Weekly Update

This was a great week ending with Grandparents' and Special Friends' Day this morning. The girls were gracious hostesses and seemed proud to show off their skills and talents to their family and friends. 

Our next event is preparing for the 4th grade musical. We have many helpful parents organizing the costumes and make-up. Here is a list of what they need to bring in from home for their costume. They need to have the items in by Tuesday, May 2.

The girls have their orientation for Middle School next Wednesday, May 3 and the program begins promptly at 8:00 am. Please make sure your daughter arrives a few minutes early on Wednesday.

Reminders

• Carpool helper: Gabby and Anna
  
• Special Week: Virginia H. 
• Remember to check SeeSaw for updates from Specials teacher
• Scavenger hunt question - answer this!
  

Weekly Update

 

Since I am meeting with all of you for conferences, this post will be full of reminders and important upcoming events. Things are busy around here!

Upcoming Events: 

1. Outdoor Adventure Day is Monday, April 24. Information is here from the PE department.
2. Rehearsals for the musical begin next week. Click here for the schedule.
3. Grandparents' and Special Friends' Day is next Friday, April 28. The timelines is as follows:
• 8:30 - 9:00: “Grandparent Carpool" Drop-off is in the Lower School Carpool Loop
• 9:00 - 9:50: Time in classroom
• 10:00 - 10:30: Performance in Endeavour Hall
• 10:30: Early Dismissal from Classroom
4. Information from the Middle School about Fifth Grade Orientation
5. Musical for Parents: Wednesday, May 10 at 9:30 in Endeavour Hall
6. Our class will visit the library for the Book Fair on Wednesday, May 10, from 12:10 - 12:30. Please join us in the library or send in money with your daughter.
7. Fourthie End of Year Party: Thursday, May 25 from 11:00 - 2:30. Details to follow.
   
8. Final Assembly will take place on Thursday, June 1 from 11:00 - 12:00 for grades K-4. The girls should wear nice clothes for this occasion. They may wear a dress, skirt, or nice pants. They do not need to wear white for this.
9. The Middle School Spanish classes are supporting the Pulsera Project. If your daughter would like to purchase a bracelet or purse please send in money next week. Bracelets are $7 each and purses are $15.

Reminders

• Carpool helper: Meriwether
• Special Week: Virginia M.
  
• Remember to check SeeSaw for updates from Specials teacher
• Scavenger hunt question - answer this! 

Weekly Update

 

We had a fabulous trip in DC! The girls behaved so well and really impressed me with their attention at the Portrait Gallery. They listened so well to the docent and had such great answers to her questions. It was a great day and a memorable trip!

I look forward to meeting with most of you next week for our spring parent-teacher conferences.  

We have moved into the decimals unit in math. The girls will learn the concept of decimals, order and compare decimals, and add and subtract. We will tie in our unit on money into this chapter since they go hand in hand.

All of the students have now finished their animal research report. They wrote a report from the perspective of the animal they researched and then recorded themselves. Here are their videos.

Reminders

• Carpool helper: Amelia
• Remember to check SeeSaw for updates from Specials teacher
• Scavenger hunt question - answer this! 
• Outdoor Adventure Day is Monday, April 24. Information is here from the PE department.
• If you have not yet completed the dismissal form for Grandparent's and Special Friends' Day on April 28, please do so here.
• For those of you that completed the Grandparent's and Special Friends' Day before it closed, your daughter should have brought home invitations that need to be mailed or delivered to their grandparents.
• Upcoming Dates:
  

• Conference Day: Friday, April 21 
  
• April 28: Grandparents' Day
• April 29: Daisy Days
• May 10: 4th Grade Musical for Parents at 9:30 am

• Surveys to complete from the school:
• Lower School Survey Link
• Schoolwide Spring Survey

Weekly Update

Happy Easter! I hope you and your family are having a lovely Easter weekend. 

April is such a fun an exciting month but a busy one. This post is going to include lots of reminders and information about things going on this month.

1. The girls received their play parts for the grade level musical. They should be practicing in at home but need to bring their script back to school. The official practices in the theater will begin in May but they will need their scripts in music class. On the blog, there is a link to the songs they need to know as well. It is listed under helpful links on the right side of the blog.
2. Fourthies will be flowering the cross on Wednesday, April 12, so if you can send your daughter in with a flower, that would be great.
   
