Class 4-316 Blog: December 2012

Mark Your Calendars!

Please note these special dates.

May

3: Colonial Day
3: Italian Ice Party
6: Slam Chops assembly
13: ESL Testing
14: iFish Field Trip
16: Field Day!
20: Orchestra Performance
23: Slam Chops performance
24: Aristocats (5th grade play)
27: Memorial Day, no school
5/28-29: Science Exam (Hands-on)

June

3: Science Exam (Written)
4: Javier's Birthday
6: Chancellor's Day, no school
7: Philly Chaperone Meeting, 8 am
10: Half Day
10: Ursula's Birthday
13: Ballroom Recital
14: Hannah's Birthday
14: Author Visit (Tommy Greenwald)
18: Philadelphia Trip
21: Summer Birthdays Party
26: Last Day of School!

Our Summer Birthdays:

July:
24: Matthew's Birthday

August:
7: Michael's Birthday
25: Nikhil's Birthday

September

1: Alex's & Kemi's Birthday
6: First Day of School
9: Jonathan's & Roland's Birthday
17 & 18: Rosh Hashanah, no school

18: Giuliano's
Birthday
21: September Bday Party
24: Gianna's
Birthday

26: Yom Kippur, no school

27: Curriculum Morning

29: Ellasia's
Birthday

October

1: Fardin's Birthday

8: Mattia's Birthday

8: Columbus Day, no school

10: Picture Day!

15: Honoha's Birthday
15-19: Scholastic Book Fair

21: Ms. Z's Birthday

26: Story Book Parade

November

4: Kamilla's & Ruby's Birthday
6: Election Day, no school
9: Publishing Party!

12: Veterans Day, no school

13: 4th Grade Open School Day

14: Noon dismissal

14: Parent Teacher Conferences

16: Seth's Birthday
27-29: Rally Testing (ELA)

22 & 23: Thanksgiving Recess

December

4-6: Predictive Testing (Math)
5: Photo Make-ups
5-7: Holiday Book Sale
10: Maia's Birthday
11: New Extended Day begins
12: Pajama Day!
13: Lane's Birthday
14: Realistic Fiction Publishing Party
14: December Birthday Party
19: Roan's Birthday
21: 4-316 Holiday Party!
24 - Jan. 1: Winter Recess

January

TBD: Day of Writing

1: New Years Day, no school

21: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, no school

February

4: David's Birthday
5: New York Historical Society visit
6: 50's Dress Up Day
10: Stephanie's Birthday
13: Valentine's Day Dance
14: Valentine's Day
15: February Birthday Celebration
15: Box Top deadline
18 - 19: Mid-winter Long Weekend
26: New Extended Day cycle starts

March
4: Sammy's Birthday
12: Parent-teacher conferences
13: Ballroom starts!
13: Black & White day
13: Testing Meeting for parents
14: Ms. Penett's Birthday
17: Gabe's Birthday
25 - April 2: Spring Break

April
10: 80's Dress Up Day!
12: School Survey due
16, 17, 18: ELA Exam
19: Earth Day Celebration
24, 25, 26: Math Exam
26: Amanda's Last Day
29: Amir's & Daniel's Birthday
30: Leah's Birthday

The Golden Glove (Bowen)

Clementine's Letter (Pennypacker)

Dragon Slayer Academy series (McMullan)

Officer Spence Makes No Sense! (Gutman)

Otis Spofford (Cleary)

The Baby-Sitters Club series

Pony Pals: A Pony In Trouble (Betancourt)

Ramona character series (Cleary)

Rats On The Roof And Other Stories (Marshall)

Sable (Hesse)

Seven Kisses in a Row (MacLachlan)

Smasher (King-Smith)

Starring Grace (Hoffman)

Summer Wheels (Bunting)

Tornado (Byars)

Gettin' Through Thursday (Cooper)

In the Land of the Lawn Weenies: And Other Warped and Creepy Tales (Lubar)

Saving Sweetness (Stanley)

Talk About A Family (Greenfield)

The Gold-Threaded Dress (Marsden)

Three On Three (Walters)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Dahl)

Time Warp Trio series (Sciezka)

Stone Fox (Reynolds Gardiner)

Dragon Slayers Academy series (McMullan)

Encyclopedia Brown series (Sobol)

Owls in the Family (Mowat)

Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Sachar)

Howliday Inn (Howe)

Who Stole My Wizard of Oz (Avi)

