Weekly Update

Our short week was full of lots of activities. The girls worked hard on the mid-year ERB assessment. On Tuesday, we celebrated Mardi Gras with beads and king cake, thanks to the Spillers.

It is hard to believe that we dismiss next Friday at noon, for Spring Break. The warmer weather we had this week brought out lots of excitement for the spring. 

The girls worked hard on comparing and ordering fractions, as well as reviewing equivalent fractions. They studied the states and capitals for the northeast region and took their first quiz today. For this week's 3WT, they were able to choose a unicorn name to include in the writing. Fun all around!

There are special dress up theme each day next week so please check this document for all of the information. A hard copy will be sent home in the Friday folders as well.

Reminders:

• Carpool helper next week: Wallis
• Special Week: Anela
  
• Friday, March 3: Dismissal is at noon
  
• Reading Spirit Week: February 27 - March 3 - Information here
  
• Remember to check SeeSaw for updates from Specials teacher
• Scavenger hunt question - answer this!
• Future dates:
• April 13: Fourth Grade Field Trip to DC - We will arrive back after dismissal so please plan to pick up your daughter at 4:15. More details to come.
• April 28: Grandparents' Day
• April 29: Daisy Days

Weekly Update

 

Our next Lower School Outreach project is a really special one! For our Lenten project, we are supporting Celebrate! RVA, which was started by an alum of St. Catherine's, Julia Warren Mattingly. Her mission is amazing and really lives out our school motto, "What we keep we lose, and only what we give remains our own." Each grade level will collect a different item to help make birthday bags. Here is the information for the fourth grade. Our grade level is collecting paper plates and napkins without any characters. Thank you for your help in supporting this amazing cause!

 

 

After spring break, Nurse Blanton will begin the Growing Up Healthy class during their science class time. Next week, she will host a virtual parent meeting to discuss the curriculum. The meeting will be on Wednesdsay, February 22 at 7:00 pm. Here is the zoom link for the meeting.

The girls have been working hard on learning about important historic figures during Black History Month. They are charged with reading at least 10 articles from a Newsela text set about different and important people. We will continue this ongoing project through the end of the month.

 

On Tuesday, the girls visited the Middle School to hear from the world language teachers. They spent 15 minutes with the Spanish teacher and 15 minutes with the Chinese teacher. In the next week or so, you will receive a sign up form to choose their world language for Middle School.

 

Our second Wordly Wise Dress Up Day was a success. Here are the girls in their creative costumes.

 

Reminders:

• Carpool helper next week: Holloway
• Mid Year ERB tests: February 21 and 22 (no preparation is needed)
• Reading Spirit Week: February 27 - March 3 - Information here
  
• Remember to check SeeSaw for updates from Specials teacher
• Scavenger hunt question - answer this!
• Future dates:
• April 13: Fourth Grade Field Trip to DC - We will arrive back after dismissal so please plan to pick up your daughter at 4:15. More details to come.
• April 28: Grandparents' Day
• April 29: Daisy Days

 

Weekly Update

I hope everyone has a nice, long weekend. The girls have been working hard and are ready for a day off! 

 

We started a really fun writing lab this week where the girls design and describe a friendship machine. The only parameters I gave them was to involve teamwork and a prize at the end. Here is a description of this expository writing lab. 

 

 

In math, we began our fraction unit by reviewing basic fraction concepts. Next week, we will dig deeper into equivalent fractions and ordering and comparing fractions.

 

The girls are really enjoying our region study and are learning some interesting facts about others areas of our vast country.

Reminders:

• Carpool helper next week: Vivian
• Special Week: Queen
  
• Scholastic book order due by 2/17/23. Shop Our Class Page!
  
• Wordly Wise Dress Up Day: Friday, February 17: Please click here for all of the details!
• Remember to check SeeSaw for updates from Specials teacher
• Scavenger hunt question - answer this!
• Future dates:
• April 13: Fourth Grade Field Trip to DC - We will arrive back after dismissal so please plan to pick up your daughter at 4:15. More details to come.
• April 28: Grandparents' Day
• April 29: Daisy Days

Weekly Update

 

 

 

Valentine's Day is right around the corner and we will have a class celebration on Tuesday, February 14. The girls may start working on a mailbox to hold cards from their classmates. They may be as creative with this as they would like and it would be great to have the boxes and Valentine's in by Monday, February 13. They need to make a card for each student and here is a list of our classmates. They may also make a Valentine for friends in other classes that we will deliver.

 

Speaking of Valentine's Day, there is a Greg Tang Valentine challenge that the girls may complete. The link to the interactive game board is here and on the side of the blog. We did a quick mini unit on area and perimeter and will finish up early next week. Next, we move into fractions! The girls are enjoying the region study and we started with the Northeast region. To celebrate Groundhog Day, we did a few fun activities yesterday. There are lots of papers coming home today so please take a few minutes to go through the work. The geometry math test is included in it.

Reminders:

• Carpool helper next week: Ashby
• Friday, February 10: Saints Take a Break Day
  
• Wordly Wise Dress Up Day: Friday, February 17: Please click here for all of the details!
• Remember to check SeeSaw for updates from Specials teacher
• Scavenger hunt question - answer this!
• Future dates:
• April 13: Fourth Grade Field Trip to DC - We will arrive back after dismissal so please plan to pick up your daughter at 4:15. More details to come.
• April 28: Grandparents' Day
• April 29: Daisy Days