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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.

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Springing Forward Post 14

Students have chosen books for their new book report. The reading will be done at home and the project will be done in class on ipads. They will be creating their own shortened version of their book, in an app called Book Creator. Their reading needs to be completed by Friday, April 15^th, and they will begin working on their reports in class on the following Monday.

The girls have begun working in Unit 7 and are mastering “fractions of a number”. Ask them to show you how they do it!

Unit 7 also includes fraction addition and subtraction; probability, equivalent fractions; fractions as decimals; and ordering fractions. We continue to practice multiplication and division skills, as well.

In Language arts, the girls are learning about simple and compound sentences. They are working on this to increase the length and depth of their sentence structures, and spending more time incorporating more challenging vocabulary. I have been encouraging them to use more Wordly Wise vocabulary as well.

On Tuesday, the fourth grade will be going to Shalom Farms to help plant potatoes. This is part of our 125^th Year Out Reach Program. Part of what is planted, when lovingly grown and harvested, will be given to people of need in the community.

The Fourthies have completed their Research Reports on Countries around the World and are in the process of creating maps to illustrate their chosen country.

They will be displayed on the bulletin board, just outside our classroom.

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Spring Has Sprung!

This will be an exciting and busy time for the Fourthies. The girls will begin practicing songs, dances, lines, and choreography for the play production of Jungle Book, which they will be presenting to the Seniors and Parents in April.

Please sign up for a Spring Conference to discuss your daughter's progress here.

Students will begin studying the 1930’s in History 4 Fourthies. They have been learning about latitude and longitude and studying map coordinates during daily geography lessons.

The girls are completing their historical fiction novel, Lily’s Crossing, and will begin a new novel next week.

In math, we continue to work on long division and multiple digit multiplication in mathematics. We are completing unit 6 and will begin Unit 7, which will be about Fractions. 

Have a Great Spring!

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Friendly February

Last week the girls enjoyed the Cheer Rally, good fun, and being good sports!

This was a wonderful opportunity for students to see the great leadership of the older girls and have an

exciting time as well.

We will be reviewing in mathematics this week and take the Unit 5 Assessment. The girls learned

how to do Lattice math, estimate large numbers and work out problems with Expanded and Exponential Notation.

Students are busy researching a country of their choice as a classroom

History Project. They have a complete checklist that they keep in their binders for easy reference, which will assist in focusing on the details of their paragraph writing. We continue to explore hemispheres and map grids in our geography explorations.

In language arts, the girls are learning about homophones, homographs, and memorizing

“good to know” spelling rules.

For Valentines Day, students will be creating a holder for their Valentines. This is a project that will be created at home and brought in to class for the upcoming Valentine’s Party that will be held on Friday, February 12^th.