Ms. Morgan's Fourth Grade Home Page
Did you know...
that so far Joni Stewart, Jacob Suthard, and Mariah Johns have not missed a single day of school this year? That's awesome!
Congratulations This Six Weeks To :
Having 50 or more accelerated reader points : Chad Owens, Shawn Gillam, Jacob Suthard, Cory Collins, and Cassidy French.
Having 25 or more accelerated reader points : Skyler Boney, Mariah Johns, Cassidy French, Jacob Suthard, Shawn Gillliam, Chad Owens, Malcolm Evans, DJ Smith, Ashley Christian, JR Seals, Joni Stewart, Alex Toby, Jaclyn Solomon, Zeydi Zambrano, Caleb Midkiff, Fatima Tinajero, Guillermo Estrada, Caleb Midkiff, and Cory Collins.
Reaching their end of the year goal for accelerated reader: Malcolm Evans, Ashley Christian, Mariah Johns, Joni Stewart, Zeydi Zambrano, Fatima Tinajero, Guillermo Estrada, Jacob Suthard, Chad Owens, and Shawn Gilliam.
Top accelerated readers in the class ( points ): Chad Owens (1st place).....Shawn Gilliam (2nd place).....Jacob Suthard, Caleb Midkiff, and Cassidy French (3rd).
Character Counts Award Winner: Fatima Tinajero and Zeydi Zambrano for "trustworthiness".
All A Honor Roll: Cory Collins, Cassidy French, Chad Owens, Guillermo Estrada, Fatima Tinajero, and Mariah Johns
A - B Honor Roll: Jacob Suthard and Zeydi Zambrano
Perfect Attendance: Jacob Suthard, Shawn Gilliam, Alex Toby, Zeydi Zambrano, Chad Owens, Mariah Johns, Joni Stewart, and Guillermo Estrada.
Mrs. Hodson and Mariah Johns at the Civil War battle reinactment.
Our Typical Class Schedule:
ENGLISH, SPELLING and WRITING ..... 8:00 - 9:00
SPECIAL AREA CLASSES ..... 9:00 - 9:40
SCIENCE and SOCIAL STUDIES ..... 9:40 - 10:30
EXCEL READING CLASSES ..... 10:30 11:30
MATH ..... 11:30 - 12:30
LUNCH ..... 12:30 - 1:00
RECESS ..... 1:15 - 1:45
ADDITIONAL READING ..... 1:45 - 2:30
WRITE ASSIGNMENTS and pack for home 2:30
STUDENTS LEAVE ..... 2:40 - 2:50
March - April - May Calendars of Events: 
March 26 - 30 -- Cheerleader tryouts from 6:00 - 8:00pm
March 30 --- End of fifth weeks grading period
April 2 - 6 --- Spring break.
April 16 - 21 --- TCAP testing for 2nd - 5th graders
April 17 -- Grade cards go home
April 20 --- Volunteer luncheon
April 24 -- Parent Involvement Night Grades K - 2 --- Environmental fair
April 26 --- Parent Involvement Night Grades K - 2
April 30 - May 4 -- Book Fair in the Hillcrest library
May 4 -- Kindergarten Round up in the Cafeteria at 1:00
May 7 --- Field Day for 2nd - 5th graders (rain day May 9)
May 8 --- Field Day for K - 1st graders (rain day May 10)
May 11 --- Literacy Day
May 14 --- Honors Day
May 16 --- Last full day of school
May 17 --- Administrative day
May 18 --- Grade Card Day
Required reading and book summaries this six weeks:
The Bill of Rights by Joy Dickerson
Becoming a Citizen by Chris Gund
Sandra Day O’Connor by Sandra Ring
One Day, Two Stars by Veronica Freeman Ellis
Goodbye to Angel Island by Jiang Qingling
The March on Washington by Morgan Clendaniel
The National Civil Rights Museum by beth Raisner Glass
Marian Wright Edelman: For Every Child by Laura Wingfield
A VERY important note to parents:
As you can see above, the books chosen this six weeks are based on Social Studies topics. The required book summaries will be averaged into your child’s six weeks reading grade, and the accerated reader tests will be averaged into his / her social studies grade.
All required reading and book summaries are due by:
Tuesday, April 10th.
What we're studying in math:
Mountain Math concepts and fractions.
What we're studying in social studies:
Finishing up government and moving on to famous explorers.
What we're studying in science:
Taking care of the human body, planets, weather, kitchen science, plant and animal adaptations, natural disasters, and volcanoes.
Joni Stewart, Guillermo Estrada, and JR Seals work on their fish during our animal study.
A big thank you goes out:
To Miss Hannah for laminating projects for us and cutting them out.
To Mrs. Bryant for all her hard work, lesson plans, and helpful spirit to our class.
To everybody for your work on the national monument projects!!!
Happy birthday to:
Ms. Morgan ---- March 11
Mariah Johns ---- March 27
Ashley Christian ---- April 1
Great Websites to Go See:
A great site for finding information on science and social studies topics along with fun crafts and games!
Helps you stay up to date on current events and what's going on in the world. Great pictures, too!
Click on this link to see some amazing pictures of deep space taken by the Hubble telescope.
Click on this link to view some great pictures and facts related to this national landmark.
A picture Ms. Morgan took of some flamingoes at a zoo in South Carolina.
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This page last updated March 29, 2007.
