Happy Thanksgiving!

In honor of Thanksgiving, some of the 4th graders recorded their favorite recipes to share with you. Warning! Some of these will not be appetizing!

The 4th grade wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving!

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This update brought to you by Bradley!

Fourth grade has been working on an art project with Mrs. Lockrow based on a chinese painting. Remember to turn in your art project to Mrs. Lockrow!

Autobiographies were due on Friday! They look great. Make sure to check them out in our hall this week!

Grandparents Day is Tuesday. We hope to welcome all of our grandparents next week! Remember: you can still get paper flowers from the 5th graders to give to your grandparents--they have really cool colors!

Fourth grade had a vocab and spelling test on Friday. Hope we bring home great grades!

Next week is Thanksgiving. Have a great week with your families and we will see you Tuesday, November 29th!

Student of the Week--Riley L.

Introducing Riley!

"Once there lived a girl named Riley. She was 9 years old. She loves cinnamon rolls and her strengths are that she is funny, nice, and a good friend to people who are nice to her. If someone talks about you behind your back, then you wouldn't want to be friends with them," describes Riley of herself. Her classmates agree! "Riley is so nice. She will do anything for you. She is a great friend."

Riley's strengths include: being kind to others, having a good heart, "she always dresses very colorfully," having a unique personality, and minding her own business. "Riley has a way of trying to make things better."

Her classmates also appreciate that she listens to what other people say. This green-eyed, caramel haired girl has the ability to be loud as well! One of her good friends says, "Honestly, I think she never goes unnoticed."

Riley loves to draw and her friends notice that she "really thinks about stuff" before she puts it to paper. Her favorite color is purple--"that's what she uses a lot in crayon selection," notes a classmate.

"She likes to have peace signs on everything she has, but that's not a bad thing." When Riley is happy, she likes to make other people happy.

We love Riley!

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My name is Audrey and I am your blog update person for the week.

We went to TrailWise on Monday and finished our shelter. TrailWise is a field trip that we do once a month. It is a nature field trip. Because we will miss December, we did two TrailWise trips in November. We love being outside for TrailWise!

This week I was the crucifer. We are going in alphabetical order through Mrs. Green's class first and then Mrs. Gallagher's class. I am in Mrs. Green's class in fourth grade. We are very loud and we have a lot of crazy people in our class.

Reminders:

Grandparent's Day is next Monday, November 22nd! Don't forget to order your flowers from the 5th graders to show your grandparents how much you appreciate them!

Watch and share our video with grandparents!

We will start working on Young Southern Writer's Contest entries this week. This will be a step by step process of building a larger work--we will work on it in class and at home!

Autobiographies will be completed this week in time for Grandparent's Day

It isn't too late to sign up for Basketball!! Please email Mrs. Green with any questions: bgreen@stpeters.org

If you missed the town hall meeting on Tuesday, you can catch a glimpse of what you missed by tuning in to this video:

Student of the Week--Cannon

Introducing our resident guitarist, duct tape extraordinaire, and foreign accent specialist, Cannon!

Cannon is a very funny student who takes delight in entertaining his classmates. His classmates are very grateful for this entertainment and his teachers "try to make him sit and be quiet a lot of the time," writes one classmate. "Cannon is a wild, crazy, interesting child. His strengths are entertaining himself, entertaining others, and being wild."

Cannon also has a propensity to create with duct tape. "Cannon's strength is making stuff strong with duct tape," as well as creating wallets, bags, belts, hats, pants, pencil toppers, hacky sacks, etc. with duct tape. Last year, Cannon and Max (5th grade) raised money for Emily's Power for a Cure by selling their duct tape creations, which were a hit at school.

He writes about himself (spoken in a French accent), "Our student of the week is a swell and handsome boy who loves the power of accents. His strengths include those that are related to duct tape. Although I haven't met this boy, I have heard that he loves Bob Dylan."

Keep your eyes and ears open! Cannon has been voted "Most Likely to be Famous" by his classmates because of his guitar interests.

We love our crazy Cannon!

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4th Grade Weekly Update

Because this week was a little crazy in the 4th grade (we had 3 different substitutes this week!), we didn't get to assign a blog updater. We will definitely be back next week with the STORM Chaser and guest reporter Bradley!

Until then, here are a few reminders:

TrailWise tomorrow morning 9-12. A BIG thank you to all our parents who are driving and staying tomorrow as Mrs. Gallagher is a bit sub-par after her dental work Friday. We will be working on finishing our shelter that we began last time.

Basketball signups are due. If you would like to play basketball for our STORM team, please send in your basketball signups! We would love to have a great showing for 4th grade participation! Practice may begin after Thanksgiving and games will start after we return from Christmas break. If you have questions regarding athletics, please email Ms. Blaes at bgreen@stpeters.org

Autobiographies are in the making! We need each student to bring in a picture of themselves and a picture of their hero for a display we are working on for grandparents day.

Young Southern Writer's Contest information went home last week. We will begin working on these in class and start a writing process that will take several steps while we build a prose piece for the contest. This is a great exercise in building a longer piece of written work.

Hope you all remembered to Fall Back and reset your clocks for daylight savings!

We are looking forward to a great week in 4th grade!

If you haven't already, check out our Grandparent's Day video below!

Student of the week--Lauren R.

Introducing....Lauren R.!

Our student of the week is Lauren R. She is described by her classmates as, "a kind friend who doesn't aggravate anyone." Her strengths include being a good listener, being nice, behaving nicely, and being a good sport. Her classmates appreciate that she "makes her own choices, likes what she likes, and doesn't worry about what others do." One time Kali and Lauren pretended to make a movie--they forgot to get it on tape, though!

Lauren's favorite color is yellow and she especially loves the book Tuck Everlasting. She hopes to one day visit Hawaii and she really enjoys her steak medium. One of her classmates notes: "She draws a lot when we have indoor recess." Is there art in Lauren's future? Among art, Lauren's strengths include "getting her journal done fast," "never tells lies," and "standing up for herself and saying sorry if she needs to, which is a really good strength to have." Generally, Lauren's classmates agree that when Lauren is happy, she is trying to make other people happy.

Lauren loves art and a classmate noted, "Lauren is a quiet girl, but when Lauren colors, she loves to use bright colors." Lauren describes herself as funny, nice, and kind. She loves art and she also loves to dance; she has taken dance at Karen Horton School of Dance for almost 6 years!

We Love Lauren!

Grandparent's Day Video

Please share this movie with anyone interested in Grandparent's Day 2011. Our 4th graders are excited to show you what we're all about at St. Peter's!