Mrs. Thibodeau's Brilliant Blog

Welcome Miss Vanderhoof

2009-11-09T10:01:00.001-08:00

We are happy to have a wonderful student teacher, Miss Vanderhoof with us for the next nine weeks. She will be getting to know the children this week and then taking off with instruction. We are happy to heve her joining our class.

I also have one new Multiplication Master:
Jack H.

Everyone keep working on those basic facts.

Tonight we have our Spaghetti Dinner at the Eagles Club from 4:00 until 6:30. Please come and enjoy a super meal for a very good cause. Thanks again for all of you who are helping out.

Tomorrow we are going to the musical The Sound of Music at the High School. It would be nice to have the childen dess nicely for this experience.

Multiplication Masters

2009-10-26T09:47:00.000-07:00

We have our first two Multiplication Masters. These two students both scored a 100% in 4 minutes or less. Great Job kids!
Birenna
Michael L.

We will be taking our final test for our Math Fluency Unit on Wed. Oct.28th. The students need to continue to work on their Multiplication and Division Basic Facts.

Presenting Our Marvelous Monarchs

2009-10-26T09:32:00.000-07:00

We have been working so hard to finish our reports and paper mache critters. This Tuesday we will be presenting our hard work to other 4th grade classrooms in the step room. Our presentation times are 9:45 - 10:15 and 10:30 - 11:00. I appologize for the late notice, but feel free to come in to see all their hard work. I also plan to video tape theri presentaion and will be sending it home on student at a time.

The picture above is the September relase of our final Monarch Butterfly.

Monarchs

2009-09-24T18:25:00.000-07:00

We have just finished writing our reports and creating our paper mache Monarchs. This morning we excitedly watched the remarkable opening of a clear chrysalis into a beautiful Monarch Butterfly. She was released this afternoon amongst 44 well wishing hands.

Open House

2009-08-21T10:50:00.000-07:00

It was great to see so many of you at Open House on Thursday, Aug. 20th, 2009. I look forward to a great year. Just a quick reminder of the items covered:
Assginment Notebooks should be signed and returned to school daily.
At Milk Break students may bring their own snack or one to be used at the share table.
A letter explaining the Independent Reading program will be coming home soon. Independent reading is an important part of your childs education and Reading grade.
Students will be bringing home an Assignment Folder and a Home Folder. Please check these when they come home, and return the next day.
Our pet rat, Splinter, will be joining the classroom after we have learned how to care for her.
A weekly schedule will be coming home the first week of school.
Our first day of school will be Tuesday, Sept. 1st, 2009
Enjoy the rest of the summer and we'll see you soon!

March News

2009-03-02T14:55:00.000-08:00

We have been fortunate to have our teacher, Mr. Benjamine Cooney, here this quarter. He will be doing the lead teaching starting next week for 2 weeks. He is a very talented young man.

I hope your child brought home the note about our classroom making a Ice-Cream Sundae basket for a raffle at conferences next week. Only a few thing have been brought in. I hope everyone can help out in some way.

Conferences are next week Tuesday, March 10th and Thursday March12th. A letter will be coming home early this week telling you the time you are scheduled.

I want to congratulate the following students for participating in the 4th grade Spell Bee last month

Andie J.

Josh H.

Matt F.

Colling B.

Robbie T.

We have a new Dino Divider:
Daniel. D.

The children should be keeping up with all their Basic Facts. THey will need them for life.

Our reading Genre' for March is to read an Historical Fiction book, and then make either a shoe box setting with characters, or answer the 10 question sheet. Congratulations to Dustin J. for top reader for the month of February

Spelling Bee

2009-01-16T14:30:00.000-08:00

We will begin our classroom Spelling Bees this Tuesday, Jan. 20th. Your child will be getting a list to study from on Monday. I wanted to get the lists out last Thursday, but the cold weather shut down school. The children will be participating in 4 classroom Bees this week and can earn up to 5 points each day. Any child with at least 1 point by Friday will continue to participate in the 4 Spelling Bees next week, the students with 0 points will be having Spelling class as usual. The top 4 spellers in my classroom will advance in February to a 4th grade Spelling Bee held here at school.

January Newsletter

2009-01-16T14:26:00.000-08:00

January, 2009

Dear Parents.

I hope you all enjoyed the holiday season. I would like to say thank you for all the nice gifts I received before and after the season. The students had a nice break, but I am worried that several of them have forgotten their basic facts and have been slacking off on meeting their Independent Reading goals.

Once again this month is full. Our first visit to Time for Ease, and adopted grandparents, will be this Wed., Jan. 14th in the morning. We should be visiting once a month now through May.

We will be attending the play Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters at the Viterbo Fine Arts Center in La Crosse, on Thurs. Jan. 22nd. Your child should be returning their permission slip by Wed. Jan. 14th.

We will be doing our Winter Writing Assessment this week and MAPS Testing on Jan. 20th, 27th, and 30th. Please remind your child to get enough rest and do their best.

I will be sending a note home later this month telling you where your child is on their Multiplication and Division Basic Facts. We are looking at for a score of 95% in 4 minutes for proficient. If you child has forgotten some of their facts, please work with them. It will make it easier as we get into longer multiplication and division problems.

Students in my reading group should be finished with their cursive books. I will be requiring most assignments in reading and Language to be done in cursive from now on.

We will be getting a student teacher from La Crosse, Mr. Benjamin Cooney, from Jan. 26 until March 30th. He will be a wonderful addition to our classroom.

I have started a Blog which you can find on the Sparta Webpage. Just look under my name at Meadowview Intermediate School.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact me at school 269-2187 or email me at ethibodeau@spartan.org

Sincerely,
Mrs. Ellyn Thibodeau

November News

2008-11-17T15:38:00.000-08:00

We are finishing up our final week of testing. The students have been working hard, but will be happy to see the end.

We want to welcome our new student Joshua to our classroom.

Several students have been bringing in items for the food pantry. We are having a competition with the other 4th grade classrooms and we are in the lead so far.

We just finished our Multiplication and Division Review in Math and are moving onto the next chapter. A note will be coming home in the next week letting you know of your child progress.
Congratulations to our Multiplication Masters: Nick, Daniel, Kenya, and Andi
and our Dino Dividers: Nick and Kenya

Remind your child to dress for the cold weather. It looks as if winter is upon us.

Welcome to Meadowview

2008-09-03T14:19:00.000-07:00

We have had a busy two days of school. The students have created classroom rules and are learning all about each other , our classroom, and Meadowview Intermediate School. Our Monarchs are hatching out daily and we are beginning our Big 6 Research on one of the 7 stages of the Monarch. I think we are off to a great year.