What are you reading? In language arts, we have been learning to write letters to Ms. Pizzo about our independent reading books. Next week, it will become homework every week (oh no!) in our Reader’s Notebooks. We will have a whole week to write our letters. We will write about what we have read lately. The letter will have three paragraphs: answering Ms. Pizzo’s questions, a brief summary, and the topic paragraph of the week. She will give us a topic each week to write one paragraph about, for example, genre, setting, or characters. Every letter will begin with a kind opening. We are doing these to practice reading comprehension, practice writing letters, and so that Ms. Pizzo knows what we are thinking while we read. We think it is a good project for building skills.

Poetry Slam by Ethan and Max

Do you hear the street music? We wrote street music poems based on Street Music by Arnold Adoff. We wrote about our street and what sounds we hear on it and what it looks like. Some sound words in our poems are swoosh, grinding, woof, crunch, bounce, meow, purr, chirp, pecking, hoop, and zip. We also wrote Love That _________ Poems inspired by Walter Dean Myers’s poem Love That Boy which we found in the book we are reading, Love That Dog. Someone wrote “Love That Cucumber”, someone else did “Love That Dog”, and another boy wrote “Love That Worm.”

Yum Configurations by Kiefer

Mmmm...sorry, my mouth was full. This week we switched lunch tables. I think we switched tables so we get to know more people in the Lower School. I was at Mr. Scott’s table for the first six weeks. I had Griff, Kyle, Cole, and a few others at my table. I’m now at Mrs. MacLellan’s table. There are fourteen tables in the dining hall with seven or eight boys at each. I’m at the fifth. Ask your son about his lunch table!

What’s Your Book by David and Witt

The Fenn School Concord, MA

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Mystery Person by LiamAre you ready for some clues? Did you

enjoy the clues from last week? Because I did. And now I will announce the mystery person from last week, and he is Kevin Gao! Clues for this week:

This boy has a pet dog called Sophie. His favorite sport is skiing. He was in a small scene in the movie Furry Vengeance.

A. Sam FarleyB. Henry WarzechaC. James BerneneD. Connor Whitley

Stay tuned for the answer next week.

Bandits in a school house? Those don’t go together! by Sam and James

Today we will go behind the scenes with the cast of No Ordinary Day. This play takes place in the late 1800’s in a one room school house in Kansas. The cast mates in our class are: James Bernene as Benny (the head bandit), Sam Farley as Marry, and Kiefer Read as Theodore. SUMMARY: The school children are in class normally doing a lesson when two bandits burst into the school and try to take charge of the children and Mrs. Louisa and hide out while they’re waiting for there train. No such luck. As the day goes on, they keep getting bossed around by Mrs. Louisa. She makes them be in a spelling bee. Right before the spelling bee, she selects two of the students to go get the flag down. Later in the spelling bee the sheriff comes and arrests the bandits. Score one for Mrs. Louisa! Come see the play!

The Fourth Grade News Page 2

Upcoming Events

*Thursday, 11/18, after school: Fourth Grade Movie Night

(RSVP to Mrs. Steinert or Mrs. Elton)

*Monday, 12/6, 7:00 pm: Instrumental Band Concert

*Monday, 12/13, 7:00 pm: Holiday Choral Concert

Yawns, Gasp, POW by Henry and William

Movie night is coming soon. It will be on the eighteenth of November after school, and we are excited. Max and Owen, our class senators, will be running it. The candidates for the movie are Karate Kid, Home Alone, The Tooth Fairy, Marmaduke and some other horror movies, like the incredibly lame Friday the Thirteenth and Predators. Just kidding! …About the ones that were scary. We will vote on which movie we want to watch. There might be popcorn and some other treats. My favorite movie is Ghostbusters and Henry’s favorite movie is The Last House on the Left. [And Doodle Bugs, but don’t forget Teletubbies.] He is a rabid fan of Teletubbies. His Halloween costume last year was a Teletubby. He has Teletubby accessories in everything! Don’t forget the Teletubby underwear. When Teletubbies is on PBS Sprout his mom can’t pull him away from the TV… Well, we hope you are excited for movie night…and the new Telletubbies premiere. This is William and Henry, signing off.

My Name is Bud, Not Buddyby Connor and Paul

Have you ever been on the lam? Bud has. We are reading a book called Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, the story takes place in the Great Depression in Flint, Michigan. Bud Caldwell has run away from his evil foster family the Amoses. Bud goes to a shanty town (a Hooverville) and meets a girl named Deze who asks if he had ever kissed a girl, and pretty soon they kiss each other. He is going to hop on a train heading for Chicago. But he does not make it. So we predict he will try to find his father whom he thinks is in a jazz band. We like this book because it’s about the past.

Celebrity Interview by Samuel and Kevin

This week we picked a segment called celebrity teacher interview. We are interviewing a lower school teacher and he is Mr. Byrd. We asked him questions and he answered them. Q: How many year have you been teaching?A: I have taught for twenty five years. Q: Why do you like Fenn?A: I like Fenn because the lower school rocks and I went to Fenn.

Q: Do you have pets?A: I have two dogs, a rabbit, and a cockatiel.

Q: What is your favorite sport?A: I like fly-fishing and biking.