Week #11 Update!

I can't believe Thanksgiving is only a couple of weeks away! The girls did such a great job on our new collaborative door poster. It looks amazing! "Keep Calm and Gobble On" will be our mantra next week during ERB testing:) The girls also started their own gratitude journal. We will be writing in these every couple of days until the end of the month, and then your daughter will bring them home to share with you.

Mrs. Coughlan's "Draw, Label, Caption"

We did A LOT of writing this week-whew! The girls will be writing their own Narrative stories about an actual event in their life. We discussed how to zoom in on a small moment and then describe it in great detail. I showed the girls an activity called "Draw, Label, Caption" where they will draw and label detailed pictures of the beginning, middle, and end of their stories. This will help them remember the event and include their thoughts, feelings, and anything they saw, heard, tasted, smelled, and touched etc. They will use each picture to "stretch out" the events in their stories.

Also, the girls started their book reviews this week. They are summarizing the Realistic Fiction books they read last month and then writing an evaluation of the book. We discussed what is typically included in a book review, and we looked at lots of examples of well-written reviews by kids their own age. After they finish writing their reviews, they will create a Buncee presentation that will compliment their review, and they will present it to the class. They are doing an amazing job with this assignment so far.

In math, the girls worked incredibly hard studying for the Unit 2 test. I haven't had a chance to check them yet, so they will complete their Error Analysis sheets next week. In addition, the girls started working on their Halloween Candy Count data projects using Google Sheets. We discussed how to input their data into a Google Sheet and how this application takes the data and creates a bar graph. The girls learned how to give their graphs a title as well as label the x and y axes.

For the next book report, the girls will be reading "All of a Kind Family" by Sydney Taylor.  It is a story about five sisters growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the early 1900's. We will be discussing this time period during History as well. They will be required to read the chapters at home,  but if your daughter would rather listen to the chapters, Mrs. McCallum has been kind enough to voice record the book. Her recordings can be found under the Language Arts section of the Fourthies website. There will be no required written homework for this book. However, I did hand out some questions to help the girls begin to think about the types of things we might discuss in class in each week. For the project portion of this activity, the girls will be creating summaries of each chapter in Google Slides.

Finally, we started working on our Fall Tree Geometric Art projects. I am blown away by this group's artistic ability and can't wait to display these out in the hall. The girls will also be writing about things they are thankful for and decorating paper quilt squares.

***On Monday, in honor of Veterans Day, the girls are encouraged to wear red, white, blue!! Jeans are permitted-yay!

***Here is the current ERB Testing Schedule (subject to change...again)

Reminders and General Information

Information needing a parent response is highlighted.

*Parent How-To Videos for accessing Quia, Newsela, and That Quiz!

**The Outreach club is collecting non-perishable food for the 
St. Stephens Food Bank

* ERB Testing the week of November 12-16. See the attached letter from Dr. Kapetanis

*St. Chris Math Expo Tuesday Morning (11/27)- Field Trip Attire 

Homework- There will be NO homework next week due to ERB testing.

Special Week: Julianna King

* Carpool Helpers- Holt and Ryann will represent our class next week!

Class Leadership Week of 11/12

Ambassadors/Flag Raisers- Harper and Mary

Girls: Your blog question is...What is our mantra next week? Post your answer here.