Our students love Science to Go. This year, we spent two days with Ms. Poaster and debris from local animal nesting sites. Students identified different skulls in the debris from their animal's nesting site/pellets, and calculated the average percentages their animal's diet. Students were enthralled with each aspect of the lab. Again, thank you PTA for purchasing these lessons for us!
Fourth grade is lucky enough to get an owl from the zoo to come into the classroom. This was funded by our fourth grade PTA grant! Two classes will have an hour with the owl this Friday and the other two classes will be a part of the program the following Friday. Our class gets to meet Bob the Great Horned Owl this week. I haven't told the kids yet, but will tell them tomorrow. This goes along perfectly with our ecology and predator/prey studies we are currently doing in science. Pictures to come soon!
Eager Reader is a PTA sponsored program that rewards and reinforces reading! It is a 25 week voluntary program designed to improve students’ reading skills and to develop a love of reading. Since we require a 20 minutes of reading each night and this program offers incentives and reinforcement for that reading.
Here is how the program works:
• The program began October 1 – your child can keep track of their minutes in their planner
• At the end of the month, you will need to submit the total amount of minutes they read for the month. You can submit the minutes as often as you want. Submit minutes here: http://www.sunsetsockeyepta.org/eagerreader/recorder/ (you will need to re-register even if you registered last year)
• Each month, students will receive a prize based on the total minutes read
• All prizes will be given to the teacher and put in the student’s mailbox to take home
• Students who earn books will be allowed to pick out their book during lunch on the assigned book award days.
• Minutes read are accumulated throughout the year so prizes can always be earned
• Make sure to turn in the tally on each due date - even if your student has not read enough to earn the listed prize, they will just add to them for next month
• If students read enough minutes, they will be invited to the Eager Reader party in the spring.
PTA Reflections program kicked off this week. The theme is "Together we can...". Students can submit literature, visual arts, photography, music composition, videos, and a dance. Each student in our class has written a poem/paragraph that we hope to submit. Next week we will publish the final pieces, have parents sign the permission slips, and then turn them in. Any addition projects that your child would like to do at home need to be submitted with a permission slip by October 26th. For more information contact Kathryn Cowan at rynkatha@yahoo.com.