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Step in Time






       




Things to Know:

Musical for Fourth Grade Parents Wednesday, 4-3 9:45 a.m. 
Lower School Assembly Room
Special Week Share: 3-25 Betsy Spalding

Carpool Helpers: Substitute for Meredith Ford and Cora CoulbournClass 

Ambassadors: Madeline Taliaferro and Campbell Taylor

Fourth Grade Rehearsal Practice for Mary Poppins Musical
Maypole information: https://mcfourthies.weebly.com/maypole.htm 

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How To Videos for Parents
Final Assembly Attire
Grandparents and Special Friends Day Information

5th Grad Language Choice

The girls have worked fast and furiously to gather props, put costumes together and learn their parts for the upcoming play, Mary Poppins, which will be performed for the Fourth Grade parents this Wednesday, April 3rd! You can feel their excitement and it is contagious. The Fourthies will share the play with the entire Senior Class on Thursday morning. We will share songs, there will be some tears and much laughter for the graduating girls whom we will be celebrating!

Language Arts:

Students have completed their "Sheroes" which are hanging up outside the classroom. We had a nice
discussion on the character traits sheroes tend to have and the girls wrote about a particular shero they had chosen. The girls will present their sheroes to the class next week.

Mathematics:

We are happily racing through decimals. Students love this unit and since the days are getting warmer, we will also be working on some liquid measure and making use of the water feature on the playground. We are almost there but are waiting for some warm afternoons to play in the water.


Literature:

The girls completed their class novel, Scraps of Time, 1928, A Song for Harlem. We have spent time discussing the Harlem Renaissance and many of the people who were involved in it. We are turning now in history, to the late 1930's and have begun to read Richard Peck's novel about life following the Great Depression, A Year Down Yonder. Times are still hard for Mary Alice and her family. As her mother and father struggle to regain their financial footing in Chicago, Mary Alice, who is fifteen, is sent to live with her Grandma Dowdel in a small southern Illinois town. Richard Peck is a master storyteller. This novel has everything it takes to keep the girls' interest!

History for Fourthies:
We will discuss the 30's and 40's. There will be comparisons and contrasts with the post Depression
Era in the United States and Great Britain. The girls continue to work on their Country Research so that we have enough information to begin our fictional Immigration Journals.




                                       This is a quote from the famous writer, Anita Diamant.