Mrs. Ziegler's 4th Grade: November 2016

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Special Delivery.... from OKLAHOMA!

My Great Uncle Joe from Norman Oklahoma has a heart of gold!

Remember earlier in the year, his Rotary Club gave every student in our class a dictionary/thesaurus?!

http://mziegler4.blogspot.com/2016/10/a-dictionarythesaurus-of-my-very-own.html

He personally responded to each student's thank you letter answering their questions and wishing them the best for the holidays!

He also sent us a care package of treats made in Oklahoma!

some of the things inside the box were....

*Beautiful Dream Catchers to hang in our classroom!

*Bedre Chocolates http://www.bedrechocolates.com/our-story

*Flavored Pretzels from Snider Farms Peanut Barn https://www.sniderfarmspeanutbarn.com/about-us/

A HUGE thank you to Uncle Joe (and Aunt Margaret) for their generosity and kindness.

The students LOVED the taste of Oklahoma and their personal cards/letters!

One Point Perspective Drawings

The Bedroom in Arles by Vincent Van Gogh... the picture that inspired our art.

In the science lab...

Mass and Volume were two new vocabulary words this week.

We used scales and graduated cylinders in the science lab.

Friday, November 18, 2016

Make your Christmas list! The holidays are fast approaching, and I know your schedules are very busy. Books make wonderful Christmas gifts for children of all ages. They will love them, and you will be encouraging them to learn while they have fun.

If you would like to order, there is two ways to do it:

1. Fill out the form, write your child’s name on it, and send a check payable to Scholastic for the correct total amount

2. Register at www.scholastic.com/bookclubs

*There are more books available online for all ages!

ENTER the Class Activation Code: GR4YY

Then choose books, and submit

Please e-mail me or send a note to inform me that your order is a secret. So that when the orders come in, I know how to contact you to come pick them up. Otherwise, I will send home the books with your child as usual.

All catalog orders are due by Thurs. Dec. 1st. Thank you for your cooperation with this. Happy reading!

Box Tops

Our class earned the first level of BoxTop collection rewards!

Our class collected 500 BoxTops = ICECREAM PARTY!

Thanks for supporting our school and clipping the BoxTops!

Our next class goal is to collect 1000 = Popcorn Party

Interested in learning about other ways to help Gardner raise money by doing things you may already be doing?

Check out this link: http://gardnerelementary.weebly.com/fundraising.html

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Veterans Day

Let’s Celebrate our Veterans and THANK them for all they have done for ALL of US!

Two local opportunities for your family to say thank you and show support for our veterans:

Thursday, November 10

6:30 p.m.

Waterloo High School Auditorium

This program is a joint effort between the Waterloo V.F.W. and the City of Waterloo

Friday, November 11

11:00 a.m.

Lakeview Park by the flagpole

Voting at Gardner

Book Talk

Our classroom librarians recommend these books...

Here's their video telling us about these awesome books!

Poetry Corner

Click to listen to these terrific poems read by our poets for the week!

In the science lab...

Monday, November 7, 2016

St. Jude

We are supporting St. Jude in two ways this month.
One is with the math-a-thon booklets.
The other way is collecting change/dollars for the 1/2 marathon that several teachers are running for Hailey's Herd. All money also goes to St. Jude's Research Hospital and is due by the end of the month!