Fourth Grade Bright Spots

Yes, it’s that time again!  The 2011 school year is just around the corner, and I wanted to take a moment to welcome each of you back.  I hope that everyone has had a relaxing and fun-filled summer watching and playing baseball or softball, attending camps, going on trips, and spending time with friends and family.

To all my new students and parents, I am looking forward to meeting each of you on Thursday evening at Meet the Teacher time.  This is going to be a great year for us all! I hope that you are as excited about the new school year as I am.  To my students who are moving on to fifth grade, I will miss each of your faces in my classroom, but I know that you are all prepared for fifth grade and being our senior leaders.  Be sure to stop by and give me a hug anytime!  See you all soon!

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Today is President’s Day.  Go to the student site on the blog called Facts for Me.  Look up information on one of our past or our present U.S. President.  Take notes in your Language Arts spiral and then write a paragraph about what you learned.  After you have written your report, go to your student page and add your information.  Then add a picture of the U.S. President to your report.  Have fun!  I can’t wait to read your reports!

It’s almost Valentine’s Day, a time for love, candy, flowers, hearts and chocolates.  Create your own Valentine’s Day poem on your own student page.

Merry Christmas from our class to you!  Hope you all enjoy our Christmas stories.

It won’t be long before Santa arrives.  Go check out what Santa has been up to lately on some of the Bright Spot students’ pages.  Ho! Ho! Ho!  Merry Christmas!

Go check out Christian’s blog.  He had an interesting Thanksgiving meal.

The holiday season is beginning.  I hope everyone enjoyed a great Thanksgiving day with lots of food, family, and fun.  Please go to your page and share about what you did for Thanksgiving break, or add a comment to this post.  I’ll see you on on Monday, November 29!

This week’s spotlight page is Christian.  Make sure you take a minute to go read his story!  It is really quite amazing.  Great job, Christian!  I am so proud.

P.S.  I absolutely LOVE the picture you chose.

For our first Bright Spots’ challenge, I would like for you to get to know some of our local bloggers.  This week you will be meeting Mrs. Odom.  Mrs. Odom is an educational specialist on the Intermediate Campus.  Click on the picture above or on her name to visit the site.  Your mission, if you so choose, is to visit her blog page.  Stare at the heading of M&Ms and see if you can find the hidden picture.  Reply back to me and let me know what you saw.  Then take a look around her blog.  Read all about her under the tab called Odom’s Candy Jar, and be ready to share a fact with me that you learned about Mrs. Odom.  Finally for fun, go to her game page and check out some of her games.  Have a great time exploring!  I can’t wait to find out what you learn.

Our  Bright Spots Blog will be up and running soon.  We hope that all of our previous visitors will be patient as we begin a new school year and add some new members to our page!  Keep checking back.  More to come…