Post 10 Snowy Days

Post 10 Snowy Days

I hope you are having a great time during these snow days!

As you know, Friday was a Free Snow Day for 4-C. There is nothing like having a day to relax and play in the snow. The only thing you needed to accomplish was to take your Spelling Test and printing your certificate (if you have a printer). If you forgot, please take the test today.

You should have all you need for working on your second snow day. I sent home a packet with directions for Monday.

Here are the directions, just in case:

Snow Day Homework for 4-C

Friday: 

1.    Please take the Words Their Way Spelling Blue/Green 12 Test. It can be taken on-line at Spelling City. Please print out a certificate, if you are able. If not, we can print it out when the girls get back to school. In the event the girls are without Internet, they should have a responsible adult dictate the test and bring it back to school.

The first Snow Day is a free day, with only the spelling test to be completed.

Monday:

1.    Spelling Words Blue/Green 13  Please write words using cursive writing in your homework journal. Then write them two times in your Spelling Journal. Don’t forget to head your pages.

2. Wordly Wise Review for Lessons 9-12.

Please do pp. 133, 134, 135

        3. Daily Geography Handout:  Please do the Monday           questions.

            4.  Poetry:

            Please read over poem two or three times and begin

            memorizing for Friday.

January

January
Now is here --
A fine new start
For a whole new year.

The snow comes down
In the dark of night.
When we awake
The world is white.

In January
When there's snow,
We get our sleds
And away we go.

5.  Look for gold/white cheer rally outfit items that you may already have. Set them somewhere, so that you can have them ready for the Cheer Rally on Fri. Jan. 29^th.

6. Math Skills Practice  (Odds Only) If we are out on Tuesday, please do the evens also.

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LET IT SNOW

January is a great month for listening, learning and looking at the snowflakes drifting in the air. The girls and I ran out onto the green to enjoy our first flurry of snowflakes. It was exhilarating. Their wish for more snow looks like it will come true in the coming days.

Students are learning about abbreviations and reviewing personal and possessive pronouns. They are spending time working on these skills as they formulate their writing assignments and challenging themselves to incorporate even more of what they have learned.

The girls have completed the book, Number the Stars, and have begun A Year Down Yonder, by Richard Peck.  This novel tells the sweet story of a girl from Chicago, who goes to live with her grandmother, in a rural town during the depression.

In language arts, students are completing a creative writing piece entitled Her Acre of Land. The girls have presented orally to the class and will be completing an artistic representation this week.

Please note that all written assignments on your daughter’s google drive can be viewed with just the click of a button.

Students are putting together large numbers and learning lattice multiplication. They will be practicing basic multiplication facts for the 13's.

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Wrapping It Up!

This week students will be completing Unit 4 in mathematics. They have been studying about fractions and decimals.

The girls are creating their books reports in class, using a “morfo” ipad application and will be sharing them with the class this week. This application allows students to record their summaries and insert a book cover picture or their face, which becomes animated with human facial characteristics, and thus, the summary is reported. The girls enjoyed this process and love their creations.

In history, students are studying the 1900’s; a decade filled with new ideas, inventions (like the Oreo cookie), and politics.

The Language arts curriculum provides many opportunities to work on expository writing, attention to punctuation, and completion of creative products that are interesting and well-written. Students go through a three-step editing process before drafting their final copy. We are currently working on writing “My Acre of Land” (to be completed in January), which is a story of each girl, as if she were an acre of land. She describes herself by what she places on her acre of land.

The Lower School Gift Service will be held on Friday, December 18^th at River Road Baptist Church at 9:30 a.m. Please join us if you are free, as Fourthies will have special roles for this service.

Please Note: Students will be dismissed after they have returned to St Catherine’s School.

We will have a Special Sing-A-Long Christmas Chapel tomorrow, Wednesday, December 16^th, for the students, with a visit from Santa. Students may wear festive clothing!

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Fabulous Fall Days for Learning

No School Monday, November 16th.  

This is a teacher work day!

These beautiful fall days are filled with lots of great activities for the girls in fourth grade.

The Lower School is currently working on an Outreach Project for the St. Stephen's Food Pantry. Please send in canned food items and non-perishable goods to help serve the Richmond Community.

