September 5, 2008
Waterville 4th grade

Dear parents,
We would like to tell you about our new students and what things we did this week.

The new students in our class this year are Aitana, Cheyenne, Devon and Nik. Aitana is a good friend to have. She sticks up for others. She came from the Wenatchee school system. Cheyenne is very kind to others. She is playful and fun to be around. She was in our class in K and first grade and now she’s back! One of the new boys in our class is Devon. He is a good friend and fun to play with. Devon use to live in Kelso. Right now he is the tallest kid in our class and Katja is so glad she’s not the tallest anymore. Finally, Nik came to us from Orondo. He lives in Waterville and was with us in K. He is good at sports.
This week, we have tried out all enrichments. On Wednesday, we went to PE. Thursday was hand/key and we had real computers to do keyboarding on. Finally, on Friday we went to art and music.

We have already done two math lessons with homework over the weekend. We like the challenging and fun math. We have learned how to find an unknown (x, t, a) in an addition problem by subtracting. For writing, we reviewed how to plan an expository piece of writing about things we put in our bags that tell people about us. Mrs. Petersen was so happy that we remembered how to plan with green, yellow and red. She was also speechless when we all returned our parent signed forms on the first day! Our reward was 5 Petersen $$ in our very own wallet.

Your sweet loving 4th grader,