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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Happy New Year

                      Welcome back to school Jan. events!

The Natural History Museum on the Move will visit us on Thurs. Jan.5 
bringing us exciting "hands on" activities with fossils.
The Living Planet Utah Waters Van Program, is bringing 
working models and live animals to teach about the water cycle, 
human uses of water, and Utah’s wetlands on Fri. Jan. 6
Don't forget your career project is a major part of your oral language 
grade for your Mar report card. Practice giving your speech using your
 poster of information on the three careers you research.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

2nd Grading Trimester Started Oct. 31

     COMING SOON
Spelling = words with silent e with endings
Reading = reading informational books,
                 using text features, recognizing text structures
Math = word problems requiring multiplication
             and division of whole numbers
Science = water cycle
Social studies = maps, GPS, geography is land structure,
                          climate, flora, fauna, people etc
Technology = keyboarding

Friday, August 26, 2011

Daily Schedule


Mrs. McKay’s Class Schedule    Sept. - Jan.

8:20   Business  ( Don’t be late!)

8:30   Math Starter and math puzzler --Resource  exits
8:40   Check math starter and discuss

8:50   Math Journal Yesterday’s review/today’s objectives
     9:00   Discuss   

9:15   New lesson demo, students copy teacher, partners
9:45   Independent practice with teacher help

10:00   Mon.- Wed. self check  Thurs.= COMPUTERS

10:15   Word work, Vocabulary, Spelling, Fluency, Groups 3,4

10:45   Recess

11:00   Teacher directed  comprehension strategies

11:30   Groups 4/5  Centers/comprehension
            Thurs. Library
12:10   Lunch and lunch recess

1:00    Monitored independent reading /Group 1 Fri. early day

1:20     Composition cycle mini lesson, writing practice, revisions

1:30     Independent writing / Groups/ Resource exit

2:00     Mon.Art/Music/Utah Studies Tues.Science 
            Wed.PE shoes



Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Welcome to Fourth Grade!

Dear Students and Parents,

Welcome to fourth grade!  I am very excited to be your teacher this year!  We are going to learn a lot of exciting things.

Please check our blog often as we will be posting information about what’s happening in our class and the school.

You can also email me at diana.mckay@canyonsdistrict.org

Again, welcome to fourth grade ! 

Sincerely,
Mrs. McKay