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BROMWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (214) Telephone: Mr. Jonathan Wolfer, Principal |
An Introduction to the Fourth GradeDear Heartbroken and Worried Third Graders,We know that this is a sad and gloomy time for you. Summer is almost here, and that means you will have to bid a melancholy farewell to tests, homework, and cafeteria food. You poor things! Months of boredom stretch ahead, dull days and listless weeks when you will have rely on only your own wits, your videogame platforms, and perhaps the fleeting diversions of some bizarre camp or weird museum program selected by your parents, likely at the last minute. You will not be able to depend upon Mr. Cutler’s computers or Ms. Hottinger’s magic markers, and Mr. Lassen’s tambourines are entirely out of the question. Worst of all, Ms. Fox and Ms. Leighty will be too busy preparing to welcome a bunch of ex-second graders into their lives, and won’t have much time to answer your desperate e-mails or plaintive postcards. Of course, this all means that you must face the future, and that is one of the most horrifying and dreadful experiences any of us can undertake. Fortunately, there are at least two people who have sympathy for your plight, Ms. Lewis and myself. So we have created this book to help you peer through the mists of time into the distant future of the next school year. We don’t really possess the kind of magical powers that can actually foretell the future -- well, at least I don’t. To tell you the truth, sometimes I suspect that Ms. Lewis may have one or two magical powers up her sleeve. All supernaturalism aside, however, we would like to help you look ahead by sharing some of the work done by this year’s fourth graders. Next year, they will be the oldest kids at the school, and will no doubt strut around the playground with their noses in the air, but this year they have been generally decent, and their work is worth your attention. As you’ll see in the pages ahead, fourth graders at Bromwell study and learn about things much like kids do in third grade. There are some differences, though. We rotate classes for science and social studies, not math and writing as in third grade, and the subjects for science and social studies are different – geology and simple machines on the one hand, and Colorado history on the other. We also take a three-day, two-night trip to the Keystone Science School every year. During this trip we hike all over Summit County and hold classroom lessons right on the trail. Now, don't worry. None of our students have ever fallen off a cliff or gotten eaten by a wild moose during these trips, although once a parent chaperone put his hiking pants on backwards and then had to wear them that way all day. Adults can be so embarrassing sometimes! You don’t need to worry about embarrassment regarding fourth grade. Just read this book. You will be entirely prepared for your new school year. If you are still bored this summer, you can look at our classroom webpages, which may even be updated sometime soon. You'll be all set, and we’ll have a great year together. As for fifth grade – that's another problem entirely! Not very sincerely, Mr. Replogle
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