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.

To learn how to use http://www.edu.glogster.com/ we made glogs about ourselves.

Emily's Glog


Lucile's Glog


Michael's Glog


Duncan's Glog


Patrick's Glog


Andi W's Glog


Dillon's Glog


Andy Q's Glog


Nicole B's Glog


Charlie's Glog


Nicole G's Glog


Griffin's Glog


Katie's Glog


Jake's Glog


Stephen's Glog


Stacia's Glog


Kelsey's Glog


Peri's Glog


Will's Glog


Cole's Glog


Gwen's Glog


Amir's Glog


Carson's Glog

Book Club Order Due Date : October 22



Online Ordering Information

Web address: www.scholastic.com/bookclubs

Class Activation Code: HCP22

Greetings Parents,

Scholastic books are now available for ordering. There is no obligation to order, but if you do, the class receives a free book per order!

Here's how it works:

• SIGN UP at www.scholastic.com/bookclubs. On the parent page, register by clicking the "Don't have a user name or password?" link. When prompted, enter the one-time Class Activation Code shown above (HCP22). This unique code ensures that your order is sent to our account. 


• SELECT the books you'd like to order.


• SEND your order to our account online by the due date and your child's books will be delivered directly to the classroom, and sent home with your child.


Each month you will receive an email from me notifying you of new catalos for your review, and the due date for orders. The deadline for orders on the current set of catalogs is October 22nd.

Online Scholastic ordering is fast, easy, and secure. If you have any questions or problems ordering contact me at tdfung@gmail.com.


Thank you,
Tammy Fung
Scholastic Volunteer, Mrs. Ness 4th Grade Class 2011

All students passed my Netiquette course and exam. In honor of their hard work, they each earned badges during our special ceremony.

Unfortunately, just a day later we had issues on the bus to the field trip in which students were not using their NetSmartz. Those kids have had their badges taken away and will have to earn them back. The one positive thing that came out of that situation is that it led to great conversations about how easy it is to be tempted to say mean things about people when you're looking at a screen instead of the person's face.

Here are some pictures from our special ceremony.

In Washington, we have something called a rain shadow effect. On Monday, we conducted a simulation in which the "clouds" gathered water over the ocean as it evaporated, then they released some of the rain over the Olympic Mountains, a little bit over the Western Lowlands, then lots of precipitation over the Cascade Mountains. By the time the clouds get over the mountains, they are out of precipitation and eventually they dissipate, leaving just sun over eastern Washington. That in essence is the Rain Shadow Effect.

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.