Hoekstra’s Herald March 2014
March 20, 2014
Issue 12
Emily Hoekstra
m o f f a t t . e m . t @ p e t o s k e y s ch o o l s . o r g
Weebly Account: http://ottawahoekstra.weebly.com
Upcoming
The “Short and Skinny” of Learning:
Important Dates:
MathThe last few weeks have been
Friday, March
21- Pot O’ Gold
Auction 5:308:00 p.m.
Friday, March
28-Tuesday,
April 8 Spring
Break Vacation!
- have a fun and
safe time. 
Thanks!
If you
donated a dollar for
our combined
fourth grade Pot o’
Gold Auction
basket, we want
you to know how
much we
appreciate you!
Thanks to your
generosity, we
were able to create
two baskets: A
Stay-at-Home Movie
basket, and a
Family “Datenight” Out basket.
Perhaps you will be
lucky enough to win
one of these great
prizes!
busy with sharing legends, working on
biographies, tightening up our
understanding of long-division,
learning about the National
Government Branches, and identifying
force. We also met in our Success
Squads to make special letters for a
very special someone at our school,
who recently won an important award.
Here is a snapshot of our learning for
the last two weeks:
- Long division: understanding story
problems, solving with 0’s in the
quotient, computing one-digit divisor
into three-digit dividends, and
writing number sentences from
pictures. A test is on Friday (3/21)
Science- Force, Motion and Kinetic (energy in
motion) vs. Potential (stored energy)
Energy
Reading-
Social Studies- Informational: Burning Town and
Powerful Women (since March is Women’s - Finished the Legislative (Congress)
Branch and moved on to the Judicial
History Month)
Branch: roles and responsibilities,
- Narrative: Finished Out of My Mind by
reenact a court case
Sharon Draper, Began Lit. Circles with new
Writingbooks and groups, and started The
Watson’s go to Birmingham (written by a - Finished Michigan legends, began
Michigan author)
working on biography note cards. WE
also did our winter nature walk and
Spellingwriting at NCMC. Students wrote
- f vs. ph sounds, and silent letters
beautiful poems, memories, and
connections to nature.
- Grammar test
A Couple of Reminders…
If you were able to make it to
conferences, you should have been
introduced to my new Weebly site. I am
trying to constantly update helpful
websites and information for you, so that
you can support your fourth grader at
home. If you have any suggestions for
sites you would like to see, or specific
information you would like support with,
please let me know in an email. I will try
to upload it to my Weebly site ASAP.
here at school, and also have a previous
year’s student example, to show them what
they might consider adding to their
speeches. Your fourth grader will take
their cards home over Spring Break, so
that they can practice with you and add
any information they are missing! 
Homework journals are being
worked on here at school for this month,
and we began meeting in conference
groups to get ideas from one another on
Last week your fourth grader
various pieces. If your child brings their
should have brought their biography
homework journal home, it is because they
information in to school. The reason being need to put more effort into getting their
is because we are starting to work on our homework prompts complete.
notecards. They have notecard templates