Fourth grade girls will be taking standardized tests next week, beginning Tuesday, November 17th and finishing by Monday, November 23rd. They will work on two tests each day. We will be having a Writers Workshop, art activities and reading interspersed throughout each of these days. Please remember to make sure your daughter has a good night's rest and send her to school with a morning and afternoon snack. This will help keep up her energy and focus.

The girls have completed Unit 3 in Mathematics. The next unit will focus on learning about decimals through the thousandths and metric units of length and their conversions.

Students in 4-C will be performing their "final chapter" of All of a Kind Family puppet shows for classmates this coming week.

Our technology project this week was to create "mini billboards" celebrating uplifting ideas. The Fourthies used a template from values.com to put their fine thoughts to good use.

The Pop-Up Book Reports that the girls brought in this week are fantastic. They are currently on display in the LS Library.

Information on our next book report will be sent home this week. It will be due Friday, December 18th. Students may choose a non-fiction book about an animal or a fiction book with the main character as an animal.

Please join us on Wednesday, December 2nd

for the Lower School Book Fair.

Our class is scheduled to peruse the books from 2:50-3:10 p.m. You may send cash or a check with your daughter if you are not able to attend and wish for her to purchase books.

Book Fair Dates and Times:

Wednesday, December 2nd 12:00-4:00

Thursday, December 3rd 8:00-4:00

Friday December 4th 8:00-4:00

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Dear Mr. President

The class listened to a wonderful book titled, Dear Mr. President. For their culminating activity on their History 4 Fourthies Unit: United States Government, the girls will be writing their own letter to President Obama in class. We will put these together in our own class book!

Students will continue to work on their Presidential Research Project in class for the next few weeks. They will be filling in more facts to complete their research, as necessary. The girls will self-edit using "tools" and turn in to me for a final edit, before publishing.

The girls have completed their first classroom novel, All of a Kind Family, by Sydney Taylor. They will develop their own "final chapter" of the book. Then, the class will begin working collaboratively to create dialogue text and perform their final chapter for the class next week.

Students have completed Unit 2 in mathematics and will be having an assessment this Friday. They have begun Unit 3, which will cover factors and multiples; finding distances; What's my rule?; solving number stories; and, multiplication and division.

Wordly Wise Dress-Up Day!

          Do you dream about a special WW word? Do you get happy when you see a WW word in a book you are reading or hear a WW word in a song?  Do you answer questions and deliberately try to use WW words in your responses? If you have answered yes to any of these questions then you officially have WW Fever! No need to be worried. It happens to most Fourthies and it’s a cause for celebration. We will celebrate WW Fever on Friday, 10-30-15. Start thinking about a word that tickles your fancy. How could you dress to represent or explain the word? What clever outfit could you create? Each Fourthie is encouraged to come dressed as a WW word ((from lists 1–7)) on Friday, 10/30-15. We’ll take pictures and create our very own picture dictionary. So, develop an idea but don’t utter a word to anyone. You may be eager to share your ideas with your peers. Resist the temptation to disclose your outfit. We want everyone to be surprised. We can’t wait to applaud your creativity.

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Girls Innovate

Girls Innovate Day is this Friday, October 10th. This is a Jeans Day for fourth graders.

We will be touring Middle School to view and ask questions about engineering designs created by fifth through eighth graders. 

Fourthie Parents Technology Night is this Thursday. Please sign-up if you would like to attend. I sent an email regarding this invitation. This evening gives you the opportunity to take a look at the many websites your daughter will be using this year and how to navigate through the technology!

Splish, Splash!

My class will begin their P.E. Swimming Unit next Tuesday! Students should come directly to the classroom to unpack and I will lead them over to the Kenny Center. Remember to send a hearty morning snack for after swim and one for the afternoon as well. The girls have a great time and expend much energy during swim!

Students did a great job on Unit 1 in Mathematics. Graded tests have been sent home. Please look it over with your daughter and sign the front of the test. Your daughter will keep this in a plastic sleeve in her class binder for future reference. We will be studying about using numbers and organizing data next. The girls will be using bar graphs and working

with the mean, median, mode and range of numbers.

The girls have been exploring Wordle and have created graphic art using descriptors of their favorite colors. Each week we will be looking at different computer programs and games to complement the fourth grade curriculum.

Students will need to bring recorders to Ms. Merrick's Music Class this week!