Snowball Spelling

Miss Josephson taught a great lesson Friday on contractions.  We even got to have a paper "snowball" fight during the lesson as we learned how contractions are formed.

Geography Bee

Congratulations to our two fantastic students who represented our class so well in the school geography bee.  Way to go!

World's Tallest Snowman or really "SNOWWOMAN!"

Teagan shared this with the class this week.  Everyone wanted it to be published on our blog. Enjoy!

The "snowwoman" towering over this ski village in Bethel, Maine features eyelashes created from discarded skis and bright red lips made from painted car tires.  She wears a giant red hat and a 100-foot-long scarf, and her blond tresses are made from rope.  She gets a little bling from a snowflake pendant that's 6 feet long.  Her arms are made from 27 ft. evergreen trees. Her eyes are made from giant wreaths.  School children painted her 8 ft. carrot nose.  

New Year's Resolutions

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Welcome Miss Josephson

We would like to welcome our student teacher, Miss Josephson.   She is from BYU Idaho.  We hope she enjoys our classroom.  We know she will do a fantastic job.

Class Podcast

Mrs. Muir helping with our podcast

Recording our parts

We are so excited to share our podcast with you. Please click here to see our final project. We learned so many great things as we put this together. We hope you enjoy it.
Mrs. Morrison and class

Welcome back to school in 2009!  January will be a busy month for us.  We would first like to welcome our new student teacher to our classroom.  Miss Josephson will be with us for about 3 months.  We are excited to get to know her and even more excited for her to see what a fabulous 4th grade she is coming to with great students.  

**We will be busy getting back into our guided reading groups.  We will be reading some great new non-fiction and fiction books.  We will read about Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks and Ruby Bridges.  

**We will be doing a quick review with some multiplication and moving quickly on to division.  We look forward to showing off our long division skills.  

**We will be writing about our New Year's Resolutions, as well as, making a class movie about our resolutions.  We will post it on our blog when we are done.

**We will also be getting back into the swing of Writer's Workshop as we learn more about the Six Traits of Writing.  We have talked a lot about ideas and organization, and now we will focus on sentence fluency and voice.  

**We will spend two weeks on some music skills as we prepare for our fourth grade program that will be coming up in February (we hope!)  

**January will also be the kick-off of our science units.  We will be learning about dinosaurs of Utah and studying all about fossils.  

**Thanks for continuing to read each and everyday for at least 20 minutes.  

**Here's to a great new start to a new year!   Let's enjoy 2009!