Basil of Baker Street (Titus)

Mary Moon is Missing (Peilly Giff)

Murder on the Canadian (Wilson)

Wanted…Mud Blossom (Byars)

The Lucky Stone (Clifton)

The Battle for the Castle (Winthrop)

The Legend of Spud Murphy (Colfer)

Martin’s Mice (King-Smith)

No Flying in The House (Brock)

The Spoon in the Bathroom Wall (Johnston)

Worry Website (Wilson)

According To Humphrey (Birney)

Full Court Fever (Bowen)

Superfudge (Blume)

Stranded (Mikaelsen)

The Spiderwick Chronicles (Black)

Nothing Ever Happens On 90th Street (Schotter)

Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing (Blume)

The Lucky Stone (Clifton)

The Toilet Paper Tigers (Korman)

There's A Boy In The Girls' Bathroom (Sachar)

There's An Owl In The Shower (George)

You Be The Jury (Miller)

Drita, My Homegirl (Lombard)

Moon Runner (Marsden)

Aliens Ate My Homework series (Colville)

Bunnicula series (Howe)

Homer Price (McClosky)

Dear Mr. Henshaw (Cleary)

The Homework Machine (Gutman)

Caddie Woodlawn (Brink)

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (Dahl)

Charlotte's Web (White)

Chet Gecko Mysteries (Hale)

Clarice Bean series (Child)

Deltora Quest series (Rodda)

Frindle (Clements)

Otherwise Known As Sheila The Great (Blume)

Guardians Of Ga'Hoole series (Lasky)

Summer School! What Genius Thought That Up? (Winkler)

Hatchet (Paulsen)

How To Eat Fried Worms (Rockwell)

Iggie's House (Blume)

Misty Of Chincoteague (Henry)

Our Only May Amelia (Holm)

Sadako And The Thousand Paper Cranes (Coerr)

Sarah, Plain And Tall (MacLachlan)

School Story (Clements)

Hunter's Moon (Townsend)

Shiloh (Naylor)

Secret Identity (Van Draanen)

Snow Treasure (McSwigan)

The 39 Clues series (Riordan)

The Castle In The Attic (Winthrop)

The Edge Chronicles (Stewart/Riddell)

The Landry News (Clements)

The Spiderwick Chronicles (Black)

The Tia Lola Stories (Alvarez)

A Dog Called Kitty (Wallace)

Danger On Panther Peak (Wallace)

Every Living Thing (Rylant)

Fig Pudding (Fletcher)

Freaky Friday (Rodgers)

Lunch Money (Clements)

Megan's Island (Roberts)

Miracles On Maple Hill (Waugh)

Mystery Stories (Cresswell)

Nasty Stinky Sneakers (Bunting)

No Talking (Clements)

Rules (Lord)

Strider (Cleary)

Stuart Little (White)

Sun And Spoon (Henkes)

The Celery Stalks At Midnight (Howe)

The Computer Nut (Byars)

The Doll's House (Godden)

The Island (Paulsen)

The Jacket (Clements)

The Library Card (Spinelli)

The Midnight Fox (Byars)

The Monster's Ring (Coville)

The Report Card (Clements)

The Stray (King-Smith)

The Trumpet Of The Swan (White)

The Whipping Boy (Fleischman)

The Witches (Dahl)

They Came From Center Field (Gutman)

Zeely (Hamilton)

A Dime A Dozen (Grimes)

Ghost Sitter (Griffin)

Nothing's Fair In Fifth Grade (DeClements)

Trapped! (Kehret)

Deltora Quest series (Rodda)

The Robe Of Skulls (French)

Granny Torrelli Makes Soup (Creech)

The Sea Of Monsters, Percy Jackson & The Olympians (Riordan)

The Onts (Greenburg)

The Pirate, Big Fist, And Me (Cosson)

A Dog's Life: Autobiography of a Stray (Martin)

The Young Man And The Sea (Philbrick)

Uncle Jed's Barbershop (Mitchell)

Whatever!: The Complicated Life of Claudia Cristina Cortez (Gallagher)

A Maze Me: Poems For Girls (Nye)

Project Mulberry (Park)

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale Of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, And A Very Interesting Boy (Birdsall)

The Cricket In Times Square (Seiden)

The Janitor’s Boy (Clement)

Hot Hand (Lupica)

Long Arm Quarterback (Christopher)

The Silver Spoon of Solomon Snow (Umansky)

Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time (Yee)

