Happy January!

The beginning of a new year provides us all with a fresh start and has us moving quickly to stay on top of things. Already a lot has happened during our first week back at school.

Spelling Bee Participants
On Thursday, 4th grade students choosing to participate took a written spelling exam to qualify for the oral spelling competition held within our grade level. There were 2 winners and one alternate established from each class. The winners will represent our grade level at the BGS Spelling Bee on Tuesday, January 12 in the BGS gymnasium. Congratulations to our classroom winners - Morgyn & Jordan, and our alternate - Adam, for fantastic spelling under pressure! The winner of our school spelling bee will move on to represent BGS at the Reno County Spelling Bee at the end of January. Good luck!

Kansas History
In January we celebrate Kansas's birthday so it is the perfect month for us to learn more about out state. Throughout this month your student will be studying everything about Kansas from government and land to explorers and famous people from our state. Each student will be assigned to research a famous Kansan during our library times and will be creating a technology presentation to share with the class.

This unit also supports the region we are studying in social studies: the Midwest. Chapters 8 & 9 in our social studies book will be the focus of study for the next few weeks. We will be learning about the land, economy, and people of the midwest region. The assessment for this information will be a UNIT test instead of a chapter test and will take place at the end of the month.

Measurement Madness!
We will be immersing ourselves in the world of measurement during the month of January. During math time we will be studying customary/standard measurement and during science we will be exploring metric measurement. Practice many different types of measurement at home with your student. There are daily opportunities to practice these skills while following a recipe, calculating distance between cities while traveling, following a pattern while sewing, weighing things on the bathroom scale, or just exploring the length of objects around the house.