3. Outdoor Adventure Day is Monday, April 24. Information is here from the PE department.
4. If you have not yet completed the dismissal form for Grandparent's and Special Friends' Day on April 28, please do so here.
5. For those of you that completed the Grandparent's and Special Friends' Day before it closed, your daughter should have brought home invitations that need to be mailed or delivered to their grandparents.

Reminders

• Carpool helper: Queen
• Remember to check SeeSaw for updates from Specials teacher
• Scavenger hunt question - answer this! 
• Future dates:

• April 13: Fourth Grade Field Trip to DC - Details here
• April 28: Grandparents' Day
• April 29: Daisy Days
• May 10: 4th Grade Musical for Parents at 9:30 am

• Surveys to complete from the school:
• Lower School Survey Link
• Schoolwide Spring Survey

 

Weekly Update

On Tuesday the girls will have their last Growing Up Healthy class with Nurse Blanton. I hope you have been reading the emails she has been sending to recap her lessons. They are very informative and extremely funny! It shows the range of understanding the girls have of these topics. For Tuesday, they need to bring in a small bag to make a puberty kit.

For this week's, 3WT, the girls responded to prompt above and had to choose a sound from this website. For their response, they made a video with a partner the site Flipgrid, now known as Flip. Here are their videos:

Amelia and Ashby

Sanaa and Meriwether

Eleanor and Jane Randolph

Queen and Gabby

Virginia M. and Anna

Virginia H. and Anela

Vivian and Hampton

Wallis and Holloway

During our technology time, the girls started something new this week. For three classes, half of the class is talking with Mrs. Sterling about the transition to Middle School, while the other half does a robotics unit with Ms. Hamilton-Dixon. After three classes, they switch to complete the other group. This is a great opportunity for the girls to learn about the Middle School in a small group.

Reminders

• Carpool helper: Virginia M.
  
• Remember to check SeeSaw for updates from Specials teacher
• Scavenger hunt question - answer this!
• Future dates:
• April 7: Half day for Good Friday; Dismissal at noon
• April 10: No school for Easter Monday
• April 13: Fourth Grade Field Trip to DC - Details here
• April 28: Grandparents' Day
• April 29: Daisy Days
• May 10: 4th Grade Musical for Parents at 9:30 am

 

 

Weekly Update

We are very excited about our fourth grade field trip to Washington DC on Thursday, April 13. All of the details to the trip are here and I am also sending home a hard copy in today's Friday folder. Please reach out to me with any questions.

In today's Friday folder, the girls have their fraction test from chapter 5. I did allow some corrections to be made before I checked it. We are still working with fractions and focusing on adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators.

In social studies, we learned an overview of the Midwest region this week and they have been studying the states and capitals within this region. We will have a quiz on that next Tuesday, March 28.  

We started a fun writing lab using a cool web site where they make digital sand art. Then, they write a descriptive paragraph about their illustration. The girls are also researching an animal and practicing taking notes in their own words. We have lots of ongoing projects happening.

The Gold/White Cheer Rally and it was very fun! Here are some pictures of the girls all dressed up and excited.

 Reminders

• Carpool helper: Anela
• Special Week: Sanaa 
• World Language Letter from the Middle School
  
• Remember to check SeeSaw for updates from Specials teacher
• Scavenger hunt question - answer this!
• Future dates:
• April 7: Half day for Good Friday; Dismissal at noon
• April 9: No school for Easter Monday
• April 13: Fourth Grade Field Trip to DC - Details here
• April 28: Grandparents' Day
• April 29: Daisy Days

Weekly Update

We had a great week back from spring break. To share the best part of their week off from school, we used a site called Mentimeter where each girl shared something with the class about her break. Here are their results.

On Wednesday, all of the Fourthies helped to make birthday bags for Celebrate RVA. It was a great way to serve others and help this great non-profit. You may find some pictures here.

In PE, the girls will begin their bike unit on Monday. Please send in a bike helmet with your daughter on Monday since they have PE that day. 

The girls have earned 100 class compliments and we will celebrate on Monday. They may wear pajamas and bring in one stuffed animal that will fit into their backpack. I will have a treat for them as well.

Reminders:

• Carpool helper: Gabby
• Special Week: Gabby
  
• Remember to check SeeSaw for updates from Specials teacher
• Scavenger hunt question - answer this!
• Future dates:
• Gold/White Cheer Rally Practices from 7:40 - 8:00 on 3/21 and 3/23
• 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