The Underland Chronicles (Collins)

Finding Buck McHenry (Slote)

Baby (MacLachlan)

Baseball Card Adventures series (Gutman)

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid (Kinney)

The Tail Of Emily Windsnap (Kessler)

Fair Weather (Peck)

Harriet The Spy (Fitzhugh)

Inkheart Trilogy (Funke)

Lupita Manana (Beatty)

Nory Ryan's Song (Giff)

Rowan Of Rin (Rodda)

Sammy Keyes series (Van Draanen)

The Barn (Avi)

The Children Of Green Knowe (Boston)

The Great Brain (Fitzerald)

Al Capone Does My Shirts (Choldenko)

Keys to the Kingdom (Nix)

The Forgotten Door (Key)

The Sign Of The Beaver (Speare)

The Tiger Rising (DiCamillo)

A Summer To Die (Lowry)

A Week In The Woods (Clements)

An Angel For Solomon Singer (Rylant)

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (Blume)

Becoming Joe DiMaggio (Testa)

Blubber (Blume)

Bridge To Terabithia (Paterson)

Bright Shadow (Avi)

Cousins (Hamilton)

Cracker Jackson (Byars)

Crazy Fish (Mazer)

Danny The Champion Of The World (Dahl)

Darby (Fuqua)

Ferret In The Bedroom, Lizards In The Fridge (Wallace)

Hate That Cat (Creech)

Here's To You, Rachel Robinsonn (Blume)

It's Not The End Of The World (Blume)

Joey Pigza Swallowed The Key (Gantos)

Just As Long As We're Together (Blume)

Leon's Story (Tillage)

Love That Dog (Creech)

My Life As A Fifth-Grade Comedian (Levy)

My Louisiana Sky (Holt)

Replay (Creech)

Sees Behind Trees (Dorris)

Sing Down The Moon (O'Dell)

Six Innings:A Game in the Life (Preller)

Something Upstairs (Avi)

Sounder (Armstrong)

The Black Stallion (Farley)

The Kid Who Ran For President (Gutman)

The Leanin' Dog (Nuzum)

The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe (Lewis)

The Night Journey (Lasky)

The Rifle (Paulsen)

The Schernoff Discoveries (Paulsen)

The Secret Life Of Amanda K. Woods (Cameron)

The Steps (Cohn)

The Toothpaste Millionaire (Merrill)

Then Again, Maybe I Won't (Blume,)

Throwing Shadows (Konigsburg)

Tracker (Paulsen)

What Jamie Saw (Carolyn)

Where The Mountain Meets The Moon (Lin)

Wish On A Unicorn (Hesse)

Amalee (Williams)

I, Coriander (Gardner)

Molly Moon's Incredible Book Of Hypnotism (Byng)

The Time Hackers (Paulsen)

Trouble Don't Last (Pearsall)

Year Of No Rain (Mead)

Heaven (Johnson)

The Burning Questions Of Bingo Brown (Byars)

The Edge Chronicles (Riddell)

The Sisters Grimm series (Buckley)

The View From Saturday (Konigsburg)

The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963 (Curtis)

Thunder Rolling In The Mountains (O'Dell)

Words By Heart (Sebestyen)

Wringer (Spinelli)

Bud, Not Buddy (Curtis)

Evangeline Mudd's Great Mink Rescue (Elliott)

The Graduation Of Jake Moon (Park)

The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane (DiCamillo)

The Voyage Of Patience Goodspeed (Frederick)

The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar And Six More (Dahl)

Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story (Hahn)

Rules Of The Road (Bauer)

So Hard To Say (Sanchez)

Baseball in April and Other Stories (Soto)

The BFG (Dahl)

Loser (Spinelli)

Tangerine (Bloot)

39 Clues series

Chronicles of Prydain series (Alexander)

Charlie Bone series (Nimmo)

Warriors series (Hunter)

The Graveyard Book (Gaiman)

City of Ember (DuPrau)

12.24.2012

4-316 Holiday Bonanza!

Happy

Holidays

4-316!!

12.21.2012

December Birthday Time!

12.20.2012

4-316 Enjoys Choice Time!

12.14.2012

Constructing Better Readers Final Project!

Realistic Fiction Publishing Party!

12.08.2012

M'Lady Math's Final Project! Somewhere Over the Factor Rainbow

12.02.2012

Save the Date!

12.01.2012

Follow the Culinary Adventures of our Class Pumpkin...