Weekly Update

This was another fun and special week with Grandparents and Special Friends Day on Thursday! I thoroughly enjoyed meeting everyone's guests and seeing the proud look on the girls faces as they showed them around. They completed a 3WT together and we will look at those tomorrow and share them one another.

The girls did a fabulous job at the Maypole yesterday. All of their hard work paid off and it was special to see them in action.

We are working hard through decimals and I hope to wrap up the unit this week. When we work more on decimal computation, we will complete a fun shopping project, which I know the girls will enjoy.

We are all looking forward to a normal schedule this week! For one of our final writing labs, we will be doing something special for Mother's Day and Father's Day. If you could please email me either a picture of your whole family including your daughter, or individual mother/daughter and father/daughter pictures, I would appreciate it. If I could get the pictures by Wednesday, it would be great!

Reminders and Announcements

• Riley is our carpool helper next week
• Middle School visit is May 8 - the girls will get a bird's eye view of fifth grade 
• Lower School Book Fair (5/15 and 5/16) - more details to follow including fifth grade summer reading selections
• Final Assembly Information is here!
• Scavenger hunt

Weekly Update

The Naturalization field trip is always a class favorite but this year was really special. The girls watched close to seventy new American citizens take their oath and among them was our very own Mrs. Dorion. It was such a privilege to be able to witness the event! The girls also learned about the US Marshal Service, toured holding cells, and visited Judge Lauck's chambers.

The girls are really getting into our novel study, Number the Stars. They are doing well on the comprehension checks. Pleas ask your daughter to log in to her Quia account so you can see the quizzes (both reading and Wordly Wise). For this weeks 3WT, they completed it as a collaborative Google slide document. We have completed it this way before but they tend to get more concerned with pictures and videos to include. This week, I instructed them to only focus on their writing and they did a much better job. Here is their work!


The girls enjoyed an edible math activity where they found decimals on different snack packages and then converted the decimals into fractions. We will finish this up next week and keep moving through our study of decimals.

 

Reminders and Announcements

• Alice is our carpool helper next week
• Grandparents' Special Friends' Day is on Thursday. We will enjoy time with our guests from 10:30-12:30. Box lunches will be served to all students and their guests.
• April is Autism Awareness Month - Details here.
• Final Assembly Information is here!
• Scavenger hunt

Weekly Update

This was our first "normal" week in some time since our production of Mary Poppins. I am moving quickly through curriculum and the girls are trying hard to stay focused in the midst of spring and fun activities. We had a blast at Zazoli's on Tuesday!

Here are some curriculum updates and reminders.

Math: We finished up our unit on measurements and the girls took a quick check on Tuesday. It came home in today's folder and the girls did well with this. We have started our decimals unit and will keep on working on these important skills.

Language Arts/Reading: The girls wrote a brief paragraph about themselves to share with students in Malaysia who are learning English. After they wrote their paragraph, they recorded themselves reading their writing to help the Malaysian students improve their English skills. These are the videos we have so far. This week we began our next class novel, Number the Stars. This is a fantastic story by Lois Lowry about a ten year old girl living in Copenhagen during the second World War. The story follows her life as well as her best friend, Ellen, who is Jewish. It is a great story and we will continue with it next week. We will read some in class and the girls will be assigned some pages to read for homework as well. In their Google Drive accounts in the share with me section, they have a folder that contains audio files of the book being read. They are welcome to listen and read along if they would like.

Social Studies: We started working in the 1940's decade since our class novel takes place in 1943. In pairs, the girls solved an EdPuzzle with an overview of the decade. We will continue working in the 1930's and 1940's over the next few weeks. Next week, we will continue researching our country for the immigration project.

Reminders and Announcements

• Wear red on Monday for our Palm Monday chapel
• On Wednesday, we have a field trip to attend a naturalization ceremony downtown. All of the details are here!
• Friday, April 12, is a half day for Good Friday. The girls will dismiss at noon and no lunch will be served.
• Grandparents' and Special Visitors' Day is Thursday, April 25
• April is Autism Awareness Month - Details here.
• Final Assembly Information is here!
• Scavenger hunt

Weekly Update

This week was Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Reminders and Announcement

• To celebrate the class earning 100 compliments, we will visit Zazoli Sweets on Tuesday afternoon. Your daughter may bring in $5.00 to use in the store.
• Thursday, April 11, is the official conference day so there is no school for the girls
• Grandparents' and Special Visitors' Day is Thursday, April 25
• April is Autism Awareness Month - Details here.
• Everyday Parenting Solutions - program at St. Catherine's on April 10th. Details here.
• Final Assembly Information is here!
• Scavenger hunt