HOMEWORK!!
*Keep
reading every night for 20
minutes.
*Math Study Links are sent home
most every night. Please go over
them with your student for better understanding of the
day’s lesson.
*Spelling words should be studied for a few minutes
each night as well.
Prairie students are tak-
ing Math and Reading
Interims, which are
“practice” assessments
that help prepare your child for the
Kansas Assessments coming in
March. They are set up like the real
assessments, and give us important
data that helps the teachers know
exactly what needs to be focused on
and attended to. We take 3 interims for
Math and 3 interims for reading,
throughout a period of three months.
These tests help alleviate some of the
test anxieties that the student my ex-
perience when taking the state as-
sessments, by showing them exactly
what will be asked of them. If you have
any questions for your child’s teacher,
please feel free to call or send an
email.
swestfall@usd261.com
nadamson@usd261.com
rwidener@usd261.com
Math and Reading Interims
~ Clark Moustakas
Prairie
PRIDE
Fourth Grade
News
December 3,2012
Issue 4
Dates to remember:
Dec. 7th—WSU Girls
Basketball Game field trip
for 4th and 5th
Dec. 18th—Christmas
Around the World for 4th
grade
Dec. 19th—last day of the
2nd 9 weeks
Dec.20th—Winter Break
starts
Weather:
Weather in Kansas is always
been unpredictable, but we
have hit the Fall season and
the weather is cooler. Please
see to it that your children
leave the house dressed ap-
propriately. Thank you.
Upcoming skills:
Math: working with decimals and using them in
metric lengths
Science: ending our Chapter 1, we will be engaging
in the dissection of owl pellets, to discover what all
our “Poppy” novel character Mr. Ocax, has been
eating.
Reading:
our next novel as a class will be “Mr.
Popper’s Penguins”. Brrrrr!
***Agendas***
Please take a quick minute to
check your child’s agenda for
any notes from the teacher or
homework to be finished.
Mr. Adamson, Mrs. Widener and Ms. Westfall
will be rewarding their students that stay on
green during December with a “12 days of
Christmas” treat in their stocking. Students will
make their stockings at school, then at the end of
the twelve days, enjoy all the treats they earned
for their merry behavior.
Accept everything about yourself
—
I
mean everything, You are you and
that is the beginning and the end
—
no apologies, no regrets.
Congratulations Maleah for
taking first place and Julia
for taking second place in
the school Spelling Bee.
Both girls will continue to
the district spelling bee.
Go Prairie Bulldogs!
