Post 16 Going Places

Going Places

Fourthies had a fantastic time visiting Judge Lauck at the Federal District Court Building downtown, last week. The girls toured a courtroom, spoke with U.S. Marshals and discussed the judicial system with Judge Lauck. They were invited to sit in on a Naturalization Ceremony with people being naturalized from 69 different countries. It was awesome! The Fourthies even got to check out Judge Lauck’s Chambers! It was an impressive field trip. Our visit linked very well with the classroom history study of Immigration.

         Students are putting together Journal Entries as though they are people immigrating with their families, from another country. This is a great creative writing experience, while linking historical facts from their country of “origin”.

         The girls are enjoying the novel, Letters from Rifka, by Karen Hesse.  This is an historical fiction novel about a young girl traveling from a Jewish community in the Ukraine to Ellis Island.

         We have completed Unit 7 in mathematics and will be reviewing fractions and decimals this week and have the assessment on Thursday. Unit 8 will focus on perimeter, area and scale drawings. 

        

         Please send a digital family picture to me. It does not have to be current. We are working on a digital photo project for technology.