Welcome back!

We have had an excellent start this week.  The students have already learned how to use their laptops, and we plan to use them every day of the school year. Thanks to Mr. Inman for giving us our  orientation lesson on the first day of school!

We were lucky to have (Jewel's aunt) Laurie Bailey from Andover join us today to teach us about her baby goats, as part of the Maine Agriculture in the Classroom program.  The fourth graders loved getting to pet the kids while we learned more about farming in Maine.

Happy Halloween from Mrs. Charette's class!  :-) 

Vote for Books

Mrs. Raymond is having a special vote to determine what the favorite book is for CPS fourth and fifth graders.  She has explained to them that it should be a book that is very important to them in their reading life, whether it is a book that really spoke to them or the book that turned them into a reader.  We will first nominate favorite books using the Wall Wisher link provided below, then Mrs. Raymond will determine the top nominees and create a ballot for November 6.  On that day, students will actually vote for their favorite out of the top nominees, and a winner will be declared!

Vote for Books

Reading Buddies

Last week we met for the second time with our kindergarten reading buddies from Ms. Cote's class.  They enjoyed coming to our classroom in "the big kids' hallway".  We read "The Best Class Picture Ever" together, since it was school picture day.  They thought it was fun to look for Elvis, the missing guinea pig on each page.  Then we went outside and played on their playground together.  What a great way to get to know one another!

Welcome to Fourth Grade!

I am so excited for the year ahead of us.  We will be starting our online homework requirements next week, so be looking for the instructions in your yellow folders on Monday.  Please email or call at any time with questions or concerns. 

Spring Fling

This week was so much fun thanks to the Spring Fling Days!  Our class was thrilled to hear that we won the door decorating contest for the upper grades, due in large part to the fine Spring Haiku that they wrote!  We will also be entering these short and sweet spring poems into a Scholastic poetry contest.  Hopefully they will be the winning entry in that contest as well!