Week #4 Update!

What an eventful start to the week! Who would have thought we would be spending 3 hours in the MPR after school on Monday because of severe weather? The girls did very well under the circumstances, and it ended up being quite the bonding experience for all of us. Thank you for the notes of appreciation. It really meant a lot to me!

In math this week, we continued to talk about factors, multiples, prime and composite numbers. We played a fun dice game to review Order of Operations, and we learned about Divisibility Rules. These are helpful tricks we can use to find all of the factors of larger numbers. The Unit 1 assessment will be Thursday, September 27th.  I handed out general information sheets today to those girls who asked for more help with certain concepts. I recommend the girls flip back through their notes in their composition notebooks as well. I mentioned to the girls if they would like to work on extra practice problems, they can use their workbooks (or textbooks) and/or visit the following websites: Matholia, Learnzillion, and Math Antics. You will find links to these websites on the right hand side of my blog, and the girls have their login information in their binders. They don't need to login to Math Antics. We will continue to review for the test on Monday-Wednesday of next week. In addition, I introduced a Geometry project where the girls will be designing their own city. They will decide on a name for their construction company and city, and they will create a theme as well. The girls can't wait to get started!

In Language Arts, the girls worked on their "Mystery Fourthie" writing lab. We discussed how to "banish boring words" and to make sure to start each sentence in a unique way. We also talked about "hooking the reader" by using interesting words and phrases at the beginning of each piece of writing. They finally finished their Buncees for their summer reading book Because of Winn Dixie. Whew! You can find your daughters' Buncee in her Google Drive or click on the link below.

Ava Jane	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/04f92d8358614a1cb7176c680f43d457
Abigail	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/ccc691419d0c4c4288baf4b355bf848b
harper	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/19f2412f161d439ea86531777ab755e9
chloe	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/38bdbf3c8c484493a1d7ac59f094ddef
HOLT	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/dd61653f5e314eb5b821668dd027f718
Ryann	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/090f3e7428604d1aa87d1c9e1bb90874
Mary Michael Spiller	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/cb1f8a74f4c240bd91ac7902d24978c2
Maeve	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/e116795cd9444bd9a816aa86cfdacee8
serpell	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/3fc63b45e119400ab8ac976e8104969d
Elizabeth Thurmond	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/79801d24746a4a1d86ab8a17ab621f94
sophia	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/7b276881f02348edb54e992be6eaadf8
Ruthie	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/0941e5b1c40a424b9012c1d561a46933
Mary Mitchell	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/d9f7e55a15294b74832e76f246ea8f6f
Annabelle Mayer	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/5d6ceb000024412eb9f129f3bd97cf37
Sirena	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/e48ea32d9db34346811ed2ecebd8fc07
Julianna	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/8fa202735fbe4a269c9473da66d99c04
Paige	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/c84839fb3cd342259123b1547b489636
Grace	https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/61df5adfd0be425089a088d8e2d126c6

Also, the girls made great progress on their sketches for their paper dresses, and a few are ready to start painting. On Thursday, we began a novel study for a really great book called Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. The girls made predictions about what they thought the book was going to be about based on the interesting title. It turns out it's a story about a 5th grader named Ally who faces some pretty difficult challenges in life. That is all the girls know about the book so far. We practiced visualizing what was going on in the story by creating "Mind Movies". We discussed how authors use descriptive words to create pictures in our minds and this helps us to better understand what we are reading.

In History, we continued to explore the History4Fourthies website and the girls watched a BrainPop video on democracy. The vocabulary in the quiz proved to be quite challenging, so the quiz won't end up in the grade book.

To round out the week, we had a great Cluster Chapel this morning where the girls sang songs together and made new friends as they walked around The Green. We thought this would be a much better way to start the day rather than go back down to the MPR!

 Reminders and General Information

                                Information needing a parent response is highlighted.

*I sent home your daughter's papers today in a plastic folder. Please keep the papers at home and send back the folder on Monday.

*Mrs. Adkins would like to remind the girls that the Atom project is due Friday, October 12th (The girls have a copy of the guidelines in their binders and another copy was sent home).

*Conference sign-ups will go out on Monday- thanks for your patience!

*Blessing of the Animals 10/1 @ 8:15 on The Green

* Lower School Garden Day is Friday, October 5th from 2:45-4:00

* Homework- Posted for family planning.

Special Week: We don't have a Special Week girl next week.

* Carpool Helpers- Elizabeth Thurmond will represent our class.

**We have decided to cancel our Parent Technology Night since attendance was going to be sparse. We want to keep everyone in the loop regarding our instructional technology practices in fourth grade. So be on the look out for weekly "How To" videos. 

Class Leadership Week of 9/24

Ambassadors/Flag Raisers- Julianna and Chloe

Girls: Your blog question is...Name one math website you can visit to practice for the upcoming test? Post your answer here.