Unfortunately, due to the impending weather and threat of scattered thunderstorms, we are

 RESCHEDULING tomorrow’s field trip. 

The new date is WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6th!  

Tomorrow will be a normal day of school. No bag lunches are required. Please sign the NEW permission slip for the new date of June 6th and return it to school.

I am very sorry that we had to make this decision, but a majority of the trip is outdoors. It will be VERY muddy and not as enjoyable if we are being rained on or worrying every moment about thunder and lightning.

Click here to get a sneak peak at some of the places and things we will see during our field trip next week.

Wednesday, May 16th, we are participating in a Three Village Historical Society program called “A Walk through History with Revolutionary War Spy Abraham Woodhull”.

We will be leaving between 9:45-10:00 AM, just after the children arrive at school, and be gone for a majority of the school day. We should be returning back to Tackan around 1:45-2:00PM.

The entire trip will be outside! Please be sure that your child is prepared for any kind of weather. You may want to layer a short sleeve shirt under a warm shirt under a light jacket. 

Please apply sunscreen on your child before he/she comes to school. 

 Things to bring on the trip… 

• Brown bag lunch (We will be having a picnic lunch on the Village Green. Please keep everything disposable– no glass permitted)
• Plastic water bottle (label with your name)
• Comfortable sneakers or boots  (We will be doing a lot of walking in forests and near water.)
• Hat and/or sunglasses

I forgot to post this information on the students’ agendas…

Tomorrow we will be visiting the Plant Sale. Please send your child in with any money you would like them to spend purchasing beautiful plants. Also please try to send your child in with a shopping bag to carry the plants home protected.

Thank you! :O) Mrs. Spata

This is what makes the world an interesting place…

keep it a positive!

Respect each other always!! Words CAN hurt!!

I am pleased to announce our May On-Target winner…

Skyler G!!!

I must say that, as a whole, my class has been wonderfully behavied and have made this a very difficult decision. Congratulations Skyler for standing out with your hard work, kindness and compasion, and cooperation!

:O) Mrs. Spata

There will be an open notes (not open textb0ok) quiz on the four electricity lessons that we have learned in class. We have also experimented with circuts and had a fun science day on this material. Please prepare yourself by studying and writing/organizing your notes on electricity and magnatism. There is no study guide for this test because it is straight out of the textbook Chapter 3 on pages B61-B89.

The 2^nd annual Tackan community walk/run will be held this Sunday, May 6^th at 9am.

Donations for the food pantry will be collected.

:O)

On April 30^th on the seventh   period, my class and Mrs .Joyce’s class skipped out side to the back playground. We played for about 15 minutes. We earned it for working hard the past few weeks on our state tests. A lot of us played tag. But sadly we had to go inside because the buses started to be called. Everyone was sweaty when they skipped inside. We all had fun! That was a fun afternoon!

Yesterday on May 1^st we had Tax Day. We had to pay three fake pieces of gold   for going to the bathroom. We also had to pay for going to lunch, we paid five fake pieces of gold, we paid three pieces of gold for getting our snack, for getting out our seats, for calling out loud you had to pay ten fake pieces of gold. We paid for using the computer, for throwing out garbage,  for asking a question to the teacher we had to pay two pieces of  gold. Someone almost went to jail because if you run out gold, you go to jail because you are not able to pay your taxes. Mrs. Spata was   King  George the 111. First she was nice like herself. Then she turned into the mean and grumpy King George the111. I missed Mrs. Spata but king George 111 turned her into a loyalist. We had Tax Day just to feel how the colonists felt about their king. Most of the patriots declared our own freedom but King George the 111 wouldn’t give us freedom. Anyways we all enjoyed Tax Day. Even though we had to pay for a lot of stuff. It felt like we were real colonists. Everything we were going to do, we had to pay. We had to write a letter to King George the 111 about what we felt and if all the tax we had to pay was fair for all the colonists. We wrote the letter to king George the 111. All of the Loyalists and the Patriots had fun on May  1^st 2012!

                                                 From your   publicists  Cesar and Skylar D

Wow have we been busy!!!

Day 1 and Day 2 of the Math Assessment contained 31 multiple choice questions each for the children to solve. There were some VERY challenging questions on it this year, but as long as they thought about the question and used their strategies I am sure that they did well.

Tomorrow will be Day 3 of the math assessment. It will contain short and long response questions where the students MUST show their work to get full credit.

We will have a special party after the test tomorrow to celebrate the fact that they have finished their Math and ELA State tests and have survived!!!

Please remember that we still have additional assessments coming up this year, including but not limited to

the Fourth Grade K-4 Science Assessment

a Social Studies DBQ Assessment

an end of the year cumulative district math assessment.

Have a great weekend!! You have earned it!!

:O) Mrs. Spata

The students worked very hard on their Book One today and I am optimistic about their performance. They feel confident that they did their best and did not rush.

Tomorrow, we will take the Book Two. It is our longest day! Time will be a challenge for some students. Please remind them to stay focused and on-task. It is a balance between time and detailed writing. (This is what our “Writing Marathon” has been preparing us for.)

It will contain…

1 listening selection with 5 multiple-choice questions, 3 short-response questions, and 1 extended-response question. In addition, it will have 2 reading passages along with 15 multiple-choice questions.

Rest up and eat a powerful breakfast! You can do this!!!

:O) Mrs. Spata