Cup Stacking Challenge

The students had to lift Tommy up just to get the last one on the top.  Thank you Mrs. Kelley for teaching the students about sports stacking and improving their eye hand coordination.  I would have liked to see how you down stack this one.

Conferences

Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to come to conferences.  It was great to see most of you.  It was nice to talk to you about your child's successes.  I hope you have a great time with family during this thanksgiving holiday.

Halloween Party

The Halloween party is going to be held on Thursday, October 31, 2013, around 1:00-1:15pm with the parade and wax museum.  Fourth graders will pose in their rooms while the lower elementary walks through.  Parents, if you are free at this time come on in and watch your child stand still for an hour.  =)

I ask that the student's Halloween costume not be too violent or offensive, try to avoid fake weapons, please use your best judgment. 

            After the museum we will have our food party.  We are looking for volunteers to sign up for some of the following:  

Special Treat:Crazy Bread: Rebecca _
Special Treat: Brownies: Kayda____
Special Treat:Fruit Pizza: Matt_______
Special Treat: Hunter____
Special Treat:Halloween cookies: Christian_________
Special Treat: Brownies:Karlene
Special Treat: Finger Sandwiches:Leeah
Finger Jello: Tyne_________

2-liter pop: Claire__________
2-literPop:Claire_________
2-literPop:Alex_____
Cider or
Juice: _Bryce__

Carrots: Tommy__________
Cucumbers: Tommy__________
Veggie Dip: Tommy___________

Strawberries_______________
Pineapple________________
Grapes: ___Kila________

Fruit Dip__________________
Carmel Dip: Colton
Apples: Cole
Cheese: Landon
Crackers: Landon
Plates: Michayla_______________

Napkins: _Kayda_____
Plastic Ware: Michayla________
Cups: Michayla____________

Email me and I’ll post this on the class blog so you can see what still needs to be filled.

http://fredinsfourthfocus.blogspot.com/

Thank you for your support.  We have 25 people so please try to provide enough.  We hope to see you there.

Mr. Fredin

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4th Grade Update

4^th Grade Update

On going collections

We are trying to raise money to feed the hungry. Students can bring in money to put in a bucket at school. Don't feel any pressure to donate but the opportunity is here if you were looking for a cause. The winning class gets a Pizza Hut pizza party.

Box Tops, Labels for Education, Tyson, and Spartan UPC
We have collected quite a few. I have to believe we are in the lead on this competition but we will need about 2000 more points to win it.  Last year we collected 5,000 and still lost to Mrs. Brinks’ class by 80 labels.  Every label counts, let’s see what we can bring in.  The school has bought two tetherballs and red and blue pennies for the playground. The students love wearing these because they know who is on each team. These were ordered through the Campbell’s label program.  The students are seeing the results of their donations.

MEAP is finally here!

We have worked so hard on preparing for the MEAP test. Here is the 4th graders MEAP schedule. Tuesday Oct. 8 Reading part I
Wednesday Oct. 9 Reading part II
Thursday Oct 10 Writing part I
Tuesday Oct 15 Math
Wednesday Oct 16Writing Part II

Please have your child get plenty of rest at night and feed them well in the morning.  If students do eat breakfast at school, just a reminder that they stop serving at 8:00 a.m.

Picking up your child

If you pick up your child after school please meet them down by the office or outside by the big parking lot.  It is really crowded in the hall and we want to keep the students safe.  If you have an early dismissal please sign your child out at the office first.

Check out www.mcbain.org to see the teacher’s blogs. Mrs. O’Keefe has Social Studies information on her blog.  I have a link to my website on my blog that gets you to spelling lists, assignment sheets, class scheldule, math links, and other fun games.

We finally have our schedule figured out.  Music: Monday at 8:55, PE: Wednesday 2:15 and Thursday 8:15 (nothing like back to back) Computer: Tuesday 8:45 and Friday 9:15, and Library: Tuesday at 10:00 every other week

Mr. Fredin.

Register for Irish Dance at McBain

Irish Dance Club

      8 Week Class

September 23-November 11

Easy to learn, fun to do, great music to hear!

Mondays

3:15-4:15

$48 Session

Classes will take place at the:

McBain Choir Room

  Call Gina today for details

@  (231) 779-9976

or sign up in Mr. Fredin’s Room

Registration will be the first day of class.

First Week

Thank you for coming to the open house. It was good to see all of you. Thank you for all of the supplies brought in for your child.

IPAD update:  I think I am as excited as the students about these iPads.  We have learned basic things from turning them on and off, how to store them, we have taken pictures and discovered neat things that they do.  The students are assigned an email address.  This address is an in house email.  It means they can send email to me and to you if you give them you address but they cannot receive email.  Which protects them from spam and other things.  I would like you to email me at lfredin.mcbain.org.  You could just put address as the subject.  That way I will have it for my records and the students could email you too.

Book orders are coming home and they are due on Sept. 20^th.  If you order on line you get a 5 dollar free book and the class gets a 3 dollar free book.   It is like free money.

Meap is about 6 weeks away.  We are doing a lot of review for it.  We are reviewing everything they learned in third grade.  The summer seams to have taken some of that knowledge from them.

Late Start:
Late Start is the third Monday of the month. School starts at 10:00 a.m. on those days.
Ways to reach me:
Class Blog- go to mcbain.org. McBain Public School's homepage. click:
Elementary Teacher's Pages
Lars Fredin
From the class blog I have links to my website, my homepage, assignments, spelling lists.
Email me at lfredin@mcbain.org
Call 825-8330 ext. 1518 to leave a message
Call the Elementary office 825-2021and they can connect you to my room.
Thanks for your support;
Mr.Fredin