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Hurray for the Red, White, and Blue

Things to Know:

Special Week Share:  4-29 Madison Rector

Carpool Helpers: Clare Coleman

Ambassadors: Clare Coleman and Cora Coulbourn

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

Naturalization Field Trip

We had a fantastic time at the downtown Federal Court on Wednesday. The girls were at their best, asking and answering questions like champs, and they got a huge and magical
surprise when Mrs. Kefu Dorian, our own Mandarin Chinese language teacher, was naturalized and became a United States citizen right before  our very eyes. Dr. Kapetanis was able to join us for this great moment. Of course, this was heartfelt and the Fourthies were so pleased to be a part of this experience. We even held an extended celebration the next morning and Mrs. Dorian received a red, white, and blue bouquet and the girls enjoyed red, white, and blue dessert popsicles to make it an even more momentous event.


Grandparents and Special Friends

The girls are preparing a brief song and dance review from Mary Poppins for Grandparents and Special Friends Day which will be on Thursday. We look forward to sharing time with Grandparents and Special Friends in the fourth grade classroom and are especially excited to have them come to lunch with us.


Language Arts

Students will be creating poetry to describe the Sheroes they have been studying. They will be attached below their Shero watercolors on the hallway wall outside of the classroom. 

The girls have enjoyed working on Wordly Wise creative projects like emoji and text writing which includes storytelling with lesson 15 Wordly Wise words. The girls have had a lot of fun with this and have gotten quite creative. We will take some time to share them in class. 


Mathematics

Students will continue to review the unit on decimals when we get back after Easter break. We will take an assessment the following Tuesday. 






Literature

In A Year Down Yonder, both my students and "Mary Alice" are beginning to see that Grandma is not just a "force to behold". They are opening their eyes to an old woman who is a hard worker and is willing to go out in the dark and snowy cold evenings to do some trapping to get some furs to trade for cash. With the money Grandma is

saving, she will be buying Mary Alice shoes and clothing that are much needed, since Mary Alice is a growing girl. Even Grandma can now look forward to a happy Christmas.


History 4 Fourthies

Students have enjoyed watching the British Broadcast story of "Carrie's War" and are Creating Scripts for an Episode 9 Production of their own, which they will record on an iPad.  The girls had a choice of working collaboratively on this or summarizing and illustrating three characters in the story for their culmination project on the 1940s.