Dear Families,
As many of you know I am retiring this year. My last day with your children will be Friday, May 30. I would like to have a Pizza Lunch with the class on Tuesday, May 27 at 11:30. I will provide pizza, a drink, and a snack. We will go to recess at noon.This is also Science Fair Day. Our classroom's time is 1:45-2:15. Please feel free to visit on this day if you would like. Tomorrow is Field Day for grades 4-5 all day. Thursday is the Volunteer Reception from 1:30-2:30. Friday the children do not have school. The OAA Dance is also next week on May 30. The year is quickly winding on down. Enjoy the long Memorial Day Weekend!
Mrs. Kahles

Happy New Year everyone! I wish you a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2014. I hope everyone enjoyed our holiday break and the snow! January will be a busy month at school. We will be taking our winter Dibels test for fluency and our winter MAP tests in reading, math, and language. The MAP test is a measure of academic progress. Parent /Teacher conferences are on January 28th and February 6th. The second quarter ends on January 17th. Report Cards will be posted online the following week.The Flying Pig kick -off Assembly will be next week to give the students their mile logs. The PTA has sponsored a trip to the Art Museum for fourth grade. It is on Wednesday, January 15th. I have 2-3 chaperones but could use 1-2 more if you are interested. Academically, we are beginning Chapter 5 in Go Math! It is about factors, multiples, and patterns in numbers. We will continue Unit 3 in Reading Street (patterns in nature) by reading a myth, a tall tale, and about hurricanes. We will not finish the unit until February. Mr. MacFarland will complete his science unit with the class before the quarter ends. After that we will continue Social Studies with Chapter 6 about the growing state of Ohio. That's all for now!
Mrs. Kahles  

December News

Hello families! I hope you all enjoyed your snow day and did something fun. We are reading interesting selections in Reading Street about patterns in nature. The students did agreat job on their book projects and have been reading alot of minutes for the Book It Program. Everyone is so happy to have the school library open again thanks to the volunteers! We are working on Division strategies in Go! Math and will test Chapter 4 before the Holiday Break. Many students have taken advantage of the extra credit reteach or challenge worksheets for each lesson that I have given out. The class is enjoying science with Mr. MacFarland for the next 4-5 weeks. The Holiday Shop at school is open next week. Our shopping day is Monday. Interims are posted on Progress Book since last Friday.The class will be having a Holiday Party on December 20 @ 1:45-2:30. The Room Mom will send home information soon. That's all for now. Stay warm, it's cold out there!

Mrs. Kahles 

November 2013

Hello families!
I enjoyed meeting with so many of you for conferences. I hope you enjoyed viewing the Native American projects that the students completed for Social Studies. They did a wonderful job! Fourth grade has been very busy in Go! Math learning how to multiply multi-digit numbers and will move into division in a few weeks. We will be completing our second unit in Reading Street about Teamwork in a few weeks as well. I am pleased to see the progress in writing on the weekly prompt. The children enjoy using the new Sleuth Books that have been added to the program this year. We are all very excited about having library every Monday! This month we are completing a Book Report and Project and are logging our 20 minutes of reading for the Book-It Program. Last Friday we enjoyed a Veteran's Day program that honored our local veterans. Thanksgiving will be here before you know it. I hope you have a peaceful celebration with family and friends. There is much to be thankful for in our lives. As always I am thankful for your wonderful children that I get to work with every day!
Mrs. Kahles   

Hello everyone. We had a great time at the Fit-a- thon yesterday. The volunteers did a great job and we enjoyed using the back field this year. Can you believe there are only 12 days left to our school year! It has gone by so quickly. Science Fair Projects are due on Tuesday, May 29th. Our class presents on Friday, June 1st in the AM. We will have the projects set up in the Art Room. The OAA Dance is on Friday, May 25 @ 2PM. We had perfect attendance during testing so our entire class gets to participate. Our End of Year Awards Assembly is on June 6 @ 1PM. Honor Roll & Perfect Attendance for the entire year will be presented by Mrs. Walker at this time. Have a great rest of the year!  

Happy Spring!

I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing Spring Break. Next week is OAA Spirit Week and Book Fair Week. Our Book Fair day is on Friday from 9:55-10:20. OAA Spirit Theme is: "Amelia Tigers Race to the Top!" Monday- Daytona 500, Tuesday- Kentucky Derby, Wednesday- Amelia Spirit, Thursday-Hawaiian Kayak Race, Friday- Flying Pig Marathon. The OAA Pep Assembly will be on Monday, April 23@ 1:30. The OAA Reading Test for 4th Grade is on Wednesday, April 25th. The OAA Math Test for 4th Grade is on Wednesday, May 2nd. Report Cards went home on Friday, April 13th. Our next Science Test on Weather is on Tuesday, April 24th and our next Math Test on Area, Perimeter, and Volume is on Friday, April 27th.

February News

It was great to see so many of you at conferences and at the Valentine's Day Dance. The children enjoyed exchanging valentines on Tuesday. A big thank you goes out to Mrs. Hawthorne for the treat bags. We have completed Unit 3 in Literacy and Unit 6 in Math. This week we will have our test on Earth Science.We begin fractions in Math and Unit 4 in Literacy. The students have new math journals and reading books for the rest of the year. Interim Reports go home on Friday the 24th. Please continue to check the Weekly Folders for Office Information and Graded papers.