We will be having an end of the semester Middle Ages Party on Friday, December 18^th. If anyone is interested in helping, please send me an email and I’ll pass your name on to the parents who are putting it together.

**The students were handed out the complete poem of Paul Revere’s Ride. Memorizing this is the fourth grade project that will be recited during project week (January 6-8). There is a date (our class is due each Friday not Wednesday) that each stanza should be memorized by. Please make it a priority to memorize a couple of lines each day, making it a much easier task to complete.

The next 14 lines of “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” (lines 42-56, through…that looks like a bridge made of boats.) are due this Friday.

The poem can be found in The Harp and Laurel Wreath on pages 94-99.

In math, we’ll be taking a quiz on adding and subtracting fractions on Tuesday. We start multiplying fractions this week. We are seeing how multiplication and division are closely related to fractions, so please review multiplication facts regularly with your child.

We finish volcanoes and geysers and will end Geology with rocks and erosion. A test on these subjects will happen next week. We will have ongoing review.

      I have started letting the students eat their lunch in the classroom a few days a week so we can discuss comprehension questions in Robin Hood, science and history. This is an optional time to have extra discussions.

      Thank you so much for the tissues that have come in. It is much appreciated!

Please clear out the “take home” folders regularly. The only thing that should be in there is homework to return and any papers that help with that homework.