McCormick's Mission

Welcome To Our Class!

Welcome! Our class is very interesting, take a look around our website! We'll tell you all about it!

Thank you for visiting our website.  This website is almost entirely updated by my fourth grade students.  Please pardon any grammar errors or punctuation errors.  They are still learning and as they become more proficient in typing you should see an improvement in their typing.  I started this website because I firmly believe that students are more motivated to learn by using technology and by knowing that they have an authentic audience that's truly interested in what they are learning at school.  Check back often because the students update the site at least once a week.

This year our school wide theme is SPACE.  I decided to rename this website McCormick's Mission to kind of fit our space theme.  All of us teachers purchased Elms Space themed shirts.  We also have space themed shirts available in the office for our students. Shirts can be purchased in our main office for seven dollars.  We have child sizes and adult sizes.  We are planning to wear our shirts whenever we go on field trips.

My contact information.  Feel free to leave comments to my email account and I will share your positive messages with my students. 

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Popcorn Sales, Birthday Treats, and Snacks

Popcorn Sales:  Almost every Friday our school has a popcorn sale.  Each bag of popcorn costs only twenty-five cents.  Your child may purchase as many bags as you would like them to buy and may eat one in class during snack time.  

Birthday Treats:  It is up to the parents if they would like to send in a birthday treat for the class. Anything to celebrate a child's birthday is always welcomed.  Sometimes the children like treats other than cupcakes. For example, cheese and crackers, apples and peanut butter, donuts, fruit salad, or individual cheez-it cracker packets.  
Snacks:  The children are allowed to bring in a small healthy snack to eat in the morning.  Please make sure it is healthy.  For example, a granola bar, a cheese stick, sliced apples, small baggie of carrots, a small banana, fruit snack, or small packet of peanut butter crackers.

Things To Know

 Want to help world hunger? Now you can! At freerice.com, you can find the definition of a word, and if it is correct when you click on it, you just gave twenty grains of rice to someone who needs it! Is that awesome or what?! Today, Mrs. McCormick's class donated thousands of grains of rice in just one day! Please help end world hunger!

Science



We are studying the moon sun and earth.Here's a website that discusses the phases of the moon. http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/time/moon/phases.html

 Practice science concepts on this site http://www.macmillanmh.com/science/2008/student/na/grade4/g4_ch8.html
 

http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/patana/5t/science/earthsunmoonindex.html

Spelling

 Students will receive their spelling sorts on Monday.  We have spelling activities to do everyday.  We have to take one set of our words home to practice our sorts and you should watch us sort them at least once during the week so that we can get an A on the test and learn the patterns to become better spellers and help our vocabulary grow and grow. The website listed below has a great interactive spelling program.  Your child may go here to practice spelling words at their level.we are studying homophones.

http://www.learner.org/interactives/spelling/index.html

Math

We are on chapter two.  We are slowly getting into more challenging concepts.  Please help your child review the concepts that we covered in class when he/she gets home.  They only need to practice a few of the concepts in the evening.  It is always a great idea to have your child review concepts covered in class.  You don't even have to check their work if they go to the website listed before the computer scores their work and displays how well they are progressing or if they need more practice.
You may have your child review math concepts by going to www.aaamath.com

Grammar

Here's a great grammar site to haved your child practice the parts of speech. Check out the following site and have your child practice the parts of speech.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/spelling_grammar.shtml

Reading

Students are required to read for 120 minutes each week as part of their reading grade.  Please make sure your child turns in his/her reading logs on Monday so that they will not receive Super kid check.  Studies show that the more people read the smarter they become.  Take your child to our local library.  They may check out books free for a few weeks.  Your child may bring in his/her library card to show me that they have one and your child will receive extra credit just for showing me his/her library card.