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5-4-18
Dear Parents,
We’re in the home stretch…this year is flying by quickly! It’s hard to think these guys will be gone in a few short weeks. I’m so proud of all the progress they have made this year, but I’m also a little sad knowing my time with them is becoming shorter and shorter.
Here are some items that are coming up that may be of interest:
Here is an overview on what we are covering in each of the subject areas. Some of the students wrote this part of the newsletter:
Of course, any questions, please don’t hesitate to email me. May promises to be a busy month here at BES, but we should have some fun in here as well!
-Mr. Christy
Dear Parents,
We’re in the home stretch…this year is flying by quickly! It’s hard to think these guys will be gone in a few short weeks. I’m so proud of all the progress they have made this year, but I’m also a little sad knowing my time with them is becoming shorter and shorter.
Here are some items that are coming up that may be of interest:
- M-STEP: We finished the M-STEP ELA test on Tuesday. These students would make each and every one of you proud! They really took their time and carefully answered each question. We will take the M-STEP Math assessment Tuesday, May 8. Please make sure you child gets a good night sleep the night before, and that they eat a good breakfast before taking the test Tuesday morning.
- Field Trip – Our Chicago trip will be Monday, June 4 to the Field Museum of Natural History. Students will leave the school around 8:00, and will return before the end of the school day. If you were selected as a chaperone, please get the $30 back to me ASAP! More information on the Chicago trip will be made available the closer we get to the trip.
- Quilt drawing – We recently made a classroom quilt together. Every student got to create a square, and my mom put it together. One lucky winner will get to take this home! A note went home earlier this week, but for every dollar the students donate to the “Pennies for Patients” drive the Berrien County Cancer Service is putting on, the students will get a ticket to enter the drawing. We will stop taking donations on May 10, as that is their collection day.
- 1,000,000 Word Challenge – Congratulations to Brody Roberts who recently read one million words. He joins Beckham Ytterberg and Kimber Norton who have completed the challenge earlier this year. We have a couple of students that are very close…keep encouraging your child to read at home!
- BES Lego Robotics Summer Camp – Just a cheap plug (!), but Mr. Emery and I are running a summer camp that will teach students how to build and program robots out of Legos. I know how many students were disappointed they weren’t picked for Lego League. I was also disappointed I couldn’t take everyone that wanted to do it, so we decided to put on this camp that will allow kids to be able to experience it. It runs from June 11-22, and we are going to try to accommodate everyone that wants to do it, so don’t hesitate to sign them up! If the $50 fee is a problem, there are scholarships being offered for this and any of the other summer camps that are being offered. Scholarship forms should be made available soon, see me with any questions!
Here is an overview on what we are covering in each of the subject areas. Some of the students wrote this part of the newsletter:
- Reading: From Brayden Schwark: “This past week, we have been studying really hard for the M-STEP as a class. We went through some practice questions together, and talked about how to answer them. Sometimes, we had to decide between two answers that almost meant the same thing. We studied our hardest for the M-STEP.”
- Writing: From Kimber Norton: “For the past few weeks in writing, students have been learning how to write myths about how things came to be (examples: hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.) and including gods and goddesses in our stories. Students have also learned how to turn their work into masterpieces in Mr. Christy’s 4th grade class.”
- Science: From Austin Salisbury: “In science, we’ve been learning about landslides and what causes them. The important thing we’ve learned is the difference between weathering and erosion. We know erosion is the movement of Earth materials from one place to another. Weathering is breaking away materials of the Earth’s surface.”
- Social Studies: From Derek Backus: “In social studies, we talked about how the government works. There are three branches of government; legislative, executive, and judicial. We talked about how many people are in the Senate and the House of Representatives. We also talked about how laws are made, and how a veto can be overridden. After we talked about our government, we went to our state’s capitol in Lansing and learned what happens at the capitol building.
- Math: From Alan Estebes: “Our 4th grade class has been doing lots of multi-step number stories. In many of these number stories, we have to know how to multiply a fraction by a whole number. We also have been doing multi-step number stories that involve division, and knowing different capacities (example: there are 16 ounces in 1 pound).
Of course, any questions, please don’t hesitate to email me. May promises to be a busy month here at BES, but we should have some fun in here as well!
-Mr. Christy
