Weekly Update

It is really hard to believe that we only have 8.5 days of school left this year! Wow!! This year has flown by and I have loved this precious group of girls. They are a sweet group and have worked really well together this year. We are going to have fun in our remaining days.

The girls have achieved 125 class compliments, which is quite an accomplishment. We will celebrate this week!

Immigration Day was great fun! Each girl presented three interesting facts from their country and shared a few of their diary entries. They did a fantastic job walking in someone else's shoes and imagining what it would have been like to come into the United States via Ellis Island. I am really proud of their hard work!

Today during art, the girls helped Mrs. Minarik with a very special project in the school's community garden. Her father passed away several months ago and the Lower School gave her a limelight hydrangea in her father's memory. Our class had the privilege to help her plant it today and she was so appreciative.

 

Reminders and Announcements

• No Friday folders came home today. I will send them home next Thursday.
• Claiborne and Addisyn are carpool helpers
• Scavenger hunt
• End of Year Party on Friday, May 31 from 10:30 - 2:30. The girls and I discussed the party today so please ask them for details!
• Monday, June 3 is a half day and we will dismiss at noon. No lunch will be served!
• Final Assembly Information is here! Please be mindful of the rehearsal schedule if you need to make any appointments for your daughter:

Thursday, May 30 @ 1:00 – 2:00 – Kenny Center

Friday, May 31@ 9:00 - 10:00 – Kenny Center

Monday, June 3 @ 8:30 – 9:45 – Kenny Center

Tuesday, June 4 @ 1:00 LS Final Assembly – Kenny Center

Weekly Update

This was a great week and the highlight was the girl's visit to the Middle School on Wednesday. They had an opportunity to share what they are excited about in Middle School and also what they feel nervous about. Click on the adjectives to see what they had to say!

The girls are progressing well with decimal computation. They enjoyed a shopping project where they were given $200.00 to spend on a wardrobe. They visited several web sites to go shopping. Their challenge is to come as close to $200 without going over, which is hard. We will finish this up early next week. Next week, we will also focus on multiplying and dividing with decimals. After that, we will review concepts from the whole school year.

We visited a neat, interactive site about to tour Ellis Island. The girls spent some time exploring what it would have been like to comes into the United States through Ellis Island. They then took on the role as an immigrant and began recording what life was like in a diary. They will write some more entries next week as we prepare for Immigration Day next Friday. For this, they will dress up as an immigrant from the country they researched. They will share several of their diary entries to help us understand what life was like leaving one country to come start anew in the US.

Reminders and Announcements

• Vivienne and Emily are carpool helpers
• Scavenger hunt
• Final Outreach project - extended through next Friday - information here 
• Lower School Book Fair (5/15 and 5/16)- Our class is going on Wednesday @ 12:10.
• Immigration Day is next Friday, 5/17 - The girls may come dressed in humble outfits and they will share information about the country they researched. 
• Final Assembly Information is here! Please be mindful of the rehearsal schedule if you need to make any appointments for your daughter:

Thursday, May 30 @ 1:00 – 2:00 – Kenny Center

Friday, May 31@ 9:00 - 10:00 – Kenny Center

Monday, June 3 @ 8:30 – 9:45 – Kenny Center

Tuesday, June 4 @ 1:00 LS Final Assembly – Kenny Center

Happy Mother's Day to all of you fabulous moms!

 

Weekly Update

We had a great week and were productive! It was nice to have a week back on schedule. Next week proves to be off schedule with the visit to the Middle School on Wednesday and a picnic lunch on Thursday with our big sisters. These are all fun activities! Here are some curriculum highlights.

Math: On Thursday, the girls took a quick quiz on unit 6 and these came home in the Friday folder. I gave them a practice test that was the exact same format but with different numbers. The only difference was an additional EdPuzzle to practice problem solving. I plan to grade this separately and we will go over it on Monday and make corrections. For the rest of the year, we will work on computation with decimals and area and perimeter. Next week, we will have our last facts contract of the year! We will end with one more review of all facts. For the weeks following, we will review concepts from the whole year.

Language Arts/Reading: We are really enjoying Number the Stars and will continue to read it next week. The girls are doing well with the comprehension checks. To finish up all of our Wordly Wise and spelling lists, we are studying the lists for just one week. I am allowing the girls to use their flashcards to help on the WW assessments. This week, I discovered a cool feature of the website Quizlet. It is called Quizlet Live and here is a description of it from their site:
Quizlet Live is an engaging in-class game where students work in teams to correctly match terms and definitions. The first team to match all terms and definitions correctly in a row wins the game. 

The girls loved it! Here is a video to show it in action.

Reminders and Announcements

• Sloane is our carpool helper next week 
• Middle School visit (5/8 from 9:00-1:00) The girls will get a bird's eye view of fifth grade.  
• Big Sister Lunch on the Green- 5/9 (A bag lunch will be provided for your daughter if she usually eats dining room food.)
• Lower School Book Fair (5/15 and 5/16)- Our class is going on Wednesday from 12:10 - 12:30.
• Immigration Day- 5/17 (The girls will receive more details as the day approaches.)
• SCAVENGER HUNT!
• Final Assembly Information is here! Please be mindful of the rehearsal schedule if you need to make any appointments for your daughter:

Thursday, May 30 – Kenny Center

1:00 – 2:00

Friday, May 31 – Kenny Center

9:00-10:00

Monday, June 3 – Kenny Center

8:30 – 9:45

Tuesday, June 4 – Kenny Center

1:00 PM – LS Final Assembly

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