Weekly Update

On Monday the girls had fun showing off their amazing presidential portraits and a few facts about their president. It will take some time for me to get it all checked and graded, but they will come home afterwards. In the meantime, here are some pictures of the girls with their portraits! Up next, regions of the U.S. and states!

Our geometry unit wrapped up this week with lines of symmetry and symmetrical shapes. Next week we will review which includes completing a fun shape project and then I will assess the girls afterwards. A quick reminder that while most of the girls are completing their written work at school, they should be drilling multiplication/division math facts at home and reading every night! It's a bonus if your daughter is able to read out loud to you or someone else. Now that the girls are independent readers, we often forget they still need to work on fluency and expression while reading. 

Along with their Friday Folders, I also sent home their math journals to look through their awesome work with you!

 

Reminders:

Special Week: Mary 

Carpool Helper: Sadie 

February 1, 6-7 p.m., Lower School Assembly Room

Lower School families are invited to attend our latest Community Connection event, a faculty-led workshop about Project-Based Learning. 

 

This workshop will feature Lower School faculty members Maddy Hargis and Meg Zehmer, both of whom are trained in Project-Based Learning and have been instrumental in the success of this program in our Lower School. We hope you will join us for this informative event. 

Click here to RSVP

Chat and Chew meetings with Mrs. Sterling

Homelinks for all math chapters

Remember to check SeeSaw for updates from Specials teacher

Future dates:

April 28: Grandparents' Day

April 29: Daisy Days
 

Weekly Update

     Can you believe the awesome masterpiece above was created by our class? The girls were each given a puzzle piece to color and make their own, not knowing what picture it would become. As soon as they saw the word "Dream", they knew exactly what I was up to. We had fun learning about the amazing like of MLK through a Webquest of questions highlighting his importance. 

     This week's Writing Lab was a special one. The girls partnered up with fourthies in different classes and interviewed each other. We talked about the difference between "little questions" and "big questions". Ask your daughter to tell you more about this! We learned how remembering the acronym FANBOYS and commas will help us when writing compound sentences. Next week the girls will use a fun site to take their information from the interview and turn it into a magazine cover. 

    On Thursday, we celebrated National Popcorn day with popcorn and some math challenges. Ask your daughter to tell you her "sHERO name". We are also moving right along in our Geometry Unit. Equilateral, isosceles, and scalene triangles were introduced this week!

    We took a quick break to enjoy the salsa dancing event on campus!

 

 

Reminders:

• Carpool helper is Sadie
  
• Monday, January 23: Wear red for Chinese Lunar New Year
  
• Chat and Chew meetings with Mrs. Sterling
  
• Homelinks for all math chapters
  
• Remember to check SeeSaw for updates from Specials teacher
• Future dates:
• April 28: Grandparents' Day
• April 29: Daisy Days
  

 

Weekly Update

Happy long weekend! We have many things planned next week to honor the life of Martin Luther King Jr. 

Our morning kicked off with an exciting ribbon cutting ceremony to officially open the new playground on campus.

 

 

 

 

 

During this week's Writing Lab, the girls focused on using imagery to descriptively write about a picture of choice. We used the site, Piclits, for this project. The girls were so proud of their work and loved sharing the final products. 

*Friday Folders went home today. You will find graded Wordly Wise and Spelling Lists 7 and 8 in there.

Reminders:

• Carpool helper is Kit
  
• Monday, January 23: Wear red for Chinese Lunar New Year
  
• Chat and Chew meetings with Mrs. Sterling
  
• Homelinks for all math chapters
  
• Remember to check SeeSaw for updates from Specials teacher
• Future dates:
• April 28: Grandparents' Day
• April 29: Daisy Days
  

 

Weekly Update

 

    Happy New Year! Excitement was definitely in the air this week as the girls reunited after break. We kicked off the week by reflecting on 2022 and goals for 2023 to decorate our bulletin board. Ask your daughter what she came up with. 

   In Math, we skipped ahead to the Geometry Unit. We reviewed acute, obtuse and right angles. The girls found that measuring angles with a protractor is much harder than it looks. We will continue to practice the skill of measuring angles and dive into much more.

   The presidential project is wrapping up and will come home next week for you to admire their hard work. Next week, the girls will present their president portraits and share a few fun facts about their president. Pictures to come!

 

Reminders:

Carpool Helper is Livi

Special Week is Harper 

No school for students Jan 16 and 17th

Following the long weekend, January 18th, the girls will switch to Chinese for the remainder of the school year.