Christmas Food Drive

Every year our school likes to donate "kid friendly" food items to the Middleton Food Bank. This year we are focusing on Peanut Butter, Jelly (not homemade), and Cereal. Of course, you are also welcome to donate any other non perishable items as well. These donated items go to helping our community's families. Send items to school this week and next. Thanks in advance for your donations!

Apangea Challenge

There is an Apangea Challenge going on for the month of November. The more kids log on and participate, the more likely we will earn a prize! Apangea is a great math website that kids can earn individual prizes and now for the month of November class prizes as well!

Book Club Online

Miss Young, one of our Gifted and Talented teachers, has set up a book club blog online for the kids at Mill Creek. Any student can participate at any time. Check out the books, read, and respond!

http://msdgtfamilies.blogspot.com

Have Fun!

Book Orders

I sent home a number of book order packets. There are a few ways to order. You can send the order form back to school with a check attached made out to Scholastic. Or you can order online! Go to http://www.scholastic.com/ and follow these steps:

1. go to book clubs page and sign up. Register and pick a password. When prompted, use the one time class code: HDX4T. This code ensures that the orders are sent to my class which earns us free books for the classroom!

2. Select the books you would like to order. There are many more books available online than just the ones I sent home.

3. Send your orders to me by the due date written on the paper orders sent home.

Progress Reports

Progress reports were ready last week, I hope you had a chance to see them. We have a great class this year and I hope it continues! We are learning a lot about how to respect each other, our teacher, and all the other teachers in the building. Let's make it a great year!

Welcome to 4th grade!

I am so excited to be teaching fourth grade! We are going to spend a lot of time learning, growing, and laughing! Come to this blog for important information regarding room 206.

Seeds and Plants

Our new Science unit will begin next week. I am asking for my students to please bring in one or two packages of seeds to share with the class for our seed study. They will also need an empty egg carton. At the end of the unit each student will bring home one dozen baby plants to begin growing at home! Thank you.