Fourth Grade: Mrs. Pauline Hackett
Grade 4: Mrs. Pauline Hackett
Welcome to 4th Grade! My name is Mrs. Pauline Hackett and I have been teaching for 24 years. This fall I will be starting my 20th year at Christ the King School. Our family has been a part of C.K.S. for many years. Our three sons are graduates of C.K.S as well as my husband and his mother.
Teaching 4th grade is fun! The children love to learn and I love being with them. It is so rewarding to see their eyes “light up” and smile because they have solved a math problem or understood a new concept. Fourth graders work on ROARing We learn Respect (for ourselves and each other), Organization, Attitude, and Responsibility.
The 4th grade was very busy in October. We had a very successful Bottle Drive/Coin Drop. The money collected will be used to pay for our field trips to Billlings Farm and Museum (living and working on a farm in the 1890s), the State House in Montpelier, and possibly a trip up to ECHO in Burlington.
Our class brought in over $80 in change for the Book Fair. We were able to chose books for our classroom library. The students helped to pick out the books. Our class also earned an “Honorable Mention” from the Book Fair. We were awarded a pizza party or ice cream party. We chose the pizza party and enjoyed it on Halloween.
Speaking of Halloween, we hope you stopped in to see our pumpkins. The children decorated pumpkins as characters from a favorite book that they had read or was read to them. They were very creative. Classes were actively voting for their favorite pumpkins all week.
November came quickly on the heels of October. We were busy preparing for our Veterans’ Day Prayer Service. It was a very memorable and touching event. I hope you were able come and be a part of it. It was on Wednesday, November 11th in the gym. This is the seventh year that fourth graders have presented the Veterans’ Day Prayer Service.
DECEMBER NEWS
December was a busy month for 4th grade. Sr. Cindy chose a cute musical for us. It was about a spelling bee and all of the words had to do with God. There were 2 performances, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. It was a hit with everyone!
Wrapped gifts for our adopted family.
The students decided not to exchange gifts with each other. Instead we adopted a family. Sr. Ann Marshall provided us with a family, a single mom and 2 little girls. The children, with the help of their parents, brought in gifts for the family. There were outfits, snowsuits, books, toys, diapers, and baby food. Everyone was so generous! A few days before the Christmas vacation the children, along with 2 very helpful moms, wrapped all of the gifts. Shortly after our return from vacation we received a heartfelt thank you from the family. We continue to keep them in our daily prayers.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY NEWS
January started out with a bang for us in 4th grade. We were in charge of the monthly Mass which was the Feast of the Epiphany. Our “Three Kings” and readers performed well. The Kings knew their names, where they came from, and the gifts they brought to the baby Jesus. The song “We Three Kings” was sung as the Kings brought their gifts over to the manger.
Our class took its first field trip to Billings Farm and Museum in Woodstock, Vermont. We had the opportunity to step back into life in the 1890s on a working farm with Mr. and Mrs. Monroe. The students took part in a variety of activities such as doing chores in the barn, making butter, washing and hanging up laundry, preparing and cooking the noontime meal, and sewing.
Catholic School Week started at the end of January and into February. There were so many wonderful things going on. We started out the week with a Prayer Service performed by the 6th grade. They did an awesome job with the fables. We had a Spirit Day and basketball games. The entire student body made up and performed cheers at grade levels. Our principal and teachers even did a cheer! The best part of the week was the game “Who’s Smarter Than a CKS Student”. Each teacher made up questions for their grade. Students competed against 2 panels of adults (school board members, parents, high school student, and teacher). It was neck and neck down to the last question. Garth brought the students the win with an answer in French. At the end, the adult panel each had to stand at the microphone and admit that they were not smarter than a CKS student.
Check our slideshow of our visit to the Billings Farm
