It's Been Awhile

The days are flying by and it is surprising to me how long it has been since we've posted. Here are some pics of things we've been up to lately.

 Playground Perimeter and Area MathFFA Petting Zoo Memories

1st Semester Reward Trip to Kung Fu Panda 3

Happy Birthday Oregon Party to celebrate Oregon's Statehood. We sang Happy Birthday to Oregon, shared some edible symbols and goodies from the state we call home. Oregon State Beverage: Milk, Oregon State Nut: Hazelnuts, Oregon State Beverage: Milk, Oregon State Fruit: Pears, Oregon State Fish: Salmon, Oregon Made Cheese, Oregon grown berries and cherries, Happy birthday Oregon cake and yummy cookies. We had a fun afternoon celebrating the state we call home and sharing Valentines with our school family.
I have attached a link to a great video put out by PBS that we watched in class today that has a history of how our state came to be. Hope you enjoy. 

OPB Oregon's Road to Statehood

I hope you have a fabulous (long) President's Day Weekend. See you Tuesday!
~Mrs. Owen

Thanksgiving Festivities

Today's Reader's Theater, Turkey Takes a Stand, was a hit! Thank you to the classes and families that were able to join us. If you missed it, you can check out our video below.

We also had fun with our very own Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Feast and November Birthday Celebration.

So thankful for the kiddos and families I am blessed to work with. Wishing you and yours a very wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday!

*Mrs. Owen

Empowering Others and Fostering Compassion

This week in our reading series we have been reading stories about others that have had compassion and have found ways to reach out and fill a need in communities or across the world. We have shared some AMAZING conversations and I've been so impressed with the heart of these kiddos. Today we watched the following video in class and the kids were very moved and wanted to share it with families. SO by request I've posted it here for your viewing pleasure.

I hope it sparks some amazing conversations in your home too.

*Mrs. Owen

Let'er Buck Memories

Cain Smith, Alex Simonton, and Ahnna Pederson came to visit and teach us about some of the events at the Pendleton Round-Up. The Hall of Fame was really cool because they showed old western movies and told us true stories. It was also fun and they let us look there and we got a guide.  
by Novah and Riley  AKA Rino

Fantastic fourth grade!!!!

The first week of school was cray cray because there is music only two days a week.      
Knock knock. Who's there? school. School who? We just schooled you.:)
We got 2 new people in our class. We have a great  time in fourth grade. We each have a job in fourth grade and switch after each month. Some of our jobs are Pledge Leader, Clock Watcher, Reporters, Vacation, Substitute, Personal Assistant, Vanna/Vaughn and more. We have started AR and CAFE. Next week we are going to the Children's Rodeo and Pendleton Round-Up. That's all for now.

reporters: Riley and Novah also known as RiNo

Video memories

Whitman Mission!!!

We had an AMAZING experience at Whitman Mission today and it really brought our Stout-Hearted Seven story and Oregon Trail unit to life. The Mission gift shop was not fully stocked for the summer visiting season yet and was out of the Stout-Hearted Seven books. I have had a number of students ask for them and will be looking into placing an order and will send home a note with pricing and order information if your family would like to purchase one for your family library. I will be posting pictures of our trip this evening (after the Echo Storm Youth Track meet :o)

New Year New Student

      ...AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
Since we came back from Christmas break we have had Character Ed with Mrs. Rist, our new couselor. January's character trait was courage. We also had Ag in the Classroom and learned about commodities. We have also had our 2nd quarter Echo Excellence Assembly to congratulate everyone who worked hard during 2nd quarter.
To start the news year off we got a new classmate named Elliot. She arrived on Tues. 20th 2015. Today was the January birthday celebration. Dax, Caiden, Elliot and Ashley had a birthday this month. We also had a special surprise from Dax, Tanner, Kyndra, Mason and Jolee saved up for a pizza party. We also had our first ever Rock, Paper, Scissors classroom tournament and Dax was the champ. It was an awesome day!

Reporter- Riley

PTA Harvest Festival

Thank you for all of the great donations for our State of Oregon basket. It is full of yummy foods from right here in Oregon, shirts to support our budding Ducks and Beavers, a calendar and book about the Columbia River Gorge! Come bid on it tonight at the PTA Harvest Carnival from 5-8 pm. Hope to see everyone there.

Halloween Happenings

September rap-up

SEPTEMBER MEMORIES Kyndra said she liked war paint and said whats up. on Monday buster the bus visited our school to talk about safety. people loved buster. on Tuesday the FFA AG students taught us about healthy foods to put on our plates. on Wednesday we went to the Pendleton Round-up, Hall of fame,and children's rodeo. HALLOWEENS COMING!!!! My last report kendra Next month is Ellie

Fourth Grade Frolics!

