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It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!

Things to Know!

Carpool Helpers: Cora Coulbourn and Meredith Ford

Ambassadors: Maisie Nelson and Madison Rector

Christmas Gift Service Information

Gift Service at Reveille UMC Wed. Dec. 19, 9 a.m. Dismissal at St. Catherine's Immediately Following. Extended Day Students will go on the bus to St. Christopher's. Please make sure you have signed up for this at Extended Day if you plan on using their services.

January Community Service Class Project for Shepherd's Way Information

The girls are busy hustling and bustling to practice readings, dances, getting costumes and choreography for the Gift Service, but we still have a little time for the academics as well. 

We are just

as busy adding and subtracting like fractions and beginning to look at whole numbers and mixed numbers in fractional terms as well. For some it has been an eye opener to remember back to when looking at the whole number 1, and seeing that it can also be seen as the fraction 5/5 or 2/2 or 27/27. This has been a moment of great realization for some.

The classroom has been a virtual winter wonderland as students have been creating their frosty baggie wreaths for the holidays. 

Our Magazine Cover Illustrations and personal interviews are complete and ready to be shared next week with Mrs. McCallum's class.

 

We had a remarkable Personalized Learning Presentation by two of our very own classroom polar bears, Carter Torrence and Madeline Taliaferro. They presented information, a kahootit game and fascinated us with incredible researched information on polar bears, all done in full polar bear costume. It was sensational!

*There will be no homework this week. We will work on Spelling and Wordly Wise in class, but we will not test on these lessons.

   Rehearsal Schedule for The Gift Service

      Dismissal begins at St. Catherine's School directly after buses return to campus.

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Another Snow Day!

Dear Girls,

It looks like we are in for another Snow Day! I will have some snow work for you and have taken homework off of the homework site today.

     We will be practicing a new poem that most of you are familiar with and we will be working on it in class as though it were a readers theater piece, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. Please read it aloud two times. We will be practicing it daily in class and you will be assigned particular parts as soon as we are together again.

'Twas The Night Before Christmas

     Create a fresh googledoc and title it First/Last Name WordlyWise 8

On the Document Page Title it with your Name in upper left hand corner date below: 12/11/18, Title in Middle and in Caps, Something about Adventure with Snow Day Friend, feel free to create your own title. Your story must have wonderful adjectives, please use some abstract nouns, and make sure the beginning, middle, and ending are strong. How long? Long enough for a good story... 3 fourth grade paragraphs sounds great, 2 if you are aching to go outside. Don't forget to add your pic from yesterday. Remember to do this last, as googledocs can be persnickety about adding photos. If you have problems click below photo to keep it from floating.

 
 Go to visit my friend at Math Antics and watch the video about like fractions. 

Mathantics Like Fractions

     Now, get a piece of paper and add 5 like fractions and subtract 5 like fractions for a total of 10 equations in all. If this is new and seems difficult, please do a couple of each. Bring to school tomorrow and we will put some on the smartboard and discuss them.

*Enrichment Activities: If you would like to do some invisible homework, please practice your 13s basic facts, read a newsela article and take a quiz, no summary, go on to spellingcity and quizlet to practice flashcards for spelling and vocabulary, matholia practice C with fraction games, or enjoy a good book.

     

In the Lane, Snow is Glistening!

Things to Know:

Carpool Helpers: Madeline Taliaferro and Ada Mathews 

Special Week Share: Clare Coleman

Ambassadors: Maisie Nelson and Madison Rector 

Big/Little Gathering: Tuesday, December 11, 8:30-9:10 for Holiday Poem and Craft

Christmas Gift Service Information

This was a whirlwind week! The girls earned their 25 compliments and we took a trip to the Cafe and purchased a few treats and watched a short video in celebration of their good manners and hard work!

We have been comparing fractions, finding missing numerators and denominators, putting fractions in order from greatest to smallest and smallest to  greatest. Students are becoming more adept at finding equivalent fractions and will have a quiz this Friday. We will be practicing all week in class. 

BigHugeLabs is a great site that the girls are using to create magazine covers for their collaborative

interviews with Mrs. McCallum's class. They will be completing  interviews and sharing them with their partners this week.


The girls have been watching papercut videos of a variety of fables on the smartboard. We are in the midst of preparing to choose one to retell and illustrate.

Friday, the girls truly surprised me with the most magnificent birthday party! It was such a wonderful day and they showed such great spirit, organization, and love. I was awestruck!

First official Snow Day, Monday, December 10th!

School Work: Enjoy your First Snow Day!

 Homework: No Homework today!

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The Season of Cool Weather and Warm Hearts!

Things to Know:

Ambassadors: Ada Mathews and Lillie Mayer

Carpool Helpers: Kate Williams and Natalie Richards

Special Week Share: Meredith Ford

   *The girls have earned twenty-five compliments from Special and Classroom Teachers and I am very proud of them. They have agreed that they would like to go to the St. Catherine's Cafe 2020 this Tuesday and may bring $3.00 to spend. We will celebrate in the classroom and watch an episode of "Just Add Magic".*

We have begun to read our new classroom novel, Fish in a Tree, which is teaching the class that people are smart in so many different ways and that the impossible suddenly can become possible when a teacher is willing to help a student explore these possibilities.

The students in 4-C have been working with classmates to develop interviewing skills. We have recently partnered with Mrs. McCallum's class to interview students in her class and are in the process of creating posters of  students being interviewed as part of a collaborative project during personalized learning time.

Students have just begun taking a look at finding numerators and denominators in equivalent fractions and are enjoying searching and finding patterns in math.

A few students are finishing up Presidential Reports and others will be presenting theirs this week and next.

 

Our Outreach Project this week is to find gifts for a fifteen year old girl and we have done some good brainstorming in class. The girls came up with nail polish, costume jewelry, make up, a sweater, and so much more. Please know that these gifts and contributions are always greatly appreciated by Outreach and the children who receive these gifts during the Holidays!