages) Bradley became a good person and the counselor goes to a new school.
• We finished Being of Two Minds where Connie finds Rudy and they get away.
• We did two edit sentences; we learned about the semicolon.
• We did our third math test;there where thirteen A’s and six were 100%
• 14 students still have no missing assignments.
• On our reading test, nine were A’s and three were 100%
• We went to art and learned how to draw a straight line with a ruler; don’t laugh, it’s not as easy as it sounds.
• MADI blogged 

Harcourt Math Activities, Games, and Practice Tests

Even though we have the math lessons each day and do additional problems in the practice workbook, sometimes there may be a difficult concept. If a student would like additional opportunities to practice math concepts, these are available on the Harcourt site. They even have practice tests that include a brief review for the parents regarding the concepts covered in that chapter, sample test problems, and a game or activity. The answers are provided for you. Some students choose to print the practice test to take at home the night before the math test.

Harcourt Math Activities, Games, and Practice Tests 

For additional math activities, games and even practice math tests, you can go to the Harcourt site by following these steps. 

Go to http://www.harcourtschool.com/  

Then select the Learning Site.

 Choose “math”.

Then choose “Harcourt math”—then the lower group of pictures that match the appearance of our math books.

When asked for the password, type in “Andrews”. 

Choose the grade level.

Then choose the chapter and there are games and activities under the “just for kids” section.

To print sample chapter tests, click on “Parent and Teacher View”; then go to Family Involvement Activities and select the chapter.

 Link to Harcourt Math Practice Tests

If you just want to print practice tests, click on this link: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/family_involvement/grade_4.html. Hopefully you can just click on the link below to take you directly to it. Watch for a link to Harcourt to be added onto the sidebar.

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/family_involvement/grade_4.html

Blogosphere – What I Like About you!

• people can access any time, they don’t have to wait for an e-mail
• people can access from out of state
• people can access from anywhere in the world
• people can access from Starbucks with a wireless
• you can look back at prior posts going all the way back to before this school year began
• you can learn some of the things we did each day
• you can share in some of our successes
• you can learn about our growing pains; it is not easy being a fourth grader in a class with high standards and high expectations
• we hope you can have fun – we are goofy and playful at times
• you can learn something about public education and its limitations
• you can gain insight into our MAI philosophy
• you can make a comment like “Who is Dickens?”
• we hear from former students like Corinna in Germany and Rachel in California
• we hear from Cross and Wilson and CDO and Ironwood Ridge and Basis and Salpoint
• relatives can keep track of us
• kids get to practice their typing skills while the class sees their blog on the Smart Board
• we have an outstanding group of likable, hard working students who are forming their character with each passing day and they are finding out who they are
• if we forgot something or misspelled colon or whatever, we can add it to our next blog
•  we can say hello to people like O.D.
• we can say we miss you to people like Cooper and Jack and Matt and Adam and Tyler and Jackson