| The Village of Winter Mist continues to face new experiences and challenges this week. Stay tuned for a formal invitation to our Potlatch coming home in green folders soon! |
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Please check today's green take-home folder for several important sign and return items!
Our goal this week: Open my heart and mind. Practice our traits of acceptance and tolerance.
Some items in this Monday's take-home folder:
Sign and return: Self-assessed update (pink), Waskowitz field trip permission forms (green), Emergency Health Info form (purple), Spelling Bee permission form (white)
Review and keep at home: Math practice pages, math fact tests, bio collage, Cinderella stories, Matisse art, January Scholastic book order fliers
Important Dates:
1/15 Camp Waskowitz Permission form and payment due
1/18 No School (MLK, Jr)
1/19 All day field trip to Camp Waskowitz (Larson and Bernardo)
1/19 Last Day for January Scholastic book order
1/20 All day field trip to Camp Waskowitz (Gose, Heinz-Betts, Cronin)
1/27 Potlatch at 1pm for Bernardo, Cronin, and Gose
1/28 Potlatch at 1pm for Heinz-Betts and Larson
2/12 Valentine’s Day Friendship Celebration in Room 19
2/15 – 19 No School: Mid-winter Break
2/23 Spelling Bee Evening Event
Camp Waskowitz: Your student will be participating in the Washington Living History Field Trip (previouslyknown as Washington’s Heritage Field Trip) at Camp Waskowitz, a program offered byHighline School District. The goal is to help students develop a first-hand understanding of Washington state history. Students will participate in several hands-on activities that may include gold panning, using a quill tip pen, log cabin construction, use of a telegraph and old forestry tools, coal mining, laying railroad tracks and Snoqualmie tribe studies to name a few. During lunch, characters from the past will present stories and songs of the era. This field trip is outdoors all day, rain or shine! Students should come to school dressed for the weather (and the mud!) so they can be comfortable while engaging in field trip activities. Students will be given lunch on this field trip. (Tuesday's menu: Chicken soup or Vegetable soup - vegetable soup is also dairy and gluten free. Wheat roll with margarine, pears, oatmeal cookie. Drinks: hot chocolate, 1% milk and water)
Cost for the field trip is $15, and can be submitted online:
- Log into the Online Payment System https://payments.svsd410.org/. You will need your Login and Password (if you do not have your Skyward Family Access Login, please contact your child’s school.)
- Choose your 4th Grader (It will list all students in the family)
- Shop - Items at student's school
- 4th Grade Field Trip - Camp Waskowitz
- Select items to purchase.
- Verify information for accuracy.
- Payment will be processed and Receipt can be viewed and printed.
- Logout.
- Online payments/purchases will immediately be posted to a student’s account. There is a 2% per transaction fee to help offset credit card processing costs.
- The mystery word is: remainder.
Save the date:
Our Native American Potlatch Ceremony is scheduled for 1 pm on Wednesday, January 28 in the multi-purpose room
(families are invited … we need a patient and encouraging audience).
Last week you should have received an email from our room parents soliciting food/beverage donations and volunteers for this event.
SVSD Health Services Confidential Emergency Health Information 15-16: Purple form went home in today's green folder - please return to the classroom or the office.
Spelling Bee Permission form: went home in today's green folder. If students would like to participate, please return to the classroom or the office.
Novel Study (book club) begins this week! Students have been placed with a 4th grade teacher reading one of four books:
- Soft Rain by Cornelia Cornelissen (Mrs. Gose, Mrs. Heinz-Betts)
- Ghost Canoe by Will Hobbs (Mrs. Cronin)
- The Indian School by Gloria Whelan (Ms. Larson)
- Daughter of Suqua by Diane Johnson Hamm (Ms. Bernardo)
Valentine’s Day will be celebrated on Friday, 2/12 in Room 19.
All students will have a Valentine’s mail sack/bag made and decorated at school. No candy will be distributed at school. Cards only…..a name list is attached to this week's email, and a paper copy will go home in next week's green folders.
January volunteer calendar: attached to this week's email. Thanks again for all you do to support our class's learning - we couldn't do it without you!!!
Coming Up This Week in Class: We are starting Math Topic 10 (longer Division), conference on our first opinion writing piece, facing new challenges as a Native American village in our storypath, practicing reading skills with our Storyworks article "Malala the Powerful", and completing the STAR math and reading screeners!
Please visit our 4th grade blog…. http://cves4.weebly.com/
In our partnership to ensure success for your child, good communication is critical. If you ever have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to e-mail me at larsone@svsd410.org. I’d love to hear from you and look forward to working with you this year.
With thanks,
Emily Larson