Mueller Messenger

Volume 2, Issue 9 November 1 , 2010

What’s New? What is happening in 4th grade?

November Character Trait is
RESPECT!!
Demonstrating honor and value
through actions!
Weekly Quizzes &Work
Two Digit Multiplication
This week we will be starting two digit multiplication. We teach this
through three different methods and let your child pick which one
works best for them. Your child will be bringing home a sheet
explaining these three methods. Please be expecting your child to
bring home more homework these next few weeks to ensure
mastery!

Friday ~ Math Check Up, Spelling Test,

Box Tops Competition
Reading Skill Assessment
Mathews Elementary once again is collecting Box Tops until
Daily- Reading towards 100 minutes for
December 3. The top collecting class will be rewarded with a
the week, DLR
celebration. Please send in your box tops to help support new
resources for our school. It is a quick and easy way to gain new
Future Plans! items and/or technology for our school.

Nov. 2- NO SCHOOL Website Awareness

Nov. 5- PTA Movie night
Nov. 10- Veteran’s Day Assembly @
9 a.m.
Nov. 24-26- NO SCHOOL
Mark your calendars!!
Practice with Working with Words:
http://classroom.jc-schools.net/read/words.html
Pay close attention to the making words activities. This will increase
student awareness of root words and building new words. This is
what we call transfer.
Use scrabble tiles or find printable letter tiles on line!

The 1st Tuesday of every month

is Mathews night at Texas
Congratulations to our October Caring Kid:
Roadhouse. Anyone who goes and
tells their server they are there Carson Neal
for Mathews Elementary, 10% of
the receipt will go to our school!! Our Merit Award winner for this week is:
Spread the Word!!

What’s Coming Up?

Reading: Compare and Contrast
Writing: Commas in a series and using transition words in writing
Working With Words: are, everyone, can’t, community, nonliving, studies, worried, dried, cried, retried
Prefix: non- Suffix: -ity, -ing, changing –y to -ied
Math: 2X2 digit multiplication using estimation and break apart method
Social Studies: European Explorer Presentations- using Glogster