The first week

We did a fourth grade trivia show,name tag collages,getting to know a new student Halee.Getting new job's,C.A.F.E. reading, new principal Mr.Holman.We all loved the first week.

-Kendra M.

Happy Birthday/Statehood Oregon and Happy Valentine's Day!!!

We had a great day in 4th grade today! We watched some Kid President videos about ways to make the world more AWESOME and spread some LOVE. Ask your child about their BIG plans :o) 

Our Happy Birthday Oregon/Valentine Party was fabulous. We sang Happy Birthday to Oregon, whose birthday (Statehood) was February 14, 1859. We tasted some of the great foods that Oregon has to offer, such as: Oregon's State Nut- Hazelnuts, Oregon's State Beverage- Milk, Oregon's State Fruit- Pears, Oregon grown blueberries, and Oregon made Rice Cheese. We had an amazing cake made by Taylor and her mom. 

I hope that you all have a fabulous Valentine's Day and long weekend. Remember that there is no school Monday due to the Presidents' Day Holiday. 

~Mrs. Owen

January Book Club Lunch Bunch

Today we had our January Book Club Lunch Bunch for those students who returned all of their January reading logs with at least 120 minutes each week. We had a great time eating, and discussing the books that they have been reading. We are hoping to have even more Lunch Bunch members for February.

Happy Reading!!!

~Mrs. Owen

Weekly Buzz

• End of January reports: We all had a great new year! Our book orders are out to look at and are due Wednesday,29th of January. We  are out of jerky for students to bring home but students   may still be selling the last of their batch so get the last pieces of jerky and get candy!
• February report: We have some important events coming up in February. Here are the events dates Feb. 4th-book club lunch bunch,feb.6-pta meeting 7pm,feb.13-happy b-day Oregon/valentine's party jump rope for heart,febb.17-president's day-NO SCHOOL, feb.18-20- oaks testing,feb.24-27- "Seuss-sational " week and feb.27-feb. b-day celebration. That is our weekly buzz. +

weekly reporter is alexa.









 

OCTOBER UPDATES

Note from Mrs. Owen: It has been a busy couple of weeks here in fourth grade so we have fallen a bit behind on our Blog. This week's reporters, Alexa and Ariel, will be catching you up on all of the exciting events that have been keeping us busy.

*The end the first quarter was October 17. 

*We've been having parent teacher conferences this week. 

*we've been reading the witches by Ronald Dahl in class. It is an exciting book!It is a funny,scary story about witches turning children into mice.we are looking forward to watching the movie at our Halloween party.

*Last week we had a good time at the OMSI energy assembly. 

*We are selling jerky to raise money for are spring coast trip. if you would like to by some please see a 4th grader. 

*we have also been selling rafflel tickets for the PTA  harvest carnival. 

*we are also gathering items for our 'ALL THINGS OREGON' basket which will be auctioned off at the harvest festival. 

*This  week we wrote rebus Halloween  stories.It was awesome and fun!

*We are looking forward to our Echo Excellence Assembly and Halloween/October Birthday Party on October 31st. We will be making our own spooky and fun snacks and will be watching the movie, The Witches.

Busy, Busy in 4th Grade

We have been staying busy, busy in 4th Grade! Check out some of favorite moments from the past couple weeks.

Our Zentangle Quilt

Visiting Artist Denise Owen introducing us to Zentangle.

 Children's Rodeo 2013- LET'ER BUCK Dominic

 

 

LABOR DAY WEEKEND!!!

Today we celebrated our August birthdays. It was awesome! we started our new jobs this week. This Friday is our first home volleyball and football games. Please wear white for our white out crowd. In next week news, there is no school Monday because of Labor Day. Reading counts tests and RAH ( Reading At Home) homework will start after Labor Day. Picture day is next Thursday morning. Wear you smiles. :)
This is our first class blog entry. This week's reporters were Sandra, Taylor and the 4th grade class.

Hello 4th Grade Class of 2013-2014

Wow! It's hard to believe we have already completed our first week together. This has been a busy week in Fourth Grade. We got all of our supplies organized, completed our first couple writing projects, dealt with technology issues but still managed to finish most of our beginning of the year math and reading assessments, as well as just settling in.
This class has done a fabulous job being responsible about getting notes and agendas home, signed, and returned. I am so proud of them! Today they also brought home water bottles to be washed over the weekend.
Next week we will be celebrating our August birthdays on Thursday the 29th. We are very excited! Hope you all have a very restful weekend. See you Monday.
~Mrs.Owen