CAMP Payment

Friday, October 6th is the deadline for the first installment payment of the donation for Coloma. Please have it in by that date, as payment has to be made to CODS.

Progress Reports

    Progress Reports & Grade Sheets will be coming home on Monday.  Please remember theses are "PROGRESS" reports. There are several weeks before Report Cards to raise grades. Many students are still learning about the high expectations of 4th grade, and their grades will show it. Now, with the removal of homework, it forces teachers to push much more work into our day. This work must be completed. Plenty of time is given in class to complete tasks if a child uses their time wisely. They are reminded that it becomes homework if not complete. There is no "down" time anymore. Every precious minute of every day is filled with instruction, curriculum, student engagement, and learning. We as teachers value the importance of more time after school for activities and families, and we must now accomplish much more in a day then in previous years to enable this. 

     If your child has lower grades than you expected, scan through the grade sheet and see why. Was it missing or incomplete assignments? Low test scores that they didn't take the retakes on to bring up scores? This is a time for a friendly, positive Growth Mindset chat. What can they do to improve? How can you help them?

Math Facts!!

Multiplication facts [through 12] are used almost every day in 4th grade math.  I am seeing a fair number of students that don't have those math facts mastered.  I often find that students know the process of a math concept--long division, reducing fractions, etc--but not knowing their math facts gets in the way of an accurate answer.  Please help your child at home by working on math fact memorization...make flash cards, quiz each other, etc.  It really will make math not so hard if these are mastered.  

Cordelia Library on Thursdays

Cordelia Library will be here in the school library after school on Thursday.  They will have books to check out so students will need their Public Library cards.  If your child doesn't already have his/he own library card, s/he can pick up an application from Mrs. Sagara in the Nelda Mundy library.   

Thursday the 28th is the first visit.  After that, they will be here the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month.  How awesome is that???!!??!

Solano Kids Read

Solano Kids Read is a reading program for elementary-age students; it runs during the month of October.  It couldn’t be simpler:  kids pick up a passport at any county library branch and read whatever they want—there are 30 challenges in each passport (example:  read a book with a character who does something you want to do when you grow up).  After reading, they bring their passport to the library and receive ‘meow money’ for the books read.  They can then immediately go shopping at little “library stores” set up at each branch, and use their meow money to buy prizes, which include  toys and books.  The purpose of the program is to encourage reading for pleasure—I bet you guys can get behind that. SKR Poster 2017.pdf

Coloma

Just a reminder that the first donation payment installment for Coloma is due on October 6th. We have 21 of our 31 students [in 504] attending at this point. If you have not returned the green yes/no your child will be attending slip, please do so... Or just email me your answer. This will help us determine how many chaperones we need. 

Coloma Outdoor Discovery School link

Order Your Yearbook!

Here's the information for ordering yearbooks! 

https://ybpay.lifetouch.com/Order/SelectJob
Yearbook ID Code: 10276918….
Reminder - Ordering deadline for Yearbooks is
December 31st, 2017.